Multiple Ipod's and FindMyIphone

Hi Everyone
Got a problem that I hope has an easy solution.
The school I work at has 50 Ipod touches, the headteacher wants to be able to track them if they ever get stolen. I suggested using FindMyIphone but i'm guessing the device is tied into your apple username? Does this mean that I have to create a new apple account for every device?
Any advice would be greatfuly received.
Kind Regards
Scott

No. It is tied to the SN or some other unique idenifier. Just make sure that each iPod has an unique device name. Otherwise you will not be able to tell them apartin with FindMyiPod/iPhone

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I'm pretty sure that's your first problem and I'm not sure how to rectify the overlap with the devices.
One thing you can do on your computer is delete the backups for your son and daughters iPods. To do that open iTunes/Preferences/Devices: Delete the device backups.
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I would also log out of iTunes after you delete the device backups and preferences and log back into your iTunes account with your username and password.
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Copied from the wrong area of the forum and pasted here. Hopefully I will get a better response if my questions are posted in the correct section.
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Johnny

OK. I will try that tonight.
My problem is not on my cpu though. It is on the ipods.
There is overlap on the ipods when accessing the itunes store. When my daughter is logged in, they are giving updates for apps on my son's ipod. Even though they are not installed on my daughters ipod. Further to this, to install these updates, it is asking for my son's password to his itunes account. I cannot change the username here as it is a non-changeable field. I can only enter the password here. This is all on her ipod with her account credits showing.
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