Parental control - disk access limit

i work in a university department with about 40 students sharing 8 macs. some of them work with video and audio as part of their studies. only a couple of them could be called experienced. we've created separate accounts for all of them.
the problem is that the startup disk fill up very quickly. buying more hd space would not solve the problem, but i do try to teach them some 'file hygiene'. at the same time i want to totally strip down their access to the startup disk, only allowing them to store to their personal external drives.
i'm looking at parental control and reduced finder, but can't figure a way to remove the 'documents' and 'shared' folders from the dock.
is there another way?

Well... You should be mounting their home directories off of network storage and using quotas. Network storage, though slower, means that they only have data in one place and they aren't leaving stuff on the local machines (they can even work locally can copy it when done, and you can have something cleanup when they log out).
Here's how to implement user disk quotas in OS X: http://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/HFS%2BDiskQuotas
Most of the various network storage options you have will permit you to set disk quotas as well. NAS devices tend to offer this feature, as do most commonly used operating systems used for file servers (FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, even lowly Windows).

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