Managing Multiple Steam Accounts

[Weasel_DB]

I teach a computer class at an elementary school. There are a few games i would like to use in some of my classes. Games like Moon Base Alpha and Portal 2. I need to create about 18 Steam accounts and manage them with parental settings and such. Is there a way to manage multiple accounts? It is becoming too cumbersome to set up manually on each PC.

[ReBoot]

Steam offers to account management. There's the cyber cafe program though, that might help you.

[eram]

I think the cafe program is dead.

[Creep]

how about steam for schools
http://www.teachwithportals.com/index.php/faq/

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2797546

[eram]

Both dead. the links are not dead, the programs are.

[Forcen]

Here is a great educational game which is free for schools, no steam needed: http://universesandbox.com/blog/2012/11/universe-sandbox-is-now-free-to-schools/

Also Steam for schools is not accepting new applications any more it seems according to that same blogpost.

[eram]

That was stopped over a year ago. Universe crashbox isnt free any more for schools and the program stopped.

[MalikQayum]

Originally posted by Weasel_DB:

I teach a computer class at an elementary school. There are a few games i would like to use in some of my classes. Games like Moon Base Alpha and Portal 2. I need to create about 18 Steam accounts and manage them with parental settings and such. Is there a way to manage multiple accounts? It is becoming too cumbersome to set up manually on each PC.

I am not entirely sure what you want to achieve " It is becoming too cumbersome to set up manually on each PC."

if you think you can get around installing the games on every machine then i am afraid i have to say it is not possible.

if you however want to create a batch file to manage the account(s) itself/themselves.

this is how i would go about it:

1- login to each account on each pc using the steamguard code.
2- take the ssfn from each pc.
3- turn on family view / limit everything that u feel the accounts should not have access to.
4- create a batch file with all 18 steam accounts logins and have it copy all 18 ssfn files into the steam folder directory.

then if u do not trust ur students or whatever, i would turn that batchfile into an exe and encrypt it.

i could shown u in details if need be.

[Creep]

they say its dead now if you can not do anything with it I would make a similar suggestion as MalikQayum but I was lazy.

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