When approaching recording in schools, it is worth remembering the fundamentals, and that doing what you can well is paramount. Resources are often too short to make anything completely perfect, but good recordings are about doing all the basics well and making marginal gains. There is plenty of low-hanging fruit.
There is no happiness without order. The easiest thing to improve in the practice of your students is their use of the organisational tools of the DAW at their disposal.
Keeping your students super-organised when using a Digital Audio Workstation is an easy win: it helps them structure their work more effectively, and helps you understand more quickly what you're looking at when assessing or offering feedback. Well-labelled and organised files are a must when working in industry, so it makes sense to develop this in education. There is a range of ways you can organise your DAW projects better, some obvious but still worth mentioning:
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