hand to you for safe keeping at the beginning of the semester, right after they create their Hive accounts

I’ve kinda done that. This semester I created their accounts for them, using my own Account Creation Tokens. The i give them their Master Password and tell them how to reset their Master Password and retrieve and store their private keys.

That way, my account is the recovery account, so I should theoretically be able to help them reset their keys if they lose them. I haven’t done this yet, in practice, though.