Fastest way to get IDE installed on 50+ random computers?

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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I opened my big mouth and offered to teach an arduino class at work, and got a boatload of responses. In the past, I've never had more than 5-8 people, so I could easily help each person get set up. Unfortunately, company security won't let me install anything on work machines, so I can't count on having everyone running a nice new macbook pro, and have to have everyone fall back to their personal machines. Trying to remote-debug 50 personal devices over Zoom does not sound like a good day to me.

What I'd REALLY like is a VM image for VMWare Fusion (which we have security approval for) in which I can run the IDE. That way, all I have to do is tell people to set up their VM environments, and we're off and running. Does any such animal exist? I really need to be able to hand a simple set of instructions to everyone and have a 90% success rate in self-configuring.

Thanks...

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Would the portable version work for you? You download the ZIP version of the IDE, extract it to whatever folder you want, add a sub-folder called "Portable", then run arduino.exe. It doesn't actually install anything. Your security people might sit still for that, but if not, it would be easy for the individuals to set up on their home computers. My experience with this is in Windows, but I believe it also works the same way for Mac and Linux. Of course you might also need to install drivers for the USB adapters.

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That's what I do.
As everyone will be on personal machines at home, drivers should not be an issue.
Especially if everyone is using Arduino brand Unos, which comes with the driver in one of the unzipped folders.