We just bought 3 iPads to put into our loan closet.  I'm set with apps, but I am interested to know how those of you who do this are managing the technical business side of it.  Specifically,

1. What are you doing to help ensure that you get your iPad back?  Do they sign a contract?  If so, what is the language?  We do plan to enable "find my iPad".
   
2. Do you have the iPad restricted in any way?  We are considering using one apple ID for all 3 iPads but not giving out the password.  If the user wants to load other apps onto the iPad, they would be welcome to do so, but they would need their own apple id so they cannot use our account to purchase apps.  I know this can cause problems with updates, since you usually need a password for this.  We are considering requiring the person to bring the iPad into the office if it needs to be updated.  Our thoughts on this is that most of the speech-related apps and operating systems will operate just fine without being updated regularly, and we don't really know how long a pALS may need an iPad.  Thoughts are welcome.
3. Does it make sense to not set them to back up to the cloud on our id?  If all 3 are using the same id, if person 1 has phrases stored on an app and person 2 has different phrases stored, would one person lose their stuff when someone else backed up the same app with different data?  We are thinking that we will simply back each one up on the computer so that we save what we want.
4. Should we consider requiring the person who borrows the iPad to have their own apple id rather than just suggesting it?

I am sure there are other issues we have not considered.  I welcome any and all feedback.

Lisa