Actually, I was thinking more on the lines of using the template for the students to make the spreads, then combine those in a book. I think that's probably less hassle than placing doezens of pages into a new file.
The suggestion for placing pages was directed at the logo that needs to be updated, but only if it's being created directly in ID. If it's external art, like a .ai file, there wouldn't be any need to palce one ID file into another.