Of course she may want to take her laptop to class for note taking, but the problem of being able to work during breaks might be easily solved by providing a backup space on one of your computers at home so that she could simply FTP her hard drive contents home and use one of your computers while there.

The university hookup almost certainly will support massive file transfers, although you own home hookup will need to support reasonable transfer rates, and you will want "strong passwords" to protect you home machinery.

That would, of course, mean a need to have any software she may use at the university duplicated on the at-home machine that she would use; however it's common for student versions of rather expensive programs to be available through the universities at very nominal cost.

You would, of course, NEVER be tempted to use "student software" at home for any other purposes ...

A "parental ploy" used by some has actually been to suggest that students attach "the recent/current-day's files" to their regular email home, with parents promising to save the attachments so that there will be a backup copy in case of "computer problems." Some parents even make the "we won't look at it" promise. Of course all students will believe that parents won't look, and the offer probably is redundant as it is well known that they typically are quite diligent at maintaining frequent correspondence¹ with those left at home.

¹ The "parental diligence-assurance rule" is sometimes paraphrased as "never send the kid more than a week's worth of cash."

[now removing tongue from cheek ... ]

John