Lightroom Classic Catalog on a Network drive, OneDrive or Google Drive - School situation

This is in a school situation. Students are using Lightroom in a class. While they are normally on the same computer day after day, students can move from computer to computer, especially if a computer isn't working properly.

The schools are using network drives and have access to One Drive and Google Drive. (One Drive is preferred, but not a necessity)

Catalogs in Lightroom I understand are a problem on Network Drives/cloud based drives. the amount of space on the computer hardrives is an issue (Multiple students throughout a week of classes, Multiple classes, etc). As well the local hardrives aren't backed up (We save the data on the network/cloud based services).

I found a posting from about 2016/2017 on this, and that it isn't possible. I am wondering if Network Drives/cloud drives can hold catalogs now, and if not, if there is a reason why not?

Or a work around. Using portable harddrives isn't really a possibility (time constraints at the end of class, costs etc.)

Thank you for any help you can provide. It is appreciated.