Taking pictures of student activities with a video camera and digital camera
Question

                What is the ruling on recording by video cameras and digital cameras in schools, in order to document the activity and submit it to the administration, as per their request?.
Praise be to Allah.It is permissible to take 
    pictures of student activities with the video camera and digital camera 
    mentioned, for the purpose of documenting the activity so that the 
    administrators may study it, so long as these images are not produced in any 
    fixed format such as on paper. 
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen 
    said: 
With regard to pictures 
    made in the modern fashion, they fall into two categories:   
The first category is those 
    which have no tangible substance (and can only be seen by running them 
    through a machine), as I was told is the case with pictures on video tapes. 
    There is no ruling at all concerning these, and they do not come under the 
    prohibition at all. Hence the scholars who forbid making pictures with 
    cameras on paper (photographs) permitted this (video pictures), and said 
    that there is nothing wrong with this. Then it was asked, is it permissible 
    to film lectures which are given in the mosques? The (scholarly) view was 
    that it is better not to do that, because it may disturb the worshippers and 
    because they may film things that may not be appropriate, and so on.   
The second category is 
    fixed or still pictures on paper (photographs) …  
But the matter needs 
    further discussion if one wants to make these kind of permissible pictures. 
    For they are subject to five rulings which depend on the intention. If the 
    intention is something forbidden, then it is haraam. If he intends something 
    waajib (obligatory), then it is waajib. Sometimes pictures may be essential, 
    especially moving pictures. For example, if we see someone in the act of 
    committing a crime against a person’s rights, such as an attempt to kill and 
    so on, and we cannot prove it in any way but by taking pictures, then in 
    this case taking pictures becomes waajib, especially in cases where pictures 
    may decide the case. The means are subject to the rulings on the ends. If we 
    make these pictures in order to prove the identity of a person for fear that 
    someone else may be accused of the crime, this is also acceptable, indeed it 
    is essential.   
But if we take these 
    pictures just to enjoy looking at them, this is undoubtedly haraam... 
    And Allaah knows best.” (See Al-Sharh al-Mumti’, 2/197-199) 
    
Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn 
    Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked: What is the ruling on 
    videotaping celebrations, conferences and seminars? 
He replied: If there is the 
    hope that people may benefit from the videotaping of the party, seminar or 
    Islamic meeting in which there is the call to Allaah, and it is believed 
    that this is most likely to serve a good purpose and that this videotaping 
    will be good and will benefit the people, then there is nothing wrong with 
    that in sha Allaah. End quote from Fataawa Islamiyyah (4/367). 
May Allaah help us all to 
    do that which He loves and which pleases Him. 
And Allaah knows best.