Perhaps. But you would likely need to leave out using the Extension Warehouse out of the curriculum. (It never was integrated into v8. It came out for v2013.)
You’d also need to fix the 3D Warehouse redirect issue.
See: Heads-up, SketchUp 8 and SketchUp 2013 users!
The machines also need to have MS Internet Explorer 10 installed. (Some of the Google APIs used by native web-dialogs require it now.)