Abtutor v7 > v8 is it an easy transition?

[Zourous]

Just got an email saying Abtutor v7 is EOL and will end before the end of August. Not a lot of notice but I guess that is in their interests. At the moment we are struggling to keep up with the workload with 2 team members leaving, I estimate we're losing 50 technical hours a week. Having a quick read-up, people have commented that v9 takes more work to set-up and requires a separate server, so I'm keen to avoid this. AB cloud is coming but in beta at the moment. V8 looks best but I don't know much about it or how easy it is to migrate to it so any feedback would be useful. By the way, please don't say, we use a different system called blah blah blah and it's great. I haven't got time to research a new system and the teachers have loved abtutor for the last 10 years.

 

Thanks in advance

[supportman]

We moved from Version 7 to the new cloud version recently and its been great so far. Took 30mins to setup.

 

It's been in beta for 6 months so pretty stable now.

 

EDIT: The only thing its missing is Office 365 integration really. You still have to setup individual users in the admin console which is a pain.

Edited May 26, 2022 by supportman

[ConTheITGuy]

We currently use V9, it works well but does have snags now and again with the client outright crashing on student machines while locked by the teacher.

[Zourous]

We moved from Version 7 to the new cloud version recently and its been great so far. Took 30mins to setup.

 

It's been in beta for 6 months so pretty stable now.

 

EDIT: The only thing its missing is Office 365 integration really. You still have to setup individual users in the admin console which is a pain.

 

How long have you had Ab Cloud installed for out of interest?

[supportman]

How long have you had Ab Cloud installed for out of interest?

 

Around 4 months. We got on the beta but have recently purchased a full license after a sucessful trial.

 

We didn't want to install any local server software so this option was ideal.