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Following this post - from the sounds of things we are in a very similar position to you! We block most social media and with the expansion of BYOD are getting wi-fi complaints... haven't yet come up with good solutions but SLT want me to figure something out. We've also struggled with the MITM stuff as we get sporadic issues with students either failing to authenticate or their phones not liking our certification authority. Are you doing SSL decryption on your BYOD network?

Thanks everyone, I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in having the Impero client failing and also in not finding the panacea replacement! I'll take a look at Lanschool as suggested above, and potentially set up a Senso trial. We have perpetual Impero licensing so it may well be that we cancel maintenance on it and keep it around for the logging whilst using one of the cloud based services for the classroom/safeguarding stuff.

Morning everyone Long time lurker, first time poster! I currently have an Impero setup in our school which I inherited. It is not really working great for us - the services often fail on clients, which is frustrating for teaching staff and technicians; the logging whilst great is patchy due to the client issues; and the whole thing is just downright slow. We have started to investigate alternatives but have yet to find the ideal replacement and I was hoping to get some advice here as to what seems to have worked best in your schools. We are looking for something which would replace the classroom management and safeguarding parts of Impero and have the following wishlist: - We’d like it to work on internal and take-home school devices, and Teams integration would be a plus. - We currently expect staff to monitor Impero captures in lessons they teach, with IT support acting as a second-line, so a solution that shows captures to classroom staff would be a plus. - We also still need the window/URL logging that Impero does. I’ve currently got a trial of classroom.cloud, which I like, and our IT teachers also like, but it separates out the classroom and safeguarding alerts, and doesn’t seem to offer the full window/web logging of Impero. I’ve also had a demo of Senso which seems to fit our requirements more, but the vague promise of a Mac client maybe in September doesn’t inspire confidence when we are both a PC and Mac shop. As a result I am a bit lost! Any advice on what you use and how it works for you would be appreciated! Many thanks