Penfro

I can't speak for the subsequent analysis but the pupil adminstration of the GL Assessments package is an absolute nightmare and the latest revision is even worse than the last one which was awful! At least the bug that stopped the import when more than one person had the same firstname and lastname (even though a unique UPN) has gone (We had eight instances of the same name!) but the administration of tests is so much clunkier than before.

Thank you for your input. Much valued. Sadly this is not an acceptable fix. It only disables two browse buttons but still allows the Manage Class Lists\Import Students button which allows you to very easily circumvent the channels again without needing anything other than basic knowledge of other people on the system.

Would mean buying another product to manage those (130 clients) + privacy issues of normal classroom teachers being able to view (and remote control, etc) activity in other classrooms which wouldn't be acceptable.

I asked for an evaluation of the new version before we rolled it out but it would only allow one "DEMO" channel so it was not something that could ever have got flagged. I've spoken to Lanschool direct but they weren't helpful and the Support Rep couldn't understand why I had a problem with it (unbelievable I know!!!) The option to roll back is a good one but although it works for demo's, internet restrictions, etc didn't work - which is why I opted for the upgrade. Thanks for all your suggestions everybody!

I'm at the end of my tether with it. We rolled out the updated client software to over 600 devices in the summer only to find this flaw once the school term started. After a month of waiting, the natives are getting restless because they are missing the other functionality so I'm going to have to start looking at alternatives. Impero looks good but I think the costs for our size of school are too prohibitive.... I saw NetSupport at BETT so might give that a trial first...

It's been reported to our vendor who acknowledges the security issue and has been in touch with the developers but that was a month ago and still no patch to fix it.

Having updated to the latest version of LanSchool (version 7.8.1.39) over the summer I was horrified to see that despite setting channels in the same way as our old version (7.0), it is now possible for a teacher PC to circumvent this by clicking on the Class List icon to view client pc's that are on other channels. This was particularly worrying because we use one channel for Admin PC's - this latest version allows anybody with a Teacher Installation to browse other staff pc's regardless of their channel being set! I cannot quite understand why LanSchool acknowledges the need to set a channel within their Utils folder yet provides an icon that effectively bypasses their own restriction in the GUI!! It's such a shame because apart from that the software is very good and is pitched at a good price-point. Sadly I have had to uninstall the program due to this (what I consider) major flaw in security.