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Our school is part of the Early Adopter Scheme. We have a Webinar to attend so I guess I'll let you know how it goes if anyone is interested?

Thank you for the feedback. Yes this is something we would like to include.

So, whilst being an IT apprentice in a primary school I had so many calls during the report writing period about help needed when the report template in word has messed up. Even though there are restrictions they still find away to do something wrong! I had an idea. An online report writer. After some research I found some companies which off a report writer but I personally didn't like the look of them and they were way too expensive! Me having knowledge in website development (made the school website with my side business) and the IT Technician there know a lot of PHP and JavaScript. Together we came up with a plan on how we wanted this to work. Approximately 1 year later we have a working version of this system which has already been used by staff which prefer this way to write reports. As it is online, they are able to access this from home and write their reports after they have logged in. This stop them taking having student names etc on USB sticks, GDPR and all that. The most simple way we found to do this is by using WordPress as the default login and user system then build it on that. So I am asking for advice, feature requests and just general feedback. Here are the features we have so far: • Access and edit pupils reports. • Choose classes to show per user. • Members Directory. (View Teachers Profiles). • Have more than one class assigned to SLT. • Colour indicators on reports. e.g. green complete (looking into changing colours for complete awaiting SLT comments then fully complete) • SLT Comments (End of Year) • Mark as complete • Pupil photo (so the teacher knows who they are writing about) • Ability to pull the reports from the database using mail merge. (Still want to be printed off on nice paper for parents) • Prompts before you go onto another pupil if you haven't saved it. I think I mentioned everything. This is something that is constantly changing too for improvement. I am currently trying to make it as a plugin too.

We have Sophos too. Works pretty well. We have had some false positives and uninstalling the software has caused me hours of looking for solutions. So just don't uninstall it after you have installed it.

I am really liking the Quick Assist in Windows 10. It is very fast and most likely something we will use. We usually use msra.exe /offerra

You can disable them in Group Policy? They won't be removed though. I'm yet to see how to do this without causing upset.

SSD's are the way to go! (Apparently) This is what we are looking at doing.

Only just upgraded from XP! (The guy before me). Got some Windows 10 machines for testing GPO and software. Looking good and rolling out as soon as we get SSD's and SCCM set up.