diff --git a/source/utils/config/Config.py b/source/utils/config/Config.py
index 1d079a0..6a697ab 100644
--- a/source/utils/config/Config.py
+++ b/source/utils/config/Config.py
@@ -116,31 +116,13 @@ class AutograderConfigurationSchema(BaseSchema[AutograderConfiguration]):
 
     This class builds to :ref:`AutograderConfiguration` for easy typing.
     """
-    TAGS_ENDPOINT = "https://api.github.com/repos/CSCI128/128Autograder/tags"
     IMPL_SOURCE = "./StudentSubmissionImpl"
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def getAvailableTags() -> List[str]:
-        """
-        Description
-        ---
-        This method gets the currently available version tags from GitHub.
-        This ensures that any version of the autorgader is using a spefic version of the autograder.
-        :return: a list of all the valid tags from GitHub
-        """
-        headers = {"X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28"}
-
-        tags = requests.get(url=AutograderConfigurationSchema.TAGS_ENDPOINT, headers=headers).json()
-
-        return [el["name"] for el in tags]
-
     @staticmethod
     def validateImplSource(implName: str) -> bool:
         return implName in os.listdir(AutograderConfigurationSchema.IMPL_SOURCE)
 
     def __init__(self):
-        self.TAGS = self.getAvailableTags()
-
         self.currentSchema: Schema = Schema(
             {
                 "assignment_name": And(str, Regex(r"^(\w+-?)+$")),
@@ -148,7 +130,7 @@ def __init__(self):
                 "config": {
                     "impl_to_use": And(str, AutograderConfigurationSchema.validateImplSource),
                     Optional("student_submission_directory", default="."): And(str, os.path.exists, os.path.isdir),
-                    "autograder_version": And(str, lambda x: x in self.TAGS),
+                    "autograder_version": And(str, Regex(r"\d+\.\d+\.\d+")),
                     "test_directory": And(str, os.path.exists),
                     "enforce_submission_limit": bool,
                     Optional("submission_limit", default=1000): And(int, lambda x: x >= 1),
diff --git a/source/utils/student/test_my_work.py b/source/utils/student/test_my_work.py
index 177dc92..4ef3690 100644
--- a/source/utils/student/test_my_work.py
+++ b/source/utils/student/test_my_work.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 SUBMISSION_REGEX: re.Pattern = re.compile(r"^(\w|\s)+\.py$")
 FILE_HASHES_NAME: str = ".filehashes" 
 
-REQUIRED_PACKAGES = {"gradescope_utils":"gradescope-utils", "dill":"dill", "BetterPytUnitFormat":"Better-PyUnit-Format", "schema":"schema", "requests":"requests", "tomli":"tomli"}
+REQUIRED_PACKAGES = {"gradescope_utils":"gradescope-utils", "dill":"dill", "BetterPyUnitFormat":"Better-PyUnit-Format", "schema":"schema", "requests":"requests", "tomli":"tomli"}
 
 def printErrorMessage(errorType: str, errorText: str) -> None:
     """
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ def verifyRequiredPackages(packagesToVerify: dict[str, str]) -> bool:
 
     for name, package in packagesToVerify.items():
         if importlib.util.find_spec(name) is None:
-            print(f"Installing missing dependancy: {package}")
-            subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", package])
+            print(f"Installing missing dependancy: {package}...", end="")
+            subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", package], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+            print(f"Done.")
 
     return not errorOccurred
 
@@ -157,10 +158,7 @@ def verifyFileChanged(submissionDirectory: str) -> bool:
 
     command: list[str] = [sys.executable, "run.py", "--unit-test-only", "--submission-directory", submissionDirectory]
 
-    with subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, bufsize=1, universal_newlines=True) as p:
-        if p.stdout is not None:
-            for line in p.stdout:
-                print(line, end="")
+    subprocess.run(command)
 
     if not fileChanged:
         printWarningMessage("Student Submission Warning", "Student submision may not have changed")
diff --git a/tests/testAutograderConfigurationSchema.py b/tests/testAutograderConfigurationSchema.py
index a690b9b..3ce642b 100644
--- a/tests/testAutograderConfigurationSchema.py
+++ b/tests/testAutograderConfigurationSchema.py
@@ -6,24 +6,6 @@
 from utils.config.Config import AutograderConfigurationSchema, InvalidConfigException
 
 
-def mockRequestsGet(url, **kwargs):
-    class Response:
-        def __init__(self, jsonData, status: int):
-            self.jsonData = jsonData
-            self.statusCode = status
-
-        def json(self):
-            return self.jsonData
-
-    if re.match(r"https://api\.github\.com/repos/(\w|\d)+/(\w|\d)+/tags", url):
-        data = \
-            [
-                {"name": "1.0.0"},
-                {"name": "2.0.0"}
-            ]
-
-        return Response(data, 200)
-
 def mockValidateImpl(_) -> bool: return True
 
 class TestAutograderConfigurationSchema(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -51,9 +33,8 @@ def setUp(self) -> None:
 
     @staticmethod
     def createAutograderConfigurationSchema() -> AutograderConfigurationSchema:
-        with mock.patch('requests.get', side_effect=mockRequestsGet):
-            AutograderConfigurationSchema.validateImplSource = mockValidateImpl # type: ignore
-            return AutograderConfigurationSchema()
+        AutograderConfigurationSchema.validateImplSource = mockValidateImpl # type: ignore
+        return AutograderConfigurationSchema()
 
     def testValidNoOptionalFields(self):
         schema = self.createAutograderConfigurationSchema()
@@ -98,7 +79,7 @@ def testExtraFields(self):
     def testInvalidAutograderVersion(self):
         schema = self.createAutograderConfigurationSchema()
 
-        self.configFile["config"]["autograder_version"] = "0.0.0"
+        self.configFile["config"]["autograder_version"] = "0.0"
 
         with self.assertRaises(InvalidConfigException):
             schema.validate(self.configFile)