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Free Software Administration Tools For Schools?

Posted by Cliff on from the making-the-school-office-run-a-bit-more-smoothly dept.

helleman asks: "I'm interested in finding out more about open source school administration tools. Elementary and high school system administrators (often working on a volunteer basis - like myself!) are just too busy fighting fires trying to keep the school systems running (like printers, tape backups and fileservers) than to really have time to step back and evaluate/test/develop administration software properly. I could really use some advice picking some open source software either to run with (something extendable so we could code our own custom modules) OR some pointers to which software our committee should start designing our own open source school administration software with! There are many closed source options - there HAS to be some open source ones! Report Cards, Membership reports, health records, transcripts, resource administration (room bookings) and finance/contributions are a few examples of things that need to be tracked. Help!"

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  1. Requisite link... by Spoing · · Score: 3
    Simple End User Linux (SEUL/EDU) has an education focus, and many good links. Some of the links below are from this site.

    I'm not sure if you're looking for general advice on how to administer a network, or for education-specific software to run on those systems.

    Things like Dan's Quiz Page cover creating custom quizes, while there are some sites that have a specific topic like science. The general site LinuxForKids.org has links to most educationl titles, though the emphasis is for home-use.

    If you're looking for help on how to set things up, and administer them, look here at Learnux.

    If you're looking for School Administration (beurocratic) software, I didn't find any. That doesn't mean that there isn't any. Take a look here , here or here . Ask these groups questions, there are quite a few mailing lists on this subject.

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  2. Bad link... by Spoing · · Score: 2

    this is a good replacement for the second to last 'Here' above.

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