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Ask Slashdot: Open Source Software To Manage Student Grades?

Posted by timothy on from the vi-is-all-you-need dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I have been assigned the task of finding a software package to automate the management of grades in a high school. It does not need to be a complete system, but rather just manage grading calculations and printing of report cards. The management of grades is currently done using spreadsheets. What are some open source options to handle this situation?"

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  1. Moodle. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Moodle has a grade management tool that might be able to handle these requirements.

    1. Re:Moodle. by MoonBuggy · · Score: 5, Informative

      My kingdom for a mod-point. Moodle is designed to do exactly what you ask - it's admittedly not the absolute best piece of software I've ever used, and there are a few rough edges, but it does its job.

      The only real competitor is the utter monstrosity that is Blackboard, which I believe starts at $10k/year. For that low, low price, you get a piece of software which is slow, buggy, and has a web interface which manages to disable such revolutionary new browser features as 'the back button', and 'middle click'.

    2. Re:Moodle. by jwest · · Score: 5, Informative

      There's also School Tool - http://www.schooltool.org/ .

  2. Open Admin for Schools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wrote Open Administration for Schools, along with other school software, since I REALLY was tired of using spreadsheets to do calcs. http://richtech.ca/openadmin

  3. No matter how well you do... by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...prepare yourself to be hated by every one of your co-workers.