SchoolTool

SchoolTool
Developer(s) The Shuttleworth Foundation
Initial release 2004 (2004)
Stable release
2.8.4 / July 4, 2015 (2015-07-04)
Development status Active
Written in Zope (Python)
Operating system Ubuntu Linux
Available in Multilingual
Type SIS, ERP
License GNU GPL v2
Website schooltool.org

SchoolTool is a GPL licensed, free student information system for schools around the world. The goals of the project are to create a simple turnkey student information system, including demographics, gradebook, attendance, calendaring and reporting for primary and secondary schools, as well as a framework for building customized applications and configurations for individual schools or states.

SchoolTool is built as a free software/open source software stack, licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, written in Python using the Zope 3 framework.

The sub-projects of School Tool are as follows:

SchoolTool is configured by default to act as what is often called a student information system or SIS. The focus is on tracking information related to students: demographics, enrollment grades, attendance, reporting. It is a subset of a complete “management information system” or MIS for schools, which might also cover systems like accounting.[3]

SchoolTool is not a learning management system, or LMS, such as Moodle, although they share some overlapping feature sets, such as a gradebook. SchoolTool does not contain curriculum or learning objects.

SchoolTool Features

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