Free boarding schools software for linux

Open Admin for Schools is a School Administration Program. It is a freely available, open source software package and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Open Administration for Schools project is entirely web based and can run from a centrally located division wide server or a single computer in a school. It is designed to support an entire division on one or more central computers but can also work just fine for a single school.
Currently several school divisions use this approach and have 15+ schools on a single central server. This is because it is designed to be lightweight both in server resource requirements and in communication bandwidth.
It is secure. Each school has two or more virtual websites and each is protected with password(s). One site, the admin site, is used by the school office and another, the teacher site, is used by teachers in the classroom.
The teacher site also has password access for entering attendance by teachers and also uses cookies that expire in a short period, further limiting access. Another site, a parent/student site, is controlled by parent/student userids and passwords. A fourth virtual site may be used by school liason officers from outside agencies to give them a slightly different access to school information. (Community Schools)
Main features:
- Demographics - It stores student and family information that can be viewed and printed in a variety of ways.
- Attendance - Attendance can be entered either by secretaries in the school office or by teachers in the classroom. It features the ability to do different numbers of periods per day for elementary grades vs high school and middle years. This will allow elementary classes to have 2 classes per day (AM/PM) with a homeroom teacher while higher grades can have attendance done on a per subject period basis (and be subject based). Attendance reports are integrated with report cards/progress reports. A variety of attendance reports are available. A variety of attendance entry methods are available for use by teachers and/or secretaries to allow it to integrate with normal school practice.
- Discipline - A simple discipline module to track student discipline events and track outcomes, etc. Behaviours may be categorized and statistical reports may be printed. Enrollment changes are also posted into this system.
- Report Card System - a flexible reporting system with per subject objectives (up to 20), integrated attendance reporting, etc. All report cards are printed as PDF reports and may include a school logo. All subjects may have unlimited length text comments, and can have any desired ordering. Attendance reporting will now do days open, days enrolled, days absent, and times late as standard.
- IEP (Special Needs) Site that is integrated at the division level that allows special needs teachers to tailor individual student programs that can be viewed from each schools teacher site. This includes the ability to add student medical history, testing done, student teams (and responsibilities), and objectives chosen from lists of thousands, categorized in a variety of ways. There can be up to 32 objectives per subject and each subject is specific to that particular child. His/her program would consist of a variety of subjects in areas such as fine motor control, etc.
- This system can generate progress reports (for use with the report card system) as well as a comprehensive IEP report containing the yearly plan for the child. This IEP can also viewed from the teacher site, to ensure compliance throughout the year.
- Export/Import Modules - to allow students to easily transfer schools within divisions without re-entry of demographic information. Export of data to other programs. Export of data to Provincial authorities via an automated XML based transfer mechanism.
- Saskatchewan SDS support for direct XML transfers of student demographic, subject and enrollment marks to provincial authorities.
- Online Gradebook to allow teachers to enter marks and assessments onine from school or home. It can group and weight assessment items and post directly into the report card system.
- Parent Viewing scripts to allow parents to view attendance, gradebook(where allowed), and report card marks. This is easily integrated into existing school sites.
- Upcoming: Family functions, Parent-Teacher Interview Scheduling, Wherever schools want to go...
- Further out... Multi-language support (demand for a Spanish version exists currently), Student timetabling.
Enhancements:
- A new Fees System to allow fee charging (predefined or new, with various groups), invoice printing, payments and receipts, and the ability to export summary journal transactions to an external accounting program.
- A new teacher logout to remove session data has been added.
- There is a new 70 page User Documentation PDF and a 40 page Administration Documentation PDF (also available in HTML versions).

Web Sharing is a small tray applet for sharing files on the web.

Publish anything on the Internet or your local area network at home, office or school from a folder on your hard disk with just a few clicks of a mouse!

Tuxpaint Stamps for Australian Schools is a collection of stamps and other resources for Tuxpaint for use in Australian schools. Tuxpaint Stamps for Australian Schools includes Australian coins, bank notes, signs, animals, plants, and state flags.
Installation Instructions:
- Close Tuxpaint
- Locate your tuxpaint stamps directory
- On Unix/Linux this will be something like /usr/share/tuxpaint/stamps
- On Windows it will be something like C:Program FilesTuxpaintstamps
- Extract the contents of the archive (tuxpaint-au-stamps-x.y.z.tar.gz) to the stamps directory
- Run Tuxpaint and select the stamps tool
Enhancements:
- The software was split into two packages.

JAdvisor project is a college class scheduler, course planner, and course search program.
It also allows college students to view their schedules graphically and create an optimal schedule.
Adapters are used to customize JAdvisor for your particular school.
Enhancements:
- SchoolAdapter throws new Exceptions
- Added SplitPanes to SchedulerUI and PlannerUI
- PlannerUI displays semester names
- Text Box bug fixed
- Scheduler UI bugfixes
- NCSU adapter bugfixes
- UNC adapter updated

k12admin-client project is a web-based server administration tool for K-12 school systems (client package).
K12Admin is a Wide Area Network administration program geared specifically to K-12 school systems.
It allows teachers in individual schools to administer the accounts in that school. K12Admin will administer the account information on client Linux servers in each school from a central server.
All administration is done through a web browser interface. The system also includes inappropriate web use scanning and security auditing.
The k12admin-client package is the client part of K12Admin. It is installed on school servers that get updated using information from the k12admin-server computer.
Enhancements:
- k12.updateclient cron job was sending an error message to root if another instance of k12.updateclient was already running.

Son of Service (SOS) is a multiuser volunteer management database for non-profits, charities, schools, churches, and clubs. SOS will keep track of your volunteers, their contact information, availability, work history, comments, reminders, and relationships.

It will help you quickly find the right volunteer for the job and e-mail him, and it will make reports about how you are using volunteers.

SOS is a helpful tool for organizations with many volunteers or multiple volunteer coordinators.

Your organization helps people for free, and your volunteers work for free. So you know there is a "free lunch."

SOS is free. Its free from charge: notice there is no menu option for purchasing or ordering. But SOS also provides freedom from many restrictions. Download the program, install it, and use it without buying expensive licenses.

Use it on as many systems with as many users and volunteers as you have. Use your choice of server operating system and RDBMS. (You dont need to buy a RDBMS or other server software.) You can even modify SOS to meet your specific needs because the full source is available to you.