Free newsletters for teachers software for linux

C2::Newsletter is a simple tool for sending newsletters to your visitors. It allows you to create multiple newsletters, so your visitors can select which topics they want to receive.
There is an admin interface to add/edit newsletters and recipients, and send in plain text or MIME-encoded. It is easy to use, but currently only in German (English will be available soon).
Enhancements:
new Features
- Verification email is now configurable (plain text only)
- Supports now the admin as recipient for verification emails
fixed Bugs:
- Admin interface allows to list the recipients of a specified newsletter
- Config page => cancel button now works
- deleting a newsletter deletes also items in c2_mail_newsletter_selections
- holds email when adding a new recipient record
- verification of new recipients now works
performance:
- function GetConfig()

PloneNewsLetter provides a product for sending newsletters based on new Plone content to an email address in TXT or HTML format.
PloneNewsLetter gives you the possibility to create your custom newsletters. The newsletter is prepared for being sent using your favourite mass mailer, and can be directly published on your site.
The process of creating your PloneNewsLetter:
- You create a new PloneNewsLetter
- Using PloneNewsLetter, you search your Plone site for content
- You select the documents that you want to make it into the newsletter
- You can click on the "create" button, and an html and text version of the newsletter are created.
- The html and text versions can now be edited and viewed quickly in a preview window.
- Once you are satisfied with the result, you can send the newsletter to your email address.
- You can use your favourite mass mailer to distribute the newsletter Features:
- The templates used for production of the newsletter are fully customizable.
- The selection of objects for the newsletter is remembered, so you dont have to reselect everything just because you changed the templates.
- If the user publishes the newsletters content, all users will see the HTML version of the newsletter. That way the the newsletter is automatically archived online.
- PloneNewsLetter consists of two object:
- A content type, for users
- A Portal Tool, for settings

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).

Progress Report Manager project is a system for entering and sending school progress reports for teachers and parents.
The Progress Report Manager was built to alleviate problems experienced with traditional school progress reports.
Administrators create progress reports that are automatically sent via email.
Every week, teachers receive a message in their inbox reminding them that a new progress report has been created.
The teacher completes the progress reports online using a Web browser.
At the end of the week, the administrators click a button which sends email messages to every parent whose child received a report.
The parents can look at their students progress online and reply to teacher comments using response features.
Enhancements:
- inactivate students fixed
- help files fixed / modified / written
- report views fixed
- log files can be flushed
- semesters fixed

CyberTester is a Web-based application originally designed to allow teachers to create tests/exams/assignments (consisting of single-choice, multiple-choices or keywords-based questions) and assign them to students to conduct online tests. Students can login to take these tests and review their results.
CyberTester project is suitable to be integrated into online-education services or used as a standalone Web application for a school, college or university.
This latest version of CyberTester (CyberTester2) is implemented using Java Enterprise Edition (with EJB 3), running on JBoss as it application server and MySQL as the database. CyberTester relies on JBoss to manage persistence, relationships and security.
Main features:
- Highly configurable hierarchy tree to group tests, e.g. a hierarchy of Department-Class-Subject-Topic .
- Administrator tools to create/manage users/groups and assign tests to users/groups.
- Administrator tools to create/manage single-choice, multiple-choices and keywords-matching questions using a rich text editor.
- Administrator tools to create/manage tests that contain questions. A test may have a time-limit and a time window in which it can be taken.
- Student test-taking functionality that can be presented either one question at a time or multiple questions in a page.
- Student test results that can be optionally suppressed or be viewable once a test is completed.
- Charting of students performance (very rudimentary at this stage).
- Time limits on questions and/or tests.
- Support for images and external links (via rich text editor) in questions and answer choices.
- Anonymous users who can take the same test multiple times.

Webesquema project is a PHP script that helps students/teachers to design diagrams.

The diagrams can be saved or printed, and support different styles (horizontal/vertical, colors, HTML, custom designs, etc.).

Netpet-CMS project provides easy-going deployment and administration of Web sites, newsletters, and banners. After a short introduction, even users with little experience are capable using Netpet-CMS.

Furthermore, you dont need any specially configured server to run Netpet CMS, so you can install Netpet CMS on standard cheap Web hosting accounts.