Free school software for linux

C# School Ebook is a 330 page ebook that covers the .NET framework and the C# language. Starting with the basics of the language, it goes on to cover object oriented programming techniques and a wide range of C# languages features including interfaces, exceptions and delegates.

Later chapters cover practical topics including database access with ADO.NET, building Windows forms applications, multi-threading and asynchronous I/O. The final chapter covers new features in C# 2.0, including generics.

SchoolTool project is a common information systems platform for school administration.

SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence.

The vision is to create a platform that is equally compelling for schools and colleges in First and Third World countries, that supports best practices in school administration, and that is readily customized to comply with local regulatory requirements.

It is based primarily on Zope 3, with an HTML interface and a Web service interface in the REST architectural style.

Install step-by-step Instructions

OK, using the aforementioned shell script makes things easier, but there are still a few steps you need to pay attention to.

You need a C development environment (build-essential on Ubuntu) and Python development libraries (python-dev on Ubuntu).

You need the Python Imaging Library (python-imaging on Ubuntu) and the Python libxml2 bindings (python-libxml2 on Ubuntu).

You need a very up to date version of Python setuptools, which will probably require downloading a new version of ez_setup.py and running that script as root.

Now you can download alpha2-install.sh to whatever directory you like to use for testing software and do chmod +x alpha2-install.sh to make it executable and then ./alpha2-install.sh.

Hopefully it will then set up the rest of your environment and give you some final instructions when it is done. You will probably get one error message when it runs the tests. Please ignore it.

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).

iScholar project is a content-neutral authoring and publishing system that can be used to write on-line or paper & pen exams and course pages on virtually any topic.
iScholar is ideally suited to deliver or supplement the courses and curriculum of
- Professional Training Programs
- Corporate Training Programs
- Distance Education and Continuing Education
- University Courses
- Grade School or High School Classes
Main features:
Standard Features
- WYSIWYG interface for creating and editing exams
- Print feature lets you print pen & paper versions of on-line exams
Supports many question types including:
- multiple choice, multiple answer, true/false, drop-down
- Fill in the blank, Essay, Number Check, Range Check,
- Expression Check, Function Check
Other Features
- Automated marking
- Hints & Hint Penalties
- Multiple Attempts & Attempt penalties
- Timed Exams
- Test and Exam Certifications
- Questions can include images and audio/video elements.
- Question content can be written in HTML, LaTeX (for equations and math symbols) or plain Text
- Grouping of exams and course pages into modules with prerequisites and anti-requisites

Skolelinux is made as free (as in speech) software, and also Skolelinux is an overall computer solution based on schools resources and needs.
- Skolelinux is a network architecture tailored for use in schools.
- Skolelinux is developed and supported by a large and growing international community.
- Skolelinux is designed to be easy and cheap to maintain.
- Skolelinux gives the students their own usernames, home directories and services.
- Skolelinux includes OpenOffice.org
Skolelinux, Debian and all auxiliary software components we use are free software ? free as in freedom. The term "free software" implies the following rights:
- Freedom to use the software regardless of purpose and adapt it to ones needs.
- Freedom to study how the software works.
- Freedom to redistribute the software so ones neighbour can benefit from it.
- Freedom to modify and enhance the software and publish those modifications so everyone benefits from them.
These rights form the foundation of both Debian, Skolelinux and all the software we use. They enable us to use the various software components, put them together in our specialized network design and package and redistribute the software as "Skolelinux".
With proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows, all adaptions and modifications have to be redone everywhere. With Skolelinux, modifications and enhancements done by a school in Norway may benefit schools in Eritrea ? and vice versa. Windows is the most commonly used operative system used in schools today, but as Windows is proprietary software, it is not possible to tailor Windows for school usage and call it "SkoleWindows".
Skolelinux (aka debian-edu) is a Custom Debian Distribution. This means that Skolelinux is a version of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that is customized for schools. Debian is a state-of-the-art, user-friendly operating system. The goal of our customization of Debian is to make it easy to install and maintain for schools. ? with all applications available in the students mother tongue.
Despite how easy Skolelinux is to install, asking only a handful of (non-technical) questions, it is an advanced network solution, with many pre-configured services. With ordinary, closed, proprietary software, these services have to be configured manually for every single school ? and that needs careful planning and expertise!
Amongst several pre-configured services are the following:
- Central user catalogue: One username and one password for several machines and services.
- Central storage: Regardless of which machine you use in a Skolelinux network, you have access to your files and meet an interface with your settings ? an interface you are familiar with.
- Thin client solution: The applications are run on a thin client server, which is a powerful machine. The image from those applications is drawn on a "thin client", which usually is an old and cheap machine. This enables you to use old hardware. Moreover, it eases administration, as you have one server to maintain.
- Printers may be shared and made available in the network.
- A proxy server caches files downloaded from the Internet, resulting in a faster surfing experience.
Enhancements:
- This is a community release with comprehensive support from regional and national projects in Germany, Spain, France, Greece and Norway. The Skolelinux project is now a part of Debian under the name Debian-Edu. Several other projects have made additional functionality to Skolelinux tailored for national needs. Skolelinux now supports more than 50 countries. Whats new in Skolelinux 3.0: based on Debian 4.0 "etch" and therefore compatible to LSB 3.1, using kernel 2.6.18 and KDE 3.5.5...

uspell project is a spelling tester/teacher for elementary school.

uspell is a sound-card based spelling tester.

The words to be spelled are spoken aloud by the computers sound hardware and the user is then prompted to spell the word via the keyboard.

To set up the rewards: make a directory, call it $base. Then "uspell -set $base", and dictate congratulatory statements for reward1 .. reward9 (or fewer).

I suggest parents or teacher perform this step, so the voice for the reward is not the same as the voice for the words. My list of rewards is pretty simple ("Hooray", "Good job", "Congratulations", "Atta-boy"). A final closing remark (like "You did it, thats the end") can be put in $base/reward-end.raw. Configure $base below to match your choice $base.

I expect the child him/her self to dictate the spelling words. "uspell -set unit_name", and it will give instructions from there. It may take some practice to
pause the right amount of time between hitting and saying the word. A *nix guru may be helpful cleaning up messes.

I expect the child himself/herself to dictate the words, and someone else to dictate the rewards, so there is an additional distinction between the words to type, and the rewards.

JCom SDK provides a network package for the Java language.
The JCom SDK is a network package for the Java language. It allows the programmer to create client/server application with little knowledge about networks and no knowledge about TCP/IP. It is basically a set of wrappers built around Javas internal TCP/IP socket classes.
The JCom SDK is a network package for the Java language. It allows the programmer to create client/server application with little knowledge about networks and no knowledge about TCP/IP. The JCom SDK is basically a set of wrappers built around Javas internal TCP/IP socket classes. To create a client connection, the programmer needs only to create the client class with the appropriate IP address. As for the server, the programmer needs only to specify on which port the server will receive the connection and when to start listening. All aspect of the connection is handle internaly. The programmer needs only to consult its event queue to receive messages and add messages to remote queues to send messages.
The initial version of the JCom SDK was design as a network module for a school project. However, I saw that with a little modification, I could make the module generic for any application. The idea came to me when a few friends asked me if they could borrow my network modules for their project. After a little coding and a lot of comments, the first public version of the SDK was released. Thought I am not available to answer questions or offer support, suggestions and comments are always welcomed.
Enhancements:
- JCom is now thread safe (big thanks to Marc)

JVOIPLIB is an object-oriented Voice over IP (VoIP) library written in C++.
It is based upon work done for my thesis at the School for Knowledge Technology (or School voor Kennistechnologie in Dutch), a cooperation between the Hasselt University and the Maastricht University.
A part of this library was developed at the Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) in Diepenbeek, Belgium. The EDM is a research institute of the Hasselt University.
Main features:
- Easy VoIP session creation and destruction.
- Highly configurable sessions: sampling rate, sample interval, compression type, ... can all be selected by the user. These features can also be changed during a session.
- Openness and extensibility: the object-oriented nature of the library makes it very easy to add features; new components can easily be tested by registering them as User Defined modules.
- Support for 3D effects: for my thesis I also did some research and development about VoIP in networked virtual environments, which included adding 3D effects to sound. For this reason, Ive added this feature to the library.