Ask Slashdot: Open Source Software To Manage Student Grades? 120
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?"
Moodle. (Score:5, Informative)
Moodle has a grade management tool that might be able to handle these requirements.
Open Admin for Schools (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
No matter how well you do... (Score:5, Informative)
...prepare yourself to be hated by every one of your co-workers.
Google is your friend. (Score:0, Informative)
Build it (Score:4, Informative)
Spreadsheets translate to databases which translate to websites easily if you just need some simple software for teachers to use.
Alternatively, I'd recommend JupiterGrades.com
http://jupitersis.com/ [jupitersis.com]
It's about $5 per year per student. Kids can access it from home, parents have their own login. They can see what homework they're missing, how a homework assignment affected their grade.
Sometimes it's just better to spend the little bit of money.
engrade (Score:3, Informative)
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Schooltool (Score:2, Informative)
http://schooltool.org/
Re:Moodle. (Score:5, Informative)
There's also School Tool - http://www.schooltool.org/ [schooltool.org] .
We're working on this right now! (Score:4, Informative)
We're calling it GAKU Engine ["Learning Engine" from Japanese]. It's fully open source (GPL). Along with full school/course/student management features and full interface for students we want to integrate features so schools can easily extend and augment their educational offerings with free/open content and external services. We'll have a Kickstarter up soon too, untill then check out the (incomplete) PR site at: http://genshin.org/en/GAKUEngine
Re:Moodle. (Score:4, Informative)
FWIW, a few months back, blackboard purchased moodlerooms, which (I believe) manages the open source moodle project.
Obviously, they played lip service to "We're committed to the moodle project blah blah blah..." But honestly, it's too early to tell what will really become if moodle. My guess is that it will morph into blackboard "lite" and they will use it to try and up sell you to their blackboard program.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/blackboard-buys-moodlerooms-and-no-this-isnt-an-early-april-fools/4866 [zdnet.com]
Re:Moodle. (Score:5, Informative)
FWIW, a few months back, blackboard purchased moodlerooms, which (I believe) manages the open source moodle project.
Moodlerooms [moodlerooms.com] is a Moodle hosting service, completely independent of the actual Moodle project. Regardless of what happens to Moodlerooms, Moodle will continue in develpment. Remote Learner [remote-learner.net] is another Moodle hosting service, which I imagine would stand to pick up quite a bit of business if Moodlerooms tried to foist Blackboard on its customers.