SchoolTool

SchoolTool is a GPL licensed, free student information system for schools around the world. The goals of the project are to create a 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

Developer(s)	The Shuttleworth Foundation
Initial release	2004; 21 years ago (2004)
Stable release	2.8.4 / July 4, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-07-04)
Written in	Zope (Python)
Operating system	Ubuntu
Type	SIS
License	GNU GPL v2

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 SchoolTool are as follows:

• The SchoolTool Calendar and SchoolBell are calendar and resource management tools for schools available as part of the Edubuntu Linux distribution.^[1]
• A SchoolTool student information system is being developed and tested in collaboration with schools
• CanDo is a SchoolTool-based skills tracking program developed by Virginia students and teachers to track which skills students are acquiring in their classes and at what level of competency.^[2]

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" (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.

A post on the product news page in October 2016 titled "The Future of SIELibre and SchoolTool" indicates that the primary SchoolTool developers have moved on to other things.^[4] This was accompanied by a google document explaining the decision and thanking contributors for their efforts.^[5]

SchoolTool Features

• Customizable demographics;
• Student contact management;
• Calendars for the school, groups, and individuals;
• Resource booking;
• Teacher gradebooks;
• Class attendance;
• Report card generation.

See also

• Free and open-source software portal
• Schools portal
• Education portal

• OpenEMIS
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Open Knowledge Initiative
• Web services
• FET