Re: [school-discuss] Student Management System

[Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

Not sure if anyone suggested this one yet but you can look at:
http://www.schooltool.org/st-products

Looks not too bad but I have not use any myself.

Hope this helps.




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> Hi There,
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> I have a need for a system that:
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> 1. Keeps a list of students
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> - can group them by hierarchies
> - eg: A student of learning centre X in country Y
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> 2. Keeps records of students grades
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> - record keeping may need to comply with various Government standards
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> 3. Allows remote access via web-browser
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> - web browser can display graphics but that's all I can assume
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> 4. Allows student access to the system
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> - to check / challenge gradings
> - to download student resources
> - to download course policies
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> I have a suspicion that Sakai or Moodle would do these and I have tried
> them both out, a little.
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> 1. Sakai seems quite 'heavy' although I suspect that integrating it with
>  an outside directory service (eg. an LDAP based service) might get me
> what I need
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> 2. Moodle seems quite 'light' compared to Sakai but I found its user
> interface awful (to be honest)
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> One thing I may need to do is bolt one or more proprietary modules onto
> the system. I can probably edge the license towards a BSD Revised / X11
> style license but I don't think I'd get approval for a GPL style
> license.
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> Am I looking at the right tools?
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> DSL
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