Re: [seul-edu] ISO Phase 1--work time!

[Jeff <tackweed@whidbey.net>]

One more time....


  From:   Jeff <tackweed@whidbey.net>
  To:     drloss@suscom.net
  Date:   Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:53:13 -0700
  Subject:Re: [seul-edu] ISO Phase 1--work time!

  I attempted to go throught he administration category and also
  attempted to follow the suggested groupings for the programs listed.

  Since I could not think of a good way to report on the items, I modified
  the applications web page by adding a third column.

  Much of the information in this category deals with programs to be
  run by systems people; some of it relates to school administration
  with district level programs mixed in - there are also some programs
  aimed at universityies.

  Most of the 'teacher" programs operate on the assumption that
  teachers are also maintainers of web pages and have cgi- priviledges
  - which is not a real world event.  While some districts are technologically
  adept - there are not many places I know of that offer inexpensive hosting
  which includes Perl and PHP. Hopefully, this will be changing soon.

  While this has been quite an experience, I am afraid I do not have much
  to offer as evaluations. 

  Hopefully this will be of some assistance;

  Jeff LeMieux
  Oak Harbor





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Title: View Seul/Edu Application Index

Seul/Edu Application Index - Adminstration

Records: 63

Name	Description (License)	Evaluation 7-02
Technology Managment - Network administration:
AbulEdu [ Administrative ] (May 32, 2002)	AbulEdu is a suite of modules that help you easily set up and administer a school-wide Linux server for a heterogenous network with web-based administration, support for Internet connection sharing, internal and external mail, X terminals, a collection educational programs, library management software, a software development toolkit, and some crunchy details like sharing a CD tower or authentication through ID cards. ( unclear,likely GPL) [ Complete Record ]
Projet MINAL [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Projet MINAL, which stands for Maintenance Informatique Nulle Avec Linux, is a set of scripts for easy administration of a school network which incorporate both Linux and Windows clients. It's based on Redhat 5.x. It's in French, of course. ( unclear; likely GPL) [ Complete Record ]
SLIS [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	SLIS (Serveur de communications Linux pour l'Internet Scolaire : Linux Communication Server for School Internet) is a TCP/IP gateway for schools. It provides advanced functionnalities to students and teachers, such filtering proxy-cache, email addresses, access control, web replication, web mirroring, intranet web server with PHP and PGSQL, user management... In February, 2002, more than 750 schools use SLIS in France. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
K12Admin [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	K12Admin is a Wide Area Network administration program geared specifically to K-12 school systems. It allows teachers in individual schools to administer the accounts in that school. K12Admin will administer the account information on client Linux servers in each school from a central server. All administration is done through a web browser interface. The system also includes inappropriate web use scanning and security auditing. The k12admin-client package is the client part of K12Admin. It is installed on school servers that get updated using information from the k12admin-server computer. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]
kmuser [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	kmuser is a User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop kmuser is designed for administrating a schoolnetwork. Therefore it has built in a lot of useful features to manage many users and groups of users. If the quota filesystem is installed on your system managing of user quotas is supported as well. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]
Technology Managment - Web proxies/filters:
Active Guardian [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Active Guardian is a Linux based caching proxy filter. AG was designed to be used in a school or library to limit user access to questionable sites. During the development process the emphasis was placed on putting the power into the teacher or administrators hands. (open source) [ Complete Record ]
WPM [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	WPM (Web-based Proxy Manager) allows you to use a web browser to configure which machines you provide Proxy access to from within a LAN. This is especially useful for schools or similar installations, with a large number of machines and limited bandwith. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]
MiddleMan [ Administrative ] (July 30, 2002)	MiddleMan is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It uses an XML configuration file, and fully implements the HTTP 1.1 protocol, including persistent proxy connections. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Technology Managment - Equipment Inventory/Availability:
LabStatus [ Administrative ] (June 20, 2002)	LabStatus is a Web-enabled, multi-user system to allow for easy administration of any number of computer labs. It was created especially for organizations which have multiple labs, to manage any number of devices (computers, projector, laptops, etc.). To allow access for various managers, administrators, and technicians to update records, it incorporates a complete user system with multiple user levels. (Commerical) [ Complete Record ]
Tech Tracker [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Tech Tracker is a web-based tracking system. It has primarily been written to support the needs of a schools systems technical support staff, and thus may or may not meet the needs of a businesses internal MIS/ITS staff. ( Artistic) [ Complete Record ]
Technology Managment - Web Content Management:
Alumni-Online [ Administrative ] (June 20, 2002)	Alumni-OnLine is a php, DBMS based program to make a connection between alumnus. Sending messages, searching someone is so easy. It has diffrent level user rights. Easy to install, configure and use; all you need is a web server with php and a DBMS. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
MyPHPSchool [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	MyPHPSchool intends to provide, a well coded, modular and easy to modify content managment system specialized for K-12 Schools written in PHP, and using a MySQL database. Other Features include Calendars, and Remote File Acess for users. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Reunion Address Database [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Reunion Address Database (RADB) is a CGI-Script written in Perl. It helps you to manage an address database for the organization of a reunion for your school, society, club or family. ( GPL) [ Complete Record ]
Webliographer [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Webliographer is a server-based web application that allows people to build mini-search engines similar to Yahoo. Webliographer is similar to Yahoo in that every link is added by a human (rather than a computer program that searches the web itself). ( unknown; free for download ) [ Complete Record ]	#Webliographer - a program which allows the compilation of web-bibliographies by targeted groups. Looks to be a very useful classroom program as well as school and subject wide groups.
WebCleaner [ Administrative ] (July 24, 2002)	WebCleaner is a filtering HTTP proxy. It can disable animated GIFs, compress documents on-the-fly (with gzip), add/remove HTTP headers, and remove unwanted HTML (adverts, Javascript, etc.). It can be customized to your needs. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Technology Managment - Remote Administration/Screen Sharing:
XWinX [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	XWinX is a project to create a program in C to remotely control an MS Windows® machine, just like you can with VNC, Citrix MetaFrame® (Citrix ICA®), pcAnywhere® and friends. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
XMX [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	XMX is a standalone utility for sharing an X Window System session on multiple X displays. It allows users to see and interact with the same applications at the same time from different locations. XMX provides a WYSIWIS (What You See Is What I See) environment; it paints the same graphics on all participating displays. ( unknown ) [ Complete Record ]
School administration - Office:
eduBase [ Administrative ] (June 20, 2002)	eduBase is a web-based application. It is designed to allow features to be installed and uninstalled as modules. The finished system will provide tools for: * School-wide attendance * Scheduling * Report-card generation * Assignment tracking * News and announcements * Class pages * more... eduBase is sponsored in part by: See Forever Foundation/ Maya Angelou Public Charter School. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
SAGU [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	SAGU, which is a portuguese acronym for "Sistema Aberto de Gestăo Unificada", was originaly designed to automate all of what that happens between a student and their Educational Institution. This relationship happens at the academic, financial and administrative levels, and SAGU has subsystems dedicated to these levels. SAGU can be tailored to fit the needs of any Educational Institution. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
StarshipSchool [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	"Edventions, Inc. is establishing the national standard for K-8 education in the information age by integrating the administrative, communication, learning and fundraising tools needed to successfully educate students." ( commercial ) [ Complete Record ]
PingoS Schulbuchmanager [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	This program manages the inventory and borrowing for school books. Features include stock overview, pupil data, creating and managing book call slips, managing loans and returns, and stock and demand analysis. Currently only supports German language. ( free software) [ Complete Record ]
Online Lunch Menu [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Web script that will allow a secretary to enter all the school lunch menus for a single month on one page, then post it to the web. Users see the menu for this month, with today's menu highlighted. Script written in PHP and requires MySQL. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
MicroBUDGET-GUI [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	MicroBUDGET-GUI is a fund accounting system flexible enough to meet your demanding organizational needs. It is the latest enhancement to MicroBUDGET+ and was developed using RDA's 5GL Tools. ( Based on MPL ) [ Complete Record ]
Xpert [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Xpert is a fund accounting system designed to meet the needs of any size organization . Its flexibility allows technical staff to customize the entire system, from database up, meeting the changing needs of any organization. ( Based on MPL ) [ Complete Record ]
EWPATAS [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Enterprise-Wide Positive Attendance Tracking and Accounting System--An integrated set of tools for attendance logging and analysis, especially designed for use in an academic environment. Components of the system will gather data from a variety of sources (barcode scanners, network logins, and dedicated stations) and integrate this information with a SQL database. A web based GUI will allow faculty and staff to easily produce reports and generate statistics, as well as look up additional information. (Generic Open Source) [ Complete Record ]
OpenSIS [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	OpenSIS manages student information for public and private school districts. It manages information at the district level and not classroom-level, like many software packages. OpenSIS has the ability to keep track of student attendance, assignments, grades, schedules, health information, student discipline, and more. Teachers can manage their grades, attendance, and communications with other staff. School district staff can produce reports on attendance, ethnicities, grades, and more. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
School administration - Schedules:
asigna [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	asigna receives information about the schedule of a school and some of its constraints, and with that it tries to arrange a schedule that satisfy the contraints. It is highly portable and has a simple plain interface (for the moment the messages for the user are in Spanish). (Public Domain) [ Complete Record ]
Carnegie [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Carnegie is a class scheduler. It is written on Linux using the GNOME libraries. You can use it to find an optimal class schedule--just enter your class numbers It will fetch information about the classes off the net and build a list of all possible schedules. ( GPL) [ Complete Record ]
Educational Information System [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	An attempt to produce an information system suitable for use in any school or university. The system should handle all logistic tasks such as student and teacher rosters, courses catalog, grade books and scheduling. It will also include a course publication module. This module will allow the teacher to publish courses and the students to navigate in those courses. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
JAdvisor [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	JAdvisor is a class scheduler, course planner, and course search program. It also allows college students to view their schedules graphically and create an optimal schedule. Adapters are used to customize JAdvisor for your particular school. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
phpCBS [ Administrative ] (April 20, 2002)	phpCBS is a Course Booking System written in PHP4. It uses PHP4's session capabilities to authenticate users, the MySQL database system to store all its data in, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to configure the "Look and Feel". The administrator can set up new Courses and control the registered users. The users on the other side are able to register for a specific classplace. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
scheduler [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	scheduler allows you to input your courses and classes, and it automatically determines what schedules are possible. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]
Schedulist [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Schedulist is a program that takes a single source file (in easy-to-follow XML format), and spits out a human-readable form of it, in HTML table, list or perharps other formats (LaTeX is planned). (Artistic License) [ Complete Record ]
Tablix [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Tablix is a high school timetable generator. It uses a coarse-grained parallel genetic algorithm to construct sensible timetables from XML-formated school information files. It can run on a single host as well as on a heterogenous parallel virtual machine by using MIT's PVM3. Its features include a number of possible restrictions for teachers or classes, HTML-formatted output, and configurable genetic parameters. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
XPUSP [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	University Schedule Planner is an application with a web interfaced program that, given a set of teachers, a set of students and a set of classes each one with several restrictions, builds a schedule for the university classes. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Calcium [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Brown Bear Software provides web calendar solutions for scheduling events, meetings,appointments, or just about anything else. Calcium is targeted to Unix platforms and remote hosts. It's written in Perl. (Unknown) [ Complete Record ]
Event Calendar [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Event Calendar is an online event calendar, originally developed for use by an educational institution, based on PHP and PostgreSQL, and supporting SSL. ( GPL) [ Complete Record ]
LLEU [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Within the LLEU project a bunch of Python/Zope products are being developed, they are about internationalization, calendaring solutions, university management, etc... (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Classroom - Information management:
Basmati [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Basmati is a set of open-source PHP scripts that allows parents, students, and teachers to privately view classroom grades via the internet. Basmati interfaces with Misty City's Grade Machine and Orbis Software's Easy Grade Pro. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]	#Basmati - on-line progress reports and school assignments. Input is from commerical grade book programs like Grade Machine via a filter. This program is used quite a bit in the state of Washington. with Grade Machine and some other programs. It uses an export filter to accomplish this. It is unknown as to whether any of the current supported programs come in Linux versions.
Bessie the Annihilator [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Bessie the Annihilator (commonly refered to as just "Bessie") is a web-based grading program. It allows teachers to enter assignments and grades for various courses into a database, which students may then log-in and view. Bessie was designed and written between the months of September and December of 2001 by myself and a group of three other students (Ryan Lewis, Rachel Carlson, and Tom Delgado) at Westminster College. It was never originally intended to be a finished product; rather, Bessie was meant to be an exercise in designing software. I do intend on making improvements, though, especially if someone expresses an interest in using it. To see the current list of future improvements, refer to the To-Do List at the bottom of this page. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]	#Bessie the Annihilator On-Line gradebook - This appears to be an on-going project with a projected completion date of September 02 which might include reporting facitlites and some data analysis. At the present itme it offers a way to categorize grades.
Ggradebook [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Ggradebook is the fully-featured GNU gradebook; an application for tracking student grades for teachers. It uses GTK+ and can optionally be compiled to use GNOME. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]	#Ggradebook - this program records and tracks grades in a well-defined format. It is an open project. It does not appear to offer any reporting formats. (Note: the hompage link has changed from the one on the application index.)
Grades XML editor [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	The Grades editor provides a GUI with which you can edit a Grades-XML file. This file is easily transformed into an HTML table, using an XSL stylesheet. HTML tables for students and teachers are generated automatically, including (periodic) averages. Everything has been written in Java, so it should work on any platform. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]	#Grades XML editor - This is a Java Program which uses XML to store and process grade information. It is visually well designed but in its current form is a bit cumbersome since each student's information has to be entered via an individual process.
GradeView [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	A Java-based grading system. Professors, and optionally TAs, can enter in grades which become visible to their students. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]	#GradeView- No other information available other than the given description.
Ionia Student [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Ionia Student is a gradebook and school administration program for high schools. Eventually it will also incorporate Empas, an embedded Pascal interpreter. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]	#Ionia Student--No further information available
OpenGrade [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades. It can put the students' grade reports on a web server, and allow the students password-protected access to them. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]	#OpenGrade- An extremely well documented program in Perl which can FTP data to the Internet in student-accessible form. Appears to be well though-out with care givent to efficient entering classes of information. Requires Perl and GCC
PinZeT [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	PinZeT is a tool to help teachers writing school reports. In Germany the teachers have to fill out pre-printed forms. PinZeT offers a user interface to record the layout of these forms. Additionally PinZeT allows the teacher to record the pupils marks. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]	#PinZeT - anecdotal reporter - limited application for completing specific forms (German)
The Grades editor [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	The Grades editor provides a GUI with which you can edit a Grades-XML file. This file is easily transformed into an HTML table, using an XSL stylesheet. HTML tables for students and teachers are generated automatically, including (periodic) averages. Everything has been written in Java, so it should work on any platform. ( GPL) [ Complete Record ]	#The Grades editor - same as Grades XML Editor
Student Anecdotal Reporting System [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	The Student Anecdotal System is a PHP/MySQL project for schools. It creates an interface for teachers to report on the progress of students. The information is then emailed to the student's advisor/homeroom teacher as well as kept in an online database so other teachers can view progress. The interface was designed so that teachers who are not particularly adept with computers can still use this program easily. ( GPL) [ Complete Record ]	#Student Anecdotal Reporting System (PHP and SQL) - is exactly what it says it is - could be useful for sharing anecdotal information about students on a local network. Not too sure about online security however.
		#The Homework Reporting System 1.2 (Version Released 4/3/01) (PHP and SQL) (http://www.beaconschool.org/~clehmann/projects/) This was not listed as an item on the applications list - but looks like a real keeper for the teacher who wants to post assingments but not have to be bothered with web pages and html
Testatos [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Testatos helps computer science teachers manage tests. (BSD) [ Complete Record ]	#Testatos- test tracker - computer science - these appear to be server applications written as the result of a competition. cannot evaluate with my setup
The Online Assessment Database [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	An online system for storing, searching and retrieving test items. This system will be based on the http protocol and use a normal browser. The server side will use both perl and java scripting and a SQL standard database back end. ( unclear; freely usable) [ Complete Record ]	#The Online Assessment Database- moved to richtech.ca/testbank. This is a well-planned and very easy-to-use on-line database and test generator with multiple formats available. The documentation does not say whether the program(s) are packaged
Webliographer [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Webliographer is a server-based web application that allows people to build mini-search engines similar to Yahoo. Webliographer is similar to Yahoo in that every link is added by a human (rather than a computer program that searches the web itself). ( unknown; free for download ) [ Complete Record ]	#Webliographer - a program which allows the compilation of web-bibliographies by targeted groups. Looks to be a very useful classroom program as well as school and subject wide groups.
Distance Learning/Teleconferencing - Various:
DETA [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	The Distance Education Teaching Assistant (DETA) is a wizard style interface to the MBone tools designed to facilate their use in distance education courses. Its main purpose is to integrate the the many software tools needed for distance education over the MBone in a single easy to use package. ( Open Source ) [ Complete Record ]
drawboard [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	drawboard is a Java applet used to make graphical teleconferences (like the whiteboard in Netmeeting). When you draw something on your table, all remote users can see it. It features a client-server architecture and a high-color palette. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Edventure [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Edventure is a course management system that allows teachers and students to interact via the Web. It is written in PHP and has a SQL interface (Postgresql, MySQL, etc.) to the data. Edventure could be used to replace proprietary programs, such as BlackBoard or WebCT, at a university or K-12 school. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Open Remote Collaboration Tool [ Administrative ] (June 20, 2002)	OpenRCT is a multidisciplinary effort to enhance collaboration between people who are not co-located in time and space. It is a platform independent multimedia tool that supports synchronous and/or asynchronous communication. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Quadronegro [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	A client/server teaching tool with a blackboard, irc-like chat, and a remote-execution tcl/tk facility. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]
The HorizonLive Distance Learning System [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	The HorizonLive Distance Learning System is a Web-based distance learning system, designed to work with just about any Java-enabled Web browser which work through firewalls and includes whiteboarding, application sharing, automatic session archiving, live streaming audio/video, a wizard of easy client setup, breakout rooms, private messages, and more. ( commercial) [ Complete Record ]
MiscellaneousSpecial Purpose or Other:
BJS [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	BJS is Web-based management software for the German Federal Youth Games, a Germany-wide sports competition for schools. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]
Escritor [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Escritor is a set of five free software programs aimed towards education and training as a whole. It can currently be used in "Remediation" or differenciated learning in teaching; distant education; or personal cultivation. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Livestat [ Administrative ] (June 20, 2002)	Livestat is a Perl-based statistics management system designed for academic competition tournaments, a.k.a "College Bowl" or "quiz bowl" events. Livestat is used to automate the processing of statistics from individual matches, and to quickly publish statistics on teams and players to the Web. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
PHP Track Meet Registration [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	PHP Track Meet Registration allows teams to register their athletes for a track meet. Features include Web-based administration, different divisions, unlimited events, school information, printable screens, security features, and more. It can seed (sort by mark) the athletes in each event for any combination of divisions. ( GPL) [ Complete Record ]
STORM [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	STORM is a database system designed for large courses and laboratories. It maintains student marks and section/group assignments. It has been used since about 1995 for undergraduate courses at the University of Toronto; these course have enrollments of up to 1000 or more. Access to the database is via the web. (GNU Public License) [ Complete Record ]
Structio [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	Software to assist learning of Colombian students in basic subjects: Language, Mathematics, Social Studies and Natural Sciences. ( GPL ) [ Complete Record ]
Web Teacher Evaluations [ Administrative ] (May 20, 2002)	The Web Teacher Evaluations project is a couple of Perl CGI scripts and some HTML pages that together comprise a real-life teacher evaluation system. The HTML pages are geared towards the campus for which they were originally developed, but they can serve as a valuable template or quick start guide for developers. It currently uses a flat-file for storing its data. (GPL) [ Complete Record ]