Skills and Outcomes
Organize and track student achievement of complex sets
of skills, outcomes, or standards using CanDo.
Gradebook
Create and assess student assignments and activities,
calculate and report grades through SchoolTool's clean
web interface.
Attendance Journal
Improve accountability with online attendance tracking
and daily class participation scores.
Calendar
SchoolTool creates a web-based calendar for every
person, group, class and resource. Use the calendar to
reserve rooms and other shared resources.
Intervention
Create and track student improvement plans
collaboratively between school staff and parents using
SchoolTool's Intervention system.
Demographics and Contacts
Store customizable personal data about students and
teachers. Manage multiple adult contacts for each
child.
SchoolTool is an open source, web based student information system designed for schools in the developing world, with strong support for translation, localization and automated deployment and updates via the Ubuntu Linux installer and package management system.
In 2005, Arlington Career Center teacher David Welsh had an unmanageable list of 77 Video and Media Technology competencies to evaluate for each student in his classes. Yorktown High School computer science teacher Jeff Elkner was teaching his students to program in Python and bursting with enthusiasm for engaging students and teachers in open source processes. I had a new job leading the SchoolTool project with a charge from entrepreneur and philanthropist Mark Shuttleworth to create open source administrative software for schools around the world...
The core development team supports one-click installation of SchoolTool on Ubuntu Linux through the Ubuntu Software Centre.
If you are not already running Ubuntu, you can download and install it, run it off a CD or USB drive, or even run it alongside Windows, all for free.
SchoolTool is also available from and supported by commercial vendors, such as Critical Links.
SchoolTool can be hosted on a PC or server at the school site, or a remote server in "the cloud."
SchoolTool is part of ambitious technology deployments on six continents, such as: