Schooltool, anybody using or has used it around?

[woodsmoke]

Schooltool: Is there anyone that has used it or is using it?

woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Re: Schooltool, anybody using or has used it around?

http://book.schooltool.org/screenshots.html
Wow!
I wish I had that tool while I was teaching!

It looks like the new version, 2.0, is dramatic change in design from the 1.9 release because it is now web based, using the browser as the front end. That's cool! IF I were teaching I could have my grade book open in one tab and a SAGE Notebook() page open in another tab! 8) However, about the only things I see that it can do, from your POV, is just a grade book, via gradable events, and attendance keeping. If that's all you need it looks good enough to do that.
[img width=400 height=371]http://book.schooltool.org/_images/sc-grade.png[/img]

But, if you got the administration interested then perhaps they could use the over riding parts: http://book.schooltool.org/sections....ors-and-pupils

And,

Personal¶

For personal use, SchoolTool can be installed and used on a personal desktop or laptop computer running Ubuntu Linux, accessing the web interface locally. This type of installation is not going to be under heavy load, since there is only one user, but it will eat up some memory while running in the background.
Technical Specifications¶

The primary bottleneck in SchoolTool’s performance is usually memory. The bare minimum RAM requirement for testing is estimated to be 256 megabytes. At least 512 megabytes is recommended and if you are setting up for a production server, adding more than 1 gigabyte of RAM is worth it if you can afford it. More memory equals faster database performance.

Faster processors will make SchoolTool run faster. Over 1 gHz is recommended. SchoolTool is multi-threaded but due to the Python programming language’s implementation only one thread will run at one time, so SchoolTool’s performance does not directly benefit from multiple processors or multi-core processors.