The SchoolTool Book

SchoolTool is free administrative software for schools around the world. The goals of the project are to create a simple turnkey 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 is built on a 100% open source software stack, written in Python using the Zope 3 framework.

SchoolTool is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This document is the primary source of user and developer documentation on SchoolTool.

For more information:

• Homepage
• Launchpad project page
• Mailing List
• IRC channel: #schooltool on freenode.net

Contents:

• Overview of Features
• Release Notes
• Installation
• School Setup
• Importing and Exporting from Spreadsheet
• Populating Your School
• Gradebook, Attendance and Report Cards
• System Administration
• Developers’ Handbook
• Editing or Translating This Book
• Glossary of SchoolTool
• About SchoolTool
• Cando Notes