Hi FET-friend-users,
Thanks to Liviu, all of us have solve timetable problems (or almost of us).
But, i think we have another common problem: school management, for example to inform parents about absences of students.. and marks (online)
Please... which software do you use in your school? ::)
Greetings
Paolo
We use a special software from our goverment. it is closed source, german only and it is has implementet the special rules of your systems. so it doesn't make sence to use it if you don't have a school in Germany NRW.
I guess you already check this:
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/toolslinks.html
(espeacialy the last links)
Thanks a lot, Volker.
I did not see that list.
And i suppose you meant ("last link") about Fedena..... yes... i found it... really nice grapich and, sure, functions.
Unfortunately, it seems to me there is not a Liviu for Fedena.. about "customization".
As of matter of fact, in our kind of school (professional for students from 14 to 17 years old), it's important the number of hours of attendance: we need exaclty hour of delay or early way out (with exporting in excel or text file). Instead all those software regard schools that count days of attendance.
I think there are many (many) schools like mine... and that feature would be very usefull.
Anyway, could i ask you if you know someone that installed Fedena? And (or) better...someone could help me (and so.. all those will follow us)? 8)
Sure I'll write in Fedena's forum: if installation was easy... I could help for italian version.
Best regards.
Paolo
PS. I found this http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fedena/Installation (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fedena/Installation)
i meant the plural, because maybe also schooltool or openadmin fit your needs.
there are 3 :
1- moodle student mangement (only version 2.2 and above).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/moodle/files/Moodle/stable22/
2- opensis (now , version 4.9):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensis-ce/
3- freesms (used in suse education) 2.1.2:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freesms/
regards
Please let me know which programs to add to the FET page Tools/Links section, but only free (libre) software. All these three of the above?
yes, all under GPL and free.
I prefer to add the homepage for Moodle, so I added:
Moodle - Course Management System (CMS) - GNU GPL.
http://moodle.org/
openSIS Community Edition - GNU GPL.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensis-ce/
Free Student Management System - GNU GPL and other license.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freesms/
Please check Tools/Links ( http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/toolslinks.html ) and confirm it is OK.
thanks, please let the moodle links like:
Moodle - Course Management System (CMS) - GNU GPL , student management system was added to moodle in version 2.2 and above.
http://moodle.org/
regards
Done, please check.
yes, thanks.
We are succesfully using Open Atrium, a Drupal Based Group management environement: http://openatrium.com
Quote from: Andrés Chandía on January 26, 2012, 03:06:14 PM
We are succesfully using Open Atrium, a Drupal Based Group management environement: http://openatrium.com
I added it in Tools/Links.
There are plenty of open source school management software; the only thing is you have to Google precisely using specific search phrases. In addition to that, there are many forums offering a platform for young software developers to test and distribute their own software to understand the flaws and areas of development in it. You can try getting open source school management software from these forums.
I personally use the School and Tuition Management Software. It is cost-effective, easy to use, seamless to customize, flexible to suit my needs and has a great customer service. You can check out the features by visiting http://goo.gl/EjytnD
Quote from: summittech on May 27, 2015, 01:39:33 PM
I personally use the School and Tuition Management Software. It is cost-effective, easy to use, seamless to customize, flexible to suit my needs and has a great customer service.
Thank you for your information, but it seems to me to be a kind of advertising. This topic is about open source software (well, Volker talks about closed source software in the second post, but does not give its name and does not talk about its qualities). I googled for this software and I found its homepage. Its author is Summit Tech (the same as your username). Also, your very appreciative wording about the software is resembling advertising.
On the other hand, this topic is for debate, it is not a selected collection of open source software. Also, you did not explicitely write the software homepage. So, I am not sure what to do. Maybe the other moderators (Volker and Bobby) know better.
Anyway, thank you for your interest!
There was already and other thread, very similar.
see http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=1444.0
But even in that thread it doesn't fit, because it look like it is category *C*.
About "cost-effective": The school administration software from category *A* and *B* are always free. I even now free school administration software from category *C*. So in fact i need to define a 4th category *D* for that software. But i don't want do that, because there are to many tools in that *C* and *D* categories and they are easy to find by google.
About "great customer service": Hmm... i can see only a single phone number and a single E-Mail. It doesn't matter if you want to buy, have a question as customer or as parent about x, ... . Always just this two "services". I didn't saw a forum for that software. Doesn't look like there are many guys to help. "Great customer service" is like the school administration software forced by my government. Even we are a small country in the world and we have less then 4000 schools, the forum for that software has got 2 times more members and a lot of more posts/topics then the world wide FET forum. Each Area has got a personal guy that help if you have got questions per phone, E-Mail or by a tool like TeamViewer for free. In worst case that guy will visit your school and help you for free. And you can also visit further education for that software for free. That is what I call "great customer service".
About "Should we keep that posts like that": Difficult to say. It just look like advertisement. Maybe we can keep advertisement to other commercial school administration software if that commercial company also give a link and/or an advertisement for FET on their homepage or forum too?
Quote from: Volker Dirr on May 27, 2015, 07:49:31 PM
About "great customer service": Hmm... i can see only a single phone number and a single E-Mail.
Volker, I am not sure you found the exact page with Google, but after about a few seconds spent on the official page a chat message box popped up and a person wrote me if I am interested in this software.
ah.. I talk with Luviu per mail. I was on the wrong website.
But it doesn't change much:
I didn't got a chat message box, I can't see a forum, ...
Even if I will get a message box: Selling and helping are 2 different point. Maybe they help very good and fast. Nobody can validate that.
But a public forum like the FET forum or the school administration software from our government can be checked by everyone very easy. It is easy to see how fast you got an answer in those forums and it is easy to check if you got good answers or just answers that doesn't help much.
Ok. On that side are more phone numbers (over all 5 if I counted correct: for Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Viet Nam and Hong Kong).
So service is maybe a bit better then I wrote in my first answer, but still far away from support done my the school administration software from my government.
(I think this is no advertisement for my school administration software, because we are "forced" to use it and it doesn't make sense for other guys to use it, because it is German only. But even for other German countries it is stupid to use it, because it contain a lot of special things that others can't use. Like special rules for printing the credentials, special tools to upload statistics to the government, ...)
Perhaps summitech should use Volker's previous thread - school administration software.