SchoolTool

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| developer = The Shuttleworth Foundation

| released = {{Start date and age|2004}}

| latest release version = 2.8.4

| latest release date = {{start date and age|2015|07|04}}

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| programming language = Zope (Python)

| operating system = Ubuntu

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| genre = SIS

| license = GNU GPL v2

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SchoolTool is a GPL licensed, free student information system for schools around the world. The goals of the project are to create a 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 as a free software/open source software stack, licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, written in Python using the Zope 3 framework.

The sub-projects of SchoolTool are as follows:

The SchoolTool Calendar and SchoolBell are calendar and resource management tools for schools available as part of the Edubuntu Linux distribution.{{cite web |title=SchoolTool (as included with Edubuntu) |url=http://edubuntu.org/Screenshots |access-date=2009-10-12 |archive-date=2013-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115121348/http://www.edubuntu.org/screenshots |url-status=dead }}
A SchoolTool student information system is being developed and tested in collaboration with schools
CanDo is a SchoolTool-based skills tracking program developed by Virginia students and teachers to track which skills students are acquiring in their classes and at what level of competency.{{cite web |title=Cando Student Competency Tracker |url=http://www.apsva.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=8793 |access-date=2011-08-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208053919/http://apsva.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=8793 |archive-date=2013-02-08 }}

SchoolTool is configured by default to act as what is often called a student information system or SIS. The focus is on tracking information related to students: demographics, enrollment grades, attendance, reporting. It is a subset of a complete "management information system" (MIS) for schools, which might also cover systems like accounting.{{cite web |title=Basic Use of SchoolTool |url=http://book.schooltool.org/htmlhelp/features.html#basic-use-cases |access-date=2009-10-12 |archive-date=2013-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116003718/http://book.schooltool.org/features.html#basic-use-cases |url-status=dead }}

SchoolTool is not a learning management system, or LMS, such as Moodle, although they share some overlapping feature sets, such as a gradebook. SchoolTool does not contain curriculum or learning objects.

A post on the product news page in October 2016 titled "The Future of SIELibre and SchoolTool" indicates that the primary SchoolTool developers have moved on to other things.{{Cite web|url=https://launchpad.net/schooltool-project/+announcements|title = News and announcements : SchoolTool Project| date=April 2016 }} This was accompanied by a google document explaining the decision and thanking contributors for their efforts.{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dI9vQb8R7zRoYpSVvFmjj-Wlptvyld1erT0G8AWRYVw/edit|title=The Future of SIELibre and SchoolTool}}