Gibbon is a flexible school management platform designed to make life better for teachers, students, parents and leaders.
Gibbon is used by many different schools around the world, including international schools, public schools, home schools, and refugee schools.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Student centred – collates student information, helping teachers to understand, contact, find and help their students.
- Teacher led – built by teachers to solve problems common to all schools, allowing seamless planning, teaching and assessment.
- Unified access – teachers, students, parents and administrators all access Gibbon from the same web-based platform, with highly configurable levels of access.
- Internationalization support – 22 actively-translated languages. Support for right-to-left text and UTF-8 encoding.
Website: gibbonedu.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Gibbon team
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Gibbon is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
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|---|---|
| openSIS | Rivals costly commercial alternatives |
| Open Admin for Schools | Designed for elementary, K-12, and high schools |
| RosarioSIS | Student Information System for School Management |
| AlekSIS | Generic school information system |
| Gibbon | Flexible school management platform |
| SchoolTool | Common global school administration infrastructure |
| Fedena | Accomplished school management software |
| ClaSS | Classroom information assistant and school management system |
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