10 Linux Education Applications

ATUTOR

It’s online software that allows you to manage your courses and gives students a means of keeping up with what’s going on with course work. With ATutor, you can post assignments, tests, grades, and more. Students can create accounts and keep track of their particular classes and assignments. Students and teachers can also keep in touch with one another via email and messaging

ITALC

iTalc is a powerful didactical tool that allows you to watch and control computers for educational purposes,iTalc is free and released under the GPL. iTalc also supports Linux and Windows XP and will soon support Windows Vista.

ONLINE GRADES

Online Grades allows teachers to post students’ grades and attendance online. It takes exports from many popular grade book apps (such as Easy Grade Pro and Grade keeper) and displays them online.The cost for this system? $0.00. You will find different areas for administrators, faculty, students, and parents.

OPEN ADMIN FOR SCHOOLS

Open Admin for Schools is an outstanding open source application that allows schools to do full student administration, including enrollment/withdrawal, student reports, attendance, schedules, report cards, fees, medical reports, and discipline.

FET

FET simplifies the complicated scheduling of K-12 and university schedules. It uses a heuristic algorithm to take these things into consideration: days per week, hours, subjects, activities, teachers, years, groups, subgroups, buildings, rooms, and time/space constraints. After you enter all of the necessary data, FET will run the algorithm against it. If a scheduling problem occurs, FET will show you the problem so you can make corrections. FET is available for Linux, Windows, and OS X.

G COMPRIS

G Compris is geared toward educating children ages 2 to 10 through various activities and games. Some of the activities are focused on helping children better understand how to use a computer; others focus on standard subjects, such as: math, algebra, science, geography, and reading. Currently, G Compris has more than 100 activities.

EDUBUNTU

Edubuntu is a Linux distribution geared specifically for educational environments. It includes educational software, tools, content, and themes. Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu 8.10, so it will enjoy longterm support. This package ships with some of the few apps i defined here like G compris,Kig,italc and more

KSTARS

KStars is a desktop planetarium that is part of the KDE Education project. It offers an accurate night sky simulation from any location on the planet. KStars includes over 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, eight planets, the sun and moon, comets, and asteroids.

KWORD QUIZ

KWordQuiz is a flashcard-based application aimed at helping vocabulary training, but it can be applied to many other subjects.

CHILDS PLAY

ChildsPlay is a suite of tools aimed at helping young children learn various maths and languages. The tools include: Memory, Letters, Numbers, SoundNPic, and many more.