Engrade: Freeware for Teachers, Students and Administrators

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Engrade is a free set of web-based tools for educators allowing them to manage their classes online while providing parents and students with 24/7 real-time online class information. It's private, secure, truly free, and unbelievably easy to use - so join over 50,000 teachers and start using Engrade today.

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Engrade provides you with free, time-saving tools to help you better connect with students and parents.

Easy to Get Started

· Engrade is truly free
· Set up is easy, it takes only five minutes
· It's all web-based, so there's nothing to download or install

Free Public Teacher Website

· Customize your profile picture and welcome messages
· Choose to publicly display your class assignment calendars
· Includes quick links to the log in and sign up pages for students

Free Online Assignment Calendar

· Post homework, tests, in-class events, and discussions
· Attach files and worksheets so students can download them from home
· Students and parents can post comments, questions, and replies
· Easily copy an event to multiple classes

Free Secure Online Messaging

· Answer questions and send notices to students and parents after class
· Safe and SPAM-free - only students' registered teachers can message them

Free Online Gradebook

· Easily point-and-click to enter scores just like a spreadsheet
· Customize your grading scale to your exact settings
· Have Engrade automatically calculate grades or choose to enter them yourself
· Weight assignment categories
· Drop the lowest assignment score in a category
· Excused and extra credit assignments
· Customize the order in which students and assignments are sorted
· Enter scores from home or school or anywhere with a web connection
· Easily print reports and export them to a spreadsheet
· Instant, private online grade reports for students and parents

Free Online Attendance Book

· Easily point-and-click to enter scores just like a spreadsheet
· Enter any custom marks based on your school's system
· Quickly see totals for each student
· Print and export reports to a spreadsheet
· Instant, private online reports for students and parents

View the demo at https://www.engrade.com/demo/

Free Online School Tools such as Detentions, Room Bookings, ...

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They offer all of our systems for free to schools and colleges . All of their systems have been designed, developed and tested by teachers. The systems are completely free for as long as you want them and are still using them, as part of their mission to make simple administration tasks simple in schools.

We have also compiled a list of free software for schools, parents & students

Arnie - Free online detention system

Online detention system designed and developed by teachers, tested in school. Arnie is designed to be easy and quick to use. Saving teachers time by passing detention admin to admin staff.

Dave - Free GCSE ICT (OCR) marking system

Online marking system designed specifically for the GCSE ICT OCR course. Students / parents can see their marks online and can find out what they need to do to complete their work / improve their grades

Marvin - Free online merit system

Online merit system designed for KS1-3. Students / parents can see their merits online. Enter merits manually or quickly via a barcode scanner.

Bob - Free online room booking system

Bob is our room booking system. He has been designed to be easy to use and super quick - just one click (after login in) and your booking is complete. Bob enables schools & colleges to make the most of their ICT suites.

Pat - Free online praise postcard system

Arnie's good brother, Pat is designed to easily send praise postcards to students at home. Teachers save time with Pat because he passes the sorting and printing to admin staff.

Clive - Free online on-call system

Clive is designed to quickly and easily send requests to on-call staff for student re-location.

The link is http://www.onlineschooltools.co.uk/

TS School - the FREE school administration software application!

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More than just a student information system, TS School is designed for the management and development of your school staff and learners.

The downlink is http://www.timesoftware.co.za/school/index.php

ThinkWave Educator a Freeware Basic Gradebook for schools

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Gradebook Software

ThinkWave Educator is an easy-to-use gradebook that helps teachers manage tests and assignments, attendance, and create reports.

- An intuitive interface makes it easy for teachers to get started.
- Flexible grading options include letter, percentage, points, pass/fail, complete/incomplete, curve grading, late markdowns, and custom grade types.
- Powerful reports include student summary, attendance, grading, and custom reports.
- Use with Windows 98SE, 2000, 2003, NT and XP.

ThinkWave Educator Basic is great for individual teachers who want a basic gradebook. ThinkWave Educator is for teachers who want a full-featured gradebook, as well as for schools and districts.

Features		ThinkWave Educator Basic	ThinkWave Educator
	Track grades with flexible grading options	Yes	Yes
	Track attendance	Yes	Yes
	Full range of reports	Yes	Yes
	Custom reports	Yes	Yes
	Import/export student data	Yes	Yes
	Password protection	Yes	Yes
	Automated backup	Yes	Yes
	Copy classes or an entire term	Yes	Yes

The downloadlink is http://www.thinkwave.com/educatordownload.html

Freeware Teachers Report Assistant can be used as an Appraisal Evaluation Application

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Report writing utility for teachers which:

• produces professional sounding, individualized report cards in the shortest possible time.
• reports can be tailored to suit individual students.
• works in conjuntion with your usual word processor.
• uses a set of statements written by the teacher or downloaded from the net.
• word processes individual comments for students.
• is TOTALLY free! You are even invited to give copies to your friends and colleagues.

Features Include:

• ultra quick combining of statements.
• ready made statements available on the web (by subject and level).
• select and combine comments with a single click.
• ability to edit reports individually for students.
• full control over final report content.
• ability to work with lists of students from Excel or Word.

The downloadlink can be found at http://www.rayslearning.com/repview.htm

School Teachers Electronic Attendance Freeware Register Software

STEARsoft (School Teachers Electronic Attendance Register software) is designed to provide an electronic version of a class attendance register. This porduct also provides features that are useful for making notes and recording incidents.

Full functionality is obtained from the PC component of this product, but the software is designed to work in conjunction with a handheld Palm powered PDA for optimum performance.

This software will allow quick production of blank registers for normal use, but also will give you an electronic system that looks just like a traditional register to allow you to move towards a paper-free system.

Here are some key features of "STEARsoft":

· Specify the structure of your school day.
· Quickly enter your timetable
· Specify term dates with ability to identify days off
· Automatically generate register pages for the whole year using timetable information
· Mark an attendance register, including quick default entry capabilities
· Easy attendance edit functionality
· Attach individual notes to any register entry
· Customise House names or class labels (eg A,B,C,D,... or 1,2,3,... etc.)
· Set up, or import, class data (including pupil names and key data)
· Synchronise data to a Palm device for convenient portable access
· Assign and keep track of incidents relating to individual students.
· Customise code letters for quick annotation of registers
· View a summary of registration data.

The downloadlink is http://www.stearsoft.co.uk/download.php

Free timetabling software for automatically scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university

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FET is open source free software for automatically scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university. It uses a fast and efficient timetabling algorithm. It is licensed under GNU/GPL.

FET version 5 is released. You are encouraged to use it, because of the new much better algorithm. The new 5 series version seems to be very performant. It might be comparable to expensive timetabling software. The solution is usually obtained in maximum 5-20 minutes.

FEATURES

• FET is free software (open source). You can freely use, copy, modify and re-distribute it, as GNU/GPL permits (but please consider a donation)

• Localized to en_GB (English), ar (Arabic), ca (Catalan), de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), fr (French), hu (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), lt (Lithuanian), mk (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), ro (Romanian) and tr (Turkish) (maybe incompletely)

• Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation

• Platform independent implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports

• Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with an xml editor or by hand (besides FET)

• Possibility to view the currently generated timetable without stopping the ongoing simulation (as html on hard disk)

• The resulted timetables are exported into xml and html formats

• Very flexible students (pupils) structure, organized into sets: years, groups and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups. You can even define individual students (as separate sets)

• Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0% (some special constraints can have only 100% weight percentage possible)

• Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Maximum number of working days per week: 28 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Maximum total number of teachers: 700 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Maximum total number of sets of students: 15000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Maximum total number of subjects: 1000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Virtually unlimited number of subject tags

• Maximum number of activities: 5000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Maximum number of rooms: 1000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Maximum number of buildings: 100 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Adjustable duration for each activity (each activity can have duration of 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours or more)

• Possibility of adding multiple teachers and students sets for each activity. That is, each activity can have specified any number of students subgroups (sets) and any number of teachers (it is possible to have no teacher or no students set for an activity, also)

• Maximum number of time constraints: 10000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• Maximum number of space constraints: 10000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)

• A large and flexible palette of time constraints:

• A large and flexible palette of space constraints:

The download link is here.

Free OnCourse: a courses and training management freeware software

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Track your students, courses and enrolments with onCourse software, the comprehensive system from ish. onCourse - The comprehensive enrolment and marketing system.

With minimal training your staff will be able to easily manage the most important information from across your organisation: web site pages, students, enrolments, invoices, tutors and much more.

With our focus on ease of use, almost no training is needed to get your staff up and running with the new system. We have written onCourse to work the way you do, not forcing you into remembering arcane key strokes or data entry processes. But everything you need is there: a full general ledger system, right through to systems to make it easy to market your courses on the web, by email, SMS or however.

Because onCourse automatically updates your web site as you make changes to course information, or fill places in your courses, your web site is always accurate and up to date.

With Australian AVETMISS functionality built-in, onCourse makes it easy to export correct data every time.

You have nothing to lose. onCourse is free to use. There are no restrictions on the number of enrolments, students, simultaneous users or anything else. There are no timebombs or limits.

onCourse has been written for colleges with as few as several hundred enrolments per year. It scales easily to accommodate large colleges with thousands of enrolments per week. It is written with a focus on the Australian environment, however it will work in any country and with most sales tax systems.

Because of onCourse’s core marketing qualities, it is more suited to colleges and schools providing short courses (that is, one year or less) and trying to sell those courses to the general public. It has features specific to running an RTO but it equally useful to colleges without accreditation.

The Download Link is http://www.ish.com.au/oncourse/features

School, Student,Class en Session Management also for training companies

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School Management System is a useful system that was created for automating the student and class management. But it can also be used by educational companies delivering trainings, courses, teachings, lessons, workshops, ...

School Management System is a useful system that was created for automating the student and class management in midsized schools. Created especially for meeting the requirements of small and midsized schools (read also training institutes) in:

· Student management
· Class management
· Teaching sessions management
· Students attendance management
· Reports
· Multiuser work over LAN

The home-page-link is http://www.headmastersoft.com/