New teaching software: administration

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• Libraries, bibliography, texts
• New teaching software: protection - Internet verbinding beschermen in schoolcontext

• ShowMyPC combines VNC remote access technology with an open-source SSH forwarding client to provide you with the option to allow other users to view and control your desktop. The remote user needs to....
  http://www.snapfiles.com/get/showmypc.html
• ClaSS (ClaSS Student System) is a complete student tracking, reporting, and information management system. It extends the reach of traditional school information systems by using the latest in Web application methodologies. It aims to be the ubiquitous classroom information assistant for schools.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/class/
• PSCafe is a POS (Point of Sale) system for school cafeterias. It integrates with SIS systems like PowerSchool (which replaces Powerlunch) and the Pentamation Student Information System. It takes into account free and reduced lunches and student credit. It has a Parent Access Portal that allows parents to view what their child is eating and its nutritional content. It also has a management portal that allows for item management, reporting, etc.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/pscafepos/
• Hidden Administrator is a client/server remote PC administration program that enables you to control the desktop of a remote computer, transfer files, and/or perform a variety of administrative task....
  http://www.snapfiles.com/get/hiddeenadmin.html
• Centre is a Web-based student information system for public and private schools. Its features include scheduling, a grade book, attendance, eligibility, transcripts, and more. Student and employee information screens are critical components.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/centre/
  http://www.miller-group.net/
• AnyPlace Control
  PC Remote control
  http://www.anyplace-control.com/
• Net Monitor for Employees Professional
  Control mouse & keyboard
  http://www.networklookout.com/
• Timbuktu Pro
  Remote control & collaboration tool.
  http://www.netopia.com/software/products/tb2/win/index.html
• uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher-education
  
  http://www.uportal.org/
• OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades. It can put the students' grade reports on a Web server and allow the students password-protected access to them.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/opengrade/
  http://www.lightandmatter.com/ogr/ogr.html
• phpmygrades is an online grading book that can use multiple types of databases. It is meant to be used mainly with a Web browser, but other methods of accessing data are possible.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/phpmygrades
• Time and Attendance is software that is designed to track time and attendance. Attendance tracking is key to any club or organization, and Time and Attendance can easily bring this task online. Its Web-based interface allows you to enter events as either public or private, and only public events are shown on the public attendance page.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/time-attendance/
• Coursor is a Web-based academic course system for assigning students to university courses. It has an evolutionary algorithm for assigning students to the courses they requested. This algorithm tries to find an optimal distribution of students to existing courses while taking their preferences into account. The system supports multiple roles for users: Admin, Student, Teacher/Prof, or Tutor. A user can also have multiple roles. It supports international localization, currently in English, German, French, Russian, and Arabic.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/coursor/
• Membership Software allows you to keep accurate and up-to-date membership records for an organization online. It features membership import and an export feature for creating mailouts. Members can be searched and information including images can be stored for each member.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/membership-software/
• Karoshi is a point and click server setup for secondary schools running Mandrake Linux on the servers and Windows 2000/XP on the clients. It aims to allow a user who is not a Linux expert to get a server up and running in under an hour with minimal Linux knowledge. It provides a set of point and click server configurations for a primary domain controller, a file server for students' work, a print server with Web-based queue management, and a filtering and monitoring Internet proxy server.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/karoshi/
• SchoolBell is a calendar server for small to medium sized organizations. It supports calendars for people, groups, and resources. It is accessible through a Web interface, and supports import and export of iCalendar files.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/schoolbell/
• SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence. The vision is to create a platform that is equally compelling for schools and colleges in First and Third World countries, that supports best practices in school administration, and that is readily customized to comply with local regulatory requirements. It is based primarily on Zope 3, with an HTML interface and a Web service interface in the REST architectural style.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/schooltool
• Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school administration package. Open Admin does demographics, attendance, discipline, report cards, and has an online gradebook and parent viewing function. It is designed for elementary, K-12, and small high schools. It generates plain HTML and uses LaTeX for PDF generation. It also includes special education and division-wide central office modules (all schools run on the same server with different virtual sites; two sites per school, one for teachers, and one for the office). Parent functions are by separate parent/school site.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/openadmin/
• Membership Software allows you to keep accurate and up-to-date membership records for an organization online. It features membership import and an export feature for creating mailouts. Members can be searched and information including images can be stored for each member.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/membership-software/
  http://www.membership-software.org/
• School Tools for Online Resource Management
  "School Tools for Online Resource Management" is designed to aid schools in moving away from pedestrian systems of managing IT facilities and resources. The target audience is a school, but other environments, such as small businesses, could easily make use of the tools. The project is a suite of PHP Web pages that use PEAR::DB for database communication. The project is divided into various modules, each with a different focus, such as support request tracking, resource booking, etc.
  
  http://freecode.com/projects/schooltools/
• The Librarian
  Is a user-friendly Book Database program. Used to keep track of your personal library. It can generate printable ...
  http://www.sofotex.com/The-Librarian-download_L17738.html
• Class Action Gradebook: Easy Grades, Reports
  Teachers, take the work out of grading with Class Action, a very easy to use and full featured grade book.  Class Action tracks and computes grades and helps you stay in contact with students and their parents. Features seating charts, a full complement of ready to go reports, letters, and graphs (in English and Spanish) that can be printed or automatically e-mailed to parents.
  Shareware. Richard Stott, CalEd Software, http://www.ClassActionGradebook.com/.
• AGiSS: Gradebook and lesson planning software
  AGiSS Gradebook includes gradebook and lesson planning software. Create any type of assignment you need, add or delete students any time throughout the year.  If a student moves from one period to another, you can move that student along with the student scores, into a different class.  Record attendance, define a seating chart, generate report cards and progress reports, create student summary reports, display assignment averages for each assignment type, display assignment or quarter distributions, generate student progress graphs, play What If Scenarios to see what a student's grade would be if low grades were dropped and/or record the dropped grades, and it also allows you to create specific assignment types and assign weights to them.
  Shareware. Charles Gazdik, AGiSS Software, http://www.agisssoft.com/.
• Classroom Portals: Teacher class mgmt/grdbook
  ClassRoom Portals is a Windows 95/98/ME/XP Freeware program for teachers. It is designed to make your record keeping and grading much easier. ClassRoom Portals was created by two urban public school teachers with decades of real-world classroom experience. The program has one basic premise: You, the teacher, are entering a huge, enchanted "ClassRoom," filled with many "Portals." You will be passing through these doorways at different times during the school year to make your record keeping and grading much more efficient.
  Freeware. L. Broudy, ClassRoom Windows Software, http://www.classroomwindows.com/.
• MemberTies: Club Membership System
  MemberTies is a club membership tracking application written for Windows 95/98/00 or NT. MemberTies enables you to easily organize and track your club's member contact information, status, dues payments, roles, and achievements, as well track contact information for other clubs.  Relationships can be defined and tracked between multiple membership records as well as between membership records and clubs.  This makes it possible to track the membership of multiple clubs, or your own members who belong to more than one organization.  Set up your own custom statuses (i.e. 'Prospect') to categorize your membership, and establish ToDo Lists for any membership or club record (or yourself) so you can keep up with the individual needs of everyone. In addition, customizable fields are provided that you can define and use for any data you wish. Many predefined reports are provided, including statistics, mailing labels, and contact lists, and many reports can be customized to show only certain membership statuses, dates, etc.  Complete online help is provided.
  Shareware. Van Sederburg, http://www.myrro.com/memberties/.
• SchoolWrite
Professional software for school administration.
http://www.schoolwrite.com