Open Source Linux Education Software

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass). Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties. Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others.

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

CoolReader is fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based eBook reader for desktops and handheld devices. Supported formats: FB2, TXT, RTF, DOC, TCR, HTML, EPUB, CHM, PDB, MOBI. Platforms: Win32, Linux, Android. Ported on some eInk based devices.

eXe, the eLearning XHTML editor, is a freely available authoring application that assists teachers in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported to the web or LMS.

eduActiv8 is a free Open Source multi-platform educational application that aims to assist in learning various early education topics - from learning the alphabet and new words, colours, time to a wide range of maths-related subjects. eduActiv8 is a continuation of the development of the pySioGame project just under a new name. It is being developed on GitHub at: https://github.com/imiolek-ireneusz/eduActiv8 but 'compiled' releases are published here. The latest version has been partially redesigned to improve usability, but certain activities will still be in the somewhat "prototype quality" - this will be gradually redesigned as time allows. Currently, it is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android (you may need to allow unknown sources to install it on Android). Packages for multiple Linux distributions are available from: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Aimiolek-i&package=eduactiv8 Support eduActiv8 at https://ko-fi.com/eduactiv8

FET is free timetabling software for schools, high-schools and universities. Scheduling is done automatically. Please visit the project web site https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/ to be sure you always have the latest version

Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.

forma.lms is an open-source, web-based elearning platform (learning management system - LMS), used to manage and deliver online training courses. It's focused on corporate training needs. The projects forma.lms ((aka formalms) was originally created as a fork of Docebo CE v 4.0.5. The support comnunity of forma.Lms is active on https://forum.formalms.org/

Gosfem is the only free, open-source school software designed to solve the real problems faced by educators every day. Founded in March 2020, Gosfem was created in response to the lack of powerful, open-source school management software. From the start, we aimed to build a platform that is flexible, extensible, and easily customizable, with the core goal of helping teachers manage their tasks more efficiently. Our mission is to make high-quality, open source software available to schools of all sizes—regardless of their resources—empowering educators to deliver effective teaching and learning. Built using PHP, MySQL, jQuery, and other open-source tools, Gosfem is a reliable, accessible, and ever-evolving solution for today’s schools. Visit our official website - https://gosfem.com If you find Gosfem useful, we’d greatly appreciate your feedback through a positive review! Software Requirements: PHP >= 7 PHP MySQLi Extension PHP MySQL Extension PHP cURL Extension

Claroline is collaborative learning environment based on PHP/mySQL. It allows teachers or education institutions to create and administer courses through the web. The software provides group management, forums, document repositories, calendar, SCORM,...

Anti-Plagiarism - software designed to effectively detect and thereby prevent plagiarism. It is a versatile tool to deal with World Wide Web copy-pasting information from the assignment of authorship. The goal of this program is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. Checking documents in a format *.rtf, *.doc, *.docx, *.pdf Check the source code C, C++, C#, Java, ... Download - https://sourceforge.net/projects/antiplagiarismc/files/AntiPlagiarism.jnlp Documentation - https://sourceforge.net/projects/antiplagiarismc/files/doc_us.pdf

ILIAS is a web base learning management system (LMS, VLE). Features: Courses, SCORM 1.2 and 2004, mail, forum, chat, groups, podcast, file sharing, authoring, CMS, test, wiki, personal desktop, LOM, LDAP, role based access, see http://www.ilias.de/

Program enables the user to study touch typing in English (QWERTY keyboard) and Bulgarian (BDS keyboard). It can be expanded with training materials for touch typing in different languages and keyboards.

BibleTime is a powerful cross platform Bible study tool. It uses the SWORD programming library to work with Bible texts, commentaries, dictionaries and books provided by the CrossWire Bible Society (http://www.crosswire.org).

Similar to the classic word game 'Scrabble', but with unicode support for multiple languages and character sets. The game is currently distributed with eighty-eight (88) dictionary resources for playing Language[i]-Language[j] 'Scrabble'. For example, if configured to use the French-English dictionary, then the distribution of available tiles will be computed based on frequency of occurance of each character of Language[i] (French), and for each submission the corresponding definition will be given in Language[j] (English).

OpenCards is a flashcard learning extension for OpenOffice Impress. The basic idea of OpenCards is to use slide-titles as flashcard fronts and the slide contents as their backs.

GRANULE is a flashcards program based on Leitner cardfile methodology for learning new words. It features long-term memory training capabilities with scheduling, integrated pictures, sound, and full-screen mode.

Fooblocks is just another Tetris-clone. It's purpose is solely educational - both for the developers of the project, and the intended audience. OS-independent language and SDKs will be used. A documentation in Bulgarian is planned.

GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for learning and teaching geometry, algebra, statistics, and calculus. Download the free software at http://www.geogebra.org. Find the source code at http://www.geogebra.org/trac

Software assists electrical engineers in vibration testing of induction motors and generates automatic reports.

ItExamPractice is a .NET Web application for sites offering online exams/tests. Works in MS.NET and a free (Linux/UNIX/Mono) environment. It helps communities collaboratively build exams and guarantee the freedom of the information for use by others.

JAlma is Java Astronomical Almanac.

JeromeDL [Semantic Digital Library] - e-Library with semantics - is a digital library system based on J2EE platform and the Semantic Web technologies. It utilizes MarcOnt ontology, FOAFRealm and HyperCuP

KnowledgeQuiz is a Web based application for online testing of students skills. It provides functionality to define many teachers, students, groups and subjects and define relations between them.

This is attempt to make an open source bookmarking system that supports tagging, distributed data storage, genetic "splicing" of strains of bookmarking tags and much more!