SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence.
SchoolTool will provide educators with a robust and reliable means of managing their school or classroom, saving time on routine tasks like managing class rosters, tracking student attendance, assessment and demographic information, helping teachers coordinate their schedules and reserve resources like projectors and computer labs. The system will be accessible through a web interface or specialized desktop applications. SchoolTool's interface will be easily translated for use around the world and accessible to people with disabilites.

SchoolTool will be more than just a relational database backed web site. It is an object-oriented platform specifically designed for the rapid development of networked applications for schools. It is built on outstanding open source technologies, including the Python programming language, and the Zope 3 web application environment. Extreme programming is the preferred programming methodology for the project.

Our goal is that schools will be able to install and use SchoolTool with a minimal architecture, as little as a single pc, and without a professional system administrator. For schools that have a more complex infrastructure and staff to manage it, SchoolTool will provide an unprecedented level of interoperability with other applications throughout the school, via a comprehensive web services API.

L8 Creates charge for this service is based on a quote. Factors for the decision are the size of deployment and whether you require documentation, Software discs and Support.

These factors comprise a list of costs that will be added to the quote, feasibility consultation 8 hours or 8 meetings £400, deployment for a primary school £300, deployment for secondary schools £500, duplicate software discs £20 (3 Discs).

These are initial costs and this means that basic costs are £700 for primary schools and £900 for secondary schools.

These costs do not take into account installation for schools with complex infrastructure and staff to manage it

Teacher Training is charged per person at £40 per person.