Education Software
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- This is a collection of various types of education software
- Click a category on the left to refine your view
- Clicking on a software title will provide you with detailed information
There are several kinds of software needed in a school environment: network security and monitoring to keep the school networked and safe, grade and timetable tracking software for teachers, educational software for classes, general network clients for email and web access.
Learn more by visiting GNU.org: Free Software in Education
| 7Zip | 7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format. * High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression | Linux Windows |
| AbiWord | AbiWord 2.4.6 is an award winning, small, fast, featureful and crossplatform word processor. Get your copy today to experience the state of the art in word processing. | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| Adium | Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services. | Mac OSX |
| Amanda | AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions can also use SAMBA to back up Microsoft Windows hosts. | Linux Windows |
| aMSN | aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as: * Display pictures | Linux |
| Art Of Illusion | Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later. | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| Audacity | Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: * Record live audio. | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| Avidemux | Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| Azureus | Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users: * Multiple torrent downloads | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| Blender | Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| CamStudio | CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) | Windows |
| Canorus | Canorus is a free music score editor. It supports note writing, scripting support, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output and more! Note that Canorus is still in early stage of development and not nearly all the features are implemented yet! Canorus is free (libre) software, licensed under GNU GPL. This means that the program source code is available to public, anyone is welcome to research how the program works, participate in its development, freely distribute the program and spread the word! Canorus runs on Linux, Windows, MacOSX and others! Read more on About Canorus page. | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| Celestia | The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| Childsplay | Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children, like gcompris. Childsplay uses a plugin system for the games, so you might want to check the Childsplay plugins page. (There are two built-in games: memory and a typing game.) | Linux Windows Mac OSX |
| ClamWin Free Antivirus | Clamwin is a free anti virus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clamav engine. Note, this program does not have on access scanning. This is best used for scheduled anti virus file system scanning. | Windows |
| Claroline | Claroline is a Web Based Course Management System. It allows teachers (professors, lecturers...) to create and administer course websites through a browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, FireFox, Mozilla, ...). | Web / Browser Based |
| ClaSS | ClaSS is the ClaSS Student System. | Web / Browser Based |
| Crossword Builder | Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript education application that runs in any modern internet browser but does not require an internet connection. The simple controls allow teachers or parents to create unlimited math crosswords, or supply their own word:hint pairs. Support has recently been added for French, Spanish, pt-Brasillian, Kiswahili, and special characters (accents, tildes etc), in general. Some suggested uses include: cities, countries, lattitudes and longitudes to teach geography and spherical trig, simultaneously; Periodic table word:hint pairs; Language[i]:Language[j] word:hint pairs, for foreign language learning exercise; Terminology practice with virtually any other subject. | Web / Browser Based |
| Dia | Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages). | Linux Windows |
| DvdStyler | DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs. The main DVDStyler features are: * you can drag and drop MPEG files directly | Linux Windows |
