Educators

ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, and develop custom templates to give ATutor a new look. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute... Platforms: PHP 4.2+, MySQL 3.23+

THREDDS (short from Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services) project is developing middleware to bridge the gap between data providers and data users. The goal is to simplify the discovery and use of scientific data and to allow scientific publications and educational materials... Platforms: *nix

Centre School Information System is an open-source, web-based student information system. Centre has been designed to address the most important needs of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, students, and clerical personnel. However, it also adds many components not typically found... Platforms: Mac

Moodle is a Course Management System that is designed using sound pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from one computer to a 50,000-student university and is used in 175 countries around the world Here are some key features of... Platforms: Windows

A powerful mathematical expressions editor. Formulator is aware of presentation and semantics face of mathematics, and so it allows not only to visually edit, but also to calculate simple Content MathML formulas (numbers, sets, linear algebra). Exporting functions includes MathML text, XHTML... Platforms: Mac

An innovative new take on viewer applications. Rather than just a reader, like Acrobat Reader, or a thin runtime, like Flash Player, Mathematica Player has the full Mathematica engine embedded right there - ready to make documents come alive or to power applets. (Of course, don't forget it can... Platforms: Mac

TxtReaderXpress Basic is a handy and reliable application designed to convert any text to audio. Supports RichText, Text.The powerful and versatile text-to-speech software for Windows users. It's popular with business people, educators, writers, students, language learners and those with visual... Platforms: Windows, 2008, Windows Vista, 7, 7x64

Pagico Professional is a comprehensive and user-friendly application that can efficiently organize projects, reminders, to-do items and more. It was designed specifically for users who have to deal with tons of information in diversified topics, such as freelancers, home business, and... Platforms: Windows, XP, 2003, Windows Vista, XPX64, 7, 7x64

Finale provides easy access to everything you need to compose, arrange, play, and print music. Whether you're creating orchestra film scores or .MP3 files for your iPod, your music comes alive with Finale. Finale is the world standard for music notation software. More than 2.5 million... Platforms: All

The MagicBook is a free electronic coloring book with twist! This unique software will allow children of all ages to develop their computer and artistic skills whilst they are completely absorbed in its fun filled world. At the heart of the program is its unique graphical engine. Unlike any other... Platforms: Windows

Flipz IV Flash allows you to create fully lip-synched animated characters in Flash format in a matter of minutes. Record directly into the software using your own voice or import an external audio file, choose your character, and presto. A fully animated talking character on your Web site in... Platforms: Windows

American poet, Bryant H. McGill, has announced the release of a free software rhyming dictionary derived from the award winning McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme, which is used by tens-of-thousands of writers, educators, students, aspiring poets and songwriters from over 100 countries, and... Platforms: Windows

DraftSight is a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators. With DraftSight, you can easily create professional CAD drawings. With the... Platforms: Windows

RandomSelector is a tool for classroom demonstration and experimentation.Using this tool educators and students can make random selectionsfrom sets stored as text files. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Virtual Math Teams (VMT) Project (vmt.mathforum.org) at the Math Forum enables K-12 math collaborative learning, professional development of educators, & group cognition research. Platforms: Mac

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound... Platforms: PHP

It was designed to offer accessibility and adaptability.Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, develop custom templates to give ATutor a new look, and easily extend its functionality with feature modules.Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based... Platforms: PHP

ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Management System (LMS) used to develop and deliver online courses. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, develop custom themes to give ATutor a new look, and easily extend its functionality with feature modules.Educators can quickly... Platforms: PHP

This plugin adds a column to the post list to display each post's word count. Educators who grade assignments based on length may find this plugin particularly useful. Rules can be created for posts based on tags or categories that color the word count red or green depending on whether the number... Platforms: PHP

A WebQuest is a learning activity used by educators. It is focused around reading, analyzing and synthesizing information using the Web.Webquests were invented by Bernie Dodge and Tom March at San Diego State University in 1995.InstallationUnpack in your modules folder (usually... Platforms: PHP