Gibbon
Gibbon is a flexible, open-source school management and learning platform created by teachers, designed around the workflows of real schools. It provides a single web-based system for teachers, students, parents and administrators, covering everything from student data and planning to assessment and communication. All core features are free and remain so; the project is sustained by paid support and development services from GibbonEdu.
Key Features
- Student-centered profiles — Centralized student information helping teachers understand, contact, find and help their students.
- Planner and lesson tools — Seamless planning, teaching and assessment workflows built in classrooms by educators.
- Assessment and reporting — Markbook, rubrics and report generation integrated into the platform.
- Unified access for all roles — Teachers, students, parents and administrators share one web platform with highly configurable access levels.
- Modules and themes — The core is extensible through separately provided modules and themes.
- Multilingual — Core available in 26 actively-translated languages with right-to-left text and UTF-8 support.
- Attendance and behavior tracking — School operations modules covering attendance, behaviour and student welfare.
- Self-hosted and redistributable — Schools can host on their own servers, back up, redistribute and modify the software.
Why Use Gibbon?
Gibbon was built by teachers for schools: it combines an SIS (student information system) with a learning platform so staff don’t juggle separate tools. Everything from attendance to report cards lives in one self-hosted, GPL-licensed system, which keeps costs predictable for institutions of any size.
Use Cases
- International schools, public schools and home schools needing a full school information system plus learning platform.
- Schools wanting one self-hosted platform that unifies student data, planning, assessment and parent communication.
- Small institutions that cannot afford commercial school management SaaS.
Platform
Web · LAMP-style server · any modern browser
Licence
GNU GPL v3 (GPL-3.0)