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Gibbon

A flexible, open source school management platform for teachers, students, parents and

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Gibbon is a free, open source school management platform built by teachers, designed to bring student information, planning, teaching, assessment, attendance, timetables, finance and administration into a single web-based system. It serves teachers, students, parents and administrators through one platform with configurable access levels, replacing paper-based and fragmented processes.

Core modules include Planner, Departments, Resources, Timetable, Activities, Individual Needs, Library, Students, Application Form, Attendance, Behaviour, Data Updater, Staff, Form Groups, Markbook, Rubrics, Tracking, Formal Assessment, Crowd Assessment, Messenger, Finance, and School, System, User and Timetable Admin. Modules can be enabled or disabled per user role, and additional modules can extend functionality. Integrations include Google Calendars, and messaging supports email, SMS and Message Wall. The platform is multilingual with right-to-left and UTF-8 support.

Gibbon is intended for schools of varying sizes and types, including international, public, home and refugee schools. It is free and open source, with no licensing fees, and can be self-hosted on a school's own servers. Optional support for the project includes Foundation Membership with an annual fee, a Catalyst License, and flexible donations.

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