Projects

ILIAS

ILIAS is a powerful web-based learning management system that allows users to create, edit and publish learning and teaching material in an integrated system with their normal web browsers. Tools for cooperative working and communication are included as well. ILIAS is available as open source ... [More] software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Universities, educational institutions, private and public companies, and every interested person may use the system free of charge and contribute to its further development. It has been certified for being compliant to SCORM 1.2 RTE Level 3 and SCORM 2004 3rd Edition. [Less]

Chamilo LMS

Chamilo is a project that opts for open source in a radical way. It aims at bringing you the best e-learning and collaboration platform in the open source world. It comes in two flavours: Chamilo LMS, fruit of the progressive development of a software suite that started in 2001, and Chamilo LCMS ... [More] Connect, reaching the last stages of development, a new taste of e-learning that will definitely bring you fresh and creative tools. [Less]

Catrobat

Catrobat is a mobile visual programming system. Catroid is an IDE and Catrobat interpreter for Android. Paintroid is an associated paint program for Android that, among others, allows setting parts of images to transparent. IDEs and interpreters for iOS, Windows Phone, and HTML5 browsers are in beta ... [More] stage. There are more than 30 subprojects, e.g., allowing to enter musical notation by singing into the mike, or to program a Parrot AR.Drone. We use Test-Driven Development along with other agile methods, assuring a clear and 100% up-to-date documentation. [Less]

EduIS

An open approach for transparent education system.

Online Grades

Online Grades is the leading free-software project that allows K-12+ student grades attendance information to be posted onto a dynamic web site. Online Grades is not a web-based gradebook. Instead, it accepts grade export information from several popular gradebook software programs such as Easy ... [More] Grade Pro, Gradekeeper, Misty City's Grade Machine, and PGGP and places the grade information online securely. Student, Teachers, Parents, and Administrators each get their own personal login into Online Grades, which allows them to see all of the grades in all of their classes. If parents have more than one student at a school or district, they only need one parent login to see the grades of all of their students. For more information please visit http://www.onlinegrades.org/about [Less]

belteshazzar

This project is for the development of the map and timeline of the cities and empires of the ancient world at http://www.belteshazzar.org The site uses google maps to show the cities and empire outlines of the ancient world. A timeline allows you to navigate through history and see how the ancient ... [More] world changed over time. The site makes extensive use of jquery. Note that this project holds everything for the website (the html, javascript, php backend, and dumps of the database). TimelineJanuary 2010 - IDEA - Idea for the site from reading "The Fall of Empires by Cormac O'Brien" (thanks for the christmas present mum and dad!) - I kept looking at maps to try and visualise the interplay between different empires and cities. January-February 2010 - INITIAL DEVELOPMENT - Core of the site developed with jquery, php and mysql. 16 February 2010 - LIVE - Uploaded the site to hosting provider, now to add cities and empires. 17 February 2010 - FIRST BUG - viewed the site at work in IE8 and the forms aren't working, easy fix (i tested extensively with IE8 before going live but hadn't been checking the compatibility mode that IE was using) Future PlansA future aim is to add animation through time, rulers of cities and empires, and notable events. DiscussionIf you would like to discuss any aspect of the site feel free to visit the google groups discussion list http://groups.google.com/group/belteshazzar_org Further InformationMySqlSchema [Less]

spellnow

This is a school assignment, and I am releasing the code that I am creating under a GPL license to the public. News08/05/2008: I now have a working, in use copy of SpellNow at SWIFT-online.net. SWIFT is a spelling tutoring program that my school runs, which is what I had in mind when I started ... [More] making SpellNow. I will be using Swift Online to aid in spelling learning, but this is along side many other activities already in place (SpellNow will just be a side note). This is using PHP, and I will be committing the source to SVN once I am happy with what I have. Also, in regards to licensing. The source code of SpellNow is freely avaliable under GPL 3. There is a difference between the source code and content. I will not be releasing the content (spelling words, audio, maps, story, images etc.) under GPL, so it will need to be licensed out. Of course, this doesn't mean you can't use these items, it just means it will be different to the source code. It will be free for home use, but will be licensed out at a very reasonable rate to schools which are using it to assist in education, which is only fair. The source code is useless without the content, unless you re-write your own content into the source code, which is currently rather difficult, but will be re-done soon. 30/04/2008: SpellNow is back in development! I am going to use it at school now as a learning aid for a spelling program that I am a tutor at, so I will be adding more features. 17/11/2007: It has been a long time since I posted here. Sorry about that! As you may well have noticed, a PHP extension did not come about, as of yet, but I still have plans for it. The C++ version has been canned, and replaced by spellnowPy, a Python version. The Python version will be actively developed from now on, with no major features or changes for the web based version (planned). The PHP version will hopefully work with the spellnowPy version, to allow a database to be used. The Python version will use wxPython for the GUI (Graphical User Interface), and I plan to have it as interactive as possible, with many more features to come. I cannot give a date for when these are released, but I will continue to work on SpellNow into the future. 30/08/2007: Expect a PHP extension/add-on avaliable for download soon, and within the next month (September), a new release (0.78). 31/07/2007: Today my SpellNow assignment was due at school. I handed in a working copy with a few things I had finished 1am the night before. I am releasing this version as a normal version (as apposed to aplha or beta). Please download spellnow0-32.tar.gz. See the wiki page SpellNow032Release. 21/07/2007: Wow, it has been a little while since my last release. It has been a bit over a week since I got back from Tonga, and that went for 2 weeks. Anyway, a quick update. I am working on the same practice page as before (it is getting better), and have fixed the bug so it will now display the score at the end of the list, not the word before. I have also moved a few things around as well as touched up a few things. I am also working on a new menu page, to make it easier to select a level. I have a few other things planned before the final thing is released. I am currently in a different state, so I can't easily upload to SVN without my home computer, but I will when I get home. 22/06/2007: I have released the first alpha of Spell Now! It is called alpha 233, and you can download here: spellnow-alpha233.tar.gz. NotesI am trying to keep this project as open source as possible, but there are a few things I cannot help. Firstly, I am forced to use mp3 for the file format, as I am using a program called Sound Manager to play the sounds, which uses (another closed format) flash to play the sounds. If I can find a way so that I can play it in OGG and without flash, I will do that. Currently, I am working on the word lists, so they aren't fully up yet. The word database included could really be counted as a extra, as one that big isn't really required for my assignment, but it is needed to make it usable. AboutThis is a spelling program, designed to help improve the spelling of Junior School Kids (Grade 2 to 5). This is fully customizable, and can be adapted to any learning environment. Currently, as part of my Information Software and Technology assignment, I am required to make a educational JavaScript program. I am also planning to release a PHP addition to it, which isn't required, but will be able to run on a server and remember student details (previous results, name etc,). LicenseImportant licensing information (additional to GPL): You are allowed to use this program free of use, but you must NOT, under any circumstances, remove any of the credits any where in this software. I reserve the right to change the license at any time, and if you are using the software, at any version, it is assumed that you will comply with the new license or stop using the software. You must purchase a license if you are to use this software in a classroom, within a for profit organization (if you are registered as a non-profit organisation, you can use this software free of charge). This is due to the fact that SpellNow is back in development and more features are being added. This only applies to versions AFTER 0.32. For licensing information, please visit http://joshhendo.com/spellnow If you are using this software in a classroom or learning environment, please email to let me know that you are using it, and how many students are using it. IF you could also let me know any improvements or features that you or any students would like to see in it (or any BUGS that have been found, those are very important to know about), please let me know. I want to be able to make this the best possible. It isn't required to email me, but if you do, I will email you about new licensing information or any other important information about this (the latter won't be emailed upon request, though licensing info will be if changed). Other ProjectsMany other people will know me from the project BitFox, which is a BitTorrent Firefox extension. That is a project I am doing under my own will. I will be working on it later in the year, but this project is a school assignment, so it is guaranteed to be finished early term 3 (in Australia, which would be by the end of July), while I am not getting as far with BitFox. I have mentioned this because some people may think that I will start projects and not complete them, but this one I am required to complete. [Less]