Building the Education Team

I sincerely think this part of NethServer needs a push. Currently great work has been done by @mrmarkuz with creating the nethserver-savapage module. @areguera has created a nethserver-moodle module, but at the moment this needs attention.

The previous discussion about NethServer (modules) for schools is close to 100 posts. Also we all have grown a year more and have (at least speaking for myself) a much better understanding what possibilities we can expect with NethServer.
Taking the ideas from the first discussion:

I think all these modules should be fairly easily to implement in NethServer. We have some great community devs and also some modules with similar structure so cherry picking code from other modules makes creating new modules easier.

Another big wish for me to have available is a school and student management module. Now this looks like a real challenge. A few years ago, there were several tools that were very promising at that time. SchoolTool and OpenAdmin for schools were both quite complete, however, both these solutions have been discontinued. So looking for an alternative I have a few options:
GibbonEdu https://gibbonedu.org/
RosarioSIS: https://www.rosariosis.org/
OpenSIS: http://www.opensis.com/

Personaly I love GibbonEdu interface, however there is a huge BUT: there is no AD/LDAP support for users. I think this would be showstopper, unless we can mange to do some kind of export of AD/LDAP users and import those in GibbonEdu. Maybe even in some kind of daily or hourly cronjob.

SavaPage is almost finished. I am busy with Moodle 3.4 and probably will haras some of the @dev_team members soon… :smiley:

@syntaxerrormmm: how are you doing the student management with your project?

To the rest of the @education_team: what other educational functionality would you like to see available as nethserver module? What solutions are available for the functionality you wish? Is that application AD/LDAP ready?

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