Open Source Linux Education Software

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass). Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties. Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others.

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

eduActiv8 is a free Open Source multi-platform educational application that aims to assist in learning various early education topics - from learning the alphabet and new words, colours, time to a wide range of maths-related subjects. eduActiv8 is a continuation of the development of the pySioGame project just under a new name. It is being developed on GitHub at: https://github.com/imiolek-ireneusz/eduActiv8 but 'compiled' releases are published here. The latest version has been partially redesigned to improve usability, but certain activities will still be in the somewhat "prototype quality" - this will be gradually redesigned as time allows. Currently, it is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android (you may need to allow unknown sources to install it on Android). Packages for multiple Linux distributions are available from: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Aimiolek-i&package=eduactiv8 Support eduActiv8 at https://ko-fi.com/eduactiv8

FET is free timetabling software for schools, high-schools and universities. Scheduling is done automatically. Please visit the project web site https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/ to be sure you always have the latest version

ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Management System (LMS), designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Author interoperable e-learning content, provides social networking, and adheres to standards. Put your courses online.

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.

OpenTeacher is an opensource application that helps you learn a foreign language vocabulary. Just enter some words in your native and foreign language, and OpenTeacher tests you.

ILIAS is a web base learning management system (LMS, VLE). Features: Courses, SCORM 1.2 and 2004, mail, forum, chat, groups, podcast, file sharing, authoring, CMS, test, wiki, personal desktop, LOM, LDAP, role based access, see http://www.ilias.de/

Dokeos is an elearning and course management web application (LMS), translated in 34 languages, already helping thousands of organisations worldwide to manage learning and collaboration activities.

Similar to the classic word game 'Scrabble', but with unicode support for multiple languages and character sets. The game is currently distributed with eighty-eight (88) dictionary resources for playing Language[i]-Language[j] 'Scrabble'. For example, if configured to use the French-English dictionary, then the distribution of available tiles will be computed based on frequency of occurance of each character of Language[i] (French), and for each submission the corresponding definition will be given in Language[j] (English).

The MathExt library was made to parse and calculate formulas of any complexity. It can easily be integrated into web applications. As developer you can set all kind of settings. You can even specify what commands should be available to the user.

Bright Side is a repository of practical example mini projects made by students at Dragan Djuric's university classes.

GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for learning and teaching geometry, algebra, statistics, and calculus. Download the free software at http://www.geogebra.org. Find the source code at http://www.geogebra.org/trac

Kana no quiz is a little educational tool to memorize the transcription and pronunciation of Japanese kana (katakana & hiragana), presented as a quiz. It is written in Python and uses a GTK+ interface for a nice cross-paltform rendering!

A VirtualBox version of Open Administration for Schools so that schools with limited technical support can run a web based GPL'd school administration system based on Open Source software (Perl, MySQL, LaTeX). It will provide a low barrier to entry.

QVocabulary is multilanguage vocabulary application. It uses SQLite as database and Qt4 for GUI. Currently works on Windows and Linux.

'Serbian Dictionary' is a bidirectional Serbian-English dictionary. It currently contains only a command line interface. Supports only *nix based operating systems at this moment. Tested on Linux, *BSD and Cygwin.

VTSurvey is a web-based tool enabling users to autonomously create and run online surveys, feedback or registration forms.

The Web Geometry Laboratory (WGL) project’s goal is, to build an adaptive and collaborative blended-learning Web-environment, integrating dynamic geometry systems (DGS) and geometry automated theorem provers (GATP). In its current version 1.4 it is already a very completed (and tested) Web platform.

Kuzya is simple crossplatform IDE for people who study programming. Main idea of it is to concentrate attention of the users only on learning the programming language but not on usage of IDE.

A collection of software made by Milos Rancic.