Gibbon
Flexible, open-source school management platform covering timetables, attendance, grading, reporting, and parent communication.
About Gibbon
Gibbon is a flexible, open-source school management platform designed to make life better for teachers, students, parents, and school leaders. It covers the full spectrum of school administration including student records, timetabling, attendance tracking, gradebooks, reporting, behaviour management, staff management, and parent communications.
Gibbon is built with a modular architecture on PHP and MySQL, with a web-based installer that makes deployment straightforward. It includes a public registration system, a parent portal, multi-language support through community translations, and an extendable module and theme system. Licensed under GPL v3, it is used by schools worldwide.
Key Features
- Full school management: timetables, attendance, grading, reporting, and student records
- Parent portal, staff management, behaviour tracking, and public registration
- PHP/MySQL with web installer and Docker development setup
- Extensible through modules and themes with multi-language support
Self-Hosting Notes
PHP-based with MySQL/MariaDB. Web installer. Docker development setup available. Module system for extensions. GPL v3 license. Multi-language with community translations. 620 GitHub stars.