Freevle Software for Schools

What is Freevle

Freevle is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Now, there's some pretty good examples of those out there, but Freevle is different. We wanted to integrate every aspect of a school into Freevle: the website for non-students, parents or teachers; the schedules for teachers, students, classes and classrooms, with homework integrated; the environment for putting assignments online as well as ways to learn or study on the web and other tools, like a students-only forum and a project management system.

Features

While Freevle is modular and thus extensible, it has a few essential modules (or apps, as we call them) included. These are:

• User
• Importer
• CMS
• VirtualCR
• Organizer
• Galleries
• News
• Downloads

Installation

Dependencies

At this moment, the Hiroshima version of Freevle is only officially supporting Python 3.3, and thus needs a few experimental branches of some libraries. This might make it a bit of a pain to install it, for now. In the list below you can not only find what versions you need, but also where to find them, if they're not easy to find.

Instead of manually installing all these, you can also just check out the .travis.yml file and follow the same steps as Travis would in its install process.

• Python 3.3
• Flask 0.10.1
• Flask-SQLAlchemy 0.17 (install from github)
• Flask-Babel 0.8.1
• Flask-SeaSurf 0.1.19 (install from github fork)
• SQLAlchemy 0.8
• Babel 1.0dev (install from bitbucket, be sure to follow these instructions on how to import the locale data).
• Markdown

Development

After going through the long and tedious process of installing all the packages you can finally start working on Freevle!

It's a fairly simple process: copy the settings.cfg.sample to your own personal settings.cfg file and change the settings to match your personal setup. You can then run Freevle and its testing suite in either of two ways:

• Environment variable Define an environment variable called FREEVLE_SETTINGS with the path to your settings.cfg file, then normally call run.py and test.py.
• Command line argument Call the scripts with the path to your settings file as argument, so somewhat like python run.py ../settings.cfg and the same for test.py.

That's about it... for now.