Prevalent Python/Django academic software

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.us
Thu Aug 21 10:39:56 EDT 2008


In article <3299bba4-b4fa-4c81-a5e2-b99ee4c5f8c2 at w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
Daniel Bickett  <dbickett at gmail.com> wrote:
>Is anyone working on any software at present, using django or python
>in general, which serves various academic/course functions, or else
>that of student-instructor arbitration? A popular example which my
>university uses is the "Blackboard Academic Suite" (wpedia:Blackboard
>Inc.), which offers a wide range of course functionality (prof
>announcements, forums, content management, grades, file sharing, etc.)
>
>A preliminary search on Google didn't turn up much. I'm interested in
>developing this sort of application if there aren't any at large, or
>perhaps even if there are. I'm equally interested in looking into
>existing options.
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I don't understand the question.  YES, there are MANY
Python-based applications doing service in a variety
of academic contexts.  No, there is no central index
of all such programs.



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