# Open source software for school study group / community

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-software-for-school-study-group-community/181178>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 6, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-software-for-school-study-group-community/181178 "2010-01-06T23:03:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubynuby)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-software-for-school-study-group-community/181178/1 "2010-01-06T23:03:08Z")

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Hello

I need to build a system for a non profit org that allows people to  
form study groups, to post lessons and take tests (multiple choice),  
and to keep track of each member’s and group’s progress. Is anyone  
aware of an existing open source project in RoR (or any language/  
framework) that does something like this.

I’m thinking of something like drupal but drupal is more for joint  
creation and maintenance of content. This is more specific for  
supporting study groups.

As I said, RoR is fine but other lang/platform also welcomed.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

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**Author:** ![rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubynuby)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-software-for-school-study-group-community/181178/2 "2010-01-06T23:27:44Z")

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moodle?

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**Author:** ![rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubynuby)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-software-for-school-study-group-community/181178/3 "2010-01-07T03:44:09Z")

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Hi,

I’m one of the developers for a open source Ruby on Rails app called  
Kete. We’ve considered this sort of scenario in the past, check out  
this topic for details:

[http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/222-how-can-kete-be-used-in-the-classroom](http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/222-how-can-kete-be-used-in-the-classroom)

Right now Kete is used in a number of scenarios that are similar. For  
example at the company that I work for, Katipo, we use a Kete site as  
an extranet to work on projects with our clients as well as our  
internal knowledge management system. It’s worked pretty well so far.

Cheers,  
Walter McGinnis  
Kete Project Lead - [http://kete.net.nz](http://kete.net.nz)  
Katipo Communications, Ltd. - [http://katipo.co.nz/](http://katipo.co.nz/)  
[http://twitter.com/wtem](http://twitter.com/wtem)

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**Author:** ![rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubynuby)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-software-for-school-study-group-community/181178/4 "2010-01-07T10:29:15Z")

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We have developed ceratin accelerate / plugins for the same purpose,  
do let me know your costing and budget so that we can see, if we can  
help you with this.

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**Author:** ![rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rubynuby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubynuby)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-source-software-for-school-study-group-community/181178/5 "2010-01-07T19:24:55Z")

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thanks all for your suggestions. I’m investigating now. If others  
have suggestions, please keep them coming.