Created by teachers, Gibbon is the school platform which
solves real problems encountered by educators every day.
Being free, open source and flexible Gibbon can morph
to meet the needs of a huge range of schools.
Student Centred
Gibbon collates student information, helping teachers to understand, contact, find and help their students.Teacher Led
Gibbon is built by teachers to solve problems common to all schools, allowing seamless planning, teaching and assessment.Unified Access
Teachers, students, parents and administrators all access Gibbon from the same web-based platform, with highly configurable levels of access.Free & Flexible
Gibbon is free, open source software: its flexible design gives schools complete control and freedom.Multilingual
Gibbon speaks many languages! The core is available in 17 actively-translated languages, with many more in the works. It also provides support for right-to-left text and UTF-8 encoding.
Our language options are made possible by the many volunteers who have worked to translate Gibbon into their language. Learn more about our available languages and collaborative translation tools.
Created by Educators, for Educators
The workflows in Gibbon have been designed in a school, based on feedback from the people using it everyday.
Community Support
& Development
Gibbon’s guides and documentation are open source, written by fellow users and developers. If you can’t find the answer in the docs, you can also ask members of the Gibbon community in our support forums.
& Development
Free
Gibbon aims aim to provide all schools, no matter their size or resources they have, with the systems they need for effective learning, teaching and school management.Open Source
As an open source platform, Gibbon enables schools to host on their own servers, backup, redistribute and modify the software as needed.Flexible
Right from the beginning, Gibbon was designed to be flexible, extensible and themeable, whilst aiming to help teachers to do their jobs.“ I have never seen such a useful online tool that is so interactive and efficient and so clever. ” Sherry Lee, Education Journalist & Parent, International College Hong Kong
“ Gibbon è uno dei più avanzati ambienti di sistema informativo scolastico web based, con cui far interagire docenti, studenti e famiglie in tempo reale ” Carmine Sirignano, System Administrator, Italia
“ It is great to have a one-stop-shop for everything within the school. We are able to access student data quickly and easily. Our admissions process is now streamlined, freeing up time and energy. It is great to move our school away from a dependency on paper and archaic systems. ” Adam McGuigan, Principal, Kyoto International School, Japan
“ Wow! I have thoroughly enjoyed using Gibbon. It has an excellent user interface, relevant modules and an interesting price tag! It’s superb! ” Tayo Popoola, School Principal, Nigeria
“ As an experienced educator, I can tell you that if your school or district is looking for a school platform, the search should begin, and will end, here. ” Christopher Whittum, Educator & Writer, energizeeducation.org
“ Como escuela, nos ha impresionado Gibbon ya que es muy flexible, amigable y contiene todos los módulos requeridos en una escuela, recomiendo esta herramienta para toda institución educativa ya que provee una facil instalación, y un ambiente de trabajo no visto en otras plataformas desarrolladas con el mismo objetivo. ” Adolfo Cabrera, System Administrator, Colegio Citalá, El Salvador
“ Gibbon looks very promising. User Interface is very intuitive and eye-candy. Source code is well organized and easy to read. ” Arek Gladki, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Poland
“ I teach ICT and coordinate the school’s IT, and can not think of a better system than Gibbon – smart, intuitive, flexible, inspiring, one platform for all - to introduce to supercharge the whole school community. ” Victor Datsyuk, ICT Coordinator, Myanmar International School
“ Gibbon is an excellent, comprehensive and streamlined tool that makes all information available in one place. Having used other systems in previous schools, Gibbon has been a refreshing, intuitive, time saving change. As a VLE, it is clear that this is a tool that students readily engage with and access regularly. ” Teacher, International College Hong Kong
“ From a parent’s perspective, Gibbon provides easy and timely access to progress and upcoming tasks. The planner page gives me a chance to sit with my son on a regular basis and talk through his homework plans and how they fit in with his classwork. ” Parent, International College Hong Kong
Get started with Gibbon
Install Gibbon in a local dev environment to test it out, or get your school up and running on a remote server. Read the installation guide for system requirements and instructions.