Frappe Education

Frappe Education is an open-source and user-friendly Education Management System designed to streamline the administrative and academic processes of educational institutions. It is a powerful module based on the ERPNext software.

Motivation

All the tools to manage which are available in the market were just not good enough.They were way too scatered, or too expensive or too complex to use. We wanted to create a tool that is easy to use, affordable and can be customized as per the needs of the institution. Frappe Education is dedicated to making education management more efficient and less time-consuming.

Key Features

• Student & Teacher Management - Manage student and teacher profiles, attendance.

• Admission Management - Streamline the admission process for new students.

• Fee Management - Organize and manage the fee structure and schedule payments.

• Course Scheduling & Exam Planning - Efficiently schedule courses and manage course calendars.

• Student Portal - Students can visit the portal to check their timetable, attendance, pay fees online, and see current and previous grades.

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Under the Hood

• Frappe Framework: A full-stack web application framework written in Python and Javascript.

• ERPNext - An open-source, modern ERP system that includes modules for accounting, inventory, manufacturing, and more.

• Frappe UI: A Vue-based UI library, to provide a modern user interface.

Production Setup

Managed Hosting

You can try Frappe Cloud, a simple, user-friendly and sophisticated open-source platform to host Frappe applications with peace of mind.

It takes care of installation, setup, upgrades, monitoring, maintenance and support of your Frappe deployments. It is a fully featured developer platform with an ability to manage and control multiple Frappe deployments.

Self Hosting

Follow these steps to set up Frappe Education in production:

Step 1: Download the easy install script

wget https://frappe.io/easy-install.py

Step 2: Run the deployment command

python3 ./easy-install.py deploy \
    --project=education_prod_setup \
    --email=your_email.example.com \
    --image=ghcr.io/frappe/education \
    --version=stable \
    --app=education \
    --sitename subdomain.domain.tld

Replace the following parameters with your values:

• your_email.example.com: Your email address
• subdomain.domain.tld: Your domain name where Education will be hosted

The script will set up a production-ready instance of Frappe Education with all the necessary configurations in about 5 minutes.

Development Setup

Local

1. Install bench and setup a frappe-bench directory by following the Installation Steps

2. Install ERPNext by running bench get-app erpnext

3. Once ERPNext is installed, install the Education App by using bench get-app education

4. In a separate terminal window, create a new site by running bench new-site education.test

5. Map your site to localhost with the command bench --site education.test add-to-hosts

6. After that, you can install the Education app on the required site by running

   $ bench --site sitename install-app education
   

7. Now open the URL http://education.test:8000/education in your browser, you should see the app running

8. To access student portal, open the URL http://education.test:8000/student-portal in your browser, you should see the student portal running.

Docker

You need Docker, docker-compose and git setup on your machine. Refer Docker documentation. After that, follow below steps:

Step 1: Setup folder and download the required files

mkdir frappe-education
cd frappe-education

# Download the docker-compose file
wget -O docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/education/develop/docker/docker-compose.yml

# Download the setup script
wget -O init.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/education/develop/docker/init.sh

Step 2: Run the container and daemonize it

docker compose up -d

Step 3: The site http://education.localhost:8000/ should now be available. The default credentials are:

• Username: Administrator
• Password: admin

Compatibility matrix

Education Branch	Compatible Frappe Framework Version
version-15.1	version-15
version-15.2	version-15
version-16	version-16
develop	develop branch

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