Student Observations App
Free and open-source software for school teachers to write and maintain student observations.
Documents stored only locally - no piece of data will ever leave your laptop!
Desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux (unofficial support).
Features
- Compose and edit student observations
- Manage categories of observations with predefined templates
- Group students into classes
- Track and log consultation hours
- Rich text editor
- Printing
- Autosave
Languages
- English
- German (Deutsch)
This software is free to use but you are welcome to
Overview
See the User Manual for more details.
Platform support
Officially supported:
- Windows (tested on Win 7 and Win 10)
- macOS (tested on Big Sur 11.5)
Unofficially supported:
- Linux (tested on Ubuntu 20.04)
The main reason to support Linux unofficially is the variety of distribution. We can't really ensure to run everywhere but we try hard.
Please contact us when facing any issues - your feedback is highly valuable!
Installation
Disclaimer: As there is no commercial company behind you need to accept the software as unverified when running for the first time. We're sorry for this inconvenience!
Follow the installation instructions for your platform:
On Windows
- Download the archive
- Unpack it into any directory (e.g.
C:\Users\<user>\
) - Open the directory and run the
observations.exe
executable - (optional) Create a shortcut of the
observation.exe
file and copy it to the Desktop
On Mac
- Download the installer package
- Open the installer and move the app into the Applications
- Run the app from the Applications
On Linux (Ubuntu)
- Download the archive
- Unpack it into any directory
- Open the directory and run the
observations
executable
Prerequisites:
# make sure that the sqlite3 lib is present in your system:
sudo apt-get -y install libsqlite3-0
Contributions and development
Contributions and translations are very welcome! Please make sure your change works on all supported platforms.
Tech stack
- Flutter
- Sqlite
To do
- searching (filtering) students
- disaster recovery
- sentiment of observation (???)