Projects & Communities

Apereo is made up of a series of overlapping and interlocking software, regional and thematic communities.

The Open Academic Environment is a powerful new way for researchers, students and faculty to create knowledge, share, collaborate and connect with the world. It is a multi-tenant and highly scalable platform that is able to support multiple institutions at the same time.

Bedework is an open-source enterprise calendar system that supports public, personal, and group calendaring. It is designed to conform to current calendaring standards with a goal of attaining strong interoperability between other calendaring systems and clients.

CAS

Enterprise Single Sign-On - CAS provides a friendly open source community that actively supports and contributes to the project. While the project is rooted in higher-ed open source, it has grown to an international audience spanning Fortune 500 companies and small special-purpose installations.

ELMS Learning Network (ELMS:LN) is an open source educational technology platform for building and sustaining innovation in course technologies. It is a Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) that utilizes a Suite of Tools approach to system design and deployment. We believe it takes an ecosystem to effectively meet the needs of educators and believe in empowering faculty by treating courses as small networked ecosystems that encourage experimentation, fragmentation, growth, and then ultimately stabilization of new ideas.

Karuta is a flexible tool for the incremental prototyping and the diffusion on the web of digital portfolios or eportfolios for various purposes; showcase portfolio, learning portfolio, assessment portfolio.

The OnTask Project aims to improve the academic experience of students through the delivery of timely, personalised and actionable student feedback throughout their participation in a course. 

The Opencast community is a collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audiovisual content in academia.

openEQUELLA is a digital repository that provides a single platform to house teaching/learning, research, media, and library content.

openEQUELLA has been deployed for copyright resource collections; research materials; managing and exposing materials through websites and portals; content authoring; workflow; institutional policy; and organizational resources. openEQUELLA is currently in use in a wide range of schools, universities, colleges, TAFEs, departments of education, government agencies, and corporations worldwide.

Sakai is the Best LMS for Learning. Sakai produces the best learning outcomes and has led the LMS field in faculty and student satisfaction for several years running. Created by and for educators, Sakai innovates based on teacher needs, provides students and faculty with the best learning experience in-person or online, and emphasizes protection of student privacy.

UniTime is a comprehensive educational scheduling system that supports developing course and exam timetables, managing changes to these timetables, sharing rooms with other events, and scheduling students to individual classes. It is a distributed system that allows multiple university and departmental schedule managers to coordinate efforts to build and modify a schedule that meets their diverse organizational needs while allowing for minimization of student course conflicts.

uPortal is the leading open source enterprise portal framework built by and for higher education institutions, K-12 schools and research communities.  uPortal continues to evolve through contributions from its global community and is supported by resources, grants, donations, and memberships fees from academic institutions, commercial affiliates, and non-profit foundations.

The Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials.

Incubation Projects

EDexchange, a project of the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) Common Data Services (CDS) Task Force of over 30 institutions and vendors, aims to create a secure network for the exchange of transcripts between US educational institutions. The open source, web service based software EDexchange creates has the potential to be utilized to setup secure networks to exchange education data regionally and locally in many countries.

Fiosan (pronounced Fi-san) aims to transform task-related communications within higher education institutions, through delivering a cross-system solution for personalized notifications and emergency communications, enabling notifications to be created-by and consumed across multiple services and communication channels.

The goal of Tsugi is to build a scalable multi-tenant "tool" hosting environment based on the emerging IMS standards to help move the industry toward a Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) . The use of this framework does not automatically imply any type of IMS certification. Tools and products that use this framework must still go through the formal certification process through IMS (www.imsglobal.org).

Unsponsored Contributions

In some cases, software may be contributed to the Apereo Foundation without being attached to a software community. This might be the result of a direct contribution, the result of a halted incubation process, or a component so determined by a software community governance body. Such software is contributed under the Apereo licensing regime, but is made available on a strictly “as is” basis - it does not currently have an active developer community. Unsponsored contributions will be periodically reviewed by the Apereo Incubation Working Group.

The goal of the Image Quiz Project is to increase comprehension of complex subjects through visual learning. This goal is accomplished through the development of a series of computer-based visual training programs under the working title Image Quiz. Programs in the Image Quiz family are designed to rapidly help users become visual experts. Unlike novices, visual experts are able to quickly recognize patterns. This allows chess masters to recognize meaningful chess configurations, and field biologists to identify organism from a mere glance. 

Shuhari is a set of software components that enables institutions to begin the learning analytics journey on solid learning analytics foundation with low investment and no vendor lock-in.