Debian Edu Services packages

DansGuardian filters the content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites.

It provides real-time virus scanning capabilities for content access.

DansGuardian is designed to be completely flexible and allows you to tailor the filtering to your exact needs. It can be as draconian or as unobstructive as you want. The default settings are geared towards what a primary school might want but DansGuardian puts you in control of what you want to block.

DansGuardian requires squid or another similar caching proxy server on your local network.

The WWW Interactive Multipurpose Server is an educational platform originally developed for mathematics but now also supporting subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, and languages.

WIMS features a rich set of resources and exercises either for autodidactical use or for training classes, including:

• exercises with automatic feedback and correction, allowing the learners to work at their own pace;
• interactive exercises with randomly assigned data, allowing the learners to work on the same type of exercise but with different data and as often as they wish;
• exercises with an automatic scoring system, which enhances learner motivation;
• user-friendly graphics and calculation tools;
• courses and documents with hyperlinks to the exercise pool; examples in the courses can be made random, so the student can get more than one instance of an illustration for tricky concepts;
• support for exams with pre-published contents. As each individual exam will have randomly chosen data, training is possible but writing each response in advance is not.

This package contains the WIMS FastCGI server, serving Open Exercise Format (OEF) documents. OEF is a very high-level language which allows authors to focus on pedagogical issues.