Gibbon vs iGradePlus Enterprise School Management System

Gibbon is a free school platform for learning, teaching, and school management, designed by educators. Teachers, students, parents, and administrators use one web-based system with configurable access levels. The Planner supports lesson plans, homework submissions, curriculum mapping, and peer assessment. Student Profiles consolidate academic, behavioural, medical, and special educational needs alerts for authorised users. Markbook, rubrics, tracking, and formal assessment modules support recording and reviewing progress. Messenger can send group communications by email, SMS, or Message Wall. Schools can extend the platform with modules and themes, including BigBlueButton and Moodle integration; its documentation also describes Google calendar and single sign-on integration and Microsoft single sign-on setup. Gibbon is installed on a web server and hosting is self-managed. The v30 download page specifies PHP 8.0 and MySQL 8.0 as minimum requirements. Documentation and community forums are available, as is optional expert support through ad hoc help or a support contract. Older versions are not directly supported, and the security policy advises using the current stable release in production.

iGradePlus Enterprise School Management System is a web-based service for schools and districts managing student information, staff, multiple schools, and communications with students and parents. An Enterprise subscription can cover one school, several schools, or a whole district, with users assigned to schools to restrict data access. Teachers and administrators have gradebooks, GPA calculations, attendance and behavior tracking, assessments, schedules, and transcripts. They can create report templates and produce grade, attendance, behavior, progress, and report card reports across multiple teachers’ gradebooks. Student portals and up to four parent or guardian portal accounts per student are included. Zoom integration allows teachers to schedule and hold student video meetings inside the web app, with links shown in student portal calendars. The service works in major browsers on Windows, Mac OS-X, and Linux, while data is stored on its servers. The maker describes SSL transfers, encrypted sensitive profile data, nightly local and remote backups retained 30 days, and a 30-day activity log. A sample Enterprise price is $3,055 a year for 400 students, with unlimited teachers and administrators.