In Free Software Foundation/UNESCO Free Software Directory available on http://directory.fsf.org/, 3588 packages are indexed among which Fle3, Ggradebook, granule, Pauker and Recruit are in general used for education. Apart from these, software available for education are categorised as per the mode or standard of education. Software available for different standards and modes of education are as follows:

Adult education

• AKFQuiz quiz generator - lets one make own quiz-games or questionnaires;
• bingo-cards - lets one create number, word/letter, and picture bingo cards;
• Claroline - lets users/institutions host courses administered by professors/teachers through web;
• Diogenes - Scripts for searching classics texts;
• DrPython - highly customisable, simple, clean editing environment for developing Python programmes;
• FET - evolutionary programme for automatically generating time-table of a faculty or high-school;
• Gretools - a vocabulary building tool for GNOME, a fun and efficient way to learn words;
• Hanzim (“Hanzi Master”) - an interactive visual dictionary for learning and seeing relationships between Chinese radicals, characters, and compounds;
• kdrill - helps people learn Japanese ‘Kanji’ characters;
• linSmith - a Smith charting programme mainly designed for educational use;
• The Manhattan Virtual Classroom – delivers courses via the web;
• Moodle - a learning management system for Internet-based course websites;
• Reciteword - helps Chinese-speaking people study and learn English;
• Spotter - lets students check their answers to maths and science questions;
• Tux Math Scrabble - a math version of the popular board game;
• Whiteboard-fully-featured integrated courseware system for colleges and universities.

Elementary education
The software other than Bingo-cards and TuxMathScrabble used are:

Gcompris - Educational suite for children from 2 to 10;
• JILetters - assists children with learning the Western alphabet by visual and auditory means;
• KLogo-Turtle - an interpreter of the LOGO language;
• Kronophobia - a complete event-based school calendaring system;
• ksociograma - sociologic analysis for a group of students;
• Tux Typing - helps students learn to type or spell;
• TuxPaint - drawing programme for young children;
• Vocabumonkey - focused on language and math skills.

Secondary education
The software other than DrPython, Gretools, linSmith, Reciteword, Spotter and TuxMathScrabble available are:

• Dr genius - interactive geometry programme and calculator;
• dr. geo - builds geometric figures;
• FET - automatically schedules the timetable of a school or university;
• GenChemLab - simulates general chemistry laboratory exercises;
• JUDO - vocabulary building tool for Gnome;
• Kalcul - Java IDE for beginning programmers;
• Kanjidrill - interactive math game for ages 8-15;
• Kronophobia - helps users learn Japanese ‘Kanji’ characters;
• Ksociograma - sociologic analysis for a group of students;
• PurpleView – paper review system;
• Tau - utility to track student attendance and scheduling;
• WIMS - hosts interactive mathematical activities.

Misc, Online, Programming and Typing
The other categories are Misc (miscellaneous education), Online (education), Programming, and Typing. For Misc, the software available are: aldo (Morse code tutor), Koha (complete library system), Reciteword (programme to learn English language), WhiteBoard (courseware system for colleges and universities). AKFQuiz, Cce-interact, Ilias, Moodle, Spotter, TelEduc are for online education. For programming, the software available are: Cog Engine Project, GNU mdk, Guido von Robot, PiciLibre.

Open source in education in India

As a part of the government’s initiatives for elementary education, the project ‘Headstart’ in Madhya Pradesh state (India) began on November 14, 2000, computerising 648 schools, in which, the state government switched from Microsoft to Linux in 2070 schools in the second phase of the project.