28 functional areas, side-by-side. What is free and self-hostable, what Enterprise adds on top, and which fits your institution.
Student, faculty, course, batch, program, subject and department records.
Same core, plus configurable terminology, sections, board affiliation, academic plans, student badges, portals and dashboards.
Application intake, stages, convert applicant to enrolled student.
Adds e-sign offer letters, drag-and-drop online form builder, subject-wise admission, mass email to applicants, application tracking and auto-gradebook creation.
AI essay/assignment grading, rubric and quiz generation, lesson planning, report-card comments, at-risk-student intervention.
Entire AI suite is Enterprise-only: saves faculty hours on grading, rubric and quiz creation, lesson planning, feedback, note summarising, and flags at-risk students for early intervention.
Build and sell online courses, SCORM and H5P content, forums, gamification, surveys.
Full online learning platform (Enterprise-only): course builder, SCORM and interactive H5P content, paid course sales, forums, blogs, gamification, surveys.
Online quizzes with question banks, anti-cheating, remote proctoring, math rendering.
Secure online assessment (Enterprise-only): auto-scored quizzes, face-tracking anti-cheat, live remote proctoring, and automatic gradebook updates.
Live online classes, live attendance and attentiveness, student live chat.
Virtual classroom (Enterprise-only): run live classes, auto-capture attendance, monitor attentiveness, and a live student chat channel.
Create assignments, collect submissions, grade by marks.
Community already grades by marks. Enterprise adds inline annotation/markup, rubric scoring with multiple attempts, late-submission rules and gradebook linkage.
Mark and report student attendance across classes and dates.
Community is manual entry. Enterprise adds face-recognition capture, a self-service check-in kiosk, and Excel absent reports.
Exam scheduling, marks, letter grades, marksheets.
Community already produces configurable letter grades and marksheets. Enterprise adds GPA/CGPA computation and feeds results into the central gradebook.
Institute-wide gradebook, spreadsheet grading, GPA, choice-based credits, outcome-based education, OMR sheet scanning.
Enterprise-only: a single running gradebook across all assessments, fast spreadsheet entry, GPA, CBCS credits, OBE (CO-PO attainment for accreditation) and auto-grading of scanned OMR answer sheets.
Fee structure, invoicing and collection.
Community already invoices and collects fees. Enterprise adds structured instalment plans, fee refunds with rules, scholarships, and parent-side fee visibility/payment.
Catalogue, members, lending, barcodes.
Community runs a full library with barcodes. Enterprise adds barcode-scanner workflows and a digital/e-book library.
Class timetable and sessions, lesson planning, material allocation.
Community builds timetables. Enterprise adds session planning/optimisation, lesson plans and per-subject study-material allocation.
Parent records linked to students; parent portal.
Community links parents to students. Enterprise adds a full parent portal (attendance, results, fees), parent meetings and mass email.
Facility and classroom catalogue, multi-campus management.
Community lists facilities and classrooms. Enterprise adds campus and multi-location management plus staff/student asset requests.
Hostel rooms, allocation, visitors, gate passes.
Enterprise-only: allocate hostel rooms, manage check-in and check-out, track visitors and IDs, and issue gate passes.
Routes, vehicles, student transport allocation.
Enterprise-only: plan bus routes, assign students to stops, and manage vehicles and transport logistics.
Alumni records, events, jobs, blog.
Enterprise-only alumni network: keep graduate records, run reunions and events, share an alumni job board, and publish an alumni blog.
Placement drives, job postings, skill-based matching.
Enterprise-only campus placement: organise recruitment drives, post jobs, and match students to roles by skill.
Health, discipline, grievance, leave, mentoring, feedback, achievements, withdrawal, progress, skills.
Community tracks only a basic activity log. Enterprise adds a full student-welfare suite: health records, discipline, grievances, leave, mentoring, feedback, achievements, skill assessment, progression reports and withdrawal.
Graduation and convocation ceremony management.
Enterprise-only: plan and manage convocation and graduation ceremonies (candidates, scheduling, logistics).
Mass email to students, faculty, and parents; notice board.
Enterprise-only OpenEduCat-specific bulk mailing to students, faculty, and parents, plus a digital notice board. Base Odoo email exists in Community but is not education-targeted.
Management KPI dashboards.
Community has only standard Odoo list and pivot reports. Enterprise adds at-a-glance, drill-down KPI dashboards for management.
Lead and enquiry management, institute events.
Enterprise-only: an education CRM to capture and follow up enquiries and leads, plus full event organisation.
Thesis registration, submission, evaluation.
Enterprise-only: manage the full thesis workflow — registration, supervisor allocation, submission and evaluation.
Scan-to-verify protection on documents and gradebooks.
Enterprise-only: tamper-proof QR codes so certificates and report cards can be verified as genuine by scanning.
Guided onboarding, URL and branding replacement.
Enterprise-only: a guided setup wizard plus white-labelling to replace built-in links and branding with the institute's own.
Software licence and commercial model.
Community is free to self-host. Enterprise is a paid subscription that unlocks all of the above plus vendor support and hosting options.
LGPL-3 · self-host on your infrastructure
A good fit for institutions with in-house Odoo or Python expertise that want a free, code-owned student information system covering admissions, attendance, exams, fees and library out of the box, and are happy to assemble the rest themselves.
Commercial · cloud or self-host · vendor support
The complete platform. Adds the AI suite (18 modules), full LMS (10 modules), central gradebook with GPA/CBCS/OBE/OMR, online quizzes with proctoring, virtual classroom, hostel, transport, alumni, placement, thesis, CRM, parent portal and KPI dashboards on top of everything in Community.
Spin up an Enterprise sandbox with sample data, or talk to an advisor to pick the edition that fits your institution.
