Exam management for K-12 schools, hosted on your district's own servers

State assessments are delivered through each state's contracted vendor (Cambium, Pearson, ETS, etc.), so OpenEduCat does not replace that engine. It does handle everything around the assessment: building practice question banks aligned to the same standards, running interim benchmarks in the same item format, tracking proctor rosters, and pulling results back into the district gradebook once the state releases scores.

FERPA compliance comes from how a district handles records, not from the license of the software. Because OpenEduCat is self-hosted, every student record stays on infrastructure your district directly controls, which removes the third-party disclosure problem most cloud vendors create. The exam module logs access and changes so your records officer can produce an audit trail when parents exercise their FERPA rights.

Yes. The exam module ships with OMR sheet generation and bulk scanning. Districts that still administer paper benchmarks in grades 3 through 8 can print district-formatted bubble sheets, scan stacks through a standard sheetfed scanner, and have multiple-choice items auto-scored into the gradebook. Constructed-response items still need a teacher rubric pass.

An LMS is built around course delivery, modules, and assignments. OpenEduCat's exam module is built around the testing lifecycle: question banks, proctor scheduling, OMR or online administration, scoring, and transcripts. Most districts run both, but consolidating the gradebook, transcript, and exam pipeline inside one self-hosted ERP cuts the integration work between SIS, gradebook, and assessment tools.

Yes. OpenEduCat runs on standard Linux servers with PostgreSQL. Many K-12 IT departments already operate similar stacks for student information systems, food service, and finance. The LGPLv3 license means no per-seat fees, so the only ongoing cost is the infrastructure you would have provisioned anyway.