On the recordRead 15 Oct 202648 facts
Gibbon
Hong Kong
Plans and prices
Free
Free
all core features · self-hosting and server costs are separate
Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.gibbonedu.org
Gibbon Core
Free
Free, open-source school platform; hosting is self-managed
Read 4 Oct 2026 · gibbonedu.org
On the record
- Activities
- The Activities module lets schools publish activities, accept student and parent sign-ups, select participants and print attendance registers.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Admissions
- Application Form manages online school-place applications, priority queues and automatic account and family-link creation for accepted students.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- API status
- The FAQ says Gibbon plans to implement an API later, after its security infrastructure is sufficiently robust; no public API is documented there.docs.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Assessment
- Markbook, Rubrics, Tracking, Formal Assessment and Crowd Assessment provide grading, progress analysis, external-test data and peer-review workflows.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Attendance and behaviour
- Attendance history, future absences, emergency reports and structured positive or negative behaviour notes are built in.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Available modules
- Official extensions include Free Learning, Help Desk, Higher Education, House Points, Info Grid, Mastery Transcript, Moodle, Policies, Query Builder, Stream and Trip Planner.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Communications
- Messenger supports email, SMS, and Message Wall formats for sending messages to groups drawn from the system.gibbonedu.org · read 4 Oct 2026
- Company and origin
- Gibbon was founded in October 2010 by Ross Parker at International College Hong Kong in response to a shortage of usable open-source school platforms.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Departments and resources
- Departments organize learning areas and lesson sequences, while Resources provides a searchable school-wide resource catalog.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Developer stack
- Gibbon is built with PHP, MySQL, HTMX, Alpine.js and Git, and its public source is hosted on GitHub.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation and support
- The project publishes open-source guides for installation, administration and development, with community support available through its forum.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- Core functionality can be enabled by role and extended with separately installed modules and themes.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Extensions
- Schools can extend Gibbon with modules and themes; listed modules include BigBlueButton and Moodle integration.gibbonedu.org · read 4 Oct 2026
- Finance
- Finance handles fees, billing schedules, invoices, receipts, reminders, payments and expense approvals or reimbursements.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Hardware guidance
- The documentation suggests 2 CPUs, 4–8 GB memory and 50 GB storage for light use, or 4 vCPUs, 16 GB memory and 300 GB storage for larger frequent-use deployments.docs.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- Gibbon is self-hosted software installed on a web server, and schools can host it on their own servers.docs.gibbonedu.org · read 4 Oct 2026
- Independent case study
- An Opensource.com case study describes Gibbon being used across International College Hong Kong's two campuses for about 800 K–13 students and combining school management with virtual learning.opensource.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent implementation feedback
- A Gibbon community implementation report says staff adoption was strong, Google sign-in simplified access, and parents needed extra email and PDF support to learn logins.ask.gibbonedu.org · read 15 Oct 2026
