Many softwares have been developed for adopting technology in
education for resource availability, sharing, and access to them
even after school/college hours. There have also been
developments aimed to ease other educational activities like
course enrollment, conduct of examination from setting question
papers to correcting answers and displaying results. Such
softwares are available in the market in both forms proprietary
and open source. Unlike the proprietary softwares, Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) alternatives are free of cost, source
code is available with the software, and the institution has
freedom to modify the source code to customize the software as
per requirement. For modification and maintenance the
institution has full freedom to develop the required skills in-
house with the help of faculties and system admin staff or they
can choose to hire external help. However, one of the problems
is there are many FOSS tools available and a novice
institution/teacher/software development organizat