SchoolBot
This is the open-source code behind SchoolBot, a web app created by Vermonster that parents and guardians of students can use to track school bus locations.
School districts interested in offering SchoolBot have two options: Deploy and maintain this code on their own servers, or purchase a subscription to schoolbot.io, a deployment of SchoolBot hosted and supported by Vermonster.
schoolbot.io
Our hosted SchoolBot service is available to any school district that meets the basic requirements. Please contact us at schoolbot@vermonster.com for pricing.
Requirements
Regardless of whether you subscribe to the schoolbot.io service or host your own installation of SchoolBot, the basic requirements are:
- School buses must be tracked using Zonar Ground Traffic Control.
- Students must be assigned to buses in your student information system using a unique bus identifier that is also present in Zonar.
- You must have a way of regularly exporting (and anonymizing) bus assignment data from your student information system to the SchoolBot API.
Documentation
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See the onboarding guide for a detailed checklist of requirements to set up your school district on the schoolbot.io service (or on your own installation).
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See our FAQs for answers to common questions about SchoolBot and the schoolbot.io service.
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See the hosting documentation for guidance on setting up your own installation of SchoolBot.
Hire Us
We are Vermonster, a team of product designers and developers in Boston, MA. Is there a feature or integration you'd like see in SchoolBot? We can build it for you! Contact us at schoolbot@vermonster.com for more information.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md to learn how to work on this project.
License
SchoolBot is © 2016 Vermonster LLC. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in LICENSE.md.