OpenEscool 1.0.0

The first public release of OpenEscool: an open-source community platform you install on your own server. Run unlimited communities with no per-group fee.

Highlights

• Community: feed with categories, pins, likes, replies and @mentions; photos and GIFs; email a post to all members; search; members directory; About page with gallery and reviews.
• Classroom: courses, modules and lessons with progress; YouTube, Vimeo or Loom videos, or upload your own; private downloadable lesson files; lock courses by level or payment.
• Calendar: one-off and weekly events, reminders, .ics files.
• Gamification: points, 9 levels with your own names, leaderboards.
• Payments: monthly, yearly and one-time plans through Stripe and Razorpay (UPI), in 8 currencies, with no platform fee.
• Chat: members talk with your team only, so nobody can pull your members away.
• Email: digests, per-type settings and one-click unsubscribe, sent through Brevo.
• Team and safety: owner, admin and moderator roles; spam protection; rate limits; reports and bans.
• Admin settings: site name and logo, home page, SEO per site, community and post, upload limits, and update checks with one-click update.

Install

Follow the Hostinger VPS install guide. The first account to sign up becomes the admin.

Updating later

Back up first, then run php artisan app:update on your server. Admin settings → Updates shows when a new version is out.