It has long since been established that many OSS apps can be of real benefit to schools as a whole. But what about a decent calender system? Those who doubt that there is anything in this area for schools might want to check out SchoolBell before completely writing off the idea altogether.

# SchoolBell allows you to create people, resources (such as rooms, computers or projectors) and groups of people and/or resources.
# A calendar is created for each of these which may be accessed through the web or through a client application that support the iCalendar standard, such as Mozilla Calendar or Apple’s iCal.app.
# In the web view of their personal calendar, users can view color-coded events from other selected SchoolBell calendars.
# SchoolBell allows finely grained access control for calendars.

* Site administrators can designate which people can view calendars and who can add or edit events on calendars.
* Permissions can be set globally, by type or for individual calendars.

# SchoolBell is an excellent choice for managing the scheduling of shared resources, like labs, studios, libraries, computers, projectors, etc. Each item’s calendar can be made publically viewable, but the site administrator can specify which people can add or modify events for each calendar. [Read the rest]