SWAD (originally stood for “Sistema Web de Apoyo a la Docencia” in Spanish or “Web System for Education Support”, currently stands for “Shared Workspace At a Distance”) is a web application to manage the courses, students and teachers of one or more educational institutions.
History
The first version of SWAD appeared in September 1999. In 2005, its use was extended to the University of Granada. The application was released as free software in January 2010 under Affero General Public License, version 3. In 2010, the system was used by 1,100 professors and 35,000 students. In 2011, it was used by 2,000 professors and 60,000 students in 2,800 courses.
SWAD is currently available in 9 languages and used in the University of Granada and the portal OpenSWAD.org. In November 2019 SWAD installation at the University of Granada housed 488 degrees (including undergraduate and graduate) with 7496 courses, 126,060 students and 3514 teachers.
The objectives addressed in the development of the platform SWAD can be specified depending on its potential beneficiaries:
- For teachers and other administrators of the platform
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