Open source by industry / Education
XZS exam system (学之思)
An online exam system from China built with Java and Vue, with student and admin apps and a WeChat mini program.
- Can you use it commercially?
- With conditions
AGPL-3.0. Running it unmodified adds no obligations. If you change the code and let students use it over a network, you must offer them your modified source. The vendor sells editions with a commercial license; the community edition does not include one.
- Is it still maintained?
- Active
Last push on 2026-10-09. The repository is not archived.
- How hard is it to deploy?
- Easy
The backend runs as a single jar on JDK 1.8 with PostgreSQL 12 (a MySQL version lives in a separate repository). The docs describe three ways to deploy, including docker-compose. The docs are in Chinese.
- What does it cost?
- Community edition is free
The community edition is free and the docs give no hardware requirements. For a commercial license and more features, the listed prices are 3,000 CNY for the standard edition and 8,000 CNY for the advanced edition (source code).
- What to watch out for
- Limited free edition, older stack
The community edition has no teacher app, question import or video lessons; those are in the paid editions. It is built on Spring Boot 2.1.6, JDK 1.8 and Node 16, all older versions.
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