QuranRecord, a complete school management system given away free

The administrative centre of the platform, bringing management, teachers and parents into one system where academic records, attendance and homework live in a single place rather than scattered across notebooks, spreadsheets and individual memories.

The important design decision is role separation. A teacher sees their own classes. An administrator sees the whole institution. A parent sees only their own children. Everybody uses the same system and each sees a different view of it, and nothing is lost when a teacher is absent or leaves.

The parent facing side of QuranRecord. It exists because research into how schools operated found that parental involvement was minimal for a simple reason. Parents had no way to check attendance, progress or homework, so they did not.

With FamilyHub a parent has their own login showing what their child recited at school, whether they were present, what homework was assigned and what the teacher remarked. Where a family has several children, all of them appear together in one account.

Where the daily work happens and the module everything else depends on. A teacher logs what a student recited, including new lesson, revision and repetition counts, in around five seconds. A class of roughly fifteen students takes about four minutes to record completely.

Entries use a globally recognised format for referring to portions of the Quran, so progress can be understood consistently between teachers, between classes and between schools in different countries.

Attendance is marked instantly, with automatic alerts sent to parents for absence or late arrival. Schools control what is sent and when, so alerts stay useful rather than becoming noise that families learn to ignore.

Beyond daily marking it produces the summaries management previously had no way to obtain. Days attended, days missed, patterns that repeat on particular days, and children whose attendance has begun to slip, all visible early enough to act on.

Before a student begins the Quran they learn Arabic script, and that stage needs entirely different tracking. The Qaidah module follows progress through the letters, joining, vowels and rules that lead up to reading the text itself.

It adapts to whichever Qaidah book a school or country uses rather than imposing a single method, because practice varies considerably between regions and traditions.

Schools do more than Quran recitation. A subject can be a full year course, a monthly workshop, a training programme, a sports activity or any other academic or non academic activity, covering Hadith, Fiqh, Aqeedah, Tafseer and Arabic, mathematics, science, English and history, vocational areas such as tailoring and crafts, and extracurricular sessions.

Teachers add a subject record in around ten seconds. Management gets a statistics dashboard showing curriculum completion across every class and school on one page, and parents see which topics were covered, which were missed and the teacher remarks.

Multi year Islamic scholarship programmes tracked across their full duration, covering Quran Tafseer, Hadith, Fiqh and Aqeeda. These courses run for several years and involve many teachers, so a durable record that survives changes of staff and academic year is exactly what institutions need and rarely have.

A small feature with a large effect. It alerts management, teachers and parents when lesson records have not been completed, which is what moves a school from mostly recorded to genuinely complete daily logs. Without it, gaps accumulate invisibly and are only discovered when somebody needs a report and finds three weeks missing.

Notifications carry information to families rather than waiting for them to come and look. Alerts cover attendance, progress and homework, arriving by email, by message and within the application, with preferences configurable so parents are not overwhelmed.

The calendar manages working days, holidays, events and school timings centrally, with parents notified automatically. It removes an entire category of confusion, particularly around religious holidays whose dates are confirmed at short notice.

Activity data can be filtered by Juz, chapter, date range or student and downloaded as detailed PDF documents. Schools use these for parent meetings, for their own archives and for the formal performance reports that boards and trustees expect. Producing them takes seconds rather than an afternoon of copying from a register.

Organisations responsible for a network of institutions get oversight of every school under their authority from a single login, comparing attendance, progress and teaching standards in Quran, Qaidah and Tajweed, so sites needing extra support become visible rather than anecdotal.

PrivateGroup is the opposite end of the scale, an invitation only space for a household or a private instructor to track a small circle of students with the same records and reports and complete separation from everything else.

There are no limits on the number of users, classes, students or records an institution may create, and no storage cap that arrives as an unpleasant surprise once a school has committed. Growth does not trigger a bill, because there is no bill.

Every essential feature is free to every Quran student, teacher and school. Islamic Studies and Alimiyah programmes within Subjects are also free, while certain other curriculum areas may require a subscription.