Inside the Classroom: What You Both See

What is on the screen

The lesson runs in two panels. On one side is the live video call with your teacher. On the other is the Qur'an itself — not a shared screen or a PDF, but a live page that both of you control and both of you see change at the same moment.

That distinction matters more than it sounds. Screen sharing sends a picture of the teacher's screen; it blurs on a phone, it lags, and the student cannot interact with it. Our page is rendered on each device separately and kept in step by the lesson state, so it stays sharp on a five-year-old phone and the student can still tap it.

What the teacher can do

• Highlight the word being recited. The teacher taps a word; it lights up on the student's screen instantly. This is the whole point of the classroom.
• Point at the page. A live pointer the student can follow — useful for "start from here" without interrupting the recitation.
• Mark a mistake on the exact word, with a short note. The student sees an alert and the word stays flagged, so corrections attach to a place on the page rather than to a vague memory of the lesson.
• Send a written note mid-lesson, which appears in a banner on the student's screen — helpful when a child's pronunciation needs a reminder they can read rather than another interruption.
• Turn on translation, transliteration or Tajweed colours, which change on the student's screen at the same time.
• Move to any ayah of any surah, with the student following automatically.

What the student can do

• Follow without losing their place. The highlighted word is the place. A child who looks away and back is not lost.
• Tap any word to see what it means. Word-by-word meanings load on demand, so recitation quietly turns into comprehension.
• Replay the ayah. A Listen button plays the current ayah recited by Mishary Al-Afasy — the student can hear it as many times as they need without asking.
• Read the translation and transliteration when the teacher enables them.
• Come back to the same link every day. The classroom link is permanent, so there is no code to find at lesson time.

Why this matters more for children than adults

An adult who loses their place in a lesson finds it again. A seven-year-old does not — they go quiet, and the teacher spends the next two minutes working out where the child actually is. Over a 30-minute lesson that happens repeatedly, and it is the single biggest reason children make slower progress online than in a room.

A highlighted word removes the problem. So do colours: Tajweed rules are abstract instructions until a child can see that this letter is one colour and that one is another. And tapping a word for its meaning is the kind of small, self-directed thing a child will do a dozen times a lesson and never once ask permission for.

Tajweed in colour

The classroom colours Tajweed rules on the page as the student reads — ghunna, madd, idgham, ikhfa, qalqalah and the rest, each with its own reserved colour. The same colour stands for the same rule everywhere on this site, so a rule learned in the classroom is recognisable again on our Tajweed pages and in the beginner's guide.

Being honest about the limits: the colouring is applied by rule-matching on the text, not taken from a hand-tagged Mushaf. It is a teaching aid that makes the pattern visible — your teacher, not the colour, is the authority on your recitation.

Where the text and audio come from

The Arabic is the Uthmani script. Translation is Sahih International, transliteration and word-by-word meanings come from the same open Qur'an data sources, and the recitation is Mishary Rashid Al-Afasy. We do not retype or paraphrase any of it.

The video call itself runs on established conferencing infrastructure rather than something we wrote — that part of a lesson should be boring and reliable. What we built is everything to the right of it: the synchronised page, the highlighting, the colours, the mistake marking and the record that reaches parents afterwards.

It runs on the phone you already have

There is no app to install and no account for a child to manage. The page is deliberately light — our whole homepage is under 40 KB, where the online Qur'an academies we measured ship 246 KB to 659 KB — which is the difference between a lesson that starts and one that spins on a mid-range Android over mobile data.

What the lesson leaves behind

Every lesson files itself. Attendance, the portion recited, how it went and any note the teacher leaves all appear in the parent dashboard — which is where the marked mistakes stop being a moment in a call and become something a family can act on during the week.

What we deliberately do not do

• We do not record lessons. Some academies offer video recordings of every class. We do not, and if watching a lesson back matters more to you than the written record, that is a fair reason to choose someone else.
• The student cannot take over navigation. The teacher drives the page. We would rather ship this honestly than pretend otherwise.
• There is no native app. The web classroom is fast enough on a phone that an app would cost more than it added.
• It is not self-study software. The classroom exists to make a live lesson with a real teacher work better. Without the teacher it does nothing.

How it works — getting from a free trial to your first lesson.
What parents see — the record each lesson leaves behind.
Quran classes for kids — what a lesson looks like for a young child.
Tajweed classes — the rules the colours stand for.