Maktab QuranWhy parents usually cannot tell whether online Quran classes are working
A parent pays for a Quran class, hears half of it through a bedroom door, and has no honest way of answering the only question that matters: is my child actually learning? The lesson happens on a screen, in a language most parents cannot assess at speed, with a teacher they have never met in person. Six months later the money has gone and nobody can say what changed.
This is not a complaint about online teaching — it is a reporting problem, and it exists in person too. The difference is that a maktab down the road gives you a teacher you can stop and ask. Online, unless the academy builds it deliberately, you get nothing.
So we built the thing a parent would ask for if anyone asked them.
What you see after every lesson
Your parent login shows, per child:
- Attendance for every lesson held, with the date and how long it ran.
- The portion recited — sabaq, sabqi and manzil, each with the surah and ayah range.
- How each portion went, graded Excellent, Good, Needs work or Repeat.
- The teacher's note to you, if they left one — usually what to practise before the next class.
- How many mistakes were marked during the lesson.
It also shows where your child has reached in the Mushaf, how many lessons they have attended in the last thirty days, and how many they have attended in a row.
What do sabaq, sabqi and manzil mean?
These are the three streams every traditional hifz programme runs, and they are the words your child's teacher will use. If you did not grow up with them, they are simple:
- Sabaq (سبق) is the new lesson — the portion being memorised today. It is the smallest of the three and the hardest.
- Sabqi (سبقی) is recent revision — the juz your child is currently consolidating, revised daily so it sets.
- Manzil (منزل) is long-term revision — everything memorised before that, cycled through so it is not lost.
A child who is doing well on sabaq but slipping on manzil is memorising faster than they are retaining, and that shows up in the log long before it shows up in a test. It is the single most useful thing a hifz parent can watch. Our hifz course explains how we pace the three streams.
The report card
Roughly every fortnight your child's teacher writes a report card. The numbers on it — lessons held, lessons attended, attendance percentage, new ayahs memorised, ayahs revised — are calculated from the lesson record rather than typed from memory, because a teacher asked to recall a fortnight's attendance will guess.
The teacher writes five sections in their own words:
- Errors to work on — specific letters, rules or ayahs, not "needs to improve tajweed".
- How the lessons went — what was covered and how well it held.
- Behaviour and effort — punctuality, focus, attitude in class.
- What improved — something genuinely better than a fortnight ago.
- The plan for the next two weeks, including what to practise at home.
They also mark five things out of five: recitation fluency, tajweed accuracy, memorisation strength, attention in class, and practice at home. You can open any report card and save it as a PDF from your browser.
How attendance is recorded, honestly
Attendance is not a box the teacher ticks from memory at the end of the month. Every lesson files itself when it runs, and the teacher confirms attendance as they close the classroom — one tap, while it is still in front of them. If your child never joined, the record says so.
We mention this because an attendance figure is only worth reading if you know how it was produced. Ours comes from the lesson itself.
Certificates
When a child finishes their Noorani Qaida, memorises a surah or a juz, completes a course or reaches a hifz milestone, their teacher awards a certificate. It carries the child's name, the teacher's name, the date and a serial number, and you can print it from your parent login. Children keep these on bedroom walls, which is the entire point.
How to get your parent login
Your child's student account comes first — that is the account the classroom runs on. Once it exists, their dashboard carries a Parent Access panel holding a sign-up link; open that link and create your parent login with your own email address. We then connect the two by hand. A parent account cannot claim a child on its own — we make every link deliberately, so that nobody can see a child who is not theirs. One parent login covers every child in the family.
If you have not started yet, take a free trial lesson first — there is nothing to pay and no card required.
What this does not do
Being straight about the edges of it:
- It is not live. The log updates when the teacher writes it up at the end of the lesson, not while the class is running.
- We do not record the lessons. Some academies offer video recordings of every class; we do not, and if watching the lesson back matters more to you than the written record, that is a fair reason to choose someone else.
- Report cards are written by a person, so they arrive every couple of weeks rather than instantly. A generated one would say nothing worth reading.
- Each child needs their own student account to join the classroom. The parent login is for watching, not for attending.