Ostad (“teacher” in Arabic) is the learning platform we publish: teachers create their classes, publish lessons and homework, grade, mark and take attendance; students know what to do next; a parent or guardian can follow their child. It is live on the web, in French, Arabic and English. This page describes what it contains and how it is built.
Ostad started from an idea written down at the very beginning of the project: a learning platform should not be just a place to store PDFs.
Teachers, independent or in a school, their students and, if the student decides so, a parent or guardian.
Preparing, handing out, grading, following up and communicating: a week of teaching, gathered in one place.
“What should I do now?”: the home screen of every student and every teacher answers it.
A library of reusable lessons, automatically graded exercises, a gradebook that computes averages: fewer tasks redone from one class to the next.
Access with a code, a home screen listing homework and deadlines, interactive exercises and a view of their progress.
The parent or guardian sees marks, attendance and published report cards, read-only; they never read messages or drafts.
The whole interface exists in French, Arabic and English, with a genuine right-to-left layout.
The essentials of the platform, all live on the web.
The teacher creates a class and shares a six-character code, or a link; students enter it to join. The code can be changed or turned off, and a school can hand out a group code.
Chapters and lessons (text, PDF, image, video, audio, link, vocabulary), published right away or on a chosen date. Homework with a private draft, submission, mark and comment. Multiple-choice, true-or-false, fill-in-the-blank or open-ended exercises; mistakes on automatically graded questions come back for review the next day, then after three and seven days.
A gradebook with scales and weightings, averages out of 20 and spreadsheet export; attendance taken session by session, with the attendance rate computed; report cards per term with comments, published on screen.
A class feed and announcements that update without reloading the page, messaging between teacher and student, in-app notifications, a calendar that exports to the phone's diary, and a link to a Meet or Zoom room for live classes.
Everyone sees what concerns them, and only that: these limits are enforced by the database, not just by the screen.
Creates classes, publishes lessons and homework, grades, marks, takes attendance and publishes report cards, from a dashboard that starts with what is left to do. Teachers can also present their offer in the public directory of independent teachers and receive lesson requests.
Joins the class with a code. The home screen lists what to do now, the next deadlines and the latest announcements; the student does exercises, hands in homework and follows their progress.
Is linked by a single-use code generated by the student, valid for 72 hours. They see their children's marks, attendance, homework and published report cards, read-only, never their messages; the student can remove this access.
A teacher in charge organises classes, subjects and terms, and supervises read-only: they change neither marks nor report cards, and do not read private messages.
The public home page, as live on 26/10/2026 (the class preview at the bottom is illustrative).
The student's home screen: what to do now, then the next deadlines.
A multiple-choice exercise, graded automatically.
Attendance, session by session, on the teacher's side.
Real screens. Apart from the home page: Ostad's demo mode, version of 11/10/2026; names, classes and dates are fictitious.
Access rules at database level: a student reads neither the marks, nor the attendance, nor the work of a classmate, and a parent only sees the children who linked them. Automated tests check, role by role, what must stay out of reach.
Exercise questions reach the screen without their answers; grading happens on the server, then the teacher's explanation is shown.
An interface in React and TypeScript; Supabase for the Postgres database, authentication, file storage and the real-time class feed, messages and notifications.
The same application serves the web and the iPhone and Android versions, built with Capacitor: a single code base to maintain.
The complete interface exists in all three languages, with a genuine right-to-left layout in Arabic: page layout, direction icons and font adapted.
No analytics and no ads. Anyone can export their data or delete their account from the application.
The web platform is live: teacher, student, parent and school spaces, and the teacher directory. The iPhone and Android apps are built from the same code, but not yet published. Ostad is at launch stage: we publish no usage figures.
Its limits, to date: no offline mode and no phone notifications; live classes go through a Meet or Zoom link; report cards are viewed on screen, without PDF export, and do not replace an official report card.
Classes, homework and student progress
Classes joined with a code, lessons, homework, graded exercises, marks, attendance and report cards, with read-only access for parents or guardians.
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