Field notes from building a modern LMS
Product updates, deep dives, and thoughts on what it takes to build software for Islamic schools, weekend programs, and Hifz academies.
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Who picked up this child? A QR code on the door, and an answer you can defend
Replace the sign-out clipboard with a printed QR code. Parents scan at the door with no app and no password, and every departure is stored as a timestamped attestation naming exactly who collected the child — plus a live board, a searchable log, and chronic-lateness analytics.
Introducing Command Center: attendance requests and records in one place
Families request an excused absence from their phone, the right admins get an email with a link straight into the review drawer, and one tabbed dashboard runs the whole thing — live KPIs, a searchable record, per-student and per-teacher views, and excused rows that land on the teacher's grid automatically. Here is the end-to-end walkthrough.
Attendance tracking that bends to how your school actually runs
Present or absent isn't enough for a real school. MarkTrack lets you define your own attendance statuses, let students mark themselves or a class helper take attendance, see exactly who marked each student, and read the whole school's day on one page — with parent alerts that only fire for staff marks.
Bring your own report card, and AI rebuilds it as a reusable template
Upload a photo, PDF, or Excel of the report card your school already uses, and MarkTrack's AI reads its structure and rebuilds it as a reusable template. Here's the technical walkthrough — and an honest accuracy breakdown across 46 real report cards from five countries.
Build your lessons with Modules
Group videos, PDFs, links, and quizzes into clean, ordered modules. Build a full online course or a week-by-week lesson plan in minutes.
Stop chasing unpaid registration fees
Flip one setting and a parent cannot log in until their registration invoice is paid. MarkTrack sends the reminders for you.
Hifz tracking that keeps parents in the loop
Log sabaq, sabqi, and manzil in seconds. Parents acknowledge each day from their phone, and a full progress report is one click away.
Sibling discounts that apply themselves
Set the rule once. Second child 10 percent off, third child 15. Every family invoice does the math on its own, every month.
Forms for anything, in five minutes
Build a field trip permission slip, a Quran club interest form, or an iftar RSVP and share a public link. Responses land next to your students.
Email the whole school in two clicks
Pick a class, a role, or the whole school. Type the message. Send. No mail merge, no copy-pasting addresses.
Grading the way teachers actually grade
Custom weights, custom letter scales, custom categories. The gradebook bends to how you teach, not the other way around.
One invoice per family
Three kids, one bill. Family invoices roll up every child's tuition into a single line item parents can pay in one click.
Behavior tracking without the paperwork
Log an infraction in seconds. Parents get an email after admin approval. Severity, status, full audit trail.
Enrollments, the fast way
Build a beautiful enrollment form, let AI write the fields, auto-enroll on accept, and auto-charge tuition. Done.
An LMS students actually open
Most students don't open their LMS. Some don't even remember their login. We built MarkTrack to fix that.
Try MarkTrack at your school
Free 30-day trial. Card required, with no charge today. Set up your maktab, weekend school, or full academy in minutes.