Qaidah lesson columns, homework, and parent check-ins

This guide covers the parts of the Qaidah tracker you set up once and then mostly leave alone: the lesson columns each day is divided into, homework including attached worksheets, and the parent check-in board.

For the day-to-day work of recording lessons, see Track daily Qaidah lessons.

Lesson columns

Every school gets three columns to start — Sabaq (today's new lesson), Sabqi (recent revision) and Manzil (older revision). These are only a starting point. Rename them, recolour them, add your own, or retire ones you do not use.

Rename or recolour

1. On the tracker, open Manage → Lesson columns.
2. Edit the name in the text box, or click the colour swatch.
3. Click Save on that row.

Add a column for everyone

1. In Add a column, type a name — "Dhor", "Letter Drill", "Revision".
2. Pick a colour.
3. Leave Applies to on Every student in this school.
4. Click Add column.

Add a column for one student

Sometimes one child needs something nobody else does — a makharij drill, extra revision.

1. Type the name and pick a colour as above.
2. Set Applies to to Only followed by the student's name.
3. A When dropdown appears: choose Every day, or Only plus today's date for a one-off.
4. Click Add column.

The column appears on that student's card only, tagged only them (or today for a dated one). Nobody else's card changes.

Removing a column

Homework

Homework in a Qāʿidah class is set per student, because it genuinely differs per student. Use the Homework panel on any student's card.

1. Click Assign homework.
2. Optionally pick a lesson reference — the same three notations as a lesson.
3. Type the instructions ("read three times with a parent").
4. Optionally attach files — a worksheet, a scan of the page, a recording.
5. Set the Due date (defaults to the next day).
6. Click Assign.

The amber preview panel shows exactly what the parent will see. Any one of a lesson reference, instructions, or a file is enough — a worksheet with no words is still homework.

Marking homework off

The next morning, anything still outstanding from earlier days appears on the student's card under Still owed from before — on the same screen you are already using. Click it, set the status to Completed, Not done or Excused, and save.

The homework board

For a school-wide view, open Homework from the Qaidah page header. It lists every assignment across your Qaidah classes with three filters — Open, Overdue, Completed — each showing a count. Teachers see only their own classes; administrators see the school.

Parent check-ins

Each day a parent can mark as seen is a read receipt. If you write "please practise the ghunna at home", the receipt tells you whether anyone read it.

On the tracker, a student whose guardian has seen today shows a green Seen badge. For the school-wide picture, open Parent check-ins from the Qaidah page header. Filter by 3+, 7+, 14+ or 30+ days behind; families who have never checked in are flagged separately.

Reports

• Per student — the icon on a card opens their progress page: most recent lesson, days recorded, lessons, passes, repeats, mistakes, tajwīd slips, homework completion, and a week-by-week log.
• PDF — the Report button on that page produces a printable record for a parent meeting.
• Report cards — where the child reached and their standing print automatically on the card alongside everything else.

Permissions

• Qaidah · view — see the tracker and reports.
• Qaidah · create — create classes, add students, add columns.
• Qaidah · edit — record and change lessons, homework and notes.
• Qaidah · delete — delete lessons and homework, clear a day, remove columns and students.

Teachers get all four by default and see only their own classes. Creating, renaming and removing a class, and adding or removing students, are administrator-only.