Madrasah software for UK schools

The UK madrasah has a particular shape. It runs on weekday evenings or Saturday mornings, usually in a masjid or a hired hall, staffed by a mix of paid and volunteer teachers, serving families who often have three or four children enrolled at once. The register lives in a folder, the fees live in a notebook, and both depend entirely on one or two people continuing to turn up.

MarkTrack is used by schools of exactly this shape. Here is what it does for them, and — because it matters — what it does not.

The register, on a phone, in a hall

Attendance is designed to be taken standing up on a phone, with native iPhone and Android apps rather than a shrunken desktop page. Dates are computed in your own timezone, the register can be locked once a period closes, and any later edit leaves an audit trail — so the answer to "how many sessions has he actually missed" is a screen rather than an argument.

One practical note: make sure there is a usable signal in the room where you take the register. A weak connection will slow a save rather than lose it, but a basement with no reception is worth solving before you rely on it.

The daily lesson record

For most UK madrasahs the core work is Qāʿidah and Hifz, and the record of it is the thing that disappears when a teacher moves on.

The Qaidah Tracker records the day in whichever notation your teachers already use — a chapter, a page and a line, or a tajwīd rule — sets homework per child with a worksheet attached, and sends a note home the same day that you can see the parent has opened. For Hifz students, sabaq, sabqi and manzil are recorded separately with juz-by-juz progress and a projected completion date.

Attached to a masjid, alongside other programmes

A madrasah attached to a masjid is frequently one of several things the same committee runs — an evening madrasah, a weekend school, sometimes a full-time school. In MarkTrack these are separate programmes under one organization, each with its own roster and teachers, and a family with children across them has a single login.

Parents, in one place

Every parent gets an account covering all of their children: attendance, lesson records, Hifz progress, announcements and messages. Schools reach families by email and SMS from inside the system rather than through a WhatsApp group that half the parents have muted.

What to check before you commit

Two things, honestly. Fees are processed in US dollars — a good number of UK madrasahs use MarkTrack for the register, the lesson record and parent communication while continuing to collect fees the way they already do, but if you need card collection in pounds, raise it with us first rather than discovering it later. And if you have specific data-protection obligations you need documented, talk to us before you sign up, not after — data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is role-based and backups run nightly, but you should confirm that against your own requirements rather than take a marketing page's word for it.