An online Quran teaching platform: scheduled halaqat, recitation in live classes, and parents who can follow

How do you run your halaqat on Snatr?

1. 1

   Create your account and choose your site's look

   Sign up with your name, WhatsApp number and platform name, and you get a site in your name. The Noor Qur'an School design was made for religious studies and Arabic, and you change its colours, text and images without code.

2. 2

   Split your work into levels

   You name the stages in Snatr yourself, so you can make one per level, such as Juz Amma, Juz Tabarak and Advanced, and link halaqat, lessons and quizzes to each.

3. 3

   Create the halaqat as groups

   Each halaqa is a group with its weekly times and number of places. An online halaqa is sold monthly or by sessions; one at a mosque or centre is a branch and group with its own register.

4. 4

   Add students and parents

   A student signs up on your site and pays, or you create the account by hand. You create a parent account linked to their children, and you set the password.

5. 5

   Start the halaqa on time

   Online, you press start from 5 minutes before the time and give the microphone to whoever is reciting next. In person, an assistant scans students' cards at the door.

The online halaqa: how does recitation work?

Live classes on Snatr are made for a class of many students, not a meeting. Students watch and listen, and none of them speaks until you give them the microphone. When you do, their voice reaches you and the rest of the halaqa, so everyone hears the recitation and the correction.

• Students raise a hand, you see who is waiting and choose who recites next.
• Mute a student or take the microphone back at any moment, and remove anyone from the class.
• Chat has 3 modes: open, you and your assistants only, or closed, so the class stays quiet during recitation.
• Make an assistant the moderator to handle microphones and chat while you focus on correcting.
• Close joining once the halaqa starts, so nobody new walks in during recitation.

• Live classes in detail

Girls' and children's halaqat: nobody turns on a camera

In Snatr's live classes students send no picture at all; only their voice travels, and only when you give them the microphone. So a girl or a child in the halaqa is never asked to turn on a camera, and no student sees another.

You can turn your own camera off too and share only your screen, such as a page of the mushaf or a tajweed chart. There are 3 layouts: screen with camera, screen only, or camera only.

The stream carries a watermark with your logo and a short code. It deters someone thinking of recording the halaqa and posting it, but it is not proof. The stream itself is not encrypted and screen recording is not blocked.

The halaqa at a mosque or centre

If you teach in a real place, make it a branch with its halaqat, times and places inside. Every student gets a QR card you print; an assistant scans it with a phone camera at the door, or opens the register and ticks who is there.

• There are 4 states: present, late, absent and excused. Arriving 10 or more minutes after the start counts as late.
• A full halaqa takes no more students until you raise the number of places.
• A student with recorded attendance is archived, not deleted, so last year's record is still there.
• Times follow Egypt's clock.

• Branches and attendance

How do I track each student's memorisation?

To be plain about it: Snatr has no memorisation and revision record by surah and verse, and no assessment of recitation inside the platform. Recitation happens in the halaqa, and the record of what each student has memorised stays in your notebook or a spreadsheet.

What the platform does show is each student's attendance, the recorded lessons they watched and their quiz grades, and you can export all of it per student as a CSV file. You can also set short quizzes on tajweed rules and word meanings, true/false and multiple choice, marked automatically.

To assess writing, such as explaining a verse or a tajweed rule in detail, group exams have an essay question you mark by hand with a comment for the student.

• Online exams

Recorded tajweed lessons

If you have tajweed lessons or a beginners' course, upload it as a course in units and lessons. Video you upload is encrypted, cannot be saved with download extensions or download sites, and carries a watermark with the student's name.

• Open one preview lesson for free so parents hear how you teach before they pay.
• Lessons unlock in order: the next opens once the student has watched 90% of the lesson or submitted its quiz.
• Each lesson takes a PDF of up to 50 MB or a link, such as a tajweed chart or a revision sheet. Only an enrolled student can open the PDF, through a link that expires after two minutes, but whoever opens it can save a copy.
• If an online halaqa is recorded, the recording is saved encrypted in the group's lessons for students who missed it.

Parents: their child's attendance at hand

Most memorisation students are children, and the one who pays and follows is the parent. You create their account on your site and link it to their children, even across different halaqat. They see in-person attendance, absences and lateness, and grades and payments once the child has a linked online account.

The account is read-only, and absence and lateness alerts appear inside the portal. The platform sends no WhatsApp or SMS messages, and live-class attendance does not appear in the parent portal yet.

• The parent portal

Subscriptions and money

A halaqa is sold by monthly subscription (30 days) or by a number of sessions, and when it ends the student cannot join until they renew. Parents pay online in EGP by card, a Fawry or Aman code, or a wallet such as Vodafone Cash, and the student is enrolled automatically.

• Someone who pays cash at the mosque or centre is enrolled by hand, with no commission.
• A student who only attends at the mosque or centre, and is not enrolled in a course or group on the platform, does not count toward your plan's student limit.
• Create a discount coupon, for siblings for example, as a percentage or a fixed amount, once per student.
• Your price reaches you in full; any online payment fee is added for the payer.
• Current plans: Starter at 999 EGP a month for up to 100 students; Basic at 1,999 EGP a month for up to 200 students; Pro at 2,999 EGP a month for up to 400 students. Live classes are on the Pro plan only, at 2,999 EGP a month.

• Payments and payouts
• Pricing

Students outside Egypt?

Online Quran classes bring students from the Gulf and Europe. A student in any country can sign up with their mobile number and its country code, and pay online by international card; the amount is charged in Egyptian pounds and their bank converts it. Fawry, Aman and mobile wallets work inside Egypt only. You set halaqa times on Egypt's clock, and the student sees a live class's time on their own device's clock.

• Paying from outside Egypt