A centre, not a shop
Mizan Academy is not a module bolted onto a shop system. It is a full client type inside Mizan — alongside restaurants, stores and decor studios — with its own screens, permissions, accounts and public page. And because tuition is VAT-exempt in Egypt, education accounts open at 0% from day one; nothing is charged wrongly and then corrected later.
Groups and the timetable
A group is the unit of work: a subject, a grade, a teacher, weekly slots and a capacity. Its delivery mode — in the room, online, or hybrid with the student choosing — decides what the student is shown. The weekly timetable builds itself from those slots; nothing is entered twice.
The teacher signs in at the same door
One portal serves three audiences: students, parents and teachers. Nobody picks "I am a…" — the contact they sign in with decides, and each lands on their own screen:
- The student: their timetable, their recordings, their exams and marks, and their fees.
- The parent: their child's attendance, progress through the courses, marks, and what is owed.
- The teacher: their groups, their registers and their online sessions — from the same account.
The subscription opens from the till
A plan is defined once — monthly, a term, a whole course — with its price and length. The moment it exists it is also a button on the till. A student pays cash at reception, the cashier sells the plan like any other product, and the subscription opens by itself. No second step, nothing to forget, and the invoice lands in the daily close the same way it does in every Mizan branch.
Lectures — recorded and live
The library takes a lecture as a YouTube or Drive link, or as a direct upload to the server with an allowance Mizan opens per centre. An online lecture has four modes, chosen per session:
- Open: anyone with the link walks in.
- Waiting room: the teacher admits people one by one.
- Broadcast: the teacher speaks, the students listen.
- Recorded: it lands in the library by itself when it ends.
Whichever mode, attendance is recorded — who joined and for how long — and it reaches the group register and the parent's account.
Learning paths
A path is the course: real teaching stages, each holding steps. A step can be a video, a file, a live session, or an exam — and the exam closes itself the moment the student passes it. A stage stays shut until the one before it is finished, and a centre that would rather open the whole syllabus on day one can, by choosing to.
The assessment centre
A paper is written three ways: typed one question at a time, imported from a CSV for a teacher whose question bank already lives in Excel, or drafted by AI — and an AI draft is reviewed, never sent straight to a class. Six question types mark themselves: single and multiple choice, true or false, matching, ordering, and aptitude. Matching and ordering carry partial credit — three of four connected correctly is three quarters of the mark, not nothing.
The answers stay shut until the paper closes
This is the centre's most important rule. Between a student submitting and the paper closing — by its own date, or by the teacher locking it — the student sees their mark and only that: not the questions, not which ones were wrong, not the key. The questions never reach their browser during that window, so there is nothing to read off the screen. Once the paper closes, they get the whole thing back: their mistakes, the right answers, and the explanations.
There is also a counter for when a student leaves the exam tab. It warns them, and it can submit the paper by itself after a number the teacher sets. It is a note, not proof — it reaches the teacher beside the mark, and the teacher decides what it means.
The centre's page on the web
Every centre gets a public page on a name it chooses, carrying its courses, teachers, timetable and open groups — and what appears and what stays off is the owner's call, item by item. Logo, cover and colour all come from the centre's own screen, with nobody to ask, and the system measures the contrast: on a pale colour the text flips dark by itself so it stays readable. There is a QR code too — an A4 sheet for the reception wall, or eight cut-out cards to hand a parent with the receipt.
The centre's community
The community runs on Mizan Connect, and the centre's space is created for it: a board for the whole centre and a workshop for each group. A student enters with the account they already have — no second sign-up — and sees their centre's space and nothing else. The owner watches who is taking part, and acts, from their own screen.
And at the end of the day
Attendance, arrears, collection and the daily close all sit in one place, and seat requests coming off the public page land in the inbox. The first week goes in order: subjects and grades, then teachers and groups, then the plans, then students and guardians, then publish the page. Paths and exams grow with the syllabus, not before it.