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Short films on every part of Athar, for teachers, heads of department and principals. Most take less than a minute.

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Athar in one minute

What Athar does, for every role

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Every week, teachers do work that matters: plans, lessons, quizzes, visits.

Most of it ends up scattered across WhatsApp, shared drives and email.

Athar gathers it in one place.

Teachers hand in from their phone, in seconds.

Heads of department approve it, or send it back with a comment.

Classroom visits use the eleot tool, and save as you write.

Principals see every department, and run accreditation indicator by indicator.

And every approved piece of work builds the teacher's appraisal file.

Files stay in your school's own Google Drive or OneDrive.

Every part of Athar

Getting started

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A department, set up in minutes

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Setting up a department in Athar takes a few minutes.
Sign up with Google, or with your email.
Choose your folders. Start from a ready-made set for private and international schools, or make your own: lesson plans every Wednesday, a curriculum map once a term.
Connect your school's Google Drive or OneDrive, so every file lands in a drive the school owns.
Then paste your teachers' email addresses. Athar sends each of them an invitation.
They join with one click, and their first folder is already waiting.
From next week, the work comes to you.
Handing in

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For teachers

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For teachers, Athar is one simple page.
It shows what is due, and what came back, with the comment.
Hand in from your phone: take a photo or choose the file, and press hand in.
The seal turns blue. Your head of department has it.
When it is approved, the seal turns green, and the work is kept in your file.
If it comes back, you see exactly why. Fix it, and hand it in again.
And your year so far is always one look away, seal by seal.
Review and feedback

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For heads of department

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Monday morning. Seven pieces of work are waiting.
Open one, and the file opens right in the page. No downloads.
If it is good, approve it in one tap.
If it needs a change, send it back with a comment. The comment bank keeps the notes you give often.
The teacher gets an email at once, with your comment and a link to that exact piece of work.
A pile to get through? Review them one by one, or approve several at once.
And mark outstanding work as an exemplar, so the whole department can learn from it.
Tracker and reminders

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Who handed in, at a glance

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Who handed in this week? The tracker answers in one look.
Each teacher, each week, one seal: approved, handed in, sent back, or overdue.
Athar reminds teachers before work is due, and again when it is late.
Never before seven in the morning, and never more than one email a day.
Need to nudge someone now? Press remind.
And each week, a short summary of your department arrives in your inbox.
Classroom observations

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Visits that lead somewhere

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Classroom visits, the way a visit team observes.
Choose the teacher and the class, and rate the eleot learning environments, item by item.
Athar saves your draft as you write, so nothing is lost when the bell rings.
Agree the next steps with the teacher, and set a date to follow up.
Share it, and you'll see when the teacher has read it.
If they reply, you're told straight away.
And the 'not yet observed' list shows who you haven't visited this term.
Accreditation work

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For principals and quality leads

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Accreditation means hundreds of pieces of evidence, and many hands.
Athar lays out ETEC school accreditation and Cognia, indicator by indicator, and shows where you stand.
Give each indicator to one person. They attach the evidence and send it to you.
Approve it, or send it back with directions.
Need lesson plans as evidence? Ask the teachers. The request appears on their home page.
Approved, waiting for you, still to do: you always know where you stand.
Appraisal file and evidence packs

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Evidence that builds itself

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At appraisal time, the evidence is usually the hardest part.
In Athar, it builds itself.
Every approved piece of work is tagged to the standards it shows.
So each teacher's appraisal file fills up, week by week, item by item.
Gaps are easy to see, and you can ask for exactly what's missing.
When a visit is coming, download an evidence pack: every file, sorted by standard, in one ZIP.
Ready the moment anyone asks.
Your files, your school

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Where work is kept, and how it is protected

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Your school's work belongs to your school.
Connect Google Drive or OneDrive, and files are saved in the school's own drive. Athar can open only the files it created there.
If a drive belongs to a personal account, Athar warns you, so the work never leaves with a person.
Athar runs on servers in Germany, with encrypted backups of the database every night.
Principals sign in in two steps, and everyone is alerted when their account signs in on a new device.
Every screen is in Arabic and English, with Hijri dates if you use them.
And your evidence is yours. Export it whenever you need it.
The principal's view

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The whole school, on one page

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For principals, Athar is the whole school on one page.
Every department: how much work is in, what's waiting, and how fast it is reviewed.
See at once which departments keep their files in a school drive, and which don't.
Open any department, and see it just as its head of department does, without changing anything.
And run accreditation from the same place.
Less chasing. More leading.

The story behind our mark

Five dots, one circle, and a thousand-year-old idea of fairness.

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Baghdad. The tenth century.

The vizier and calligrapher Ibn Muqla faced a question every school still knows.

How do you judge work fairly, when every hand is different?

His answer was the smallest mark a reed pen can make. A single dot.

He made the dot the unit of everything.

The alif, the first and tallest letter, stands a fixed number of dots high.

Swing the alif around its centre, and it draws a circle.

Inside that circle, every letter finds its true proportion.

From then on, a letter written in Baghdad, Cairo or Córdoba was measured by the same dot.

This is our mark. Five dots, standing as an alif. The alif, the diameter of a circle.

Each dot is one piece of evidence. A lesson plan handed in. A classroom visit written up. A quiz analysed. A follow-up done. A course completed.

Five of them, stacked, make the alif: a teacher, upright, with a year's work behind them.

The circle is the year, closing whole. Nothing lost. Nothing scattered.

And the measure is the same for everyone. Because fairness is not a feeling. It is a unit.

Athar. Keeper of the mark.

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