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Own your learning systems instead of renting them

A sample client site in Education & Training

Fictional names, prices and reviews, showing the kind of site you can build.

mahara-academy.uttr.io
Mahara Academy
A training room with trainees and an instructor

Accredited courses in person and online, with verifiable certificates

Enrol in a course
42
courses
3,800
trainees
4.8
rating

PMP project management

35 hours, evenings

SAR 2,900

Data analysis in Excel

Online, 4 weeks

SAR 950

Corporate programme

Built for your team

Per seat

“I enrolled, paid with mada and got the class link right away.”
Nouf Al-Shammari
“My certificate has a check code; my employer verified it at once.”
Abdullah Al-Ghamdi
Sun - Thu 4 pm - 10 pmRiyadh, King Fahd Road

Challenges

  • Expensive monthly subscriptions for learning management systems (LMS) and ready-made platforms you don't own.
  • Tracking attendance, grades and reports by hand wastes teachers' and administrators' time.
  • Communication with parents is scattered across WhatsApp, SMS and calls, with no single system.
  • Collecting tuition fees and issuing e-invoices (ZATCA) by hand is confusing and error-prone.
  • It's hard to deliver content and exams online with a tidy right-to-left experience.

Systems you can build

  • An in-house e-learning platform (LMS): courses, lessons, exams and certificates.
  • A school/academy management system: students, teachers, timetables, attendance and grades.
  • A parent portal showing the student's progress, attendance and grades.
  • A registration and booking portal for courses and lessons with online payment and invoicing.
  • Automated WhatsApp/SMS reminders for classes, fees and absences.
  • A unified administrative dashboard for revenue, reports and performance.

Ready prompts: copy and paste into Uttra

In-house academy operations system

Build me a complete in-house operations system for running an educational academy that manages student and teacher records, classes and timetables, attendance recording, grade entry, and the production of progress reports and administrative reports. Make access secure with a roles and permissions system (RBAC) separating the director, the academic supervisor, the teacher and the receptionist, so each role sees only what concerns them. Design the database indexed on the most-queried fields (student, class, date) with partitioning as the data grows, and add caching for repeated reports and task queues (queues) for generating heavy statements and uploading files without blocking the interface. The interface is English-first with Arabic RTL support, comfortable, fast and compliant with accessibility standards. Apply encryption of sensitive data, rate limiting, periodic backups, and audit logs for every change to grades and attendance. Add a monitoring and analytics dashboard showing system health and usage. Deliver it production-ready with basic tests and concise operating documentation.

Student-facing e-learning platform

Build me an e-learning platform (LMS) facing students directly, presenting courses split into modules with video lessons, text and downloadable files, with exams and assignments marked automatically or manually, live progress tracking and automatic completion certificates. Make sign-in secure with accounts for students and teachers and roles and permissions separating the content creator, the learner and the supervisor. Serve video and files through a content delivery network (CDN) for fast playback everywhere, with caching of course pages and task queues to process video uploads and marking without slowing browsing, and an indexed and partitioned database that withstands hundreds of thousands of concurrent learners. The interface is English-first with Arabic RTL support, responsive on mobile, installable as a PWA and compliant with accessibility standards. Apply encryption, rate limiting, protection against common attacks and backups, with monitoring and analytics of learner behaviour and completion rates. Connect it to a Saudi payment gateway (mada/Apple Pay/Moyasar) for paid courses and issue a ZATCA invoice. Deliver it production-ready with tests and concise documentation.

Automation engine for follow-up and reminders

Build me an educational automation engine that follows up with students and parents automatically: it sends a reminder before the class, an instant alert to the parent when an absence is recorded, a fee reminder before the due date, and congratulation messages when a course is completed or a milestone is reached. Connect it to WhatsApp and SMS through API keys kept in the secrets vault, and base it on precise job scheduling and queues capable of reliably sending tens of thousands of messages a day, with smart retries on failure and a record of each message's status. Add a customisable message template editor and flexible triggers that the supervisor builds themselves without coding. Make access secure with roles and permissions defining who builds campaigns and who only monitors them. The interface is English-first with Arabic RTL support and accessibility-compliant. Apply rate limiting to avoid nuisance, encryption of contact data, backups, and a monitoring dashboard showing delivery, open and error rates in real time. Deliver it production-ready with tests and concise documentation.

Mobile app for student and parent

Build me a unified mobile app (Expo) for the student and the parent running on iOS and Android, showing the student their timetable, lessons, exams, grades and certificates, and showing the parent their child's attendance, grades, teacher notes and outstanding fees with the ability to pay inside the app. Make sign-in secure with accounts and roles that separate the student experience from the parent experience, and support push notifications for important alerts such as absences and new grades. Connect it to the same indexed database as the internal system through a secure API, with local caching and reliable synchronisation that works even on a patchy network, and background task queues for heavy operations, so the system withstands millions of devices. The interface is English-first with Arabic RTL support, simple, fast and accessibility-compliant. Connect payments to a Saudi gateway (mada/Apple Pay/Moyasar) and issue a ZATCA invoice. Apply encryption, rate limiting, attack protection, backups, and monitoring of crashes and usage. Deliver it ready for release on Expo Go with tests and concise documentation.

Educational platform architecture for millions of users

Design and build me the architecture of a national education platform that withstands millions of concurrent users during exam and registration seasons. Make the back-end services horizontally scalable (stateless) behind a load balancer, with an indexed and partitioned (sharding/partitioning) database and separate read replicas for heavy reports, and multi-layer caching (Redis for sessions and hot data) to reduce pressure on the database. Serve all heavy content — video and files — through a content delivery network (CDN), and process heavy operations such as bulk marking, certificate generation and message sending through task queues (queues) and background workers. Apply secure login with fine-grained roles and permissions (RBAC), encryption of data in transit and at rest, rate limiting and protection against common attacks (injection, DDoS), and automatic backups with a recovery plan. Add comprehensive monitoring and analytics (metrics, logs, alerts) to catch performance issues and failures in real time before they reach the user. The interfaces are English-first with Arabic RTL support and accessibility-compliant. Deliver it production-ready with load testing, automated tests and concise architectural documentation.

Questions about Education & Training

You describe your idea to Uttra in your own words and it builds you a complete management system (one screen you run everything from): • Student and teacher records and timetables. • Attendance and absence recording. • Grade entry and simple report cards. All the data sits in a database you own (SQLite or PostgreSQL), and the code is yours to export or connect to GitHub. You build it once and own it, instead of subscribing for life.

Uttra is right-to-left ready from the ground up, so it builds you a course platform: • Video lessons, text and files. • Exams and assignments with marking. • Student progress tracking and automatic completion certificates. The student can access it from their phone (an Expo app or a PWA installed on the home screen) or from a browser. You build it in your students' language with a design that suits it.

You build an external portal (parent-facing) where the parent signs in with their account and sees: • Their child's attendance and absences. • Their grades and the teachers' notes. • Notifications, the class timetable and the fees. The portal is wired to the same internal system, so any grade or absence a teacher records appears to the parent immediately, with no duplicated work.

You connect WhatsApp and SMS to Uttra through an API key in the secrets vault, and use scheduled jobs to send automatically: a reminder before the class, an alert to the parent when an absence is recorded, and a fee reminder before the due date. They go out on their own at the time you set, saving administrators hours of daily follow-up.

You build a registration and booking portal for the courses and connect a Saudi payment gateway (mada, Apple Pay, Moyasar or HyperPay) with its key in the secrets vault. After payment the student is enrolled automatically and an e-invoice compliant with the tax authority (ZATCA) is issued. Note: the payment gateway is a licensed service; Uttra connects it with an API key and builds the registration and invoicing system around it.

Ready-made systems (an LMS, a school system and communication tools) usually charge a recurring monthly subscription per user or per feature, and it grows as your student numbers grow. With Uttra you build your system once and own it, so the monthly bleed stops and you only pay for what you actually need. On top of that, you merge all your scattered tools into one system instead of several subscriptions, which is cheaper and easier to manage.

Start with what hurts most and saves time. The practical order: • First: a course registration portal + online payment (you start collecting properly right away). • Second: a simple internal system for students, attendance and grades. • Third: WhatsApp reminder automation. You build a small working solution and add to it gradually. Describe the idea to Uttra in plain language and you'll have a first version to try quickly.

You build an administrative dashboard (one screen you see everything from) that brings together student numbers, revenue, attendance rates and course performance. Its data updates straight from the same system, so you decide on live numbers instead of manually assembling scattered Excel files.

High load is handled by architecture, not luck. Uttra builds the system on a foundation that scales: • Caching: repeated pages and data are kept in fast memory (Redis), which greatly reduces pressure on the database. • Task queues: heavy operations such as bulk marking and sending thousands of messages run in the background instead of freezing the interface. • An indexed and partitioned database: queries stay fast even with millions of records. • CDN: videos and files are served from the point nearest the student. Together with live monitoring that warns you before a failure happens. You describe the expected usage volume to Uttra and it builds accordingly.

Security is built in layers: • Roles and permissions (RBAC): each user views and edits only what concerns them, so a teacher can't reach another class's data. • Encryption: sensitive data is encrypted in transit and at rest. • Audit log: any change to a grade or an attendance record is logged with who and when, so tampering is exposed. • Rate limiting and backups: protection against guessing attacks and fast recovery if something goes wrong. And all of it lives in your own database, not with a third party.

Yes, and that's the biggest gain. Instead of four subscriptions that don't talk to each other, you build one system whose parts all sit on the same database: • The student registers and pays, so their account activates automatically. • The teacher records an absence, so an alert reaches the parent immediately. • Outstanding fees appear in the same dashboard alongside revenue. Everything is connected, so there's no double entry and no conflicting data. You can describe your current systems to Uttra and have them built integrated, or start with one system and add the rest gradually on the same foundation.