One year of Tawaasal
November 15, 2026 ยท Abdulkareem H. Ali
On the evening of 15 November 2025, we started building Tawaasal. The first entry in the project's history was two words: "initial plan". There was nothing to show anyone.
That was one year ago today. This post is the plan's first annual report: what we at Ibdaa built, in dates and numbers, and an invitation.
The year, by date
18 November 2025: version 0.1.0. Three days in. Sign-in, roles and permissions, and the first pages.
30 March 2026: version 1.0.0.
June 2026. A release given over to the phone apps, then a security audit worked through item by item. Since then, what staff write in safeguarding and wellbeing records is stored encrypted.
12 July 2026: version 2.0.0. One search bar across the web and the phone apps, and the paper-and-ink look Tawaasal has today.
26 July. A single Reports area, and your school's logo and colour on every PDF Tawaasal produces.
19 August. A setup guide for new schools: seven steps on the dashboard, ticked off from your own data as you go.
3 September. The timetable follows the working week a school sets. If your week starts on Sunday, so does every grid.
12 September. British English throughout, and every notification written in the language of the person reading it.
30 September. The user guides open to everyone at docs.tawaasal.app, in English and Arabic. Staff can connect ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask about their own school, seeing only what they could already see on screen.
8 October: version 2.7.0. For schools in England: the morning and afternoon register with the DfE's codes, the admission register, and the census return for independent schools.
11 November: version 2.8.0. Staff Training, which shows who is in date on safeguarding and health and safety training. And a way into the demo school from tawaasal.com in one click.
The year, in numbers
- 2,088 recorded changes to the school app, and about 3,700 across everything we maintain.
- 16 releases written up since June.
- 11 languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Hindi and Japanese.
- Three places to use it: the web, iOS and Android.
An invitation: Founding Schools
Schools have been trying Tawaasal. They have signed up and set up accounts of their own, and every day people step into the demo school to see it for themselves. For the second year, we are inviting ten schools to be Tawaasal's founding schools.
!Ten rings in a row, the first one filled in, above a thread with knots along it.
- The first ten schools to sign up.
- Each school's first 400 students are free for the rest of the 2026-2027 academic year.
- Larger schools are welcome: a school with more than 400 students pays half price for each student above 400.
All we ask in return is an honest review once you have used it.
To take one of the ten places, [sign up](/en/signup), choose monthly billing and enter both promo codes at checkout: FOUNDING400 and FOUNDING50.
What comes next
We will keep building: new modules, new ideas and steady improvements, release after release. What comes first is decided by what the schools using Tawaasal tell us they need.
See it before you decide
You do not need to talk to us first. Open the [demo school](/en/demo), choose a role (teacher, school admin, student or parent) and you are inside in one click: no school code, no email, no password. Everyone in it is made up, and it is reset regularly, so nothing you do there can break anything.
To everyone who tried an early version, reported something broken or told us what their school actually needed: thank you. Year two starts today.