The student app
Caalim — where the homework lands
Caalim is the app students use to pick up what their teacher set in Layli, answer it, and get it back marked. Set work costs a pupil nothing. It works as a study tool on its own too, which is why plenty of the students on it have no school account at all.
- Homework, summaries and revision set by your own teacher
- Written answers marked, with a line on what was missing
- Lesson Summarizer and Revision Helper for studying alone
- Maths, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, history, English and Arabic
Android today. An iPhone version is in development.
Inside the app
What a student actually sees
Study tools on the home screen
Revision Helper and Lesson Summarizer sit one tap away, next to whatever the school has set.
Homework, sorted
Everything set in Layli lands here by subject, with due dates and a count of what is new, started, done and marked.
Answer on the phone
Multiple choice and written answers, one question per screen, with progress across the top.
Marks with an explanation
Every answer comes back with the right one beside it and a line explaining the gap.
Revision cards
Question-and-answer cards drawn from the chapter, for testing yourself the night before.
Chapter summaries
A long chapter cut down to its objectives and the points that matter, in the language of the book.
Coins
What a pupil pays, and what they do not
Everything a teacher sets through Layli is free to a pupil, and stays that way. Caalim also carries its own Lesson Summarizer and Revision Helper, which a student can point at anything they like, in their own time. Those two run on coins, and every new account is credited with 15 to begin with.
No coins needed, ever
Homework, summaries and revision assigned by a teacher. Marking and feedback on what a pupil submits. The whole School tab.
Costs coins
Summarising or revising material a student chose themselves, outside what the school set. Coins are topped up in the app with Waafi or eDahab. Caalim’s terms of service cover them.
Questions about Caalim
What does Caalim cost a pupil?
The app is free to download and every new account is credited with 15 coins. Everything a teacher sets through Layli is then free to open, answer and read: homework, summaries, revision, all of it, however much there is. Caalim's own study tools work differently, and they are the part that spends coins.
What are coins for?
Caalim's Lesson Summarizer and Revision Helper let a student summarise or revise anything they choose, outside whatever the school has set. That runs on coins, topped up inside the app with Waafi or eDahab. Schoolwork assigned through Layli never needs them. Caalim's terms of service, at https://caalimapp.com/terms, cover coins and top-ups.
Does a student need a school account?
No. Anyone can download Caalim and use the study tools. A student whose school runs Layli links their account as well, which adds the School tab where set work and results appear.
How do students sign in?
By the phone number their school registered for them. There is no separate password for a pupil to lose.
Is it available on iPhone?
Not yet. Caalim is on Android today, which is what the large majority of students in the region carry, and an iOS version is in development. If your school is waiting on it, tell us and we will let you know when it lands.
Connect your school to Caalim
Once a school runs Layli, everything its teachers assign arrives in Caalim on its own. Pupils install the app and nothing else, and none of that work costs them a coin.