Work/Qalam Academy

Qalam Academy: an online school that feels like a real classroom.

A Birmingham tutoring academy running GCSE and A-level classes over scattered Zoom links. We built one platform for live classes, homework and parent progress, and moved it to AWS so the evening rush never slows it down.

Client
Qalam Academy
Industry
Education
Market
Birmingham, UK
Services
Learning platform, Cloud migration, SEO
Timeline
12 weeks
Team
5 people
Year
2025
3xstudents in one term
99.95%uptime on class evenings
-75%tutor admin time
4.9parent rating

What was in the way.

Qalam ran classes on scattered Zoom links and WhatsApp groups. Parents could not track progress and tutors lost hours on admin.

Their old site sat on shared hosting and went down on exam-season evenings, just when every student logged in at once.

Three moves that changed the numbers.

01

Live classes in one place

Join from the dashboard, see homework in the same screen and watch the recording afterwards.

02

Progress parents can see

Predicted grades, attendance and homework in one view, with a short report every Sunday.

03

Cloud that handles the rush

Hosted on AWS in London. It scales up for the 5 to 8pm peak and back down overnight.

Before and after, in numbers.

Measured by the client, the same way before we started and after launch.

Active students

3x
Before1,150After3,480
in one term · Platform data

Admin time per tutor a week

−75%
Before6hAfter1.5h
in 8 weeks · Tutor time logs

Uptime on class evenings

+2.75 pts
Before97.2%After99.95%
over 6 months · AWS CloudWatch

Active students

LAUNCHMonth 123456
Parents finally see progress in one place. Enrolments tripled in a single term.
IR
Imran RashidDirector, Qalam Academy
Sample

Tech used

Next.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSZoom Video SDKStripe

The team

A product lead, a designer, two engineers and a cloud engineer, for 12 weeks.

Where it stands

Handed over, with a monthly care plan

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