Haitham AssoliRead this in Arabicاقرأ هذه الصفحة بالإنجليزية
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Al-Manal

Find a substitute teacher before the bell rings.

A smart school system for managing teachers, timetables, substitutes, period swaps and task follow-up. Its core job is answering, instantly, who can cover a class when a teacher is absent.

Production
Al-Manal
Role
Solo
Year
2025
Status
Live
Format
Web
Built with
JavaScriptNext.jsScheduling logicRTL
Where to find it
Al-Manal — Find a substitute teacher before the bell rings.المنال — اعثر على معلّم بديل قبل أن يرنّ الجرس.

Treatment

When a teacher calls in sick at 7am, someone in the office solves a constraint problem by hand, on paper, in fifteen minutes, while the first period is starting. They do it every single morning.

حين يتصل معلّم صباحًا معتذرًا بالمرض، يحلّ أحدهم في الإدارة مسألة قيود يدويًا على ورقة خلال خمس عشرة دقيقة بينما تبدأ الحصة الأولى. ويفعلون ذلك كل صباح.

Al-Manal does that search instantly: given the timetable and who is absent, it produces the teachers who are genuinely free for that period, so the decision is a choice rather than a scramble.

يُجري «المنال» ذلك البحث فورًا: من الجدول ومن قائمة الغياب، يُخرج المعلمين المتفرغين فعلًا لتلك الحصة، فيصير القرار اختيارًا لا سباقًا.

Challenges

  1. 'Free' is not the same as 'available'

    The problem

    A teacher with no class that period may still be unavailable. They may be on duty, at their daily limit, or already covering something else. A naive gap search returns names the office cannot actually use.

    What I did

    Availability is computed from the full set of constraints rather than the timetable alone, and candidates are ranked so the fairest option, usually whoever has covered least, appears first.

Results

  • Instant substitute suggestions ranked by fairness, plus timetable and task management.اقتراحات بدلاء فورية مرتّبة بالعدالة، مع إدارة الجداول والمهام.
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