6 million students on one school platform

Before

Saudi K-12 education was strongly school-bound. A student in a remote village had a fundamentally different experience than a student in Riyadh — different curriculum delivery quality, different access to materials, no real way for parents to see daily progress. When schools closed in 2020, the gap threatened to widen catastrophically.

Initiative

The Ministry of Education launched Madrasati as a single nationwide learning management system for grades 1–12: live virtual classrooms (Microsoft Teams), curriculum-aligned content (45,000+ multimedia items), assignment delivery, real-time parent visibility, and integrated AI for attendance and engagement tracking. Free for every public-school student.

Outcome

Madrasati grew from emergency tool to permanent backbone of Saudi K-12. By 2025 it served 6M+ students, 525,000+ teachers, ran ~250,000 virtual classrooms daily, and reached 98% of its target users. It won the World Summit on the Information Society Award 2025 in Geneva. From 2026, all 6M+ students will begin a national AI/coding/algorithms curriculum delivered through the platform.

For citizens

A student in Tabuk or Najran can attend the same quality lesson as one in Riyadh. Parents see homework status, attendance, and grades in real time. Teachers spend less time on administration and more on actual teaching. The digital divide between urban and rural Saudi schoolchildren has collapsed.