1. Before you begin

There are two ways to follow your child at Markaz Deen-e-Islam: the MDI Parent Portal app on an Android phone, or the parent web portal in any browser. Both show the same information, and you sign in to both with the same username and password. You only see children the madrasa has linked to your account.

Sign in with the username the office gave you, not your email address. The password is the one you chose from the invite email, or the one you set after a reset. There is no public registration.

This manual online: https://www.naginasocialwelfare.co.uk/parent-portal-manual/

2. Get the app

3. Using the Android app

The app has the same pages as the parent web portal, arranged for a phone. A bar along the bottom holds Home, Messages, Fees, My child, and More. The sign-out icon is at the top right of every page.

Sign in

1. Open MDI Parent Portal from the home screen.
2. Type your username and password. The eye icon shows or hides the password.
3. Remember me is ticked already. Leave it ticked on your own phone, and the app opens straight to Home next time, even without signal. Untick it on a shared phone, and the app asks for the password at the next start.
4. Tap Sign in. Forgot password? sends the same reset link as the web portal.

Home and notifications

Home has a welcome card with your linked children, then Needs attention (for example unread messages or fees outstanding), Today (each child’s register and daily checklist for today), and Updates from the madrasa. Tap any item to open the page behind it.

The Madrasa message alerts card asks to send notifications. Tap Turn on notifications and allow them, so a new madrasa message arrives on the phone like a text. Email and the Messages page still work if you leave them off.

Messages, Fees, and My child

• Messages is every notice and email the madrasa has sent you. Open a message to read it. Chapter 8 explains it in full.
• Fees shows Total Fee, Total Paid, and Due for the selected child, with Pay with card when something is due, and the payment history (chapter 9).
• My child has the same tabs as the web portal: Overview, Attendance, Leave, Madrasa life, Learning, Term report, Daily checklist, and Let’s Learn Islam. Slide the tab row sideways to reach the later tabs (chapter 10).

More and My Profile

More opens a sheet with Contact, My Profile, and Logout. Contact has the madrasa’s email, phone, WhatsApp, Give Sadaqah, and directions. My Profile is where you correct your name, phones, address, and email, and change your password. To change the email or password, type your current password as well.

Updates

When a new version is published, the app shows Update required. Tap Update now, and Google Play installs the new version before you carry on. Everyone stays on the latest version.

4. Open the web portal like an app

On iPhone, a computer, or any browser, the parent web portal can sit on your home screen or in the Dock. It opens in its own window, without the usual browser tabs. Use the same address and the same sign-in. The icon is labelled Markaz Admin.

If you open the web portal on Android

On an Android phone, the parent web portal suggests the app. The sign-in page shows On Android? Get the Parent Portal app, and Home shows a card with Get it on Google Play. Tap either one to open the Play Store page, or tap Not now to keep using the browser. The card then stays hidden on that phone.

Chrome on a computer

1. Open Chrome and go to https://admin.naginasocialwelfare.co.uk.
2. At the right of the address bar, click the install icon (a small screen with an arrow), then Install.
3. If that icon is missing, click the three-dot menu, then Cast, save, and share, then Install page as app.
4. The portal opens in its own window. You can also open it later from the Dock or the Start menu.

Chrome on Android

The Play Store app is the better choice on Android. Use this only if you want the web portal itself on the home screen as well.

1. Open the parent web portal in Chrome.
2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.
3. Tap Install app. If you only see Add to Home screen, tap that instead.
4. Confirm. The Markaz Admin icon appears on the home screen.

5. Open the web portal

The first screen asks you to choose a portal. Parents use the brown Parent card. The other cards are for admins, teachers, students, collectors, Islamic quizzes, and the Halal barcode helper.

1. Open https://admin.naginasocialwelfare.co.uk
2. On the Parent card, press Continue.
3. You land on the Parent Portal sign-in page. You can also go straight there at https://admin.naginasocialwelfare.co.uk/login/parent.

6. Sign in

The sign-in card asks for username and password. Remember me is ticked already and keeps you signed in on this browser. Untick it on a shared computer.

1. Type your username.
2. Type your password. The eye icon shows or hides it.
3. Press Sign in.
4. Home opens, with your name in the welcome banner.

A wrong username or password shows “Invalid username or password.” Check the username with the office before trying again and again.

After you are in, the left menu is Home, Messages, Fees, My Child, Contact, and My Profile. Logout is at the top right and ends the session on this browser.

Forgot password

On the sign-in page, press Forgot password?. Enter the email or username on your parent record, then Send link. Open the email and follow the link to choose a new password. Use Cancel if you opened the box by mistake.

First-time invite

When the office creates your account, you receive an email with a setup link. Open that full link. It opens a page titled “Set up your parent account,” where you choose a password of at least 6 characters. After that you go to Home. The same password then works in the Android app.

If the link is incomplete, the page says Invite link incomplete. Use the whole link from the email, or ask the office to send a new invitation. Do not try to type the setup address yourself without the token.

7. Home

Home is the summary after you sign in. It points you to the pages that need you today.

• Welcome banner. Your name, your relationship, and how many children are linked.
• Alerts card. Offers browser alerts for absences, fees, leave, and announcements. Enable alerts turns them on. Not now hides the card. Email and Messages work either way.
• Needs attention. Unread messages, fees outstanding, attendance paused because of unpaid fees, and leave requests waiting for approval. Tap one to go straight to it. When there is nothing, it says “Nothing needs your attention.”
• Today. One row per child: class, whether today’s register has been taken, and how much of today’s daily checklist is done. Tap the row to open My child, or the checklist chip to open the checklist.
• Updates. The latest notices from the madrasa for your household, newest first.
• Madrasa card. Address, Email, phone, WhatsApp, Give Sadaqah, and a link to the map page.
• Shortcuts. Request leave, Islamic Quiz, and Halal barcode helper.

Islamic Quiz and Halal barcode open other tools on the same parent web portal. The quiz is a timed practice quiz. The barcode helper looks up a shop label. It is a helper, not a Halal certificate.

8. Messages

Messages is the copy of emails the madrasa sends you. It is not a chat. You read notices here. You do not reply inside the portal.

This account has no messages yet, so the page shows an envelope and “Emails from the madrasa will appear here.”

When the office or a teacher sends mail about your child, the same note appears in this list. Typical notices are announcements, absence marks, fee receipts, fee reminders, fee waivers, term reports, leave decisions, Madrasa life notes, and Star of the Week.

Once messages exist, you can:

1. Switch between All and Unread.
2. If you have more than one child, filter by child, or show all children.
3. Open a message to read it. Opening it marks it read.
4. Use Mark as unread if you want it highlighted again, or Mark all read when the unread count is above zero.
5. On a wide screen the list stays on the left and the open message on the right. On a phone, the message opens on its own.

An unread count also appears on Home and on the Messages item in the menu. Older emails sent before this inbox existed are not copied in automatically.

9. Fees

Fees shows money for the selected child. The three boxes are Total Fee, Total Paid, and Due. Under them is the payment history.

Test Student’s fee for October is £25.00, nothing has been paid, and £25.00 is due.

1. Open Fees in the left menu, or tap the fees item under Needs attention on Home.
2. If more than one child is linked, use Select child.
3. Read the due amount. Green £0.00 means nothing is outstanding. An orange due amount means there is a balance to pay.
4. When an amount is due, a Pay fees card appears with the balance filled in. Change the amount if you want to pay only part of it. Pay with card opens a secure SumUp page.
5. After a successful card payment you return to Fees, with a short thank-you note.

Cash taken at the madrasa is recorded by staff. It shows in payment history after they save it. You cannot edit fee amounts yourself. The picture below was not used to start a payment.

10. My child

My child is the record book for one student. The child’s name sits above eight tabs: Overview, Attendance, Leave, Madrasa life, Learning, Term report, Daily checklist, and Let’s Learn Islam. With more than one linked child, a switcher at the top changes who you are looking at. Everyone else’s children stay hidden.

These pages are for reading, except Leave, where you can ask for time away, and Daily checklist, where you tick off your child’s day.

Overview

Four cards summarise the child: fees, attendance this month, the latest daily log, and the latest madrasa message. Each card is a shortcut into the fuller page.

Attendance

The month bar moves with the arrows. The totals are Present, Late, Absent, Informed, Uniform, Behaviour, and the attendance rate. The calendar marks the days the teacher has saved. Informed days are absences the madrasa already knows about, including approved leave.

October 2026 for Test Student has no marks yet, so every total is zero and the calendar days are blank.

Leave

Use this when your child will miss madrasa and you want the class teacher to approve it. Approved leave is stored as Informed attendance, so you are not sent an absence email for those days.

1. Open My child, then Leave. You can also use the Request leave shortcut on Home.
2. Press Request leave.
3. Check the child. If several children are linked, tick each one who will be away. One submit covers the group.
4. Set From and To. The form shows how many calendar days that is.
5. Write a short reason, up to 500 characters.
6. Press Submit request. Cancel closes the form without sending it.

The list then shows each request as pending, approved, rejected, or cancelled. You can cancel a request only while it is still pending. The teacher’s decision also arrives by email and in Messages.

Madrasa life

Madrasa life is a date-ordered list of what teachers have written about the child outside the formal term report: behaviour notes, activities, and participation. Newest entries are at the top. You cannot add or edit them. A new note also arrives in Messages.

Learning

Learning shows the teacher’s daily marks. It is view only. Tasks that were never attempted are hidden, so you see work that is completed or in progress.

The categories are Qaida, Quran, Surah Memorization, Duas, Islamic Education, and Participation. Open a category to see its list.

Term report

Term report gathers the child’s name and class, the attendance rate, the term ratings, and curriculum progress. It is the page to read when the teacher has saved a term summary. You can also receive that summary by email, which then appears in Messages.

Daily checklist

The daily checklist is a list of good habits for each day, grouped into Morning, Day, and Evening: duas, the five prayers, helping at home, and a good deed. Your child ticks items in the Student Portal, and you can tick them here too.

1. Open My child, then Daily checklist. The Today row on Home opens it as well.
2. Pick a day in the date strip. Today is selected first. You can tick today and yesterday. Older days are for reading.
3. Tap an item to tick it. Items with a book icon have a dua. Tap the name to read it.
4. Under Parents only, set your child’s behaviour for the day as good or bad. Only a parent can set this.
5. Daily Supplications at the top lists the duas to read together.

Let’s Learn Islam

Let’s Learn Islam is the set of lessons your child takes in the Student Portal. This tab shows their progress: modules passed, cards learned, the current streak, and when they last practised. Each module shows lessons and cards done, and whether it is not started, in progress, or passed. When your child passes a module, its certificate appears here to download.

11. Contact

Contact is the madrasa’s public details, not your own. Your own phone and address are on My Profile.

• The map shows 103 Burmer Road, Peterborough PE1 3HT. Open in Google Maps starts directions.
• NaginaSocialWelfare.co.uk opens the public website.
• Give Sadaqah opens the donations page.
• Email, phone, and WhatsApp use info@naginasocialwelfare.co.uk and +44 7831 684738.

The same buttons also appear on Home and on My Profile.

12. My Profile

My Profile is the only place you edit your own record. The office still owns the username and the relationship (for example Father).

1. Under Contact details, correct your full name, phone numbers, email, or address. Separate more than one phone number with commas.
2. Press Save changes. The button appears once something has changed. Changing the email also asks for your current password.
3. To change your password, press Change password, type your current password and the new one twice, then save.

Browser alerts asks this browser for permission to show a notification when something important happens. Email and Messages still arrive if you leave alerts off. If the browser has blocked notifications, allow them in the site settings and try the switch again. On iPhone, add the portal to your Home Screen first.

Dark mode applies to the whole Parent Portal on this device only.

Export my data downloads a copy of the personal information the portal holds for you. Privacy notice (draft) opens the privacy text.

13. Web portal on a phone

On a narrow screen the left menu is replaced by a bar along the bottom: Home, Messages, Fees, My Child, and More. The same pages are there. Cards and buttons stack so you do not have to slide sideways.

More opens a sheet with Contact and My Profile. Logout stays at the top right. The menu icon at the top left opens the full list as a drawer if you prefer that. On an Android phone, the app from Google Play is the easier choice (chapter 3).

14. What you can do