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After school, eight minutes a day. Teachers recommend it as a homework alternative — five questions, not another booklet.
A learner answers 5 questions each day. How many questions in 7 days?
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Kurasa began in the COVID-19 lockdown as a trust experiment: hire teachers, reach learners at home, and see whether an online school could hold. The work became teacher-first software for CBC and CBE classrooms.
Origin
When schools closed their physical doors, an online school — Ziada School — was set up so teaching could still reach homes. As it gained traction, it became clear that the same tools could serve more than one institution.
That pivot became Kurasa: software that helps teachers plan the week, keep professional documents, mark attendance and run formative assessments — so the lesson, the register and a child’s progress can live on the same page. The name “kurasa” is a page.
By the end of 2023 the company was three years old. The film below is the record of that chapter: 20,000 learners, 42 schools, 17 counties, and a team of 13 people supporting implementation.
Five-year journey
The lockdown chapter is the beginning. What followed is five years of learning in classrooms — pivots included — toward teacher-led, capital-efficient growth.
We launched Kurasa 1.0 with a teacher-first vision. Early partnerships taught us how schools actually work.
Key learning: teachers need individual agency. Institutional control is not the answer.
We spent time understanding assessment planning, teacher workflows, and what teachers really need from software. That was investment in product insight.
Key learning: assessment is a sticky market — and crowded. We needed to differentiate.
We rebuilt around individual user accounts. Schools became workspaces — collections of teachers, parents and admin accounts, not monolithic school profiles. Self-registration accelerated.
Key learning: user agency drives growth. The right product structure unlocks organic loops.
We did not abandon schools. We added digital assessments schools could subscribe to, plus after-school practice for families. PSL Summative tests and PSL Daily Challenge opened a new channel.
Key learning: digital distribution beats field sales for unit economics. Families will pay for better practice tools.
We found a product that works at scale, reaches families directly, grows through recommendations, and is sustainable. Acquisition cost fell sharply versus school sales. Recurring family use is the path to two million learners in Kenya.
Key learning: capital efficiency and focus beat subsidised models that do not stick.
2023 impact documentary
Teachers, parents and the team speak for themselves: planning before the period, formative assessment while the class is still in the room, and a record families can open at home.
Year three, 2023
Published in the 2023 documentary and impact report. They are a snapshot of that year — not a substitute for the current figures on the home page.
A team of 13 supported implementation. Teachers used Kurasa for lesson planning, schemes of work, attendance and formative assessment. Parents could follow the record without waiting for closing day.
In the classroom
The film’s working thesis is simple: the game is won in the planning. Headteachers can see whether the syllabus is being covered, how lesson plans were written, and how learners are doing in formative and summative work — without reconstructing the week from paper.
Parents download assessments from home. When they meet the teacher, both sides have already seen the grey areas. The meeting can start at the problem, not at the pile of books.
In-classroom planning, professional documents and formative assessment — so the school holds evidence for decisions, not just end-of-term reconstruction.
A living record of progress, including the Kurasa Report: credible assessment history when a child needs records that travel — another school, another country, or a clinical appointment.
Live syllabus coverage and assessment data that can be compared across learning areas — useful to heads, and in time to curriculum developers.
Voices from the film
The game is won in the planning, not in the actual match.
Stanley Kago, headteacher, Marion Schools — on using Kurasa for lesson-plan quality, syllabus coverage and parent meetings.
You follow the progress of your children in a more friendly manner than physical report cards.
Christine Kimathi, parent, Marion Schools.
Daniel Engeshi, also a Marion Schools parent, describes a continuous record from PP1 onward that can be shared when a child needs academic evidence outside school. Those remarks are in the documentary; they are not a medical claim.
Where we are now
The 2023 film is a chapter, not the destination. Today Kurasa runs across Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana — Workspace for the school week, Problem Solvers League for termly evidence, and PSL Daily Challenge for family practice after school.
Figures as of September 2026. N+ means at least N.
Abafatanyabikorwa
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Workspace for your school. PSL for your county. Daily Challenge for families.
