Bring your child’s education home
Total price of the instalment plan: $200
Or buy once for $170
The Qalam Tablet brings together a tablet, Qalam lessons, quizzes, exam preparation and offline learning.
Not just a tablet — a teacher living in your home.
Two ways to get the tablet
The cash price and the instalment total are different amounts. Both are shown in full below.
One-time payment
Pay once and take the Qalam Tablet home.
paid once, in full
- The tablet
- One Qalam class package
- Video lessons
- Quizzes
- Exercises and activities
- Exam preparation
- Offline learning
- No monthly tablet instalment
Qalam 20/6
A small payment to start, then six monthly payments.
upfront
- The tablet
- One Qalam class package
- An affordable amount to start
- Six-month payment plan
- The same Qalam educational benefits
- Financing device management and protection
- Financing restrictions removed once all payments are complete
Financing is not open yet, so there is nothing to pay today. Join the waiting list and we will contact you when registration opens.
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What do the parent and the student get?
Video lessons
The student can reach lessons from their own curriculum, explained simply.
Quizzes and exercises
After every lesson the student can test themselves with questions and exercises.
Exam preparation
The student can practise with past questions and examinations.
Offline learning
Prepared content can be used without internet.
One Qalam class
The tablet comes with one Qalam class package included.
Learning at home
The child can learn at home, at a time that suits them.
AI tutor and exam coach
Qalam’s AI tutor answers a question from the student’s own textbook page and lesson, and past exam questions link back to the lesson that teaches them.
Qalam learning content can work offline where supported. Financed tablets may periodically require internet connectivity for payment and device authorisation.
Four curricula, one platform
Pick a grade to see every subject, chapter and lesson it contains.
Primary
Grades 1–8 · Somali national curriculum
Secondary
Form 1–4 · leading to the national certificate
Ethiopian Somali Region
Grades 9–12 · Ethiopian curriculum
University
Foundation and health science courses
More than video
Each of these is running in the app today, backed by the numbers beside it.
Works with no internet
Lessons, textbook pages and quizzes are all stored on the device. A tablet prepared by Qalam teaches a full year of school with the network switched off — that is how most of our students actually learn.
An AI tutor that knows the book
Ask a question in Somali, Arabic or English and get an answer grounded in the student’s own textbook page and lesson — not in something invented.
Scan the page, find the lesson
Point the camera at any page of the printed textbook and the app opens the video that teaches it, at the right minute.
Practice after every lesson
Questions are written from what the teacher actually said and what the chapter actually contains, so answering them means you learned the material.
Past national exams
Real Form 4 and Grade 8 certificate papers, question by question, each one linked back to the lesson that teaches it.
Laboratories on screen
Interactive physics, chemistry, biology and maths simulations from PhET at the University of Colorado, for schools with no laboratory.
Qur'an and Tafsiir
The complete Madinah Mushaf with verse-level highlighting, alongside recorded Tafsiir lessons indexed to the ayah they explain.
Exam builder for schools
Teachers generate a printable paper from the chapters they taught, mark it by scanning the sheets, and see exactly where each class is weak.
Where the platform stands today
However your students can reach it
Connectivity in Somalia is uneven, so the platform is built to arrive by whichever route works.
Android phone
The Qalam app, free to install, with lessons streamed or downloaded for later.
Preloaded tablet
A tablet handed over with a full year of lessons, textbook pages and quizzes already on it.
Android TV box
A whole classroom or family watching the same lesson on the television at home.
School deployment
Accounts for every pupil, exam tools for teachers, and progress reports for the head teacher.
See it working
Photograph the book — Qalam explains it
Point the camera at the page in front of the student and the app opens the lesson that teaches it.
- No typing and no searching — the page itself is the question.
- It opens the lesson at the minute that teaches that page.
- It works on the printed book the student already has.
What do Qalam parents say?
A parent on the tablet and what their children gained from it
Start with one grade
Open any grade below and you will see every subject, every chapter and every lesson title the platform holds for it.