Online Quran Classes in Canada for Kids & Adults, 1-to-1

Murouj Academy offers live one-to-one online Quran classes with native Arab teachers, including ijazah holders, female teachers for women and girls, and a free trial class with a teacher matched to you. From Victoria to St. John's, Canadian families book every lesson in their province's local time.

The essentials for Canadian families

• Private lessons, never a group. Each student follows a plan built around them. A lesson runs 30, 45 or 60 minutes, and a week holds between two and five of them.
• Reports. After every lesson a written report goes to your family's WhatsApp group, and a student with daily lessons gets a daily report.
• Every time zone covered. Classes are booked in your local time, from Newfoundland to Pacific, and in the territories on request.
• Qualified, Arabic-speaking teachers. All of them grew up speaking Arabic in the Arab world, some of them hold an ijazah, and a good number trained at or were certified by Al-Azhar.
• A teacher matched to you. Matching follows your needs, not a lottery: we pair you with an available teacher for the free trial, and you carry on with that teacher if it fits.
• Who you are dealing with. Messages go to a +1 WhatsApp number, (315) 541-8837, which works like any North American number. The academy belongs to Murouj LLC, a US company registered in Wyoming. There is no Canadian office: everything happens online.
• Free trial: your first class is a free one-to-one trial with a teacher matched to you by us. The teacher checks the level and suggests a plan. No obligation to buy a package.

Online Quran classes for kids in Canada

Children learn one-to-one at Murouj Academy, live online, with a native Arab teacher we match to the child for the free trial. A girl always has a female teacher, and most of our young students have one. Children can start from age 4. After you commit, the teacher stays the same. Lessons last 30, 45 or 60 minutes and fit around school, in the evening or at weekends, in Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific or Atlantic time.

• Teacher: native Arab, matched to your child by us.
• Daughters: a female teacher only.
• Staying put: after the free trials, your child keeps that teacher.
• From age 4: every teacher is qualified to teach young children.
• Parent role: parents or guardians arrange classes for anyone under 18 and watch over their child's internet use during and around them, per our terms.

See online Quran classes for kids for how the lessons, the learning path and child safety work.

Class times by Canadian city

• Eastern time: Toronto, Mississauga and Ottawa
• Mountain time: Calgary and Edmonton
• Pacific time: Vancouver
• Atlantic time: Halifax

Because classes run online, the city only affects the clock, and we book by your local time.

Cities

• Toronto and Mississauga: Eastern time, with lessons for the whole Greater Toronto Area.

Everything is taught online by native Arabic speakers.

Classes that fit your family's schedule

Our teachers work around your timetable and book every class in your local time, from Pacific and Mountain through Central, Eastern and Atlantic to Newfoundland time. Families book before-school, after-school, evening or weekend slots, around hockey, swimming and homework. We're flexible, and you pick the times that suit you when you book your free trial.

Fitting lessons into a Canadian year

Schools here open in early September and close in late June, with a winter break, a spring break that most provinces call March Break (each province sets its own dates), and the long summer. Private online lessons bend around that calendar:

• Term time. Most families take a slot before or after school, in the evening or on a weekend. Pick anything from two to five lessons a week.
• Dark winter evenings and snow days. There is no drive and no icy parking lot: the lesson happens in your living room, so a snow day off school leaves the Quran lesson untouched.
• Hockey, swimming and the rest. From October to spring, practices and tournaments eat into weeknights and weekends. One student, one teacher means a fixed practice night is easy to plan around; give the teacher early notice of tournaments and agree changes together.
• July and August suit a push on memorisation. Message us on WhatsApp to see whether your teacher can take extra lessons during the summer.

French-speaking and bilingual households

Murouj Academy lessons are taught in Arabic and English. We don't offer lessons in French. Plenty of children in Quebec, New Brunswick and French-immersion programs follow English comfortably, and recitation itself is learned in Arabic, straight from a native speaker. If French is your child's stronger language, say so when you book and we will talk through whether explanations in English will suit them.

Your teacher: native Arab, matched to you

Every teacher at Murouj Academy is a native Arabic speaker from the Arab world. Some hold an ijazah, and each profile states which.

An ijazah is a formal, chain-based authorisation from a qualified teacher, certifying that the holder has mastered a body of knowledge such as Quran recitation and may teach it and certify others; a parent or friend who knows the Quran can help, but isn't a certified teacher. Our article on ijazah, its meaning and its types goes deeper.

Most teachers explain in English as well as Arabic, and a good number studied at or were certified by Al-Azhar. Read about their backgrounds on the teacher profiles page. We match you with a suitable teacher for a free trial class, and you commit when the fit feels right. Matching is never done at random.

Women and girls are always taught by female teachers, adult men by male teachers; for boys you can tell us whether you would like a female or a male teacher, and most children we teach have a female teacher. That holds for every booking, without exception.

New to Canada, or new to Islam?

The first years in a new country rarely leave room for a weekly class across town. A lesson that opens at home slots in around shifts, college and paperwork. Adults starting from scratch, such as newcomers who never had the chance to learn to read the Quran, can begin from the letters in the Qaida classes for beginners, with women taught by women and men by men; see Quran classes for adults. For background reading, try learning about Islam for beginners.

Child safety, without overclaiming

Here is what Murouj Academy can confirm today. Lessons take place one-to-one and live on Zoom, Google Meet or Halqora, Murouj's own online classroom software. Girls are only ever taught by women. With children, we match a teacher for the free trial before you commit, and the child then continues with that teacher unless we change it for a better fit. Parents and guardians book and manage classes for anyone under 18 and are responsible for supervising their child's use of the internet during and around classes, as our terms say. If you have a concern about a teacher, message us on WhatsApp or email us straight away and we will look into it.

Canadian police record and vulnerable sector checks cover Canadian records, and our teachers live and teach outside Canada, so we don't advertise Canadian-style checks. Ask us how classes are kept safe on WhatsApp any time before the trial.

Murouj Academy follows Islamic etiquette for privacy: when a female teacher teaches a female student, no non-mahram man can see the student. Read how privacy and etiquette work in our lessons.

Picking a course

Every course is taught one-to-one, and each one suits a different starting point:

• Small children usually meet the Arabic letters first in the Qaida classes for beginners, often alongside Islamic studies covering manners, prayer and the prophets' stories.
• Students studying the rules take the Tajweed classes, students who want their recitation listened to and corrected take Quran recitation correction, while hifz students join the Quran memorization course. Children can memorise part-time around school: see the part-time hifz answer and our guide to weekend hifz for kids.
• The Standard Arabic course is for learners who want to understand the language of the Quran. Teens can also take Islamic studies for teens, adults Understand the Quran: basic tafsir, and children Arabic for kids.

Undecided? The free trial settles it: the teacher hears the student and recommends a starting point.

Booking the free trial, step by step

1. Get in touch through the trial booking form or on WhatsApp, with your province or time zone, the learner's age and aims, and whether a female or male teacher is needed.
2. Get matched. We recommend an available teacher from what you've told us and line up a time in your zone with them.
3. Have the lesson. It is a genuine one-to-one class in which the teacher assesses the learner and proposes a plan. Carry on afterwards with two to five lessons a week of 30, 45 or 60 minutes.

Before you enrol

Things Canadian families ask before the trial.

• How classes run. Every session is private, one-to-one, in your own time zone, lasting 30, 45 or 60 minutes.
• Who teaches. We match you with a teacher for the free trial, before you commit. Sisters and girls are taught by female teachers.
• Notice for changes. Cancel up to three hours before the lesson, with a limit of two cancellations a month, and that lesson is made up on another day. Later cancellations are accepted for a genuine emergency such as illness, a device problem or an internet problem, and made up on another day. With no acceptable reason, or if nobody joins, the lesson is billed in full and is not rebooked free; a family may book another session, which is billed as a new lesson. A lesson the teacher cannot give is made up as well.
• Billing. An invoice arrives each month in Canadian dollars, payable via PayPal or Wise.

Lesson plans for families in Canada

Families in Canada can choose from four lesson plans, all one-to-one: Beginner (2 classes a week), Intermediate (3), Advanced (4) and Fluency (5). Lessons for students in Canada last 30, 45 or 60 minutes, and every plan includes a free trial class. Payment is by Wise, PayPal or bank transfer.

Plans start from CA$7 per 30-minute lesson. For detailed pricing, contact us or book a free trial.

Do Canadian families stick with it?

Most of our students stay with us for more than a year. Students describe their experience in their own words on the reviews page.