When the world talks about EdTech, the spotlight often lands on flashy apps, gamified platforms, and student-centered tools. But in Morocco, one startup quietly chose a more difficult path:
Fix the school from the inside.
Not just the student experience the entire system.
This is the path KoolSkools took in 2020, when founders Mariam Zrii and Nouredine Amrani decided that digital transformation in education could never be complete if schools were still operating with paper files, scattered communication, and fragmented tools.
And that simple but overlooked truth became the foundation of one of Morocco’s most ambitious EdTech solutions.
The Vision That Sparked KoolSkools
KoolSkools didn’t begin with a student problem, it began with a school problem.
School administrators drowning in paperwork.
Teachers juggling dozens of apps that don’t talk to each other.
Parents receiving updates through WhatsApp forwards, phone calls, or sometimes nothing at all.
Mariam and Nouredine asked a question that most people ignored:
“Why should schools be fragmented, when they can be fully integrated?”
Their answer was a single platform that brought everything together.
What KoolSkools Really Built A Digital Nervous System for Schools
Unlike most EdTech platforms that start with course content, KoolSkools took a bold, infrastructure-first approach. They built an all-in-one environment where everything (academic, administrative, and financial) could finally live in one place.
Here’s what a school gains when it joins KoolSkools:
1. Digital Classrooms and Course Banks
Teachers digitize lessons, create exercises, upload videos, and build full content libraries.
2. Live Learning
Students attend real-time classes with built-in communication features optimized for teaching.
3. Administrative Automation
Attendance, report cards, student files all managed effortlessly.
4. Parent-School Communication Hub
A dedicated platform that eliminates miscommunication and keeps parents in the loop.
5. Financial Workflows
Invoices, tuition payments, confirmations – digitized, trackable, and secure.
What KoolSkools built is not just a tool.
It’s a digital ecosystem, custom-designed for Moroccan schools.
Funding That Validated a Vision
In 2023, KoolSkools secured $961,490 in investment from Azur Innovation Management one of Morocco’s most respected investment entities supporting innovative startups.
This wasn’t a “nice-to-have” round.
It was a strategic bet on the future of Moroccan education.
For Mariam and Nouredine, the funding meant acceleration:
- Scaling to new regions,
- Strengthening platform capabilities,
- Integrating more schools,
- Training teachers,
- And building one of the largest school-based digital infrastructures in the country.
The Human Side: Why Schools Actually Adopted KoolSkools
Digitizing a school is not a technical decision, it’s a cultural one.
KoolSkools succeeded because it understood something deeply human:
Schools don’t adopt technology.
People do teachers, administrators, parents, students.
So the team invested heavily in:
- Training workshops,
- Onboarding programs,
- Customer education,
- On-ground support,
- And empathy-driven design.
That is why, despite being founded only in 2020, KoolSkools quickly expanded across Morocco’s academic landscape.
How KoolSkools Is Redefining Morocco’s Education Future
KoolSkools is solving structural problems.
Their roadmap reflects a deep understanding of local educational realities:
- Schools need digital stability.
- Parents need transparency.
- Teachers need organization and ease.
- Students need consistent access.
And Morocco needs a unified digital backbone that can support national progress in literacy, STEM, and global competitiveness.
The founders believe the next chapter of EdTech is about institutional transformation.
And with every school they digitize, they are proving this belief to be true.
