School-to-home communication

Homework that reaches every parent, without a single WhatsApp group.

Teachers publish homework, assignments, tests and notices once. Home Work Book puts it in front of the right parents and learners automatically — and Neo answers their questions from your school's own records, not guesswork.

One placefor homework, tests & notices
Two guardiansper child by default
Neoanswers from real school data
No more "which group was it in?"

Every homework item, test date and notice lives in one dashboard per child — not scattered across group chats.

Built for South African schools

Terminology, terms, dates and currency follow your school's own settings — Grade or Year, Learner or Student, your choice.

Answers, not access

Neo only ever draws on a child's own approved records, so parents get real answers without exposing anyone else's data.

How it works

From the staff room to the kitchen table.

Four steps carry a piece of homework from a teacher's dashboard to a parent's phone, with reminders and answers built in along the way.

1
Teachers

A teacher publishes it once

Homework, an assignment, a project or a test is captured against the right subject, grade and class — attachments and links included.

2
The platform

It's routed to the right households

Only guardians with an approved, verified link to that learner see it — up to your school's configured guardian limit per child.

3
Parents

Parents get notified, not nagged

In-app notifications and reminders follow each family's own preferences, with a due-date reminder run automatically each day.

4
Neo

Neo is there for the follow-up questions

"What's due Friday?" gets answered instantly, grounded only in that child's published, authorised homework — nothing invented, nothing exposed.

What's included

One system, built for three very different logins.

Schools, teachers and parents each get an experience shaped for what they actually need to do.

Academic years, terms & classes

Set up years, terms, grades, classes and subjects the way your school actually runs — then assign teachers to them.

Bulk learner import

Bring learners in by CSV or XLSX, with existing learner numbers updated rather than duplicated.

Your own branding

Upload your school's logo and colours, and set your country, timezone, locale and terminology — Grade or Year, your call.

Approval-gated parent links

A parent's request to link to a child is verified against learner number and date of birth, then confirmed by your staff.

Reporting & workload alerts

See completion trends across classes and get flagged when a class's assessment load is stacking up.

Full audit trail

Every school and platform action is logged, so you can always answer "who changed what, and when".

One dashboard per subject block

See every class and subject you teach in one place, with homework, tests and projects grouped the way you plan your week.

Every task type, one form

Homework, assignments, projects, tests, exams, revision, classwork and notices all follow the same simple publishing flow.

Attachments & links

Add worksheets, memos or external links directly to what you publish, so parents and learners have everything in one card.

Whole class or individual

Assign a subject to a whole class in seconds, or hand-pick learners for electives and small groups.

Completion tracking

See at a glance who has marked homework as done, without chasing parents individually.

No group chats to moderate

Notices reach parents directly through the platform, so there's no class WhatsApp group to manage after hours.

Every child, one dashboard

See homework, tests and notices for all your children in a single view, even across different grades or schools.

Notifications on your terms

Choose how and when you're reminded — Home Work Book won't notify you the way you don't want to be reached.

Ask Neo directly

Ask what's due, when a test is, or what a notice was about — Neo answers from your own child's records, any time.

A verified link to your child

Linking to a learner needs their learner number and date of birth, then your school's own approval — so access stays private.

Reminders before deadlines

An automatic daily check flags anything coming due, so homework doesn't turn into a surprise at bedtime.

Up to two guardians per child

By default, two approved guardians can follow each learner — configurable by your school if you need more.

Meet Neo

An assistant that only knows what it's allowed to know.

Neo answers parents' homework questions, but it isn't a general chatbot with open access to your database. It works from a deliberately narrow, rules-based path: fetch the authorised records first, then explain them in plain language.

Grounded, not generative-first. Every answer is built from a specific child's approved links and published records.

No cross-learner exposure. One family's questions can never surface another child's homework or results.

Metered, and upgradeable. Usage is tracked monthly against your plan, with a clear path to a fuller language-model integration when you're ready.

Security

Built to handle school and learner data properly.

The details that don't show up in a demo, but matter the moment real learner data is involved.

Hashed passwords, hardened sessions

Credentials are hashed, never stored in plain text, and sessions run over secure, protected cookies.

CSRF protection throughout

Every form submission is checked, so actions can't be triggered from outside the platform.

Prepared SQL, always

All queries run through parameterised statements, closing the door on injection attacks.

MIME-checked uploads

Attachments and logos are verified before they're accepted, not just trusted by file extension.

Full data isolation per school

Each school's data is kept apart at the tenant level — no shared visibility between schools on the platform.

Platform and school audit logs

Administrative actions are recorded at both the school and platform level, for full accountability.

Get in touch

Let's get your school set up.

Tell us a bit about your school, or just message us directly — whichever is easier.

Send us a message

We'll reply from hello@homeworkb.com, usually within a day.