# Set up your mekteb

The seven steps that take a new mekteb from sign-up to its first class. Do them in any order.

When you register your mosque, Mektebi asks how you want to start. Most mosques pick a ready starting point: it creates the school year, the usual levels, one empty course per level and a first room. Nothing about people is created. Children join later, when their parents register.

## Start from a ready starting point

1. On **How do you want to start?**, the starting point marked **Recommended** comes first.
2. Under **Level names in**, pick the language of the level names, for example Shqip or Deutsch.
3. Tap **Use this** and check the preview: the school year and its dates, the levels and the rooms.
4. Turn off the levels you don't teach. Tap **Add a room** if you have more than one room.
5. Tap **Create my mekteb**. The setup checklist opens with the first steps already done.

Prefer to build everything yourself? Choose **Start empty**. You get the same checklist, with every step still open.

## The setup checklist

The checklist ticks a step as soon as the work is done in Mektebi. You never tick anything by hand. Open a step to do it right there.

1. **Mosque details**: address, phone, time zone and logo. See [Mosque details](/help/mosque-details).
2. **School year**: its name and dates. See [School years](/help/school-years).
3. **Levels**: the standard levels, or your own. See [Levels](/help/levels).
4. **Rooms**: at least one room, more if several groups meet at the same time. See [Rooms](/help/rooms).
5. **Courses**: one course per level. See [Courses](/help/courses).
6. **First group and class time**: a group with a day and time. **Show me** walks you through it on the Mekteb plan. See [Groups and class times](/help/groups-and-class-times).
7. **Teachers and families**: invite a muallim and share the registration poster. See [Invite teachers](/help/invite-teachers) and [Families register with the poster](/help/families-register).

When every step is done, tap **Finish**. You land on your dashboard.

## Skip for now

The person who registered the mosque is taken to the setup after signing in, until it is finished or skipped. **Skip for now** takes you to your dashboard, where the card **Finish setting up your mekteb** keeps your progress. **Hide** removes the card; **Setup checklist** in **Help** and **Finish setup** in the menu still lead back to the checklist.

Other admins of your mosque see the same progress on their dashboard and can do any step.

## Ask an AI tool

There are two ways: connect your AI tool once, or copy a single guide.

**Connect your AI tool once.** Claude or ChatGPT then knows every Mektebi guide, and you can simply ask it how something works. The address is `https://mektebi.ch/help/mcp`.

1. In **Help**, open **Connect your AI tool** and tap **Copy address**.
2. In your AI tool's connector settings, add a new connector and paste the address.
3. Give it a name (for example “Mektebi Help”) and save.

The card shows the exact steps for Claude and for ChatGPT. In the Mektebi app, copy the address there, then add the connector in your web browser. Mektebi shares only these public guides, never your mosque's data.

**Copy a single guide, no setup.** Every guide also has a **Copy for ChatGPT / Claude** button. It copies the guide with a short note, so you can paste it into ChatGPT or Claude together with your question.

Never paste children's names or other personal data into an AI tool.