Johor Bahru
About the practice
We started because staff-room conversations about learning apps were being replaced by screenshots of green bars.
File Canvas Core opened in Johor Bahru after Aisyah Rahman spent a year sitting in on year-team meetings where an education app’s weekly export was treated as a verdict. Teachers knew which pupils had been at a kenduri, which periods were cut for sports day, and which Bahasa unit had slipped. The export knew none of that. The practice exists to put those two knowledges in the same room.
We work as reviewers, not as a vendor’s classroom trainers. If a school is still choosing an app, we will say so and decline the sitting until there is real activity to read.
People
Aisyah Rahman grew up in Johor and taught lower-secondary English before she began reading homework logs for academic coordinators. She leads most measurement reviews and insists on a printed timetable on the table.
Farid Tan came from a university foundation programme in Skudai where attendance lists and a reading app were constantly confused. He takes assessment drop-off readings and is the one who will stop a sitting if the vendor file cannot name a class.
Mei Ling Ong drafts parent-evening notes in English and Bahasa Melayu. She used to volunteer at a community tuition room in Johor Bahru and still checks every sentence for whether a grandmother in the hall could hear it without shame.
How we work
A sitting always starts with the class, not with the brand of the app. We ask what the period is for, what the textbook is doing that week, and only then what the app recorded. We keep pupil-level files in the room during the sitting and do not take home identity-card numbers or addresses.
We will travel across Johor. For Sabah, Sarawak, and the northern peninsula we sit by video unless a school books travel separately. Governing conversations stay in Malaysian school time, not in someone else’s “product calendar.”
If you want the method in one page, read how we read a class.