{"id":344,"date":"2023-04-26T09:17:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catastrophicstardust.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T13:18:28","slug":"end-of-the-school-year-start-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catastrophicstardust.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"End of the School Year Start Over!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, I’ve been a homeschooling mom since 2012. All four kiddos are homeschooled, and I’ve gone through a lot of curriculum changes over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past several years, we’ve been doing some online classes with Power Homeschool. I know there was controversy over the founder, but it was only $25 per month per child, and we could choose 7 classes. It kept attendance and grades, so it was easy for them to be pretty independent with it at times since I’ve worked part time the past several years. Well, a few weeks ago that company blew up. There was a huge controversy over their tutoring mode, and even though we didn’t use the software that way, the way the company handled it was not something I could support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I spent some time on the homeschool boards and decided to try out Study.com. I have a discount code for $41.99 per kid for the first 3 months, but after that it’s $59.99 plus tax per kid. Definitely a lot more expensive, but I figured we would try it out and see what we thought before I go digging for other options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, it’s not too bad. I don’t like that the app doesn’t show me the parent dashboard, so I need to login in a web browser to access grades, but the dashboard is easy to navigate, I can assign as many classes as I want, create due dates, pull lessons from multiple classes to create a custom curriculum, and it also tracks if they are on track or behind, how many lessons, quizzes, and tests they’ve done, and when they last logged in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a look on my phone on how it overviews a class on in the gradebook. The orange circle denotes that this class is behind schedule to be finished by September 30th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a look at another class with a green circle, which means we are on track to be finished with this class before the due date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see, it gives me the breakdown of lessons, quizzes, and exams that have been taken. I can look at the course details and it will show me all of the chapters and what work has and has not been completed, which gives me a chapter grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are still getting used to the layout and navigation, but so far it is suiting our needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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