Homeschool Record Keeping
This FREE program has revolutionized the way I keep homeschooling records. I can’t remember if I discovered it on a WFMW, but it’s well worth mentioning again.
The past couple of years, I bought those spiral notebook type daily planners that all the school teachers have. No design really fit my needs, but I used them anyway, scratching out subjects and scribbling over dates. This year I designed my own daily planner on the computer, one that would fit my needs, but then I found this.
It’s a homeschool record keeping program that will work with any commando planner or unschooler. In less than an hour I walked through the set up program, and was able to add my four students and get a feel for the program.
We’ve been using it for two months now! I rarely preplan their lessons, but what I do is use the tracker as a record keeper of what we’ve studied. I especially love the reading log feature where it records all the books my kids are reading and the copy feature so I can duplicate a lesson or book to my other kids’ log with just a click of a button.
I know there has to be some homeschoolers still using the archaic method of record keeping, afraid of the technology learning curve, but it wasn’t that difficult and it will save me tons of time while keeping my records neat and orderly.
Give it a try! And don’t forget to back up your homeschool records. A couple of weeks ago I thought I lost 55 days of record keeping! But the computer guys found it!
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