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Walkthroughs grouped by what you're trying to do — set up, plan the year, run the week, or run the day.
Getting set up
- Getting started with Homeschool Planner Set up your Homeschool Planner account in under ten minutes — add your children, your school year, your books, and your first scheduled activity. A complete walkthrough of the welcome flow.
- Your children Edit, add, or remove children in Homeschool Planner. Walks through Settings → Family — household name, state, names, grades, birthdays, and colours.
- Materials and resources Manage books, websites, apps, subscriptions, and curricula in Homeschool Planner. Tag each material to a subject, child, and school year so reports stay tidy.
Planning the school year
- Subjects and state requirements How subject enrollment works in Homeschool Planner. Required vs. Optional vs. Off, per child, with state-law requirements auto-flagged based on grade.
- Importing a curriculum Import any curriculum into Homeschool Planner in minutes. Three paths — paste a table of contents, upload a CSV, or photograph the TOC pages — and let smart import build the lesson plan.
- The school year How the school year works in Homeschool Planner. Set start and end dates, choose school days, mark vacations, manage federal holidays, and plan next year.
Weekly workflows
- The week view A walkthrough of the Mon–Fri grid in Homeschool Planner — by-child and by-subject views, filters, the day view, the settings panel, and keyboard shortcuts.
- Scheduled activities Set up recurring activities in Homeschool Planner — Math, Read-aloud, Bible reading. Scheduled activities create a session per child per school day so your week fills itself.
- Printing the planner Print a clean weekly or daily sheet from Homeschool Planner. Filter by child, hide done sessions, save as PDF.
Daily workflows
- The day view How the day view works in Homeschool Planner. A focused list of today's blocks, per-child filters, the activity detail drawer with tasks and voice notes, and the bump-to-tomorrow shortcut.
- Voice capture Plan and log activities in Homeschool Planner by speaking. The app pulls the child, subject, duration, and time from a single sentence.
- Logging completed work Three ways to log completed work in Homeschool Planner — speak it, photograph the worksheet, or type the details. Learn the difference between planning ahead and recording what already happened.
Account & platform
- Your account Manage your Homeschool Planner account — change your name, change the email you sign in with, or delete the account permanently.
- Reports and reviews — what's coming How Insights, Gradebook, and Compliance reporting will work in Homeschool Planner. The views are coming, but the underlying data is being collected from day one.
- Data and privacy What Homeschool Planner stores, how it's protected, and how to delete it. Plain-English answers about the data behind your children's school year.
Can't find what you need?
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