For co-op directors, teachers and families

Run your co-op in the same place you run your homeschool

Homeschool Corral gives a co-op its classes and schedule, registration with waitlists, attendance, signed forms, homework and a bulletin board, all linked to each family’s own account. It is free during the beta.

Start a co-op Join a co-op you were invited to Teach your own class

Families join by the invitation email their co-op or teacher sends: open its link to join. There’s no public list of co-ops or classes.

Starting or joining a co-op needs a free account. During the beta, creating one needs an invite code: request one.

A co-op’s Tuesday schedule: Art, Science lab and Speech and debate in the first hour; Choir, Spanish and Biology dissection in the second, each with grades, room and teacher — Demonstration data The schedule a made-up co-op’s families and teachers see: classes by hour, with grades, room, teacher and how many places are taken. Meeting dates skip the breaks you set.

For directors

Schedule: meeting days, first and last day, class hours and breaks. Meeting dates are worked out for you, and the schedule prints.
Classes: day, hour, grades, room, size limit, teacher, helpers, description, supplies and fee.
Families: invite each family by email; only invited families can join. You can make anyone a teacher or a director.
Statement of faith: paste your co-op’s own statement and choose whether families must agree to it to join. If you change it, every family is asked to agree again.
Registration: open it when you’re ready. Grades and same-hour conflicts are checked, and a full class gets a waitlist that moves up on its own.
Forms: attach a medical release, waiver or covenant, one per child or per family. Families download it, sign it, upload a copy and confirm it; a turned-in list shows who is missing.
Class money: every class’s fee, enrollment, budget, spending and what’s left, with receipts.

For teachers

Attendance on a phone: Here, Late or Out, with absences families reported ahead of time already marked. A sign-in sheet with a pick-up column prints.
Homework you assign, with up to three files, shows up in each enrolled family’s planner.
Class money: record what you buy with class fees, with a photo of the receipt.

For families

Accept your co-op’s emailed invitation, choose which children come, and agree to the statement of faith if the co-op asks.
Sign your children up for classes, see the schedule, and tell the teachers ahead of time when a child will be out.
Read the bulletin board; posts sent to you usually arrive by email too.
Co-op homework lands in your own planner beside everything else.

A made-up co-op’s bulletin board with an announcement about picture day — Demonstration data The bulletin board. Directors post to everyone, a role, one or more classes, or tagged families, and can pin a post to the top.

What a co-op can and can’t see

A co-op sees only what a family shares with it: the family name they choose to show, the children they bring (the first name the family entered, and grade; nothing else from the child’s record), whether they agreed to the statement of faith, photo permission, class sign-ups, reported absences, homework ticks and the forms it asks for (a signed form holds whatever the family wrote on it). It never sees a family’s homeschool plan, transcripts, portfolio, funding records or scholarship lists. Signed forms are seen only by the co-op’s directors and that family. Families don’t see class money. The co-op keeps its own records about each family too: attendance, the fees and payments its directors record, and volunteer jobs; those stay with the co-op when a family leaves. The full details are in the privacy policy.

What’s available now

Everything on this page works today, including the emails. Co-ops are free during the beta, and creating an account needs an invite code for now (request one). Announcements go on the bulletin board, and directors and teachers can write privately to each family’s parents (never to children). A class can also meet live on camera, with a class chat that is emailed to each student’s parents every Friday (see live classes and our privacy policy). Guides: running your co-op, teaching a class and joining your co-op.