Joining your co-op (families)
Accept your co-op’s invitation, sign your children up for classes, turn in forms and tell teachers when you’ll be out.
Join
- Open the invitation email from your co-op and choose Accept the invitation.
- Sign in, or make a free account, with the email address the invitation was sent to. (It works only with that address; ask the director to resend it to another one if you need.)
- Enter your family name as others in the co-op will see it, choose which children are coming, and say whether the co-op may include them in photos.
- Read the co-op’s statement of faith and agree, if the co-op asks you to.
- Choose Accept and join. You’re in at once.
The co-op sees each child’s first name and grade and nothing else from your account: not your plan, records or scholarship lists. What you share on purpose it does see as you made it: the forms you upload (a signed form holds whatever you wrote on it) and the posts you write.
Sign up for classes
Under Our family, each child has a row for every class hour. Choose a class from the list when registration is open. Only classes for your child’s grade are offered, and a class that’s full puts your child on the waitlist. Drop takes them out.
Turn in forms
- Under Forms, choose Blank form to download and print it.
- Sign it, then choose Upload signed copy and pick a photo or PDF of it.
- Tick I confirm this is signed and current.
You can also do this on each child’s own page in My Homeschool, under Co-op forms. Only the co-op’s directors can see your copies.
Homework
When a teacher assigns homework, it shows on your child’s card in My Homeschool (for the week ahead), in your planner under Co-op homework, on the printed week, and under the co-op’s Homework tab. You may get it by email too. If the teacher attached files, open them from the planner or the Homework tab: PDFs and photos open in a new tab, and Word documents download. Tick it off when it’s done; the teacher sees how many children have finished.
Tell the teachers you’ll be out
Under Tell the teachers we’ll be out, choose the child (or everyone), the co-op day and an optional note, then Report. That day’s teachers are told by email.
The bulletin board and schedule
The Bulletin board shows memos meant for your family, newest first; a number on the tab tells you how many are new. Posts sent to you usually arrive by email too. The Schedule shows every class by day and hour, with your children’s classes marked, upcoming meeting dates and breaks.
Messages and live classes
Under Messages you can write privately to the co-op’s directors and your children’s teachers, and read their replies. You get an email when they write to you. If a class meets live on camera, a Join button shows on your child’s card in My Homeschool (and in kid mode) from 10 minutes before class; Sit in lets you join as the parent. See live classes for families.
Leaving
Under Our family, choose Leave this co-op. Your class sign-ups, reported absences, homework ticks and uploaded forms are deleted at once. The co-op keeps its own records of the past: attendance with your children’s first names, the fees and payments it recorded for your family, posts you wrote, and homework or class spending you recorded as a teacher. You can ask to join again later.