Kid mode and working offline
Give a child their own checklist for today on a tablet, and keep using My Homeschool where the internet drops out.
Kid mode
- On My Homeschool, choose Kid mode under a child, then Make the link. You may be asked to confirm it’s you.
- Copy the link and open it on the child’s tablet or computer. Add it to the home screen so it opens like an app.
- The child sees today’s lessons from the planner and gradebook work that’s due, ticks them off with big buttons, and can start a focus timer. Their ticks show up in your planner and gradebook.
Report a problem, at the bottom of the checklist and beside a live class, lets the child tell us about a teacher, a class, someone in a class or anything else. It comes to the people who run Homeschool Corral, never to the teacher, and the child sees that it arrived. It needs the internet: with no connection it says it wasn’t sent and keeps what they wrote so they can try again.
The child can’t see or change anything else, and needs no account. They never see scores. Their ticks are saved into your account, where you can change them. The link lasts 180 days; Make a new link replaces it, and Turn off stops it at once.
Working without internet
Open My Homeschool once while you’re online on the device you’ll use. After that it opens with no connection, showing what was there when you were last online, with a bar across the bottom saying you’re offline.
- Ticking lessons, editing the plan, Log by subject and Log full day all work offline. They’re kept on that device and sent when the connection comes back. If someone else signs in on the same device, your waiting changes stay put and are never sent under their sign-in.
- Some parts need the connection to open: the gradebook, Transcripts, weekly reviews and the portfolio.
- Signing out removes the offline copy from that device.