What’s new

Homeschool Corral is in beta. Here is what has changed, newest first.

23 October 2026

Search: a Search button at the top of every page (or Ctrl+K, ⌘K on a Mac, or the / key). Start typing what you want, like “resume”, “Texas” or “attendance”, and the matching pages and tools show right under it; misspellings are fine. Signed in to My Homeschool, it also finds each child’s own pages, like “Emma: Resume”.
Where visitors come from: our own visitor count now also notes whether a visit came from a search engine, social media, another website or directly, as daily totals only.

22 October 2026

Classroom: a new page in My Homeschool shows the next class with its Join button (in your own time zone too), the classes coming up, your courses, announcements and recent materials. Each course has its own page with the teacher, schedule, what students will learn, lessons with their files, assignments and recordings. Teachers add lessons and files there.
Class summaries: after each class, a summary shows what was shared and assigned, the recording when it’s ready and the next class. Teachers see attendance suggested from who joined and save it from there; families see only their own children.
A new live class page, for teachers to try class by class: a camera, microphone and speaker check before joining, a labeled control bar, raise hand, chat, people and lesson panels, speaker or gallery view, clear recording and connection states, and End class for everyone for the teacher.
Live classes: what’s behind you is blurred to start with, and Background on the class page changes it to no blur or a picture, with ten built-in pictures or one of your own (it stays on your device). The class and the recording see the background, not the room.
Live classes: whether a child is in the class recording is now asked every time they join, so you always decide for that day; nothing is asked at sign-up or saved. Adults agree each time, and the teacher sees a reminder that the class is recorded.
Security: a second parent now chooses whether to join a family account when invited; co-op live classes open only after we approve the co-op; every adult in a live class is in its recording; sign-in, passkey recovery and co-op invitations have tighter protections.
Live classes: recordings now look like a university lecture recording. They open with a short title card, and a header shows the class, the teacher, the co-op, the date and the time. The teacher is shown large with students along the bottom, and when the teacher shares a screen, the screen fills the picture with the teacher in the corner. Everyone’s first name is shown on their picture. The live class page shows the teacher’s name, the date and the time too.
Live classes: the automatic camera check is off for now; it turned off too many cameras by mistake. Words in the class chat are still masked, and teachers can still turn off a student’s camera. Class recordings no longer cut in and out, and a person who reconnects shows once in the recording.
Live classes: a student now comes in once the teacher has started the class and its recording is running, and one student can be in a class with just the teacher. Parents can still sit in on any class.
SAT Prep: each day’s plan now fits the minutes you choose. Reviews and retention checks come first and count toward the time; practice sets are shortened to fit when needed; anything else is listed separately under “If you have more time”. Every graph has a description in words for students who can’t see it.
Scholarship Finder: listings can say when a sponsor requires an unweighted or a weighted GPA, and matching uses it (Park Scholarships, for example, needs an unweighted 3.80, not rounded). Add whether your GPA is weighted in your profile. A cycle that has been announced but hasn’t opened shows both dates, like “Opens Feb 1 · due Mar 25, 2027”.
Funding calculators: the number of children must be a whole number; anything else gets a note next to the box instead of an estimate.
State guides: each option lists its official sources openly and names exactly which points we couldn’t confirm on an official page.
Live classes: the privacy policy, terms, guides and teacher screens now describe one model. Outside class, teachers write only to parents. In class, everyone can use the class chat, and only the teacher and helpers can send a student a private message. Parents can read the chat about half an hour after class and get it by email every Friday, and a family never sees another child’s private messages.
Scholarship Finder: when a sponsor’s required GPA can’t be confirmed from your profile (no GPA, or not the kind the sponsor uses), the listing says “Needs eligibility confirmation” and goes under Check these instead of Good matches. A listing’s “Date checked” now matches the date its current cycle was checked.

21 October 2026

Teachers and live classes: co-op and classroom teachers can schedule live video classes. Only invited families can join, and only during the class window; recordings need each family’s consent. See Teaching live classes.

20 October 2026

Learning Tools: Keys of the Kingdom (Bible typing), Number Our Days (math) and SAT Prep are now called Learning Tools. Our other courses (Spanish, the Children’s Catechism and Physics: Drone Design) are closed while we rework them; their saved progress is kept.
My Homeschool planner: each child can have their own weekly schedule, with their own days, subjects and times, and the new Everyone view puts the whole family’s week together and shows when two children need you at once.

17 October 2026

How to start homeschooling in your state: a step-by-step guide for all 50 states and DC, each step linked to a free tool, with a printable checklist. Choose your state.
Number Our Days: choose where each child starts (Kindergarten through Algebra I) when you set up a learner, and change it any time under Settings. Earlier levels stay open for review; choosing a level earns nothing by itself.
Scholarship Finder: every listing now shows the sponsor’s website and application page without an account. A free account still keeps your list, notes and deadline reminders.
SAT Prep: score estimates are labeled as unofficial practice estimates, a diagnostic with too few answers says so instead of showing a range, and results link to the College Board’s official practice.
My Homeschool: work logged offline is kept and resent automatically, with plain messages about what is waiting, what was sent and what couldn’t be saved; changes made on two devices at once are no longer lost; a child’s kid-mode ticks show up on your open page without a reload.
Sample family: if the quick bot check can’t load, the page says so and offers a walkthrough of the screens instead of waiting forever.
Home page: kid mode and the record book shown with real screens; the beta notice is smaller. Worksheet Maker: a quick start by grade, skill and difficulty.
Privacy policy rewritten to describe exactly what is kept, where, and for how long, including kid-mode and teen links, uploads and free text, and the Spanish course’s practice recording (held only in the page’s memory, never saved or sent).
A site-wide proofread: spelling, spacing, and corrected facts in the math, physics and SAT courses and the state guides.

16 October 2026

Kid mode: a private link that gives a child their own checklist for today on a tablet, with today’s lessons and assignments, big buttons and a focus timer. Their ticks show up in your planner and gradebook. See the guide.
Works without internet: My Homeschool opens with no connection; ticks, Log time and Log today are kept on the device and sent when you’re back online.
Your state calendar: dates from your state’s rules (notices, evaluations, testing years) and your own, with reminder emails.
Record book: a child’s whole school year in one printout or PDF, ready for an evaluator, an umbrella school or anyone who asks.
Life counts: quick picks in Log time for baking, chores, field trips, music and more, split across the subjects they touch. Library due dates in the reading log, too.
Free tools, no account: an hours calculator against your state’s rule, a school calendar maker, notice of intent and withdrawal letters, printable logs, a moving-states planner and a curriculum directory with lesson counts. See them all on Free tools.

15 October 2026

Log time from your phone: minutes by subject for any day, in a few taps. They go into the week’s review and the day’s attendance.
Hours against your state’s rule: each child’s days and hours this year against what your state asks for that grade, with Missouri’s core hours counted by subject. Print an attendance and hours log.
Reading log: books by child with the date each was added, printed as a log of reading materials.
State paperwork from your records: New York’s IHIP and quarterly reports, Pennsylvania’s objectives by subject, and a week-by-week record of subjects taught. See the guide.
Gradebook: assignments with due dates, weighted categories, retakes, extra credit and mastery, lessons brought in from the planner, a “What do I need?” calculator, and grades by grading period sent to the report card and transcript. See the guide.
Transcript check: Transcripts looks over a high schooler’s record before you print or send it and lists what to fix. Plus a free GPA calculator and a sample transcript, no account needed.
On your home screen: My Homeschool can sit on a phone’s home screen like an app.

5 October 2026

Try a sample family: click through My Homeschool and Transcripts with a made-up homeschool, with no account. Open it.
Join the beta list: leave your email on the join page and your invite arrives with the code already filled in.
Graduation plans: choose Texas public school (22 or 26 credits) or college prep, and add Bible & Theology if you like.
Transcripts fit on one Letter or A4 page; the student’s full name is typed in when you print, and the birth date is off unless you turn it on. Diplomas print on Letter, A4, 8 × 10 in or 11 × 14 in.
Your school’s courses: add a course one child took to a brother or sister without typing it again.
Emails confirmed: sign-in, reminder and co-op emails are confirmed reaching real inboxes.
A refreshed homepage: real screens up front, a shorter page and answers to common questions.

4 October 2026

Course overviews: every course has a page showing grades, what it teaches, its units, pace, what you need, how faith is part of it and a real screenshot, before a child starts. See Keys of the Kingdom for one.
Scholarship deadlines say how sure they are: confirmed for this cycle, or a date from a past cycle to confirm with the sponsor. Only confirmed dates count down, go into your list or send reminders. Award amounts from tax filings are marked as past awards, and each listing explains its trust score.
Co-ops have their own page: how co-ops work.
Clearer beta access: sign-up screens say up front that an account needs an invite code, with a link to request one; your answers stay saved, and your plan prints without an account.
Reminder emails have a one-click link to turn them off, and a reminder that can’t be sent is tried again the next day.
Worksheet Maker: saved worksheets each need their own name and show the time they were saved; rename, sort and search them, and PDFs are named with the worksheet and the time.
One header on every page, and a new look for the whole site.
How-to guides: step-by-step help for every part of the site, from getting started to running a co-op, at How-to guides.
A small beta notice for first-time visitors, with a tour and an overview of everything here. Open the overview any time from What’s in the beta.
Co-ops: a co-op can run its classes, schedule, attendance and paperwork here. Families join with a link from their own account, agree to the co-op’s statement of faith and choose which children come. Directors post memos to a bulletin board and tag everyone, a class, teachers or particular families, and they get it by email. Families sign their children up for classes, tell the teachers when they’ll be out, and upload signed copies of the co-op’s forms, confirmed on each child. Free during the beta.

3 October 2026

Quick start in My Homeschool: your state, your children and what you want to do first, in about a minute. The full plan questions are there when you want them.
Course filters: find courses by kind (academics, faith and character, college readiness) and by grade, with the grade range and size of every course on its card.
Accessibility: clearer text colors, a visible focus outline everywhere and larger tap areas on phones. See our accessibility statement.
About and What’s new pages, and a fuller footer on every page.
Scholarship Finder: browsing now starts with awards for high-school students (change it under “Who it’s for”), and every listing says where it came from: the sponsor’s own listing, an official program, or a foundation’s tax filing. Deadlines we have checked on the sponsor’s website say so.
Worksheet Maker: a shorter start, and a “See the worksheet” button on phones. Signed-in families can save worksheets, see what they printed recently and print a weekly pack for each child.
Narration: lesson introductions in Keys of the Kingdom and every lesson of Physics: Drone Design are narrated aloud by the same voice, with speed control in the physics course.
Invite a friend: a personal link in Settings, and a count of the families who joined with it.
Portfolio: photograph schoolwork from your phone and print a portfolio for a reviewer or a year-in-review keepsake.
College application package: test scores, outside credit, essays, a counselor letter and a printable checklist for high schoolers.
Second parent: invite a spouse to sign in to the family account with their own email.
Lesson schedules: add a book and the planner spreads its lessons across your school days.
One account for the whole site: My Homeschool, Transcripts and the Scholarship Finder share one sign-in and one list of children, with every setting in My Homeschool.
Report cards for every grade, with optional work habits and mid-year versions; your school’s logo on documents and worksheets.
Course progress follows the family between devices when a parent is signed in.
Eighteen new kinds of worksheets (43 in all).

2 October 2026

Homeschool Corral opened at homeschoolcorral.com.
My Homeschool: the homeschool plan, a planner with terms and attendance, state letters, reminder emails and read-only plan share links.
State requirements for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., split into what applies to every child, by grade and for high school.
Public pages for every scholarship listing and every state.

Being worked on

A screen-reader review of every course from start to finish.

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