Caveat Co-Op · Homeschool · Kindergarten to grade 12

The whole year’s records,
in one place.

Attendance, grades, work samples, a high school transcript and a year-end portfolio summary for every learner in the family, kept private in your browser.

Buy now, $49Requirements vary by state
8sections in each record
K to 12grades
1calendar file for reminders
0things sent to a server

Eight sections, one record per learner per year

Start a record for each child each school year. Next year starts from this one in a tap, and the transcript reads across all of them.

  • Attendance

    A month calendar: tap a day, log it with its hours. Totals for the days and hours between the first and last day, against the number you set if your state sets one.

  • Courses and grades

    Every course with its subject, level, credits, term, final grade, materials and a short description. Add Caveat Academy courses worked on this device in one tap.

  • Work samples

    A dated list of the samples you keep, by course: what each one is, what it shows and where it is kept. A portfolio checklist, not an upload.

  • Transcript builder

    Every course marked for high school credit across all the years, credits per year, and a GPA on the usual 4-point scale, unweighted or weighted. Printable, with the grading scale and a signature line.

  • Year-end summary

    The portfolio summary of the year: dates, attendance, each course with its description and grade, its work samples, and the year in your own words.

  • Your state’s rules

    A worksheet for what your state asks: notice, subjects, instruction time, assessment and records, with where you read it and the date you checked.

  • Notice letter template

    A plain notice of home instruction you fill in, for a state that asks for one. If your state has its own form, use the form.

  • Weekly reminders

    One calendar file with a weekly reminder to update the record and the deadlines you set, made in the page for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook.

Requirements vary by state

States set very different rules for homeschooling: some ask for a yearly notice, some for an assessment or a portfolio review, some for set days or hours, and some for little or nothing. The rules also change.

The Homeschool Records Year does not tell you your state’s rules, and it makes no claim about any state. It keeps the records most rules ask for, and gives you a place to write down your own state’s requirements from your state’s own sources, with the date you checked.

How to find your state’s requirements, free.

How it works

  1. Start the year.A first name or nickname, the grade and the school year. Set the first and last day, and a number of days or hours if your state sets one.
  2. Keep it up each week.Log attendance, add work samples and update grades. A weekly calendar reminder helps.
  3. Print what you need.The year-end summary for a portfolio or an evaluator, the transcript for high school, a backup file for safekeeping.

Homeschool Records Year

The record keeper for one family for the school year: every learner, every section, the transcript and the summaries. Your records stay in your browser, so save a backup file now and then.

$49one family, the school yearBuy now

Buy now adds it to your cart; check out with a card. Included with Caveat family access, with school licenses that include courses and with the Microschool license: the button opens it.

Privacy

Names, attendance, grades and notes are saved only in the browser on the device you use. Nothing is sent to Caveat or anyone else. Save a backup file to move to another device or to keep a copy; one button deletes everything.

For microschools and co-ops

The Microschool license includes the Homeschool Records Year with every Caveat Academy course, the Tutor and Classroom Studio, priced for a small group of students.

Goes well with

Records, transcripts and planning for homeschool families.

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From Caveat4

The Homeschool Records Year is a record-keeping tool, not legal advice, and it makes no claim about the law in any state. A homeschool transcript is issued by the parent; colleges and schools decide how they read it. For your state’s rules, read your state education agency’s pages and the statute, or ask a homeschool legal organization; see finding your state’s requirements.

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