Attendance, grading & homeschool records

Attendance, logged automatically

Every time a child opens the dashboard and completes any lesson for the day, the date is logged as a school day for that child. Parents can also mark a day as Present, Absent, Holiday, Sick, or Field Trip directly from the attendance tracker — useful for days when learning happens off-screen.

The attendance view shows a clear progress bar against your 180-day target so you always know how many school days remain in the year. If your state has a different requirement (some require hours, some require fewer days), you can adjust the target in settings.

Fair, simple grading

Auto-graded items — multiple choice, short answer, drag-and-match, and most math problems — score themselves the moment the child clicks Submit. For open-ended work — writing samples, longer projects, oral responses — the parent uses a 4-point rubric:

• 4 — Mastered. Independent and confident.
• 3 — Proficient. Correct with occasional support.
• 2 — Developing. Some correct, more practice needed.
• 1 — Try again. Re-teach and revisit later.

Those scores roll into a per-subject quarterly average and convert into a tidy letter grade for report cards (3.5+ = A, 2.5+ = B, 1.5+ = C, below = re-teach). Parents can override any grade by hand — because sometimes you were there and the rubric wasn't. Our full grading without tears guide walks through the philosophy behind this.

Work samples and the digital portfolio

Every quarter the platform automatically saves one to two representative work samples per subject per child — a quiz, a writing sample, a math page, a science reflection. Parents can promote any other piece of work into the portfolio with a single click. Photos of physical workbook pages can be uploaded the same way, so families using printed materials keep a unified record.

The result is a quarter-by-quarter digital portfolio that looks like a tidy folder per child, organized by subject and date — the kind of record that satisfies portfolio reviewers in states that require one.

What you can export at any time

• Attendance log — CSV or PDF, for any date range.
• Gradebook — per subject, per quarter, per year.
• Reading log — title, author, minutes, and pages, per child.
• Portfolio PDF — work samples organized by subject and quarter.
• Quarterly report PDF — the all-in-one document most districts want.

Why automatic recordkeeping matters

The most common reason new homeschool families get stuck during a review is not bad teaching — it's missing paperwork. By logging attendance and grades the moment they happen, you sidestep that entire problem. By the time the quarter ends, the paperwork is already done.

For a deeper look at what to keep and for how long, read our homeschool recordkeeping guide. Homeschool requirements vary by state — families should always confirm their own district and state homeschool requirements. Our state requirements page is a starting point.