I’ve been tracking our homeschool assignments and hours in a planner. However, I needed something easier to use now that I have 2 kids that I am homeschooling. That’s when I decided to try Homeschool Planet.

Homeschool Planet is “a full-featured planner that doesn’t require hours to learn how to use it. Just launch Homeschool Planet, click on the calendar, and start adding classes, assignments, and appointments!” (quote taken from their website)

What I like:

• I can add assignments for each child easily.
• If the assignment is basically the same the entire year – like Lesson 1, Lesson 2, etc, the program can input that in automatically for me and change the number assignment each day.
• Along the same lines, if the assignment is “do the next chapter”, I can easily put that down for each day without copying and pasting it or writing it down each time.
• I can pre-assign certain subjects for certain days.
• You can allocate times to each assignment to help you keep track of your total hours. I don’t really rely on this. I manually write down how long each assignment took. However, I like that I have this option.
• I can easily print the day’s assignments for each child on separate sheets of paper. You can keep these in a binder to have a record of what you have done.
• It’s easy to move assignments around. Maybe life got in the way and you couldn’t do any schoolwork. You can easily move the assignments to the next day and all the future assignments will shift out (or you could say to double up for the next day).
• You can view your whole family’s schedule together to see how every meshes together or view each member’s schedule separately.
• There is a free 30 day trial so you can try it out and see if it’s a good fit for your family before you commit.

Overall – I love this planner and will renew my subscription.

Cost: Homeschool Planet costs $65 for a 1 year subscription OR $6.95/month.

View their website here to see a full list of features.