If you have work that your students need to complete at some point over the course of the week, but at their discretion and not on any specific day, you can set that up this way. First, create a class or activity called “Weekly Work” (or whatever name works best for you), scheduled for every day of the week. Then add the things that need to be done each week as assignments on the first day of that week. Each day, use the Rescheduling Helper to carry forward any that don’t get marked complete.

If you have a task that must be completed 2 or 3 times a week, simply enter that task more than once on the first day of the week.  For example, if you want your child to practice piano 3 times a week, you might put “Practice Piano (1)”, “Practice Piano (2)”, and “Practice Piano (3)” as separate assignments on Mondays.

With Homeschool Planet, you are free to use any grading scale you want with each individual assignment. When you set up grading for a class, you select all of the grading categories that you will use in the class (such as Homework, Tests, etc.) and give a weight for each of them. These weights are used only to calculate a total grade for the class (for example, 30% Homework and 70% Tests). Regardless of what values you enter there, you can still grade each individual assignment using your choice of a percentage, a letter grade, or a fraction (like 18 out of 20).

You can create a login for your students by entering the appropriate information into the Login tab in the student’s profile.  See the tutorial “How To: Create Logins for Your Students” for more details.

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When editing the Lesson Plan for a class, if you want to add more than one assignment on a particular day, do this: After you type in the description of the first assignment, hold down the Ctrl key and press Enter^*.  That will create a new row for another assignment on the same day.

* – on the Mac, the keys are labeled Control and Return.

You can control which family members receive the Daily Digest or the Weekly Digest in their profiles.  Just click on their picture in the “My Family” bar on the left, and click the “Edit profile” link at the top of the window that appears.  On the “Basic Info” tab of the “Manage Family” dialog that appears, there are two check boxes, right below the field for the email address, one for the Daily Digest and one for the Weekly Digest.  Checked means that family member will receive that Digest; un-checked means they won’t.

In the Calendar view of your schedule, we try to keep it looking like, well, a calendar.  That means we often have to truncate the text of assignments, and it’s why we provide the Planner view.  Just click the “Planner” button near the top of the page, and you’ll get a view of your schedule in which all the details are always visible.  This will often be the best display to use for printing, and also for your kids to use when they log in on their own.

This field is optional.

Providing a cell phone number for a family member allows you to:

• Send them Reminders via text message
• Send them messages using the Messages widget
• Send them To Do Lists and Shopping Lists from those respective widgets