For the high school years

The problems in a high school year

• Courses that are partly at home, partly at a co-op, partly online or at a community college, all of which belong on one transcript.
• Grades kept loosely for years that now need to become letters and a GPA someone outside the family will read.
• Course descriptions written in a rush in senior year, from memory.
• A teenager who works more independently and a parent who still needs to know what happened this week.

How Homeschool Up handles each one

• Each course is a subject with a credit value. An outside class carries the provider's name, and the transcript marks it. A class that meets on fixed dates (a co-op or a tutor) can have those dates generated, and a canceled week stays on the record as canceled.
• Turn grading on for a subject, enter assignments and scores, and choose categories with weights or none. Choose the grading scale for the family: standard A to F, plus and minus, or pass and fail. Averages and letters are computed; you can check the math by hand.
• Add a description to the subject when you set it up. It prints under the course on the transcript, so it is written in September, not in a panic in March of senior year.
• Today and the week view show each lesson as it is ticked, with minutes and a note if there is one. A tutor on the account can record for the children assigned to them.

What the transcript shows

Every course grouped by school year, with credits and the letter grade (IP while a course is in progress), cumulative GPA, total credits earned, and the grading scale printed underneath so a reader can see what an A meant. GPA is weighted by credits: a one-credit course counts twice as much as a half-credit one.

How many hours make a credit, and which courses a college expects, are decisions for you and the places your teenager is applying. The guide below walks through the common conventions.

How to make a homeschool transcript · Carnegie unit