KidUniversity › Homeschool
A full school year in every core subject for grades K–12, with tests, reports and records you can keep. One family plan covers every child, whatever grade each one is in.
Free forever: Unit 1 of every course, the check-up and parent reports. No credit card.
60 full-year courses with 9,531 lessons and 1,269 unit tests. Each lesson is one school day: a short explanation, a worked example and practice questions.
Every course is a full 180-day school year. Kindergarten to grade 5 study Reading, Writing, Math, Science and Social Studies. Grades 6–8 study English, Pre-Algebra & Algebra, Life & Physical Science and History. High school courses are named for the class, like Algebra 1, Biology and U.S. History, plus SAT® and ACT® prep.
See every gradeEvery unit ends with a test of at least 15 questions. Kids can retake a test as often as they need, and the scores go into your reports.
A 10-minute check-up per subject finds which units your child already knows. The plan then puts the units that need work first and lets them skip ahead where they're strong. Free for every family.
How the check-up worksSee how the math and English courses compare with the Common Core: standards by grade.
KidUniversity records lessons, test scores and learning days for each child as they work. You can print it, export it and add your own entries.
For each child: lessons this week, days learning, minutes learned, scores by subject, books finished and lessons worth another look. A short progress email arrives every Sunday, and you can turn it off. Free for every family.
A report for each child and school year, with the courses studied, units and lessons finished, average unit-test scores, check-ups, days and hours. It ends with a line for a parent or teacher's signature. Print it or save it as a PDF.
Time in the app is counted for you, day by day. Add your own entries for learning away from the screen, like a field trip or a library visit, and set a goal for days in the school year. Download the log as a CSV file for your own records.
Set the rules for each child in the Grown-ups area, behind a parental gate.
Choose from 15 minutes to 2 hours a day. When the time is up, Professor Hoot says goodbye for the day. You can give extra time whenever you like.
Turn this on and games and videos wait until today's plan is done: one lesson in each subject on the plan.
Pick hours when the app stays closed, like bedtime, for example 8 pm to 7 am.
KidUniversity Plus covers every subject, every grade and every child in your family on one plan. Brothers and sisters in different grades each get their own plan, progress and reports. New subscribers on the web get a 1-week free trial.
Learn in any web browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Sign in with the same family account on every device.
Homeschool requirements are set by each state and vary a lot: required subjects, days or hours of instruction, record keeping, notices, tests and evaluations.
KidUniversity gives you a curriculum, test scores and records you can print or export. It doesn't decide whether those meet your state's rules, and it isn't legal advice. Please check your state's homeschool laws, or your state's department of education, before relying on any record.
Many families can. Every grade has full-year courses in the core subjects, 180 school days each, with unit tests: Reading, Writing, Math, Science and Social Studies in kindergarten through grade 5; English, math, science and history in grades 6–12. Some things are best done away from the screen, though. Kids practice writing with short answers in the app, so we suggest regular writing on paper as well. Discussions, art, music, physical education and hands-on projects aren't part of the app. Check which subjects your state requires.
The hours and attendance log counts each child's time in the app by day. You can add your own entries for learning away from the screen and set a goal for days in the school year. You can print a homeschool report or download the log as a CSV file. Whether these records meet your state's requirements depends on your state, so please check its homeschool rules.
We've mapped our math and English courses for kindergarten through grade 8 to the Common Core State Standards and published the results for every grade. In math, 227 of the 229 standards are taught in our lessons and the other 2 are partly covered. In English language arts, reading, grammar and vocabulary are covered well. Writing whole essays and speaking and listening can only be partly practiced in an app, so we show those honestly as partly covered. See the standards by grade.
Unit 1 of every course, the check-up and parent reports are free, with no credit card. KidUniversity Plus is $7.99 a month on the web, or $59.99/year, for the whole family, however many children you have. New subscribers on the web get a 1-week free trial. See pricing.
Yes. The report lists lessons worth another look, and "My check-up answers" shows each check-up question with your child's answer. Missed questions go into "Practice what I missed". Reading the parent report.
Yes. Menus, Professor Hoot's voice and Ask Hoot's answers switch to Spanish any time. Lessons are being translated course by course, and a lesson that isn't translated yet shows in English. Visit KidUniversity in Spanish.
Create your family account in about a minute, add each child and take the check-up. No credit card needed.
