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I'm trying to work out a decent system of record keeping for my 8th/9th grader's work. Math and Latin are easy; I'm using Homeschool Tracker Plus to keep track of assignments completed and grades. Where I'm having a little difficulty is with history, literature, and science because I think I will have to sort many of the books read, etc. into courses *after* the fact and possibly (probably) combining work over several years.
Do any of you operate like this? Should I just keep one giant spreadsheet of books dedicated to each subject with tags to help me sort them onto a transcript when the time comes? Any better ideas?
I think I also need to know hours completed, right? I used Homeschool Tracker Plus for that last year, but it's so easy for me to get behind in data entry . I like it that it tabulates hours, but I'm not sure it's the best option for me (or for keeping track of work that will be sorted into courses after the work is done.)
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I would like to know too!!
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Angel wrote:
Where I'm having a little difficulty is with history, literature, and science because I think I will have to sort many of the books read, etc. into courses *after* the fact and possibly (probably) combining work over several years.
Do any of you operate like this? Should I just keep one giant spreadsheet of books dedicated to each subject with tags to help me sort them onto a transcript when the time comes? Any better ideas?
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I like this idea, pretty similar to how I do it, although I don't really worry about tags.
Oh and we don't have to worry about hours here so that is not an issue.
I tend to do everything after the fact too. I use their 'expectation sheets' (click on the tabs along the bottom, X is 13, D 15 and C17yrs) to gauge what gets done. The dc colour in their sheets as work is completed.
When on top of record keeping I have a running list of books read and I try and keep a weekly Learning notes mmm guess I wasn't that good at it last term. Still having a learning blog has been the best solution for me.
Because they have their 'sheets' I do still have an idea of what gets done and what doesn't. I file these sheets so have a paper trail as well as an electronic one.
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I am interseted in learning more as well. I haven't been good at record keeping myself,
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I also use HST+, and you can set it up so it doesn't tabulate hours if you don't need it to. That's how I operate. Are you required by the state to keep track of hours? Or are you thinking that you should keep track of hours spent on X or Y because you might be combining different things done over a course of several years and so that it looks like he's spending the right amount of time to earn a half or whole credit? Am I getting that right??? 
We're doing a similar sort of thing for high school, in our relaxed, unschoolish way. Now, I will say that we don't have any requirements from the state, other than covering a certain set of "subjects" each year (same for all grade levels), in order to graduate a child from high school. What we're going on to assess whether or not we have a respectable course of study is what most local colleges require for admission.
As far as determining if she's done enough of X or Y to earn credit....well, that's up to me.  It's challenging, figuring it out, when you take a project and/or whole books based approach to learning. However, I don't think it's necessary to go about reinventing the wheel, esp. when HST+ has a lot of great features to help you customize a course of study and build a trasncript from that.
For the time being, you can keep a list of what he reads on the Reading Log tab in the Student section of HST+. When you add resources to your Library, you can choose the options *All SUBJECTS* and *ALL COURSES*, which can then be changed further down the road when you get to building the transcript. And as long as you have one assignment entered and graded for a subject/course, a GPA will be generated on the transcript.
I did this for last year's work, which I kept track of on a web-based tracking system. Instead of adding in every single assignment she had completed, I just added a few for each course to get the correct GPAs so that the courses could be added on the transcript.
Electives are especially fun to make up! She has a keen interest in The Beatles, which has led to all sorts of rabbit trails in music, history, art, and literature all on her own time. I made a note of what she had read and watched, and decided to give her .5 credit for Fine Arts/Music. The possibilities are endless!
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