MyHomeSchoolPlan update
Hi everyone. We just got back from two wonderful weeks out west that I’ll post about later but wanted to give an update on MyHomeSchoolPlan.
We have officially launched and left our Beta behind! In the same way that our Beta launch was a ’soft’ launch, so is this. We will do more of a push as August/September rolls around.
What does leaving Beta mean to our customers? For existing users, as a thank you to for trying us out and giving us such great feedback during the beta, the site will remain free to you! Thanks so much for giving us the confidence to keep this going and improve the site. At some point in the future we may add some major new feature/product that will be an additional charge, but the scheduler will remain free.
For new users, we have implemented a pricing plan based on feedback that we feel is a great value, that will allow us to continue to add features (while keeping the service easy to use) without making price a major issue to customers. On our pricing page you can see the pricing, but essentially we offer pricing based timeframes: monthly, quarterly, and annually. You can skip as much time as you like, i.e. put your account on hold, and all your data will be there when you come back.
Our pricing motto was “a latte a month” and we’ve held to that. If you pay by the month, it is a large latte, $4 a month. If you go with the annual plan, $30 a year, that breaks down to $2.50 a month, less than a latte!
We thank all our customers old and new and hope you find this a service of value. We have lots of plans that we’ll be posting about over the summer. Our next big step that we’re testing now, is the creation of a ‘new’ school year, so you can move your students into new courses and grade levels.
Summer School
I asked this question on Twitter this week and got back a wide variety of answers.
What do you do during summer in terms of homeschooling? Reply via twitter or in the comments.
We keep math going about 3 times per week as well as music practice and some required reading (although our kids love to read so that’s not a challenge.) The reasons we keep math going is that it builds upon previous steps more so than other subjects, and we love NOT having to waste the fall going through the review process. Our first year that we homeschooled, when we jumped from one grade level book to the next in math for my daughter, we couldn’t believe how far into the book we had to go to get past the review from the previous year.
I look forward to hearing what you all do.