Tracking hours per subject

[bluebonnetgirl]

Considering going with NARHS for high school and designing my own courses, which will require tracking hours per subject among other things.

 

How have others recorded this?  Some type of spreadsheet or software or part of a software planning program?

[freesia]

My children use plan books for their work which I design and print out. For classes where we count hours, I put 6 circles that are divided into 4 parts within the box where I write their work (or have them write what they did, depending on the class)  For every 15 minutes they complete (we round up or down), they fill in a quarter of the circle.  I tally them weekly and keep a running number (and sometimes a -5 hours or whatever if we are behind so that I can keep track that they need to go over during the next week to make up time or a + whatever number so I know that if s/he needs more time in another subject s/he can do less in art or whatever subject is on the hourly system).  I put more circles than are needed to cover the weeks that s/he works more.  So, for a 1/2 credit class, I would put 3 or 4 and for a one credit class I put at least 6.

 

I hope that makes sense.

[HomeAgain]

I use homeschoolskedtrack. It's free, and I can do a course by course print out at the end of the year with each assignment and time taken listed next to it, with the cummulative number of hours at the top.

[bluebonnetgirl]

Thank you both. I'm pretty happy with my own self designed daily planner but just need a way to track hours per subject in the least troublesome way possible.

[bluebonnetgirl]

Thank you Margaret!

[MerryAtHope]

I found it easiest to keep our hours pretty regular (any full school day had an hour per credit. Partial school days we only did some subjects but still did the full hour per credit and I marked the ones we did.) That made it easy to track hours by tracking our number of days. I kept track on my weekly schedule-journal page in my teacher binder. Super-easy for me, and I think fairly accurate. I didn't worry about tracking extra time like our discussions etc..., since we had plenty of time in through the daily schedule.

[regentrude]

I made an excel spreadsheet that does this for me. Adds hours per subject as well as hours per day, hours in all core subjects, etc.

you can program this any way you like.

[Penguin]

I made a template on our shared OneNote.