Software for Homeschool Groups
Co-Ops, Tutorials, and Activity and Field Trip Groups
Our first software creation, which is the Hub, was created by Lovemygroups.com for a homeschool group in Tennessee and enhanced for use by homeschool groups all over the U.S.A. in 2015. It is not a piece of software that you have to install. We host the software application on the cloud (internet), and you and all your group members can get access to it by computer, tablet, and smart phone as long as you have an internet connection.
The features of The Hub fulfill most needs that a homeschool group administrator has, and the Hub provides group members with contact information, access to school documents, a private group email message board/forum with no ads, class rosters, and a way to choose and pay for classes each year or semester online.
Please continue to read more about the features of the Hub, and contact us to schedule a 30-minute personal live online demonstration of the Hub for your leaders.
Group Guide is Now Available
Released to iOS, Android, and Amazon Kindle
Group Guide is the culmination of years of effort designing and building an online system that can manage Families and Activities simply. The end result is a FREE online system with a Families Database, email-based Message Board, and the Group Guide mobile application for iOS and Android phones and tablets that allows group members to sign up and pay for activities. Your Group Guide starts with a group administrator, who creates a FREE online account for the group or organization. Then other members create their own FREE accounts on the new group administration site. Finally, everyone can install the FREE Group Guide app on their phone or tablet, where members can see and sign up for activities that the administrator or designated group members create. The group Message Board provides group-wide communication via emails, with an online forum where you can review the message history. FREE to try, FREE to use, the Group Guide is your guide to easy management of your groups and activities.
Install the Group Guide mobile app now
iPhone / iPad:
Amazon Kindle
Android
Software for Online Learning, Class Planning and Communication
Homeschool Classes, Tutorials, and Tutors
Our most advanced software product, the Toolbox, was enabled due to the cost and limitations of all comparable options for managing classes that include Gradebook, Lessons, Assignments, Tests, Messaging and Chat, Forums, and more. The Toolbox is not software that you install. We host the software application on the cloud (internet), and you and all your group members can access it by computer, tablet, and smart phone as long as you have an internet connection.
Leaders have full administrative access over their group, and they manage who can and cannot create and edit class sections (sites) and who are participants (students) in the Toolbox. Tutors, teachers, and instructors have full control within classes they create, and they can add lesson plans, grade items, tests that can be administered online, assignments, forum discussions, and more. Students are able to log in and interact with teachers via messages and chat, and can get their assignments, grade reports, contribute to discussions, and take tests through an internet browser.
An add-on for the Toolbox has the added capability of a private virtual classroom with voice, audio, PDF presentation with whiteboard, and screen sharing.
Please continue to read more about the features of the Toolbox, and contact us to schedule a 30-minute personal live online demonstration of the Toolbox for your leaders.
GROUP GUIDE, HUB, TOOLBOX
Group Guide is our new FREE online software to manage families and activities for ANY GROUP -- The Toolbox and Hub are classroom and homeschool co-op and tutorial administration systems that offer great features at an affordable price!
ONLINE CLASSROOM ADD-ON FOR TOOLBOX
The NEW Online Classroom is and add-on to our Toolbox Classroom Management system. The integrated online meetings feature allows teachers to setup and record online meetings easily and student to connect from a single familiar program, the Toolbox! We can help you get started for the fall, or mid-year if necessary. Online meeting features include connecting to Toolbox Classes for Gradebook, Attendance, Assignments, and Tests, Fast Connect, Recordings, Screen Sharing, Camera and Audio, Upload Presentations, White Board, Breakout Groups, and MORE.
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DISCOVER GROUP GUIDE
Get started managing group or organization's families and activities with Group Guide! (Final release coming SOON) This FREE online web site and mobile application is perfect for homeschool co-ops, tutorials, activity and field trip groups, churches, sports clubs and teams, senior activity groups, and more.
OUR SCHOOLS AND GROUPS
KEEP TRACK OF FAMILIES
The Group Guide lets you keep contact information for your families in an online database, along with their children, children's grades and ages, family phone, email, and address, individuals' phones and emails, and more.
COMMUNICATE IN A PRIVATE FORUM
The Group Guide message board helps you communicate to your group, and everyone to communicate together. Bring all your online communication into the Group Guide with the Message Board.
ACTIVITIES, EVENTS, FIELD TRIPS, MORE
With online signups using the FREE Group Guide mobile app for tablets and smart phones (iOS and Android), activity and field trip planning is as simple as it gets. Just post your activity, provide the criteria for attendees and volunteers, and your families can sign up with a few taps.
AUTOMATIC PAYMENT MANAGEMENT
When families pay for an activity online, their sign up information is recorded automatically for the activity, and so is their payment information.
FAMILIES DATABASE
Family Access starts with an online account. Each family fills in contact information, family members, and online forms. All the family information is at your fingertips online.
ONLINE CLASS CHOICES
The stress-free automated registration experience with the Hub lets families choose classes at their convenience. Administrators can preview choices and permanently place students in their chosen classes at the touch of a button.
FEES AND PAYMENTS
Our full featured online group payments system lets your Treasurer manage family fees, teacher fees, supply fees, and print fee sheets with all you need to know what each family owes. The provided integration with Stripe lets you set up accounts for automated payments and online payments for registration and class fees – and easily keep track of who has and has not paid.
MESSAGE BOARD
Bring all your online communication into the Hub with the Message Board. With a flexible email broadcast list plus forum, administrators and families can distribute email messages to the entire group and all communication is saved to review online. Simply post a message from the web site, or send an email to your private group email address, and everyone gets the message.
GRADEBOOK
Grading your students' work has never been easier. Teachers and students can view graded material online, check class grades, and receive feedback.
LESSONS
Lessons can be uploaded to Toolbox, giving access for students to view your entire lesson, study notes, and links to internet content.
DISCUSSIONS
Students can post discussions and responses right on Toolbox. Teachers can post topics where participation is graded. Great for encouraging students to communicate to one another.
ASSIGNMENTS & TESTS
Teachers can have students upload assignments and tests right in Toolbox. Tests can be taken online and automatically graded. You can do grading from anywhere with no papers.
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LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Group Guide lets you organize a database of families, schedule and have sign-ups for activities, and broadcast messages via email to your entire group, absolutely FREE. Click GROUP GUIDE FEATURES for more information or to get started now!
The Hub has everything you need to manage Families, Classes, Online Registration, Documents, PLUS full integration with Group Guide. Click HUB FEATURES to find out more now!
Toolbox turns your classroom into a virtual environment making tasks effortless and more organized. Our system is designed to give you everything you need to make your school year run smoothly. There is more than Gradebook, Lessons, Discussion, and Tests -- find out more now!
WHAT OUR USERS ARE SAYING
This was the calmest registration ever!!
The online registration has been a huge blessing to us. So thankful for this service you provide. I know a lot of ladies that appreciate the no-stress registering.