FAQ
Including the ones where the answer is “no, on purpose.”
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About five minutes to a working year: what you call your school, your children, and a rhythm. Adding curricula is the longer part, and you can do it a book at a time.
Tell us how many lessons a book has and how many days a week you’ll use it. In Pencil spreads them across your real school days.
Pick from traditional, year-round quarters, four-day weeks, a Sabbath schedule, or start blank — then nudge the weeks on and off until it looks like your family.
Unfinished lessons roll forward, labelled with where they came from. If a book won’t finish by your last day, In Pencil says so.
As many as you have. Each child keeps their own record.
Yes. Activities block out their time first, so you can see when a day is too full before you plan into it.
Never. A lesson you put on Tuesday at 10 stays on Tuesday at 10, wherever you open the planner.
Days of instruction, and the lessons you check off by subject. Checking a lesson is the attendance record. You can print the week or one subject’s lessons.
No. Rules differ too much and change too often to get right for everyone. In Pencil keeps clean, generic records; what your state asks for is your call.
Yes. A second adult has their own sign-in. They can see the week and tick things off; reshaping the year stays with the owner.
No. For 7 days you get the same planner as Household: every child, a second adult, and printing. No card to start. Household is $9.99 a month or $99 a year when you want to keep it.
If the free period ends and you haven’t subscribed, you can still sign in for 60 days to start Household. The planner stays closed in that window. After 60 days the account closes. The full timeline.
Not yet. Planning a school year wants a bigger screen, so In Pencil starts on the web, where it works on any laptop or desktop.