Switched On Schoolhouse Features

Switched-On Schoolhouse makes homeschooling easy and fun. Here's a list of features for this popular, interactive, software-based curriculum:

Quick Installation:
With a few clicks, Switched-On Schoolhouse is loaded and ready to use.

Automatic Grading:
Parents can easily preview assignments and keep track of student scores, assignments, and grading needed to be completed. This wonderful time-saving feature gives parents more hands-on time with students and less time with paperwork!

Daily Work Report:
Track your student's day-to-day progress with this handy report tool! Parents can quickly view daily student activity, promote student accountability, and print valuable records for documentation.

Revised ContentRevised Content:
Unlike traditional textbooks, Switched-On Schoolhouse brings your child up-to-date information, more activities, new problems, and text changes.

Voice Automated Lesson TextText-to-Speech:
With this voice automated feature, students simply choose a passage or the entire lesson and have it read aloud to them.

Customizable Homepage Themes:
Make your homeschooling more fun and exciting with over 20 eye-catching themes, including Pink, On the Farm, Splash, Vintage, and more.

Enriching Games:
Exciting learning activities help students grasp difficult concepts with fun educational games, including Farmer Frank, Vocabulocity, Spelling Bee, Full Speed, Pick a Pail, Moon Match, Word Hike, and Balancing Act. Flash cards are also included as a great review exercise.

Automatic Curriculum Updates:
Don't worry about downloading content updates! Course revisions automatically download via AOP's server, saving you time and giving your child up-to-date information. (SOS users without Internet access can receive updates by requesting an installable CD with SOS revisions).

Custom Curriculum and Projects:
Customize your curriculum by combining, adding, or removing units and assignments. You can also create additional exercises like field trips.

Advanced Lesson Planning:
Put away that bulky lesson planner! Each child can have a personalized lesson plan to pace him correctly, and it can be modified day by day if needed.

Book Reports:
In grades 3-8 of the language arts curriculum, student projects feature genre highlights, book lists, and links to additional resources.

Message Center:
Switched-On Schoolhouse's two-way, internal communication allows parents and students to attach messages to problems and view them from within an easily-accessed, personal mailbox. Parents also can create completed quiz and test alerts to stay on top of student achievement results.

Built-in Calendar:
The Switched-On Schoolhouse calendar features allow you to assign or unassign school days, exclude date ranges, and add or remove events like field trips and holidays.

Individual Weekday Scheduling:
With this flexible, schedule-friendly feature, you can easily assign courses to select days of the week. For example, you can assign math only on Mondays and Tuesdays or schedule history just on Fridays.

Video Clips:
Integrated into the curriculum, videos give students an up-close look at subject topics.

Instant Audio Feedback:
Give your child positive reinforcement with this user-friendly feature that gives immediate audio feedback on answers to questions.

Printing Options:
Students and parents can easily print entire lessons, problems, records, vocabulary lists, and assignments that include the student's name.

Resource Center:
A calculator, interactive periodic table of elements, and a dictionary are provided for student convenience.

Personalized Journal:
Improve your child's writing skills and encourage daily journaling. This engaging feature within the student mode allows your child to choose from an assortment of writing tools, print or export text, and easily locate past entries by date or topic.

Highlighting Tool:
Students can choose colors and highlight text for easy studying.

Help Button:
This feature offers specific assistance for different types of question formats.

Practice Lessons:
This tool walks students through a lesson and explains different features, so they understand how the curriculum works.

Practice Lessons:
Add a spark of fun to your Switched-On Schoolhouse learning experience with customizable homepage features. MiSOS lets parents and students personalize their learning environment with homepage themes, desktop widgets, avatars, and more.

Vocabulary Arcade:
Master spelling words and vocabulary definitions with educational games like Vocabulocity, Full Speed, Moon Match, Word Hike, Balancing Act, Pick a Pail, and Spelling Bee.