Homeschool Tracker Plus - A full-featured download that provides you with dozens of ways to customize the program to meet your organizational style and needs. Setup is easy and the program offers more features than any one homeschooler would probably use, but having them available allows you to set up the program in such a way that benefits you the most. You can track attendance and hours, keep a library of your books and resources, define courses and grading, create transcripts, share and re-use lesson plans, record field trips, print assignments, and more.

The Old Schoolhouse Planner - An extensive PDF download that is updated for each year. You’ll find hundreds of useful pages in each year’s planner including new and updated forms to help you:

• Plan and record all of the dynamic aspects of your homeschool year from top to bottom.
• Schedule your social activities effectively.
• Organize your technological resources.
• Manage money wisely (and teach your kids this important life skill too).
• Be the queen of your kitchen.
• Foster family pride by establishing family goals and recording family tree information.
• Record important medical information including medications and family medical history.
• Run a successful home business.
• Get ready for the holidays.

TOS’ planner is available in versions for primary grades, middle school, and high school and is available as a CD or a digital download.

Homeschool Day Book - Easy and quick homeschool record keeping.  Keep detailed records in only minutes a day.  Printable reports summarizing daily, weekly, or monthly activities.  Very easy to use and super simple setup.  Free trial with all features activated.  Windows only.

Homeschool Solutions - With Homeschool Solutions, you can easily record, organize and print all kinds of important information from your PC. 30-day free trial; Homeschool Solutions requires a Windows 95/98 PC with at least a 486 processor, at least 32 MB RAM, and a CD-ROM drive; There are two products that allow Mac users to run PC software: Virtual PC by Connectix and SoftWindows by Insignia ( If a Mac user has either of these products, they can run Homeschool Solutions.)

Edu-Track Home School Organizer - Comprehensive software program tracking all areas of the homeschool including: Lesson Plans, Progress Reports, Teacher’s Journal, Attendance, Assignment Sheets, Transcripts, and more. Includes tools to organize student data, unit studies, report cards, etc.

New Beginnings’ Planner - 180 page undated planner download to help you create your own Idea Curriculum Planner. The planner page offers step-by-step instructions and the download includes a variety of styles from which to choose.

Donna Young - YoungMinds has put together the largest selection of record keeping forms for homeschool that I have found. Forms are available in either PDF or Word format. PDF documents cannot be edited without expensive software, but Word documents can be edited on your computer and the resulting forms can be printed. If you wish to customize your forms then you should choose the Word format.

Organized Home Household Planner Forms - If you are looking for a place to help you get started on your way to organization, Organized Home is that place. Be sure to look around the whole site and take advantage of the many free articles, but the real jewel are these household planner forms.They offer dozens of forms for just about any organizational need you may have!

Heritage Highland Forms - Almost 500 forms, most using Acrobat Reader, for organizing your homeschool. Includes teacher forms, portfolio forms, and a variety of academic forms that would be excellent for notebooking and lap books ™.

Chart Jungle - Daily, weekly, and monthly homeschool schedules; image files to be printed from your browser

Homeschooling is on the rise. And homeschool record keeping is important to parents, schools, colleges, and universities. Homeschool records keeping needs vary from state to state and from person to person. However, most homeschoolers need to keep homeschool records of some kind. Currently there are several ways to keep homeschool records, both online and on paper.