You'll find your schedules, activated kits, and a spot to activate additional kits on your dashboard.

To activate a new kit, click the "Don't see your purchased curriculum? Use your code" link in the middle of the page. You will need to enter your order number and your activation code.

Your order number can be found on your paperwork. Flip to the last page, this will be the number in the top right-hand corner.

Your activation code can be found on the second page of your curriculum handbook.

Your order number can be found on your paperwork. Flip to the last page, this will be the number in the top right-hand corner.

Your activation code can be found on the second page of your curriculum handbook.

As you set up your schedule, you'll begin by entering your student's name and start date. Next, you'll choose which days of the week you would like to do school this year. (If you use weekly schedules only, this won't matter to you.) Most families prefer Monday-Friday or a 4-day school week, but do whatever works best for your family.

You will now pick how many weeks you'd like to spread your assignments. Most schools use a 36-week year, but some homeschoolers prefer schooling year-round, so again, do what works best for you.

This screen is also where you will add breaks. If you are logging progress as you go this year, you'll want to take a few minutes to set this up the way you want. Christmas break, Thanksgiving break, Winter break, Spring break - you can even add birthdays and vacations!

All the items in your kit will load to the main screen, and you'll begin going through each, subject by subject. This screen is where you'll add or remove items, adjust individual item schedules, and even change the subject color if you'd like to do that.

Perhaps you have a robotics co-op this fall, so you'd like to put your STEM kits on break until January. Or you'd like to work through two years of writing by placing book 1 in the first half of the school year and book 2 in the second half.

That's no problem! From your dashboard, find the schedule you want to edit and click "Edit Schedule."

Click on the correct subject, then click on your course so that you can get the course-specific settings. You can set a course-specific break there. Use the calendar to enter the days that you want to have off.

This screen is the place to mark any courses you'd prefer not to spread evenly throughout your year. Front load refers to scheduling extra units at the beginning of the year. Back load is the opposite, scheduling extra units at the end of the year.

For instance, we often suggest first-graders save 6-Trait Writing for the last 25 weeks of the year in first grade to gain more reading competency before adding writing. So, for that course, you'd want to select to back load your units.

Alternatively, you may wish to finish science early so that you can free up your spring for nature walks. In that case, you can front load the units for your science course so that you'll do one a week until the lessons run out.

If your child does P.E., music, chores, or any other courses during the week that you'd like to add, there's an easy way to do that. Just click "Add Course" at the end of the subjects list, and add as many additional courses as needed. You'll be able to set the course name, subject, and either the number of lessons or the frequency of the course. For instance, if you're adding P.E., you may wish to add three runs every week. However, if you're adding a 16-project carpentry course, you'll want to add 16 projects and let the system spread them throughout your year. As with any other course, you will have the ability to set which days of the week it is allowed to occur and any breaks you need.

Glance over your Schedule Summary and ensure that all looks as you intended, then click Save and Continue and go to your dashboard. Your new schedule is now sitting on your dashboard!

To print your checklist, find the schedule that you want to print on your dashboard, then click "Checklist."

By default, you'll land on Weekly View, with the current week selected. You can use the tabs at the top left of your checklist to Show All. See just the overview, Weekly View, or Daily View. There are also View Options available, which will allow you to show dates, unit range (which units to do that week), and date range.

The print button is located on the top right.

Select Progress on the left menu to access your digital checklist. Check off your work for the week or the day, then click My Progress on the right to see how far you've come already!

You can edit your schedule, items, or breaks at any time. The one thing to be aware of is that you will lose your checked progress if you change your start date. We are working on a solution for this, but that is something to note in the meantime.

Our team is constantly adding features and working to improve the scheduler. If you have ideas for us or run into any technical issues, please let us know and we will be happy to help!

While we strive to provide a reliable and secure platform for your homeschooling needs, we do periodically delete inactive data to maintain a lean and agile database. This ensures efficient performance and resource allocation, ultimately benefiting all users.

We primarily delete data associated with inactive schedules. This includes:

• Schedules with an end date of two or more years ago.
• Curriculum Kits over three years old.

It's simple! Just keep your account and schedules active. Here's how:

• Log in to your Timberdoodle Schedules account at least once a year.
• Access and edit your schedules periodically, including keeping the dates accurate.

Click "Checklist" from the dashboard to get to your schedule overview. Select Print/PDF Checklists. You have multiple options at the top. Show all will show you both the weekly and daily versions of the schedule. Weekly View will allow you to find the week you want. Daily View will let you find the day that you want. You can download your schedule by printing it as a PDF. Start by clicking "Download." Your print menu will pop up. Setting can change across devices and browsers, but choose the setting most like "Save as PDF." The print button should switch to a Save button, which allows you to download your PDF.

ClickIf you've been following along but haven't logged anything on the schedule, there are several ways to catch up. The first is the easiest. If you've completed all tasks for the week, you can use the "Check off all tasks this week" box at the top of your weekly view page. There is a similar option for daily view.

If you have worked farther ahead in some courses than others, you can go through the weeks checking off each course. You can save time by clicking the furthest checkbox you've completed, and the rest will be filled in. For example, if there are five boxes and you check the 4th, the first four will fill in with only the last one empty.

Lastly, you can manually enter the number of units you've completed. Click "My Progress" on your digital checklist in the top right. Each subject will have an "Add Entry" box. Clicking that allows you to select a course and then enter the total number of units that you've completed since the last time you logged progress. This can be helpful if you lose progress at some point, get super ahead in a specific course, etc.

You're welcome to add anything you like, whether it's something you purchased in a previous kit, got in the damaged sale, received as a gift, etc.

If you want to add something purchased from Timberdoodle, click the Add Additional Course button. You can find this at the top right when you're in any subject on your Edit Schedule page. You can search through common alternate courses.

If you didn't purchase this item from Timberdoodle, don't see it in the additional courses search, or maybe it's a custom course (Scripture, Dance Lessons, P.E., etc.), click "Add Course" in the left menu. That's our custom course section. You can fill out the info for any course you want to create.

Click the account icon in the upper right corner to update your username, password, etc. You will need to enter your password to save changes. There is also a Change Password tab, which will allow you to set a new password.

Find the schedule you would like to duplicate on your dashboard. Click the three dots in the bottom left corner, then click "Duplicate."

Find the schedule you would like to delete on your dashboard. Click the three dots in the bottom left corner, then click "Delete."

A course or subject not showing up on your schedule could be for several reasons. Perhaps it wasn't purchased as part of your curriculum kit, was from another supplier, etc. If you're not seeing a course that was purchased from Timberdoodle and was part of your curriculum kit, please let us know.

Find the schedule you would like to print on your dashboard. Click "Checklist." Make sure "Show All" is selected; it should have a green border around it. This will show you your full year in weekly and daily formats and is currently the only way to see multiple days from the same week in one place. Click print, which should bring up your print preview. This can take a few moments because the preview will likely be over 100 pages. You can scroll to the week you want to print when it loads. Change the pages from "All" to "Custom," then enter the page numbers for the week you want to print.