You don’t have to build every piece alone.
Homeschool planning means the curriculum, the lessons, the materials, and the record, usually with no department to split the work with. CARL drafts the pieces. Compass keeps the picture of what has actually been covered.
For families teaching at home, and for the teachers who support them.
Start from wherever you sit.
The same two apps, used differently depending on whether you are teaching the learners or supporting the families who do.
Teaching your own
Build the year without starting from a blank page
Begin with a topic, a curriculum outcome, a question your kid asked at breakfast, or a half-formed idea. CARL turns it into something you can actually teach from.
- Lessons, projects, and the student materials that go with them
- Adapt something you already own instead of rebuilding it
- One setup covers multiple ages working on the same topic
- Print it, edit it, or change your mind entirely
Supporting families
Hold several families’ learning in one view
If you are the teacher families check in with, the hard part is rarely the teaching. It is keeping a clear picture across households that all learn differently.
- Coverage per learner, tracked as plans are confirmed
- Exportable summaries and plan logs when a check-in comes around
- Plan Ideas for a gap, sent straight to CARL to build
- The free plan covers three active classes, so you can try it on one family first
Built to bend around the way you already do this.
Homeschooling looks different in every house. The planning should not assume otherwise.
Structured curriculum
Plan against a provincial curriculum, another jurisdiction, or a program you have chosen yourself.
Interest-led learning
Start from what has caught their attention this week and work out afterwards which outcomes it touched.
Multi-age at one table
One topic, several grade levels, with the materials pitched differently for each learner.
Pacing that moves
Weeks off, weeks that run long. Coverage picks up where you left it rather than punishing the gap.
One learning goal, and the pieces that go with it.
The lesson is rarely the whole job. What takes the evening is everything that has to exist around it.
Lessons and projects
A plan you can teach from, with the activities and discussion built in rather than left as an exercise for you.
Worksheets and handouts
Practice pages, prompts, vocabulary supports, and exit slips, generated from the same plan so they actually match.
A version pitched differently
The same topic adjusted for a younger sibling at the table, or for the learner who needs it another way.
Notes for the person teaching
A facilitator guide comes with the component, so you are not reading the lesson cold at the kitchen table.
Preview coming soon
A real CARL document will render here, scrollable and ready to print.
Know what is next, then build it.
The two apps close a loop. Compass holds the picture, CARL makes the next piece, and the record updates as you go.
See where the gaps are
Compass shows what is still to do against the goals you are working from, so the thin spots surface before June does.
Pick a next step
Plan Ideas suggests where to go next, or browse the CARL Library for something another educator has already built.
Build it and log it
Send it to CARL to turn into a lesson and its materials. Confirm what you actually taught, and the record keeps itself.
Proof of learning, without a filing cabinet.
What Compass keeps
Every learning goal sits in one of three states: to do, planned, or taught. Compass suggests the matches from the planning you are already doing, and you confirm what actually counts. Coverage summaries, detailed breakdowns, and plan logs export as PDF or spreadsheet whenever you need them.
Reporting expectations differ by province and by program, so check yours. What Compass gives you is an organized record to draw from rather than a reconstruction job in June.
- Coverage summary
- Detailed breakdown
- Plan log
- PDF & spreadsheet export
Curriculum you can point at
Eleven Canadian provinces and territories are built in, along with England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Mexico, and Common Core. If your family follows a program that is not on that list, upload it and plan against your own source instead.
Made in BC, hosted in Canada, and yours to steer.
You decide what is appropriate
AI can be wrong, sometimes confidently. Everything lands as an editable draft, so you review, revise, and decide what fits your child, your values, your pacing, and your week.
Not legal advice
Home education requirements differ by province and territory. CARL and Compass are planning tools, not provincial approval. Check the rules where you live.
Built and hosted here
CARL is made in British Columbia and application data is hosted in Canada.
Questions homeschool families ask first.
Can I use my own curriculum?
What is the difference between CARL and Compass?
Does this require my child’s personal information?
What does the free plan actually include?
Start with one subject.
Pick the one that has been nagging at you, build a week of it, and see whether the rest is worth moving over.
Free to start. The free plan is a real plan rather than a trial.
