Three mornings in the building, two afternoons at home.
Hybrid schools
NavEd fits the way Hybrid schools already run: grades, attendance, records and a transcript, without asking anyone to be a district first.
A hybrid school prices and enrolls families by track, a two-day or three-day week on campus, rather than by individual course, and hands the parent a lesson plan to run at home rather than naming them a formal co-teacher. NavEd already tells a parent-recorded home day apart from a teacher-recorded campus day in the same student record, and keeps one gradebook and one live transcript across both.
This is you if
- Families choose a track, a set number of days on campus per week, at enrollment, rather than registering course by course.
- Your teachers run the campus days; on the days off campus, a parent carries out the lesson plan your school assigned, without holding a formal co-teacher credential.
- Your school isn't pursuing outside accreditation, or the split week isn't organized around one.
- Campus work gets graded by a teacher and home work gets graded or reported by a parent, and you need those two streams to land in one record instead of two.
- If your school registers students by individual course each semester and puts the parent in a formally credentialed co-teacher role tied to accreditation, `/for/university-model-schools/` is likely the closer fit.
What NavEd does for you
One record for two attendance sources
A two-day track and a three-day track produce different weeks, and the days a family is off campus are the ones that usually go unrecorded. When a school turns it on, a parent records their child's attendance for at-home days and a teacher records campus-day attendance, and both land in the same student record, tagged by who took it. If a teacher and a parent both mark the same day, the teacher's record wins. This is a day-level record of who reported the day, not a count of hours against a state minimum.
One gradebook, not two
Whether a grade comes from a campus assignment or gets entered from a parent's report of home-day work, it goes into the same gradebook and the same transcript, which recalculates live rather than sitting frozen from the day it was printed. NavEd does not yet mark which grades came from which source, only when each was entered or last changed.
Parents see the whole week
A parent's own view of the parent portal shows the full record, campus days and home days together, not only the days they personally taught.
Enrollment that doesn't gate a family out
Applications and enrollment are free on every plan. A track-based hybrid school can run its intake process for two-day and three-day families alike without a family being blocked by price to apply.
What is still manual
- Tuition can't be derived from a track. NavEd bills a yearly plan with a set number of installments and a manual per-household override, and that override is the only place a two-day family and a three-day family come out different. Since the track is the thing your school actually sells, that is a number your administrator carries in their head rather than one the system holds.
- Grade authorship isn't tracked. NavEd records when a grade was entered or updated, not who entered it, so there's no built-in way to tell a teacher-entered campus grade apart from a parent-reported home grade once it's in the gradebook.
- Home-day instructional hours aren't totaled against a state minimum. The day-level distinction between a parent-reported day and a teacher-reported day is already built; adding those up into hours for compliance purposes still has to be tracked outside NavEd.
- NavEd Lessons, the curriculum tool, isn't reachable by any customer yet. It can't be where your home-day assigned plan lives today.
- NavEd doesn't file or generate state paperwork for a hybrid school's legal structure, such as a private school affidavit or satellite program agreement. It can store the documents your school already has.
Getting started
- Set up your school and your session year, since a hybrid school still runs on a standard school-year calendar.
- Add your tracks as course or class rosters, and enroll each family in the track they've chosen.
- Turn on parent-recorded attendance for home days, so it sits alongside teacher-recorded campus attendance in the same student record.
- Set up your gradebook so campus grades and any home-day grades a staff member enters both feed the same transcript.
- Post any satellite-program or handbook documents your families need in school documents.
- Set up your tuition plan and its installments, then enter each track's total as a per-household override, since NavEd does not price by track on its own.
- Sign up. The first five students are free on every plan, and keeping records, issuing a transcript, taking attendance, enrolling a student, and exporting your own data stay off any paywall. See the pricing calculator for the rest.
Questions Hybrid schools ask
Can a parent record attendance for home days separately from what a teacher takes on campus?
Yes. A school can turn on parent-recorded attendance for at-home days, and it stays marked apart from teacher-taken campus attendance, tagged by who took it, in the same student record.
Can we charge a two-day track and a three-day track different amounts within the same school?
Not automatically. NavEd collects tuition as a yearly plan with a set number of installments and a manual per-household override on the total. What it cannot do is derive a different number from a two-day or three-day track, so an administrator works out each track's number and enters it, and redoes it if a family switches tracks mid-year.
Does NavEd know whether a grade came from a campus teacher or a parent's report?
No. A grade in the gradebook shows when it was entered or updated, not who entered it. Someone, usually staff, has to manually enter a parent-reported home-day grade into the same gradebook a teacher uses.
Can we track home-day instructional hours against our state's minimum?
Not yet. NavEd already tells you which days a parent reported versus which a teacher recorded. Totaling those into hours against a state minimum still has to be tracked by hand.
Can we assign our home-day curriculum through NavEd?
Not today. NavEd Lessons, the curriculum tool, isn't turned on for any school yet, so it can't be the place your home-day plan lives right now.
What it costs
The first five students are free on every plan, no trial and no expiration. Keeping records, issuing a transcript, taking attendance, enrolling a student, and getting your own data back out are never behind a paywall. See the full pricing calculator.