Two days on campus, three days without a teacher in the room.
University-model schools
NavEd fits the way University-model schools already run: grades, attendance, records and a transcript, without asking anyone to be a district first.
Enrollment is tracked course by course, so dropping one class leaves the rest of the schedule untouched.
A university-model school enrolls students course by course each semester, puts a parent in the co-teacher seat on home days, and answers to an accreditor because the transcript has to hold up in a college admissions office. NavEd keeps that per-course enrollment, the split attendance record, and the transcript straight in one place.
This is you if
- Students register course by course each semester, like a college, not as one blanket grade-level enrollment.
- A parent is the formal teacher of record on home days, not just someone keeping a kid on task.
- Your school pursues outside accreditation because the transcript needs to hold up with college admissions offices.
- Your week splits between campus days, taught by staff, and home days, supervised by a parent, and you need one record that covers both without becoming two separate systems.
- If your school just splits the week between campus and home without per-course registration or a parent acting as a formal co-teacher, `/for/hybrid-schools/` is likely the closer fit.
What NavEd does for you
Enrollment that follows the course, not the grade
A student's enrollment lives at the course level, so a family can take a full load or pick individual classes each semester, the same way they would register at a college. Adding or dropping a single course doesn't touch the rest of a student's schedule.
Attendance that knows who took it
When the parent is the formal teacher of record on home days, the home day is instruction, and an accreditor will eventually ask you to prove it. Campus-day attendance taken by the teacher and home-day attendance taken by the parent, when a school turns that on, live in the same student record and stay tagged by who took it. The record shows the parent's day as the parent's day rather than quietly folding it into the school's count.
Grades and a transcript built to your scale
Grade entry stays with your staff teachers, even for work a parent supervised at home. Parents see the results through their own view; NavEd does not hand grade entry to a parent. The GPA scale can be configured to weighted or unweighted and to your own course weighting, and the transcript recomputes from those grades rather than sitting frozen from the day it was printed.
What is still manual
- Tuition cannot follow the course. NavEd bills a yearly plan with a set number of installments and a manual per-household override, and it has no logic that reads a student's actual course enrollment. A family that took four of six courses owes a different amount than one that took all six, and that difference is arithmetic an administrator does every semester, and redoes the moment a family adds or drops a course. For a school whose entire enrollment model is per course, this is the gap that hurts.
- Split-week scheduling is only partly covered. NavEd does have one real, structured weekly schedule that the calendar and attendance already use, but it's one pattern for the whole school. A school running both an MWF cohort and a separate TTh cohort can't represent both in that shared calendar. Each course can carry a plain text note like "MWF" or "TTh," but nothing checks those against each other for conflicts.
- There's no built-in semester re-registration flow. The application and enrollment tools cover getting a new family in the door, but nothing is purpose-built for "everyone picks their fall courses now." A school reuses the general course-selection tools for that, even though they weren't designed around a twice-a-year cadence.
Getting started
- Set up your school and add your courses, each with its own roster rather than one grade-wide class list.
- Enroll each student in the specific courses they're taking this semester.
- Turn on parent-recorded attendance for home days if your school wants that distinction alongside teacher-taken campus attendance.
- Set your GPA scale and course weighting so report cards and transcripts read the way your school and its accreditor expect.
- For any family with a partial course load, work out their tuition total and enter it as an override, since NavEd won't calculate it for you.
- 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 University-model schools ask
Can we register students by individual course instead of by grade?
Yes. Enrollment in NavEd is per course, so a student can be signed up for four classes one semester and six the next, without touching the rest of their grade level.
Can parents 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 clearly marked apart from teacher-taken campus attendance in the same student record.
Does NavEd calculate tuition automatically when a family's course load changes?
No. 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 that total from which courses a student actually enrolled in, so a partial course load is a number an administrator works out and enters each semester. This is a real gap, not a rough edge.
Can we set up different schedules for an MWF cohort and a TTh cohort?
Only partly. NavEd has one structured weekly schedule per school, used by the calendar and attendance. Two different cohort patterns in the same school still have to be noted as plain text on each course rather than run through one shared calendar.
Will NavEd accredit our school or guarantee a college will accept our transcript?
No. NavEd does not accredit schools. It keeps grades with the teacher of record and builds a transcript to your school's own grading scale, but accreditation and admissions decisions stay with the bodies that make those calls.
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.