My School Year review
A web-based homeschool system for planning lessons and keeping school-year records.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
My School Year is an online homeschool management and recordkeeping system for families who need to plan lessons and keep school-year records in one place. Founded in 2002, it covers lesson generation and rescheduling, calendar scheduling, attendance and instructional hours, grading, and progress tracking. A planbook supports searching, sorting, filtering, and managing lessons, while student logins can be configured with access permissions. The feature range makes it relevant to families who want both day-to-day planning and formal reporting rather than a lesson planner alone.
The Family Edition is offered monthly and annually, and both plans enable all features, allow unlimited students, and provide secure cloud access. The annual option also includes a price lock guarantee. A 30-day free trial is available, but there is no free plan. The published plans show different billing intervals rather than different feature levels, so the choice is mainly between monthly billing and the annual option. That makes the service worth considering for families who expect to keep records over time; those seeking a free ongoing plan should look elsewhere.
Reporting is a notable part of the product: families can create transcripts, report cards, lesson plans, and course-description reports, alongside using automated grading and configurable grading scales. Lesson sharing and daily or weekly email reminders add support around planning routines. My School Year is web-based, with cloud access; its platform listing is web, so families looking specifically for a native mobile app should consider alternatives. Email, phone, and documentation are listed as support channels. Overall, it suits families who value sustained planning and reporting with multiple students, while those needing a different platform or a free plan may prefer another option.
My School Year pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Combines lesson planning, scheduling, attendance, and instructional-hours tracking
- Creates transcripts, report cards, lesson plans, and course-description reports
- Offers unlimited students, student logins, and configurable access permissions
- Where it doesn't
- Web is the only listed platform
- Family Edition is paid, with no free plan
- Two monthly and annual plans are listed, with no feature-tier distinction
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