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BJU Press sells Christian textbook kits for a parent to teach and video courses taught by its own teachers. Here, each lesson is written for your child and graded as soon as it is turned in.
Textbooks, video courses, or lessons written for your child
BJU Press publishes Pre-K through Grade 12 materials with a biblical worldview. Its textbook kits pair a student text with a teacher's edition that guides the parent through each lesson. Its video courses add daily lessons from BJU Press teachers, sent on DVD or streamed through the BJU Press Homeschool Hub, with an adjustable schedule of lessons and assignments.
Our lessons arrive ready for your child to read and work through, without a presentation to prepare.
Where your child starts
BJU Press grade kits bundle the core subjects for a chosen grade. When ordering, the family can move individual subjects up or down, choosing the books and videos that set the starting level.
To start your child where they actually are, we write a placement test for each subject. It has 25 questions, or 12 for younger learners, and it adapts as your child answers.
From every answer, we estimate where your child is solid but not yet finished, and that's where they start. Each subject is placed on its own, so your child might begin in the middle of fourth-grade math and the beginning of fifth-grade reading. In grades 3 to 12, a child who prefers paper can print the free placement test, then upload a photo of the answer sheet for grading.
What a school day looks like
A BJU Press video day follows the Homeschool Hub's schedule: the child watches each lesson and completes the assignments due, and the dashboard shows what is due and which materials the day needs.
Our Parent Dashboard lays out today's lessons by subject. You can build the week around your family's hours and print it for the fridge.
Interactive articles weave in your child's interests, with images and videos made for them. Reading checks confirm understanding, then your child applies the idea in a project, such as optimizing lap times for F1 or working out a rocket’s fuel load.
When your child gets stuck
BJU Press teaches through recorded classes on DVD or online video. When a child asks something the recording has not answered, the parent handles the conversation with the teacher's edition to draw on.
Our Always-On Mentor sits beside every reading and project, so help is there the moment your child needs it.
The mentor also steps in on its own when your child seems stuck, explains the idea another way, and can make it visual by drawing on its board. In a reading check or a project, it guides your child's thinking without giving the answer away.
Learning to keep a notebook
From Grade 3, our readings offer an optional Notebook guide to help your child organize their learning. It encourages lesson headings and unit labels, and the printable guide offers tips for taking notes in their own words rather than copying the article.
The guide encourages your child to note where they struggled and how they got past it. One tip is to star a useful takeaway, then gather those takeaways into a review page. When your child scans and uploads their notebook pages, we help them remember those ideas and shape practice problems around the places they struggled.
Who grades the work
BJU Press video courses grade tests and quizzes automatically from Grade 5 up, and the Homeschool Hub's gradebook lets the parent review and edit grades. Answer keys come with the student handouts.
We grade everything your child submits as soon as they submit it, so grading never lands on you. When your child gets something wrong, we help them work through it, and projects come back with feedback so they can revise them.
Records, state paperwork, and the transcript
The Homeschool Hub keeps grades through its gradebook and reporting tools. Families use those tools to generate transcripts and other homeschool documents from the coursework being tracked there.
At TheHomeschoolingCompany, your child's school record builds as they work: daily check-ins log attendance, and everything they finish is saved automatically. Attendance logs and learning summaries are ready to export, and we draft the documents your state asks for from that same record, including portfolios with real work samples.
Our high school transcript builds from completed work, with courses, letter grades, credits, and GPA calculated for you.
Keeping faith in your school day
BJU Press describes its materials as rooted in a biblical worldview. Bible is one of the subjects a family can buy, alongside the publisher's other Christian textbook and video courses.
Our curriculum isn't a religious curriculum unless you want it to be. Add Bible study, Christianity, or any faith as a custom elective, and we build a course around it, graded and recorded like every other subject. You can also add faith as an interest, and we'll weave it into any or all subjects, so it doesn't have to be its own course.
Moving from BJU Press to us
School in a Box includes up to 12 subjects, from the core to custom electives on anything your child is curious about. Single Subject covers one course, if you would rather start there.
Start the 14-day trial and choose School in a Box or Single Subject.
Pick your child's subjects, including any topics they have been asking to learn more about.
Your child takes a placement in each subject, and their whole curriculum is built around them.
Other questions
- Do I need to buy textbooks for your courses?
- No. Our lessons are interactive articles that can also be printed. A few projects list physical materials with the assignment.
- Can a child who is not reading yet use it?
- Yes. Kindergarten through Grade 2 is spoken: your child listens, answers out loud, and an adult stays nearby.
- Can we use ESA funds?
- We are approved in Arizona, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Utah. Program rules apply.
Your child's curriculum. Your family's time.
Try a course that grades your child's written reasoning and returns feedback the moment they submit it.
$149/month per child after the trial.