Layer 1
Journal
Keep your homeschool records organized: plan the week, log the day, track hours, keep portfolios, and produce high-school records when you need them.
Ascendant Assistant
Know where they are. Explore what they’re ready to learn.
Assistant includes everything in Journal, plus a Knowledge Tree of each child’s progress and Teaching Help when learning gets hard. Keep teaching from your materials. Use the map and suggestions to adapt them to where each child actually is.
Three layers, one connected system
Journal records and organizes. Assistant adds the map and Teaching Help so you can decide what to teach next from what you have already logged.
Layer 2
Knowledge Tree
A picture of what each child knows and what’s next to learn, so planning can follow real progress, not only the book’s page number.
Layer 3
Teaching Help
When learning gets hard, a clearer sense of why a skill might be difficult, related skills that may help, and practical ideas from their history on the map.
How Assistant fits an ordinary week
See, Plan, Teach, Log, Progress, then back to See. When learning gets hard, adjust and re-plan.
See: starting check-in builds their map
Mark what they already know so the Knowledge Tree starts from your child, not a blank grade list. You can refine it as you go.
See: what’s next to learn
Open the Knowledge Tree and see skills your child is ready for. Progress from last week’s logs feeds this picture.
Plan and teach the week
Shape the week around real progress. Keep teaching from your materials. Schedule and notes stay with co-parents in one place.
When learning gets hard, adjust
Teaching Help hangs off the lesson itself. It can use their progress, recent scores, notes, and related skills to suggest what may be in the way and another path to try. Then re-plan.
When a child gets stuck
Record what happened, review the suggestion, and decide what to add to the week.
- Record the lesson and how it went.
- Teaching Help looks at related skills on their map, plus recent scores and notes.
- You see a possible supporting skill or another approach.
- Add it to the week if it helps, then return to the original skill when they are ready.
Example
Alex is having difficulty with area problems. Teaching Help notes that Alex can estimate answers and multiply fractions, but has little practice substituting values into formulas. It suggests a short formula-substitution practice before more area problems. You review that idea and choose whether to add it to the schedule.
Suggestions from what you have already recorded
Teaching Help can draw on skills they have already shown, related skills they have practiced, recent scores, notes from instruction, and where they sit on the Knowledge Tree. It is not a generic AI chat about a grade-level lesson.
Know where they are. Explore what they’re ready to learn.
Open beta is free. Keep your curriculum. Join with Assistant to see progress and adapt, or Journal to organize records only.