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How
History Solutions Works
Our goal is to make it simple for parents and homeschoolers
to subscribe to History Solutions, and then to make it easy to introduce
our simulations and lessons to them. We will constantly be looking
for feedback and advice to improve our systems.
Registration:
Fax and Mail registration
is now available! This is how registration works:
- 1st: You
will fill out a simple registration form.
On this form, you will choose your own "Administrator" Login and
Password. These are used by parents and legal guardians. They
are never given out to students. You also pick a unique "Family
Online Code" ... more on that later.
- 2nd:
Then you can purchase your membership via credit card, check,
or money order by simply printing the form and mailing to: History
Solutions, Inc., 407 Main St., Chatham, NJ 07928 or by fax at
973-701-6774.
- 3rd:
Once your payment is received, it takes us two to four days to set up
your account. When the account is ready, we will email instructions
on how to proceed. It's that simple!
Setup:
This is how History Solutions will work in your home (once you register,
you will receive an automatic email from us explaining this process):
- 1st:
To begin, you login at History Solutions and "register" the person
who will be checking your work (the person who registered with
HistorySolutions, typically a parent). This is extremely easy:
all you do is type in the person's name and his or her email address
(so they can receive student work by email). This should take
you less than 5 minutes.
- 2nd:
Your family will have its own unique URL for History Solutions.
Remember that unique "Family Online Code" you selected when joining?
That is used to create your School URL. For example, let's
say your family surname is Fitzpatrick and you chose "fitz" as
your Family's Online Code. Then your students will go to the following
School URL to begin: http://www.historysolutions.com/home/fitz
- 3rd:
Parents can Login (using your Administrator Login ID/Password)
and review our simulations and lessons. They will need some time
to look them over and decide which ones they want to introduce
to their homeschoolers.
- 4th:
When a parent is ready, he or she tells their students to go to
the School URL. On that page, a student personally registers (the
student selects his or her own Login ID/Password). The student
then goes to any of the "Units" for review (for example: "The
Road to Revolution"). The student begins with the "Historical
Simulation" and moves through the other lessons. If the student
doesn't finish, then they can login at another time and finish
the assignment later. This is just one of the real strengths of
History Solutions -- by individually tracking and SAVING student
work, homeschoolers can work at any time, on any computer with
Internet access.
Important Notes:
- In each Unit,
the first lesson is always called "Setup" ... on this page, the
student should select the superivising parent who will receive
his or her work by email. More than one parent may be availblel
to choose from if the course is being used my more than one family
under one account. The student simply selects the appropriate
name from a drop down box. The student does not have access to
the parent's email address (see #1 above under "Classroom Setup").
- Do you want
your homeschoolers to skip certain lessons? Just tell them to
do so! There is no reason for them to complete every lesson in
a Unit unless you want them to ... you decide what is best for
your children.
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