Everything in one place
Everything you need to run home education well
AltEd covers the whole journey — the plan, the week, the tutors and the money — for families and providers on one shared record. Here's the full picture.
- 34 capabilities
- Free to start
- No card needed
Curriculum & timetable
From the exam specification to Monday morning
Working out what to teach, and fitting it into a real week, is the planning that eats the evenings. AltEd does both for you — and every part of it stays yours to change.
Step 1
Choose what they're studying
Pick the level, the subject and the exam board. Start from a specification in the catalogue, or import your board's own document. For primary and Key Stage 3, Oak National Academy's programmes stand in for the board.
Step 2
Paced to the dates you have
Every topic gets its week and a time estimate across your start and end dates. Block out a holiday and the plan re-paces around it.
Step 3
Laid out as a timetable
The plan becomes a week — periods sized from the hours each subject needs, arranged around everything that can't move.
Step 4
Ticked off as you go
Drag anything you'd change, tick topics off as they're covered, and the plan quietly becomes the record.
Curriculum builder
A whole curriculum, built from the exam board's own specification and paced to your year.
- Every topic and statement in the board's own words, each with a time estimate — marked started and completed, with the dates
- Paced across the dates you actually have, with a plain answer on whether it fits
- Every subject together, week by week — a column for each week, ticked off in place and printed as a targets sheet
- Already plan your year yourself? Import your own targets sheet or topic list — even a photo of it — as a plan per subject and one timetable for them all
- Holidays and illness re-pace the plan — nothing is dropped, nothing ticked is lost
- Free teaching resources linked beside each topic
- Board or subject not listed yet? Import its specification from the board's own document
Timetables
A week that lays itself out — and shows you whether it matches what you intended.
- Four questions — your days, your subjects and how much of each, what can't move — and the week is laid out
- Each weighting shown as a share and roughly the hours a week it comes to
- Through the whole year on Family — each week dated, holidays off, that week's topics from your curriculum, on your learner's own timetable too
- Hours and percentages per subject always on screen, so drift shows
- Drag, resize, colour and caption periods by hand, undo any of your last ten changes, then print it
- Built straight from your curriculum plans, sized to finish on time
Curriculum plans are free on every plan — no card needed.
Plan & record
Every lesson planned, every day on the record
Build the learning around each child — courses, lessons, assignments and resources — so the plan is clear on Monday and the record is already written by Friday.
A guardian-managed profile for every learner — their picture, their details, their subjects, their work — so each child's education has a home of its own. Give an older one their own sign-in, or set a younger one a password so they can get in without a mailbox.
Read the guideSketch a curriculum per subject, break it into lessons, and always know what comes next. Structure when you want it, freedom when you don't.
Set work with a due date and watch it move from set to submitted to done — a quiet, running record of what was actually covered.
Set a paper for Friday or notes every weekday; the learner ticks it off with the paper, the mark scheme and their score. Targets count themselves, incidents keep their consequences, and the whole week reads back the way you used to write it by hand — searchable, filterable and printable.
Read the guideAt six each evening, one email lays out each learner's day — what they ticked off and handed in, the topics they finished, how each plan and target stands, and what's due next — and each morning a learner with their own sign-in gets their own day. Their work reaches you as it happens, gathered into one email once they pause, never one email per tick.
Read the guideKeep the worksheets, links and materials you rely on in one organised library, attached to the lessons that use them.
A Notion-style page editor — type / for blocks, drag them into order, add an emoji icon — filed into colour-coded notebooks and tagged with #. Type @ to mention the tutor, guardian or learner you're writing about and the note is shared with them to read — or let them edit it with you, every change kept — or to link another note. Learners with their own sign-in get a notebook too.
Read the guideAsk for a short read of each learner's week — sessions, work, marks, the log and their tutors' reports — with up to three things worth doing next, each about something in the record. Kept on your home page, written only when you ask.
Read the guideSee what's slipping for each learner — topics behind their planned week, targets missed more often than met, evidence a review would find thin — worked out from your records for free. Ask AI to put them in order and say why each matters, then fix one with a press, like setting tasks for the topics behind.
Read the guideYour child snaps their worksheet or jots what they did, and AI turns it into a log entry and finds the curriculum topics it covers. It waits for you: accept, and the log is written and the topics ticked off. Nothing is applied until you say so, and it only happens if you've turned AI on.
Read the guidePhotograph the worksheet or the model and AI fills in the portfolio entry — a title, the subject, a sentence on what it shows and a line for the progress log. You check it and save it; it describes what it can see and never marks the work.
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Organise your week
One calendar the whole household can trust
Lessons, tutor sessions, group meet-ups and everything in between — on a shared calendar that repeats what repeats and shows who's meant to be where.
Shared calendar
One calendar across the family and every provider you work with, so the week is agreed once instead of negotiated daily.
Read the guideEvents with attendees
Invite the right learners and adults to each event — everyone sees what involves them, and nothing involves guesswork.
Read the guideRecurring events
Weekly maths, fortnightly forest school, monthly co-op — set the pattern once and the calendar keeps itself up to date.
Read the guideAttendance you can point to
Sessions record who attended and what happened to absences, building the kind of consistent trail that reviews are made of.
On your phone, even offline
Install AltEd on a phone, tablet or computer and it opens from its own icon like any other app. Every page you open is saved on the device as you go, so the timetable, the plan and your notes still open on a train or at a field-trip site with no signal — and you can keep ticking work off, logging the day, adding events and writing notes. It all goes by itself, in order and only once, when the connection is back. Turn on notifications for the device and what rings your bell shows on the lock screen too — saying who and what only if you choose.
Read the guideWork with providers
Tutors and families, finally on the same page
Sessions that both sides confirm, absences handled with a proper approval flow, and a shared view of the learning — no more forwarding screenshots of screenshots.
Step 1
Tutoring sessions
Providers schedule sessions against a learner; families see them on the shared calendar the moment they exist.Step 2
Early warnings, before they're problems
Your home page lists learners who may need attention — sessions missed in a row, work piling up, marks falling, a family who hasn't read your message — worked out from your own records, free. AI can put them in order and suggest a next step, where the family allows it.Step 3
Replies, drafted — and what needs one
Draft a reply from the conversation and a note on what to say, into your reply box to change before you send. Busy? Ask what needs a reply, and each unread conversation is labelled — a time to agree, an absence, a question. The family's AI setting decides, whoever asks.Step 4
Messages that stay safe
Every message is checked as it's sent. Swearing is hidden from the reader; a phone number or WhatsApp brings a notice, and a family is told when their tutor shares one; anything harmful is flagged, the worst held, and read first by AI that acts only when it's sure — the rest, and anything about a child, go to AltEd's moderators. Either side can report a message in two clicks.Step 5
Find a class in your own words
Signed in, describe what you're after — a subject, a place, a day, a group or 1-to-1 — and AI fills in the directory's filters for you to check before you search. Anything the filters can't cover, like experience with special needs, it tells you to look for on the class pages.Step 6
Two-sided confirmation
A session isn't 'done' because one side says so — both provider and family confirm, so the record (and the bill) reflects reality.Step 7
Absence handling & approval
Life happens. When a session is missed, an absence request goes to the other side for approval — fair to families, fair to tutors, written down for both.Step 8
Already have a poster? Don't type it twice
Drop in the picture you advertise with — or paste it from your clipboard — and AI reads the subjects, the days, the times and the prices straight off it, up to ten classes at once, with the hourly rate turned into what a session costs. You check every line before anything is created, and the poster becomes each class's picture.Step 9
A course, drafted from the specification
Pick a specification or paste your own scheme of work, say how many lessons and how long, and AI proposes the course — lessons in order, what each teaches, the units it covers and a description families can read. You rename, trim and reword it before anything is created.Step 10
Practice questions, with the answers kept back
From a lesson or just a title, AI drafts a few practice questions at the level and difficulty you choose, with worked answers. The questions become the work's instructions; the answers stay with you for marking, and the learner never sees them.Step 11
Marking, drafted from what you saw
Jot what you noticed or snap a photo of the work, and AI drafts the feedback — and a score within your own maximum — for you to change before you save. It judges the work against what was asked and the lesson's topics, never the child, and the family's AI setting decides whether a tutor can use it.Step 12
A report after every session
Tutors jot a few notes and AI writes them up for the family — what was covered, how it went, what to practise — with the lesson recorded and homework set in the same step. The tutor checks it before sharing, and it only happens if the family has said yes.
Nothing is “done” because one side said so. Both confirm, and the record — and the bill — follow reality rather than memory.
Money without awkwardness
The money conversation, handled by the ledger
A proper provider↔family billing ledger — lesson pricing, charges, credits with approval and a full transaction history — so nobody has to have 'the chat' about what's owed.
Flat pricing, always
Providers pay £19 a month however much they bill. We never take a percentage of your revenue.
Lesson pricing
Providers set a price per lesson type once; every session charges itself correctly from then on.
Read the guideCharges & credits with approval
Charges accrue as sessions complete; credits — a goodwill gesture, a cancelled class — go through an approval step so both sides agree the balance.
Read the guideCard payments via Stripe
Families settle up by card, processed securely by Stripe. No bank-transfer references, no 'did you get it?' messages.
Read the guideA transaction history both sides see
Every charge, credit and payment in one running ledger visible to provider and family alike — the receipts write themselves.
Read the guideDay to day
What organised feels like
AltEd is shaped around how home-educating families and providers actually work together — here's what that looks like in an ordinary week.
“Our home ed week used to live across four apps and a kitchen notebook. Now the lessons, the tutor sessions and what we owe are all in one place — and I can actually see it.”
“Setting a lesson price once and letting the charges and credits sort themselves out means I never have the awkward money conversation with a family again.”
“When the local authority asked what we'd been covering, the answer was already written down — the plan, the work, the sessions, all of it.”
175,900
children known in elective home education in England, 2024/25
3 roles
guardians, providers and admins — one shared record
£0
to get started — free plan, no card needed
~2027
when the UK's Children Not in School register is expected. Be ready.
Quotes are illustrative of intended use while AltEd is in early access — they are not real customer testimonials. EHE figure: Department for Education, elective home education statistics 2024/25.
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