Home brings your family’s recurring learning, useful next actions, setup, and product help together. It is designed to help you decide what to do next without searching through every part of HomeTrail.
Review your family rhythm
Your family rhythm shows the activities your family expects to return to during a typical week.
- Open Home.
- Use Everyone to see activities grouped by name, or choose a student to see only their rhythm.
- Select an activity to adjust its students, days, or date range.
- Select Add to your rhythm. This editor is for curriculum, classes, routines, and other activities that repeat.
- Choose a subject when it helps organize the activity. Broad labels such as Math and Science belong here. Select Add subjects, then + New subject, only when you need a new one; you can also rename or delete subjects from the same panel.
- Search for the specific curriculum or activity that repeats, such as Math-U-See, multiplication practice, or morning read-aloud.
- Choose one of Your activities or a source under Curriculum & resources. Public catalog matches appear once per source, even when several activities matched your search.
- Select Add “…” as a new activity when it is not listed. HomeTrail hides this option when your text already matches a result, even if capitalization is different.
- Tell HomeTrail whether it is a Curriculum or resource, Routine, class, or practice, or Unit study.
- Add an optional description, then choose its days and students. New activities start with Monday through Friday selected.
- Leave the activity Ongoing, or choose Set start & end dates when it only applies during part of the year.
- Select Save to my rhythm. Nothing is added until you save.
For a one-time lesson, field trip, or event, use the Planner link at the bottom of the Rhythm editor to add a dated Session instead.
The check on each day and student shows what is selected. All seven selected days mean the activity appears every day. Turn off any days when you want to limit when it appears.
Catalog matches show their public source when one is available. An activity you add as your own stays associated with your family without displaying your family name as a source.
After you choose the activity, repeating days, students, and dates, the editor shows every material format Plus can add, grouped by what you want to do: practice and check understanding, explain and explore a topic, or send something you chose. Free families can preview the disabled options before deciding whether to start a trial.
With Plus, choose one format, the first Session date, and a student while adding the Rhythm item. Save & add material saves the recurring activity, creates that dated Session, and opens the material details immediately. You can add more materials to the same Session later. You can also open any existing dated Session in Planner or Day and choose Materials for this session. For the full Planner and Day flow, see Add Materials to a Planned Session. If your family uses Nest, you can send approved digital work to the student app from the same connected plan.
The family panel also lets you update students, grown-ups, school-year dates, breaks, location, teaching style, projects, subjects, grading, and your HomeTrail Page. Some options are included with HomeTrail Plus; you can still open them to see what the feature does before deciding whether to upgrade.
Review check-ins and weekly reports
Use Review & reminders below your Rhythm when you want to review HomeTrail’s existing text check-ins or weekly progress report. Select Open Check-ins & Reports to open those settings in Trailhead. Nothing changes until you save it there.
Open records and progress
Use Records & progress for a stable path to three ways of seeing what your Sessions have built:
- Reports summarize recorded learning details.
- Portfolios collect work that is worth keeping or sharing.
- Journey shows learning and progress over time.
When your family has records, Home also charts days logged this grade, hours outdoors by month, and Sessions by subject. Until then, this section explains what to record first.
Choose a useful next step
Under Useful next steps, browse the cards and select one to review what it will do before continuing.
Many actions can be completed in the Home modal. When another HomeTrail area is better suited to the task, the modal explains the next step before taking you there. The cards change order from day to day so useful tools do not stay buried in the same place.
Learn from the Toolkit
Use Your HomeTrail Toolkit when you want a walkthrough instead of taking an immediate action. Select How it works on a feature card to read the overview and, when available, watch its web or app tutorial before opening the feature.
The Quick setup row shows which parts of HomeTrail are ready and which still need attention.
Ask HomeTrail a question
Use Ask in the HomeTrail header when you have one specific question about using HomeTrail. It streams one independent answer grounded in the Help Center and your family’s setup; it is not an ongoing conversation.
- Select Ask.
- Enter a specific product question, such as “How do I add a school break?”
- Select Ask HomeTrail.
- Review the answer and any linked Help Center sources.
- Choose Yes or Not quite so future answers can improve, or select Ask another question to clear that answer and start fresh.
Ask HomeTrail uses the published Help Center and relevant details from your current family setup to make the answer more useful. It is for HomeTrail product guidance, not emergency, legal, medical, or personal counseling. If the answer cannot help—or you choose Not quite—you can send the question to the HomeTrail team for follow-up.
