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Start Over Fresh: Clear Your Planner, Rhythm, and Students
Planning, Tracking & Daily Use
Really want to start all over fresh but can’t figure out how? HomeTrail has no single reset or erase button. Use these steps to clear your Rhythm, delete activities, remove a student, and build your new plan.
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Edit a Rhythm Activity for One Day: Notes, Lesson Numbers, Order, and Printing
Planning, Tracking & Daily Use
Edit a Rhythm activity per day with its own notes and lesson number, skip a day, rearrange the order of your Rhythm, and print your Rhythm on a calendar.
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Change Your Subjects: Add, Rename, or Delete a Subject
Planning, Tracking & Daily Use
Change the subjects your family uses: add a new subject, rename or delete one, and change the subject on a Rhythm activity or a single activity.
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Student Login: How Your Child Can Sign In to Nest
HomeTrail Plus
Kids do not have separate logins, so there is no student login to create. Sign in to the Nest app on your child’s device with your own HomeTrail email and password, and your child picks their name to see their own day. Children check off their work, but you manage their schedule.
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Does HomeTrail Integrate or Sync with Google Calendar, IXL, or Google Drive?
FAQs
The HomeTrail app and website do not integrate or sync with other platforms like Google Calendar, IXL, or Google Drive. Here is what to do instead with your calendars, IXL lessons, and photos.
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Set Activity Duration and Start Times
Planning, Tracking & Daily Use
Rhythm sets which weekdays an activity repeats, not a clock time. Set duration and optional start and end times on individual Day and Planner records; daily check-ins have their own At time on Home.
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Create Materials: Generate Reading, Worksheets, and More
HomeTrail Plus
Open Create Materials to generate reading material, worksheets, podcasts, and other student content with HomeTrail Plus. Free accounts can browse formats but cannot generate until they start a Plus trial or subscription.
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Resource Directory Listings Are Run by Other Organizations
FAQs
Groups, co-ops, and resources in HomeTrail’s resource directory are run by their own organizations. HomeTrail does not run those programs or handle their registration.
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Add Materials to a Planned Session
HomeTrail Plus
Review one shared material, prepare a copy for each child, then open it on the web, add it to the plan, or send it to Nest.
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Troubleshoot HomeTrail Plus Access and Billing
HomeTrail Plus
Check the family account and Billing when you paid for Plus but features remain locked or the billing menu is missing.
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