Head of the Class is designed to track a learner’s progress through the curriculum. Before Head of the Class can track your child’s progress, you must create an account for him or her. To create an account for your child:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Click the Add New link.
4. Within the new profile page, enter your child’s information.
5. Select Save Learner to store your settings.

Head of the Class designed its curriculum to require, on average, 180 days. For most learners, we suggest that you start Head of the Class at your child’s current grade level. He or she should be able to quickly review known content and master new material. If you allow your child to log into the site more than once per day, you can reduce the 180 days required to complete the curriculum. In addition, Head of the Class allows parents and teachers to preview and skip content which will be displayed on the learner menu.

Yes, Head of the Class lets you select your child’s grade level. That said, Head of the Class recommends that you select your child’s current grade level and allow your child to quickly move through and review the grade level content. In addition, you should complete the grade level assessment test. To set your child’s grade level:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Profile button.
5. Within the profile, use the Content Grade Level pull‐down list to select the grade level for the content you desire.
6. Click the Save Learner button to store your settings.

Yes, you may want to move your child back a grade level to allow him or her to establish a solid foundation. Your child will not know the grade level at which he or she is working—instead, he or she will simply have the content presented as options on the learner menu. To set your child’s grade level:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Profile button.
5. Within the profile, use the Content Grade Level pull‐down list to select the grade level for the content you desire.
6. Click the Save Learner button to store your settings.

There may be times when you will want to determine which skill corresponds to an activity your child is viewing on the learner menu:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Dashboard option.
5. Within the Dashboard, click on the Previously Completed Activity Detail List link.
6. Within the list of completed activities, locate the activity which corresponds to the print out and note the skill number, which you can then look up in either the e‐book or View Activities menu.

On average, Head of the Class designed each grade level to require 180 days. Each time your child logs into the children’s menu, the system will present him or her with a list of topic options. Ideally, your child will log into the system at least once per day. That said, the more often your child logs in and completes activities, the faster he or she will progress through the curriculum.

After you download and print an e‐book for a specific grade level, you should start working through the skills the book presents in a sequential manner. You should try to present at least two skills per day to your child. As you read the e‐book, you will encounter italic text. Normally, you can simply read that text to your child to present the topic. In addition, the skills within the book will refer to supplemental content (such as worksheets or multimedia presentations) on the Head of the Class Web site. You can find those activities by:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the View Activities option.
3. Select the grade level of interest.
4. Locate the skill number which corresponds to the content about which you are reading and click on the corresponding activity links.

Head of the Class has launched preschool through fifth grade. We will release sixth grade through eighth grade in 2011.

The Head of the Class curriculum is based on the curricula of all 50 states. As such, you should expect content at each grade level which is new to your child. Using the Head of the Class built‐in assessments, you can measure your child’s progress with respect to the Head of the Class curriculum. You can let your child take the assessments as often as you would like; however Head of the Class recommends that you allow a month of instruction between successive assessments. When your child completes an assessment, Head of the Class, behind the scenes, will make modifications to your child’s curriculum possibly increasing or decreasing the number of learning activities your child should complete for a specific topic.

Children love to be recognized. To print a Head of the Class certificate of achievement, perform these steps:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Create a Certificate option.
3. Within the Certificate Information box, type in your child’s name, the accomplishment you are recognizing, and then select the certificate type.
4. Click Submit to create your certificate.

Head of the Class puts you in control of your child’s account. To change your child’s password:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Profile option.
5. Within the Profile box Login Information section, type twice the password you desire for your child.
6. Click the Save Learner button to store your settings.

The Head of the Class curriculum is based on the curricula of all 50 states. Our curriculum specialists research each state’s curriculum and the Head of the Class content is a collection of the best of the best.

Head of the Class presents hundreds of skills at each grade level. For each skill, Head of the Class provides several learning activities which may be worksheets, videos, multimedia presentations, and so on. Through the learner menu, Head of the Class lets your child work independently through each of these activities. When your child logs into Head of the Class, he or she will see a menu of options which correspond to Math, Writing, Spelling, Reading activities and more. Head of the Class designed the learner menu to lead your child through each of the learning activities.

For most grade levels, Head of the Class targets a 180‐day curriculum. Several topics, such as math and writing, have several hundred activities. To map such activities to the 180‐day curriculum, the activities must appear more than once on the learner menu.

Head of the Class makes it easy for you to repeat an activity your child has completed on the learner menu:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Dashboard option.
5. Within the Dashboard, click on the Previously Completed Activity Detail List link.
6. Within the list of completed activities, locate the activity you desire and click Reassign.

Head of the Class puts you in complete control of your child’s learner menu. To display only a specific topic (or set of topics):

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Profile option.
5. Within the Profile box Topic Emphasis section, use the None option to disable the display of a specific topic.
6. Click the Save Learner button to store your settings.

Head of the Class puts you in control of the items which appear on the learner menu. To prevent a topic from appearing on the menu, perform these steps:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Profile option.
5. Within the Profile box Topic Emphasis section, use the None option to disable the display of a specific topic.
6. Click the Save Learner button to store your settings.

Head of the Class makes it easy for you to preview and control content before it is presented to your child on the learner menu:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Dashboard option.
5. Within the Upcoming Activities list, click on the link for a specific activity.

Head of the Class makes it easy for you to preview and control content before it is presented to your child on the learner menu:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Dashboard option.
5. Within the Upcoming Activities list, click on the link for a specific activity.
6. To remove this occurrence of the activity from your child’s curriculum, click the Skip button.

Each time Head of the Class assigns your child a worksheet, the system will place an entry within your child’s profile which you must mark as complete or needing reassignment. If you mark a worksheet as reassigned, Head of the Class will place the worksheet back into the learner’s curriculum. If you instead, mark the worksheet as successfully completed, Head of the Class will remove this occurrence of the worksheet from the curriculum.

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Worksheets button.
5. Within the list of worksheets, use the buttons to mark each worksheet as complete or reassigned.
6. Click the Save button to store your changes.

Head of the Class makes it easy for you to measure your child’s progress through the current curriculum:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Dashboard option.
5. Within the Dashboard, you can view the number of activities in the current curriculum, the number your child has completed, and his or her percentage of completed activities.

When your child completes the activities for his or her current grade level, Head of the Class will automatically promote your child to the next grade. You will receive an e‐mail notification of the event which we recommend you celebrate by printing a Head of the Class certificate of achievement.

Head of the Class puts you in control of your child’s curriculum. To increase or decrease coverage for a specific topic, perform these steps:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Profile option.
5. Within the Profile box Topic Emphasis section, use the More or Less options to control how much content the learner menu displays for a specific topic.
6. Click the Save Learner button to store your settings.

Head of the Class makes it easy for you to map learner menu activities to content within the e‐book or View Activities menu:

1. Log into Head of the Class using your parent or teacher username.
2. Select the Manage Learners option.
3. Select the learner of interest.
4. Select the Dashboard option.
5. Within the Dashboard, click on the Previously Completed Activity Detail List link.
6. Within the list of completed activities, locate the activity which corresponds to the print out and note the skill number, which you can then look up in either the e‐book or View Activities menu.