A complete curriculum that decides the order for you.
The hardest part of homeschooling is not the teaching. It's being the scheduler, the diagnostician and the record-keeper at the same time.
Atlas places each child skill by skill, decides what comes next, and keeps the record of what they can do without help — for $5 a month for every child on the device.
What are the four jobs of homeschooling?
When you homeschool you take on four jobs at once: choosing what to teach, deciding when each child is ready for it, teaching it, and proving they learned it.
A curriculum package sells you the first and the third. The second and the fourth stay yours — and they are the ones that take the evenings.
Who does each job.
| The job | With a curriculum package | With Atlas |
|---|---|---|
| Choosing what to teach | The package brings it | A complete curriculum, per grade and per subject |
| Knowing when a child is ready | You decide | The engine decides, skill by skill, from what your child just did |
| Teaching it | The package brings it | Atlas does it — it talks, draws, asks and corrects |
| Proving they learned it | You keep the log | Generated from the same estimate the tutor is already using |
What do the good options actually give you?
Time4Learning is the honest comparison — a genuinely complete PreK–12 curriculum, twenty years old, with a published 34-page scope and sequence. $335 a year, per student.
It is a good product, and it is explicit about the trade: it hands sequencing to the parent. You place the child, you decide when to move on, you notice that a gap three units back is why this week isn't working. "As the teacher of record…" is their phrase, not ours.
Who decides what my child learns next?
With Atlas, the engine does. The two jobs a curriculum package hands back to you are exactly the two Atlas does on its own, every few seconds, without being asked.
Placement
Atlas works out where each child actually is, per skill, from what they do. Not from a placement test you administer, and not from their age.
Sequencing
It picks the next thing, every time, and tells you why. If long division isn't going in, it will go back to the multiplication fact that is actually missing and repair that first, without being asked.
Record-keeping
What each child can do unaided, when they last showed it, and what is coming due for review. Generated from the same estimate the tutor is using, not a separate log you have to maintain.
And it does it for every child at once.
$5 a month, per device, every child included. Each with their own profile, their own sequence and their own report. The price does not multiply with your family, because it is not charged per child.
| In one year | Time4Learning | Atlas |
|---|---|---|
| One child | $335 | $60 |
| Three children | $1,006 | $60 |
You stay in charge.
Atlas sequences. You still decide what your family is for. You can see everything it has chosen and why it chose it, and change course whenever you want.
And there is nothing in the product that will nag your child, guilt them, or reward them for showing up on a day you had other plans. If the week went elsewhere, on Monday the tutor picks up where it left off.
You decide what your family is for. Atlas decides what comes next.
One email when Atlas opens. Nothing else.