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The transcript template
One editable transcript, in Excel and Google Sheets. Enter courses, credits and grades; the weighted GPA, the unweighted GPA and the total credits calculate themselves. The formula cells are locked so a stray keystroke cannot quietly break the arithmetic, which is the most common thing that goes wrong with a homeschool transcript.
It is the same transcript that comes in the paid system. Not a crippled version, not a watermarked preview. If it turns out to be all you need, then it is all you need and we are square. Take the template.
It does not include the 131 course descriptions, the fifty-one state summaries, the portfolio and evaluator forms, or the guide. Those are the Records System, and they are the reason it costs thirty-nine dollars.
Counting a credit
One page on what a high school credit actually is. There is no federal definition of one. The 120-hour figure everybody repeats is an accounting habit that goes back to 1906. The Carnegie Foundation's own 2015 report says the unit "was never intended to function as a measure of what students learned" (Silva, White & Toch, The Carnegie Unit, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2015, pp. 5, 7-8, read 25 July 2026). The only federal credit-hour rule on the books, 34 C.F.R. 600.2, is a student-aid rule for colleges.
The bottom half of the sheet does the real work: a table you fill in per course, with a column for the evidence you could produce if someone asked. Hours are the easiest thing to write down and the weakest thing to be asked about later. What answers a phone call from an admissions office is a folder you can go and open.
Every claim is printed on the sheet with its citation, because the person who eventually questions a credit will not accept a link. Take the worksheet.
Homeschool requirements, all fifty-one
Every state and the District of Columbia, free to read. What you file, by when, what records you keep, what assessment you owe if any, and the statute cited with a link so you can check our reading against the actual code.
These are free on purpose. A parent should not have to buy anything to find out what the law asks of them, and the summaries floating around in comment threads are often years out of date. Ohio dropped its assessment requirement in 2023. Wyoming dropped its curriculum filing in 2025. Most of the internet has not noticed either.
Why any of this is free
Partly because it should be. The paperwork side of homeschooling is where families get frightened into buying things, and a scared parent is not a customer we want.
Partly because it is how you find out whether we are any good. Read the state page for where you live and check it against your own statute.