Homeschool Co-op Management Software for Islamic and Secular Co-ops

A homeschool co-op is a group of homeschooling families that pools time, expertise, and tuition to teach their kids together. Maybe three or four families meeting at someone's house for art and a park day. Maybe fifty families with bylaws, a board, paid outside instructors, a course catalog, and meeting one or two days a week at a church or community center.

Co-ops are not full-time schools. They are not maktabs. They are not just enrichment groups. They sit between all of those, and most school software refuses to fit. MarkTrack does.

Per-class enrollment, per-family invoicing

Co-op tuition is rarely "one number per kid." It is usually per class, with a registration fee, plus a per-family lab fee, minus a sibling discount. MarkTrack lets you set up classes with their own per-student tuition, then rolls each family's actual classes up into one invoice per family per term. One Stripe payment covers all of it.

Parents who are also teachers

Half the parents in a co-op are also instructors. The same person who teaches the lab section needs to see their own child's attendance in someone else's class. MarkTrack handles this without a workaround. A user can be both a parent of enrolled students and a teacher of one or more classes, and the dashboard adapts to which hat they are wearing.

Day-of-week schedules

A co-op meets Tuesdays. Or Tuesdays and Thursdays. Attendance should not show "absent" for the four other weekdays. MarkTrack lets each class set its meeting days, and the attendance reports only count the days the class actually meets. Same for Sunday schools, weekend academies, and any program that does not meet Monday through Friday.

Build your enrollment form, drop it on your site

New families fill it out, you accept, the kids are auto-enrolled in their selected classes, and the welcome email goes out with login credentials. No spreadsheet. No back-and-forth.

Faith-based and secular both fit

We come out of the Islamic homeschool world, where families combine secular academics with Quran, Arabic, and Islamic studies in a co-op format, often as an alternative when there is no full-time Islamic school within driving distance. The same software runs equally well for secular co-ops. Hifz tracking just stays off if you do not need it.

Drop-off, participation, or hybrid

Some co-ops require every parent to teach or assist. Some are drop-off only. Some are a mix per family. MarkTrack does not push a model on you. You decide which parents are in the teacher pool, which classes need a parent assistant, and which are open enrollment. The software just keeps the records straight.

Small now, hybrid academy later

A lot of co-ops eventually grow into part-time hybrid academies, and some of those grow into full-time schools. Same MarkTrack account the whole way. Add a school, add a payment plan, add a full-time program, no migration.

Take a look at the features page, or tell us about your co-op and we will set you up.

MarkTrack for homeschool co-ops