CD-Based with Professional Recordkeeping Program
Perhaps you would like greater freedom in oversight of your child's education, but would like a Christian school to maintain permanent records. Our CD-based program may be the right fit for you!
After the Odyssey Academy Academic Advisor evaluates the student's placement test, CD's are mailed directly to your home. Students from 3rd-8th grade use a computer to complete school work via the stand alone CD-based curriculum. Parents are responsible for all grading. At the end of each semester, parents are responsible to submit Grade Reports. Odyssey will maintain the official permanent records and update the transcript. Certainly your Academic Advisor is available to answer any questions you may have regarding how your homeschool experience can be more successful.
Odyssey Advantages:
- Student diagnostic testing for proper academic placement.
- Academic projection for graduation
- School enrollment, but work at home.
- High School Transcript from a school.
- College entrance school number for testing and applications.
- Optional standardized testing (Additional $30)
Comprehensive:
SOS is a comprehensive, Biblically based curriculum that offers computer-based learning for grades 3-12. It features 3-D animation and cutting edge multimedia. Students finish lessons by completing various questions, activities, and quizzes, all through a CD-Rom program.
Effective and Efficient Structure:
SOS Provides an interactive learning environment with 3-D animation, video clips, and other fascinating multimedia. SOS provides automatic grading, record keeping, and lesson planning with the click of a mouse, allowing teachers and parents more time with their students.
The curriculum is written on the principle of "mastery learning." This means that students truly master the content and skills of one unit before progressing to the next. Different students learn at different speeds, thus mastery learning ensures success by allowing each student to spend as much time as necessary in one subject area prior to moving on.
Most of the grading is automatic so parents only have to grade subjective questions. Parents and students can leave messages for one another and parents may find their work cut in half with the record keeping and lesson planning features. SOS offers much flexibility so that you can customize learning to fit students’ educational needs. Students are guided through the lessons at their own pace, giving them the chance to master concepts before moving on to more challenging lessons. There are approximately 130 lessons per subject. Five core subjects — Bible, Language Arts, Math, History & Geography, and Science — are available for grades 3-12. A number of electives are also available such as Health, Spanish, and Consumer Math.
One advantage of the online method versus the CD curriculum: With our Online Academy, occasional subjective scoring is handled by our teachers. With CD curriculum, the parent handles the subjective scoring.
Please read Policies for Using Switched-On Schoolhouse
Our online, CD, and LIFEPAC curriculums are stand-alone programs and can be used individually. However, some students use LIFEPACs for a few subjects and CD or online for others. Please see our Combination Curriculum Method Program page.
Minimum System Requirements:
XP Service Pack 3* (32 or 64 bit and English versions of Windows only)
• Microsoft IE 7 or higher
• 600 MHz or higher processor (1 GHz or higher processor recommended)
• 512 MB Memory (RAM)
• 600 MB hard drive space
• 1024 X 768 or higher resolution monitor, 16 bit color
• Adobe Reader
• CD-ROM drive
• Printer recommended
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Vista (32 or 64 bit and English versions of Windows only)
• Microsoft IE 7 or higher
• 1 GHz or higher processor (1.5 GHz or higher processor recommended)
• 1 GB Memory (RAM) (2 GB Memory or higher recommended)
• 600 MB hard drive space
• 1024 X 768 or higher resolution monitor, 16 bit color
• Adobe Reader
• CD-ROM drive
• Printer recommended
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