SOS Features
Quick Installation
With a few clicks, Switched-On Schoolhouse is loaded and ready to use.
Automatic Grading
Can easily keep track of student scores, assignments, grading needed to be completed, and preview assignments. This wonderful time-saving feature provides more hands-on time with students and less time with paperwork!
Revised Content
Unlike traditional textbooks, Switched-On Schoolhouse brings your child up-to-date information, more activities, new problems, and text changes.
Enriching Games
Exciting learning activities help students grasp difficult concepts with fun, colorful, educational games. Games include Farmer Frank, All Right, Alpha 14, and Spelling Bee.
Custom Curriculum and Projects
One can customize curriculum by combining, adding, or removing units and assignments. You can also create additional exercises like field trips.
Advanced Lesson Planning
Put away that bulky lesson planner! Each child can have a personalized lesson plan to pace him correctly and it can be modified day-by-day if needed.
Practice Lessons
This feature walks students through a lesson and explains different features so they understand how the curriculum works.
Book Reports
In grades 3-8 of Language Arts, student projects feature genre highlights, book lists, and links to additional resources.
Message Center
Switched-On Schoolhouse allows one to attach messages to each problem or add instructions for your child in a personal electronic mailbox.
Built-in Calendar
The calendar features allow one to assign/unassign school days, exclude date ranges, and add/remove events like field trips or holidays.
Video Clips
Integrated into the curriculum, videos give students an up-close look at subject topics.
Printing Options
One can easily print entire assignments, lessons, problems, records, and vocabulary lists.
Resource Center
A calculator, interactive periodic table of elements, and a dictionary are provided for student convenience.
Voice Automated Lesson Text
With this "text-to-speech" feature, students simply choose a passage or the entire lesson and have it read aloud to them.
Highlighting Tool
Students can choose colors and highlight text for easy studying.
Help Button
This feature offers specific assistance for working different types of question formats.
Online Electives Available:
Bible (Offered for free with SOS enrollment)
20th Century History (Semester)
Advanced Composition
American Literature
British Literature
Civil War (Semester)
College Planner
Consumer Math
Essentials of Communication
French- Elementary and Secondary
Health
Health Quest
Home Economics
Integrated Physics and Chemistry
Spanish- Elementary
Spanish I and II
State Histories
Trigonometry
Vietnam Era History (Semester)
World Geography
Core Subjects:
Math, Language Arts, History/Geography, Science