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