How to Organize Digital Homeschool Curriculum
Imagine how your homeschool book shelves look at the end of the year. What if you could reduce some of that by using digital homeschool curriculum.
I love saving on shipping and extra duty charges as a Canadian homeschooler. But when it’s out of sight, it is out of your mind. You may forget what you’ve purchased from previous years and end up wasting money and buying something else you already had.
Organization is the key to making the most of your digital homeschool curriculum. It’s a big deal, if you can’t find that grammar workbook you just purchased, it’s a waste of time and money.
Then you have to find something to use with your child which means more time and money wasted. After homeschooling for 9 years, I have a huge collection of freebies and purchased products that I need to organized.
This means I don’t have to buy very much at all each year except for my oldest because he gets the first of everything.
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How to store files
You need a back up for your back up. Think of it as a precaution just in case your computer dies. I like using an external hard drive paired with a cloud storage system like Dropbox or Drive. Dropbox gives you 2 GB for free while you get 15 GB for free with Drive. I use it extensively so I purchased the 1 TB storage for Dropbox to hold all of my pictures and videos.
Folders are your friends
Create subject folders to house your freebies and products so that they are easy to find. Within those folders you can organized them again. You can create folders by topic or grade levels. I also have folders for large purchases like bundle sales so I can see what I bought asap.
Name files accordingly
You know when you make a new curriculum purchase and it has a file name like pl23246, well that won’t help you find it again. Make sure you rename all of your file downloads so that they clearly state what they are and even add in grade levels if you forget. After you’ve been collecting a library of material, you’ll thank me later.
Where can you get digital curriculum?
Curriculum vendors may have the option for a PDF format such as Peacehill pres or Writeshop. Or you can take advantage of the large bundle sales. The 2020 Build Your Bundle sale is happening May 11th-18th.
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I could live to win the elementary pack!
Thank you for offering this! They all look amazing! I’d like the unit studies bundle if I win. ?
OOh this would be super helpful for my homeschooling journey!
Thanks for the opportunity to win! I am looking forward to the sale starting and seeing if I am able to afford new curriculum this year.
I need this so much, its not even funny 😀
i would love the character building bundle
Homeschool Helps I think would be the one I would pick.. maybe another, I don’t know really. lol 😉
The Special Needs bundle, Elementary bundles and the High School bundles in fact they all look terrific. Thank you.
Build your own bundle, looking at the nifty fifty, branches of government, skilltrek, just to name a few ?
I have my eye on Homeschool Helps #1 and the Brother and Sister bundle.
The thematic units, unit studies bundle and the elementary bundles fit the best with our school plans for next year, but I’m also debating on buying the Parenting bundle and the brother/sister bundle.
The Character bundle and Parenting bundle are tied for #1 on my list. But I know I can’t resist building my own, too!
Unit studies or Elementry bundles! Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
The Charlotte Mason bundle
I’m looking to get the Charlotte Mason or Elementary 2 bundle!!!