Kiwi Compass
The printable library · file six of ten
Transcript working record
One sheet per course, filled in while you still remember it. Building a transcript in the final year from four years of memory is the hardest paperwork in homeschooling, and it is entirely avoidable.
Student
Academic year
Provider or material used
Completion date
Credit value, decided by the parent under applicable rules
Final grade, and the method used to reach it
Course description
Three or four sentences, in the register a college admissions officer reads: what the course covered, what was required, and how it was assessed. Write it now, in full sentences. Future you will paste this straight into the transcript.
Major work
Texts, projects, labs, exams, papers, competitions — the things that would appear on a syllabus.
Where the evidence lives
Folder, drive, box on a shelf. Be specific enough that somebody else could find it, because by the time you need it you will have changed laptops twice.
If your credit rule uses time
Some families and some jurisdictions define a credit by instructional hours; others by completing the material. Use whichever your rules require, and record which one you used.
| Term | Weeks | Hours per week | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Term 1 | |||
| Term 2 | |||
| Term 3 | |||
| Total |
Credit rule I am using, and where it comes from
Fill this in on the last day of the course. Not in June of the final year. The whole value of this sheet is that it is written while the details are still in the room — which text you actually used, why you switched halfway through, what the exam was. A stack of these is a transcript waiting to be typed up.