CompuScholar Curriculum Review
Last fall, I agreed to review a curriculum called CompuScholar for the Timberdoodle company. Since my daughter Abby is in the target age-range for this program–and since she’s already been writing a series of blog posts on handcrafts for our family website–I agreed to take the curriculum for a test drive.
But I was really interested in going through it myself. I’ve been blogging for nearly 20 years and have pieced together a working knowledge of HTML during that time.
However, I still have huge gaps in my largely self-taught knowledge and understanding and thought a systematic program would teach me to do a few things I’ve not been able to figure out on my own.
Fortunately, the platform is designed so that a parent can go through the very same lessons the student is getting. We can even take the same tests, although grades are only recorded for the actual student.
I was right about it being worth my time to work through the material on my own, though. The CompuScholar program simplifies the subject so well that the curriculum covers in just a few lessons information it took me months and years to master.
It even explains how to find fonts that are licensed for use on web pages and how to embed them on your site so they display properly, something that remained a mystery to me until this lesson.
Best of all, the curriculum covers Cascading Style Sheets as well — something I knew absolutely nothing about and always looked like gibberish when I looked at it before.
After that module, though, it made much more sense to me. And I could recognize the pattern and understand why it was written as it was. This section alone has the potential to revolutionize the appearance of my blog!
Is there a student (or a parent) in your home who might benefit from the CompuScholar curriculum? You can purchase it from Timberdoodle as a stand-alone subject or as part of their 9th grade curriculum kit.
And while you’re on the Timberdoodle website, I’d encourage you to look around. We love everything we’ve ever ordered from this small family-owned company!
Be sure to sign up for their Doodle Dollar program to save on future purchases. And to see more of my Timberdoodle Reviews, simply scroll to the bottom of my Homeschool Help page, and you can read them all!
PLEASE NOTE: As a member of the Timberdoodle blog team, I routinely receive free or deeply discounted products in exchange for writing honest reviews. Opinions expressed in these posts are 100% my own. I’ve been a happy and enthusiastic Timberdoodle customer for decades — long before I ever started blogging for their company.
