Using Office As Your Homeschool Software

Many people use the Microsoft Office suite of products as their homeschool software for tracking assignments and grades. In the Office suite is a program called Excel. Excel is a software program that is good at keeping lists, and organizing rows of information. I can create an excel spreadsheet with multiple columns, perhaps a column for date, assignment, subject, grade, etc. I can then save the excel spreadsheet for future reference, or print it to show to the child or to homeschool administrators (required in some states). Excel is a great piece of homeschool software because it is so easy to use and is almost ubiquitous. I can share the files it creates via email or export them to all kinds of other file formats.