# OpenSky Planner

> OpenSky Planner is a homeschool planning app for families teaching one or more children at home. It turns a family's curriculum into daily student checklists, keeps the plan flexible when life moves, and records attendance, grades and transcripts. Marketing site: https://www.openskyplanner.com. App: https://app.openskyplanner.com.

## Product

Save hours running your homeschool. Parents add the courses they already own (any publisher, or their own), OpenSky lays them out on the calendar, and each student gets a daily checklist of what to do. Skipped days push the plan forward instead of breaking it. Parents see progress, mark attendance, grade work, and generate transcripts and compliance reports. Each student can log in to their own checklist. Works in the browser on desktop and mobile.

## Pricing

- One plan, "Pro": $16.99/month or $172.99/year (USD). Also billed in CAD CA$16.99/month or CA$172.99/year; EUR €13.99/month or €146.99/year; GBP £12.99/month or £126.99/year.
- 14-day free trial, card required, cancel any time. Unlimited students on Pro.
- Details and current prices: https://www.openskyplanner.com/pricing

## Features

### Day-to-day learning
- [Interactive Daily Checklists](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/daily-checklists): Auto-generated daily student plans
- [Student Dashboard Access](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/student-dashboard-access): Student portal for independence
- [Parent-Student Communication](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/parent-student-communication): Built-in messaging for each lesson
- [Work Submission](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/work-submission): Upload assignments directly to lessons
- [Lesson Grading](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/lesson-grading): Grade lessons and provide feedback
- [Supplemental Lesson Generator](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/supplemental-lesson-generator): Generate custom lessons instantly

### Flexible planning
- [Powerful Monthly Planner](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/powerful-monthly-planner): Visual calendar for all students
- [Continuous Calendar Mode](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/continuous-calendar-mode): No fixed end date for your calendar
- [Automated Lesson Rescheduling](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/automated-lesson-rescheduling): Smart scheduling that adapts to you
- [Visual Course Pacing Engine](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/visual-course-pacing-engine): Real-time course completion insights
- [Course Load Timeline View](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/course-load-timeline-view): Visualize how courses span the year
- [Recurring & One-Off Events](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/recurring-one-off-events): Manage co-ops, sports, and appointments

### Curriculum management
- [Community Templates](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/community-templates): Pre-built curriculum from other families
- [Course Editor](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/course-editor): Build and customize your curriculum
- [AI Curriculum Upload](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/ai-course-upload-bot): Extract curriculum from any format

### Administrative tools
- [Course Grading & Notes](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/course-grading-notes): Track grades and keep teaching notes
- [Daily Weather & Learning Facts](https://www.openskyplanner.com/feature/daily-weather-learning-facts): For parents who never stop planning or learning

## Help

- [Full help center text](https://www.openskyplanner.com/llms-full.txt): every help article in one file
- Any single article as Markdown: add `.md` to its URL (for example https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-is-opensky.md)

### Setup
- [What is OpenSky?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-is-opensky): What OpenSky is, who it is for, and how a homeschool uses it day to day.
- [What does OpenSky offer?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-does-opensky-offer): A tour of the main pieces of OpenSky — courses, the checklist, scheduling, grades and reports.
- [What platforms does OpenSky support?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-platforms-does-opensky-support): OpenSky runs in a web browser on any computer, and as an app on iPhone, iPad and Android.
- [Parent profile](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/parent-profile): Set up your own profile as the parent or teacher running the homeschool.
- [School profile](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/school-profile): Fill in your homeschool's name and details so they appear on reports and transcripts.
- [Manage students](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/manage-students): Add, edit and remove students, and give each one access to their own dashboard.
- [Invite other parents](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/invite-other-parents): Invite another parent or guardian to manage the homeschool alongside you.
- [Profile swap PIN](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/profile-swap-pin): Set a PIN so students cannot switch into a parent profile on a shared device.
- [Notification settings](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/notifications): Choose which emails, push alerts and in-app notifications your household receives.
- [Referrals and rewards](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/referrals): Share your referral link and see what you and the families you invite receive.
- [AI Connector](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/ai-connector): Connect OpenSky to an AI assistant so it can work with your courses and students.
- [Calendar integrations](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/calendar-integrations): Share your OpenSky calendars with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook and other apps.
- [Resource library](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/resources): Keep files and links in one library and attach them to courses and lessons.
- [Changing to annual](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/changing-to-annual): Switch from monthly to annual billing and see how the change is prorated.
- [Update billing info](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/updating-billing): Update the card on file and download invoices from your billing settings.
- [Cancelling your subscription](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/cancellation): Cancel your subscription and understand what happens to your account afterwards.
- [Managing your data](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/managing-your-data): Export or delete the data OpenSky holds for your homeschool.

### Scheduling & Courses
- [What does OpenSky schedule?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-does-opensky-schedule): The kinds of things OpenSky puts on the calendar, from course lessons to activities and school days.
- [What scheduling tools does OpenSky offer?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-scheduling-tools-does-opensky-offer): A tour of the calendar, pacing, block scheduling and rescheduling tools.
- [Adding holidays and breaks](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/adding-holidays-and-breaks): Mark days off so lessons skip them and the plan moves forward on its own.
- [Understanding school years](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/creating-your-first-calendar): Set up the school calendar that every course and lesson is scheduled against.
- [Importing standard holidays](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/importing-standard-holidays): Add a standard set of holidays to your calendar in one step.
- [Adding a new school year](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/adding-a-new-school-year): Start the next school year without losing the current one.
- [Tracking attendance](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/attendance): Record attendance by day and see totals for the year.
- [Adding courses](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/courses): Create a course from scratch, from a template, or from your own curriculum.
- [Activities](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/activities): Add one-off and recurring activities alongside your courses.
- [Assigning books](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/books): Add books to a student and decide whether they are scheduled chapter by chapter or read freely.
- [Community templates](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/community-templates): Find courses other families have shared and add them to your own plan.
- [Course editor](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/course-editor): Build and edit lessons, tasks and attachments in the course editor.
- [Managing enrolled courses](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/managing-courses): Edit, archive and reorganize the courses in your homeschool.
- [Course pacing](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/course-pacing): Choose how many lessons happen per week and which days they land on.
- [Scheduling first lesson](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/scheduling-first-lesson): Pick the start date that places a course's first lesson on the calendar.
- [Scheduling a course for the future](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/scheduling-a-course-for-the-future): Set up a course now so it starts later in the year.
- [Scheduling a course that started already](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/scheduling-a-course-that-started-already): Enroll partway through a curriculum and mark the lessons you have already finished.
- [Block Scheduling](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/block-scheduling): Use the block schedule builder to rotate courses, start one course when another ends, teach several courses the same day, and set up A and B weeks.
- [Scheduling books](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/scheduling-books): Schedule a book across the calendar by chapter or by reading time.
- [Moving a lesson](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/moving-a-lesson): Move one lesson to another day without disturbing the rest of the course.
- [Pausing a course](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/pausing-a-course): Pause a course for a while and pick it up again later.
- [Overdue lessons](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/overdue-lessons): What happens to lessons that were not completed on their day, and how to catch up.

### Learning
- [What style of learning does OpenSky promote?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-style-of-learning-does-opensky-promote): The approach to independent learning that OpenSky is built around.
- [What does an example school day look like?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-does-an-example-school-day-look-like): A walk through a typical day for a parent and a student using OpenSky.
- [Student access](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/student-access): Give a student their own login and dashboard.
- [Student permissions](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/permissions): Choose what each student can see and change on their own.
- [Submit for review](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/submit-for-review): Have students hand work in for you to check before it counts as complete.
- [Today & Upcoming](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/today-and-upcoming): The two checklist pages and what each one shows.
- [The lesson drawer](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/lesson-drawer): Everything you can see and do when you open a lesson.
- [Checklist layouts](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/layouts): Switch between the list, board and calendar layouts.
- [Lesson comments](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/comments): Leave notes on a lesson and read what your student wrote back.
- [Student submissions](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/submissions): Upload work to a lesson and find it again in the Resource Library.
- [LearningShape](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/learningshape): What the LearningShape insight shows about how each student learns.
- [Signal check-ins](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/signal): Read the Signal check-ins that show how a course is going for a student.
- [Printing the checklist](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/printing-checklist): Print a day, a week or a month of the checklist.
- [Printing a course](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/printing-course): Print a course outline or its lessons.

### Grading & Reports
- [What does OpenSky provide?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/what-does-opensky-provide): The grading and reporting tools OpenSky offers, from grades per lesson to transcripts and portfolios.
- [Grading styles](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/grading-styles): Choose between grading every lesson, grading a course as a whole, or not grading at all.
- [Adjusting course grade weights](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/grade-weights): Change how much tests, quizzes, lessons, activities and labs each count toward a course grade.
- [Grading lessons](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/grading-lessons): Grade individual lessons as they are completed.
- [Gradebook](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/gradebook): See every grade for a student in one place.
- [Where's my course?](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/wheres-my-course): A course that is missing from the Gradebook is not linked to that grade yet. Here is how to add it, and how grades are organized.
- [Generating transcripts](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/transcripts): Generate a transcript from the courses and grades on record.
- [Generating a Portfolio](https://www.openskyplanner.com/support/generating-a-portfolio): Build one PDF covering a student's year — attendance, progress, daily log, and samples of their work — for a review, an evaluator, or your own records.

## Blog

- [How Brittle Is Your Homeschool Plan? The Importance of Flexibility on Your Sanity](https://www.openskyplanner.com/blog/how-brittle-is-your-homeschool-plan): 2026-08-04. Paper planners, spreadsheets, and Trello all break the moment life happens. How your planning system handles change determines whether it protects your sanity — or quietly erodes it.
- [The simplest OpenSky yet](https://www.openskyplanner.com/blog/the-simplest-opensky-yet): 2026-07-16. One planner, one place to add everything, Family Courses, Book Tracking, and quick scheduling — a tour of this week's release.

## Optional

- [About](https://www.openskyplanner.com/about): who builds OpenSky and why
- [Customer story](https://www.openskyplanner.com/stories/from-chaos-to-confidence): a homeschool parent of four on switching from paper planners
- [Learning Independence Assessment](https://www.openskyplanner.com/independent-learning-assessment): free quiz on how much of the learning your students own
- [Support email](mailto:support@openskyplanner.com)