Resource Description
Time4Learning.com is an online education program that teaches preschool through twelfth grade curriculum in an interactive, student-centered environment.
Time4Learning combines 1000+ animated lessons, printable worksheets and graded activities to teach math and language arts lessons correlated to state standards. Science, social studies and art are also provided as a bonus for most grades.
Key features of the program:
- Students get individual logins and work on their own schedule and pace
- Parents can set the grade level independently for each subject
- The grade above and below are available for review and additional study
- There are no CDs and nothing additional to purchase
- An online playground rewards and motivates
- Detailed lesson plans available for parents who wish to preview lessons
- An automated system grades the lessons and keeps printable reports
Time4Learning can be used with a broad array of student types, learning styles and homeschooling methods. It is entirely web based, so your kids will be able to access the program 24/7 from any computer with an internet connection.
It has a low monthly price, requires no contracts and offers a 14 day money-back guarantee.
Website: Time4Learning (may contain affiliate links)
(81 Reviews)
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Contributor Reviews
Reviews are solely the opinions of the contributor.
Cons: Format changes, too political, dumbed down
Grades Used: 8&9
I second the previous reviews. We have used Time4Learning Civics course last year. We didn't finish it and planned to complete in the fall. Well, they completely changed the course and format of instruction. My son doesn't prefer having to constantly click on each little video clip. We preferred the 10 min videos from previous format. We also noticed more politics and a dumbing down introduced in Civics. Didn't seem as complete as previous course.
Cons: Modern liberal topics
Grades Used: 8,5,2
We have used time4learning for approximately 3 years for our 4 children. However, after our 8th grader came to us about his Civics lesson this year, we are no longer going to use it for any of our children. He was having trouble understanding how to make an "identity wheel." After reviewing the rest of the Civics lessons for the year I found several concerning topics and lessons. There are now lessons about diversity, inclusion, and equity (D.I.E.)
Included in the lesson leading up to the assignment of the identity wheel was a video of a child identifying as "they/them" and a circle with polka dotted skin called Rasheeda that the narrator also referred to as "they/them". This kind of lesson does not help with proper grammar and is only a portion of why we have been glad we were homeschooling for the last 5 years, before all of these became such hot topics in public schools.
Also while previewing the lessons in Civics, I noted a lesson about types of power people can have and when discussing physical force/power, a group of white police are seen chasing a black person. This subtly promotes the narrative of racist police hunting black people while other lessons also show BLM protests in a positive light. While time4learning has lessons about reliability of sources and how to spot biases, they fail to catch their own within their lessons when the only political figures that are pictured within the lesson are far-left leaning politicians, the likes of Stacey Abrams and Ilhan Omar. Another example of their bias is the topic of guns. Frequently gun violence is mentioned in context of protests by students and parents, but when discussing the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the 2nd Amendment is completely skipped over.
Cons: New CRTContent and update
Grades Used: 10th 11th 12th
I'm disappointed in the changes made to Time 4 Learnings content. We are homescoolers through a local charter and have gotten approval to use Time 4 Learning and recieved full credit. Unaware that they had updated their curriculum to include Critical Race Therory this year, we have our 11th grade daughter enrolled in English, U.S. history, Spanish, and Geometry. Her two older brother's had completed these classes in the past and we were very happy with the content, not so with the CRT updates. We are now 3 weeks in, and have to rethink, and have approved by our charter a new curriculum. Very disappointed.
Cons: Platform and iterface sucks. More bugs than you can shake a stick at. Poorly responsive staff. No solutions.
Grades Used: 1-6
I've been using the Time-4-Learning curriculum for my son since his first grade. He is now in 6th. The content is decent in my opinion, but they have a lot of issues... Setting aside occasional inaccuracies in their presentation, which has confused my child about specific topics (which I have written and complained to them about), they have program glitches that will drive you crazy and even create tension with your student. For one, the activities won't check off. They claim that you have to exit the program/activity properly, then it will check off. Not true. You can follow their exit instructions and it is still hit or miss. Sometimes, the activity looks checked off, but when the kid exits the program altogether, the check marks disappear. At the end of the day, I have had to ask my son to take screen shots to show me the activity was checked off/done, so I can then go to the parent portal and manually check them off for him. It is unreal! Another example: I just updated his dates and added breaks for the balance of his 6th grade activities. The entire 6th grade "plan" (which was almost halfway done) disappeared altogether. Their platform is their weakest, and most annoying aspect of their curriculum. They need to hire real programming professionals to fix the innumerable bugs in their system.
Cons: Service
Grades Used: 7
WOULD NOT RECOMMEND! I went off of majority of reviews where parents love this program. Let my son review it and he likes it. My issue is Not with the curriculum it is with the service. My child has been working with this
Program for weeks and every time I would log in to download his reports there wasn’t any. I have personally watched him log in and complete his daily assignments and they still were not generating. Finally they did and it only showed 1 lesson he completed weeks prior. Time4learning has continually charged me for 2 months worth of “service”. I have tried contacting them multiple times without a reply or call back. When I try to cancel or suspend my service I get an error message about my account. DO NOT RECOMMEND
Cons: I Think the Content needs work
Grades Used: 2-3-4-7-8
I have used time for learning for just over a yr. For 2 girls. I have seen 2-3-4-7-8 grade curriculums which I didn't find anything that has bothered me within the teachings. The program is easy to use. However, this yr my 8th grader came to me with a few lessons in the Language Art that bothered her, that I have found alittle startling. For example, one story is about a group of elites microchipping the brain of the citizens. One man who opposes it later had it done and couldn't understand afterwards why he was so afraid of it. It proceeds to explain that those at the top controlling the hive mind utopia didn't have this implant. I found this an odd lesson, and rather dark for an impressionable young mind. While it is a story for Language Arts, and really nothing to do with education, I can't help but question the motivation behind it. My impression of some of the other stories is also not so good. Some of the stories seem geared to molding prejudices against out of the box thinkers. They can mold a child's mind to think negatively towards different groups of people beliefs. We have decided to finish out this year, but will be going a different direction for education. For younger kids I have no issues. I know many parents using it and love it, but even they were taken back by a few of the lessons I showed them, thinking maybe I was over reacting. However, I will say it teaches well, and both my girls have not minded it. My 8th grader liked this math program better then Teaching Textbooks math, but my 3 grader liked the teaching textbook better in math. Again, my only issue is we are trying to get away from the Modern day Philosophy of the Public School. So the learning technique is great, it just some of the stories they use to teach.