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)
(77 Reviews)
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Contributor Reviews
Reviews are solely the opinions of the contributor.
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.
Cons: Monotonous, very lacking in instruction
Grades Used: 2
Used TFL for 2nd grade and found it so monotonous with the cartoon characters repeatedly! Used tons of supplements. I could only recommend as a practice
Cons: Occasional technological glitches and automated test-grading errors
Grades Used: 9th grade level for an 8th grade student
T4L was a terrific program for my 8th-grade granddaughter, but I can see how it might be problematic for some My granddaughter had been a straight-A public school student through the 7th grade, however that spring she developed some health issues that we knew would keep her from attending public school in person the next year. She is a self-starter and a highly driven, motivated student. She's also computer literate.
Most of her 8th-grade T4L curriculum consisted of 9th-grade-level high school courses. When she returned to a Virginia public high school for the 9th-grade, every one of her T4L credits except English1 and Spanish 1 transferred as high school credit without question. She received high school credit for Algebra 1, Physical Science, and US Government & Civics. When she returned to public school for the 9th grade, she was placed in Geometry (honors), Biology (honors), and World History (honors). She took English 1 (honors) and Spanish 1, breezing through both.
My granddaughter found the courses challenging but not overwhelming. She focused on the video instructions and completed all of the online lessons and tests. T4L allows students to repeat lessons or tests if they have problems, which she occasionally did. She mostly ignored the extra-practice lessons and worksheets, which she described as "busy work just like in regular school" I helped her plan her weekly schedules to which she stuck without ever falling behind. She usually started her lessons around 8 am. She took about an hour break for lunch, texting friends, browsing the internet (mostly tik-tok), and playing with her cats. Normally, she finished her schoolwork by 1:30 or 2 pm at the latest. Now and then she needed to work later, occasionally after supper or on weekends to finish up if the lessons were exceptionally long. On a very few occasions, the lectures had technology glitches that could not be fixed. Also, there were a very few questions on some tests that were bad; on some of the non-multiple choice math texts, answers would be graded as incorrect if not entered exactly in the format the system was looking for and that format would change between lessons and tests. For example, sometimes the system might require the answer to be 0.12 and at other times +0.12 and at other times .12. When technology problems cropped up, a phone call usually got them fixed them quickly or, if not, an acknowledgment that the problem was with them and not the student.
My granddaughter found an occasional math or biology lesson a little confusing. So, we purchased one supplementary text/workbook in each subject that she could consult when she didn't understand a concept as presented online. Problem solved.
Grades for lessons and tests are compiled online by T4L, and their automated forms can be used to generate grading report cards or basic transcripts. Their data can be easily transcribed in custom-made forms if you want to make them yourself.
For the most part, course-content was spot-on, although just a tad outdated in the physical science and government/civics courses. As a conservative, I was surprised that the content was basically politically neutral with perhaps only occasionally showing the very slightest liberal bias. Although slavery, race, economic systems, and politics were discussed, it was done so traditionally in both content and quantity. There was no trace of left-leaning Zinn-like revisionist history. Neither was there any trace of modern critical race theory. As a Christian, I saw no anti-Judeo-Christian nor pro-Muslim bias as one person here has complained.
However, if you are looking for a fundamentalist, Christian-focused, or Creationist-centered program, T4L is probably not for you or your children. It is religiously neutral although religion does occasionally crop up as in history lessons discussing the Founding Fathers or in Biology lessons discussing evolution.
Also, if your child is not a self-starter and relatively computer literate, this program is probably not for you or them.
Grades Used: 9
Y'all, don't sign up your children here, I repeat, don't do it! I enrolled my daughter here in the 9th grade of high school and when she returned to school in the 10th grade she had to repeat the year again because the credits were not valid, we did everything to prevent that from happening, but it was impossible, we are very disappointed with this school and I do not recommend that you enroll your children here even the classes do not teach anything and nothing makes really sense
Cons: Everything else
Grades Used: 1 and 3
We've been using Time4Learning for 4 months now. Y'all....save your money. It's a waste. The interface is an absolute nightmare. The glitches are never-ending. I'm sure the content is fine, but it's incredibly difficult to follow along as a parent unless I'm sitting right next to both of them the entire time. It's not parent/coach friendly. It's not even that student friendly. There are free curriculums out there that are offer a much higher quality user interface. And I'm using those now. So, again, save your coin and your sanity. Skip Time4Learning.
Cons: Not special Ed friendly
Grades Used: 3rd,4th,9th & 10th
I think the quality of the lessons are at a very high standard and this program has an unbelievably low price. I do have to agree that from my experience with a special needs student there isn't any flexibility in the courses or lessons presented. I also wish the e-note feature allowed students to copy and paste from the actual lesson to the notes. These are suggestions for improvement for an amazing program I was so thankful to find!