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Help & how-to guides

How Trellis works, one job at a time.

Seven short guides that follow the same path the app does: set up your family, plan the year, run the day, and keep the records. The path runs all the way to a graduation transcript.
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Set Up Your Family

One evening of setup: your school year, your kids, their colors, and the settings everything else builds on.

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Plan the year
Turn Any Curriculum Into a Year Plan

A lesson count, a table of contents, or a spreadsheet — any of them becomes a full year of work.

Read the guide →
Run the day
Run the Week From the Calendar

Drag work onto days, put overdue work back into your schedule, shift work to other days or even out the weeks ahead, and see the plan in your phone's calendar.

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Kids own their day
Kid Logins, Devices, and Their Day

Device links for kid PCs and tablets, the kid dashboard, the lock for kid use, focus timers, streaks, and celebrations.

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Prove it happened
Grades, Logs, and Year-End Records

The Gradebook, report cards, Learning Records, reading hours, and the printable year view.

Read the guide →
The diploma years
High School & Transcripts

Plan all four years on one board, and the same courses become the graduation transcript — enter grades any time, even years later.

Read the guide →
Work faster
The Spreadsheet and Other Power Tools

Edit the whole plan in a grid, shift work to other days or even out the weeks ahead, and give kids month-only checklists.

Read the guide →

New here? The fastest setup path.

Each step links straight to the page where it happens. Most families finish in an evening.

1
Set your academic year

Choose the school year dates first so planning, time off, and yearly reports use the right range.

Open Settings →
2
Add each child

Create one child profile per student. Each child gets their own color, schedule, assignments, and grades.

Manage Children →
3
Create child device links

Use the Children page to create a device sign-in link for each kid PC or shared tablet. Open the link on that device and bookmark it.

Create Device Links →
4
Add or import work

Start with a few assignments, or import a curriculum plan with lesson counts and suggested months.

Import Assignments →
5
Plan from the calendar

Use the calendar to drag work onto days, reorder cards, and move suggested lessons into the month view.

Open Board →
6
Turn on completion emails

Completion emails are optional and arrive as one daily digest at the time you choose, without exact completion times.

Email Settings →

Stuck on something these guides don't cover?

Trellis is built by a homeschooling family, and questions from real school days are how it gets better.

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