Online homeschool program
Full homeschool courses, with games built in.
Trailpost Plus has more than 20 full-year courses in math, science, English, and social studies, from grade 5 through high school. Lessons use primary sources and real photographs, and questions are checked as students go, with an explanation for each answer. Edumon, a full-length learning role-playing game, is included.
One membership covers six students. Prefer single products? Browse the shop.
- Six students, one price$149 a year for the family, not for each child.
- Feedback as they workStudents see why an answer is right or wrong.
- Real sourcesMaps, documents, and photographs from public archives.
- You set what they seeTurn each course, unit, and game on or off for each student.
Trailpost Plus
One membership for the whole family
Plus opens every course, game, story, and simulation on the site. It plays in the browser, and new lessons are added at no extra cost.
Starts with a 7-day free trial. Cancel at any time.
Pay once. Up to six students, for a limited number of families.
- Every course, game, story, and simulation
- Edumon, with question packs you can edit
- A parent page with each student's results
- Printable packets and answer keys
- A course studio to build your own lessons
- A name and PIN for each student
Inside the lessons
Screens from real lessons, as a student sees them
Each picture below was taken while working through a lesson or game. The answers, points, and feedback are the program's own.
Grade 6 Social Studies · Lesson 3.5
Hieroglyphs and the Rosetta Stone
Students read part of the decree carved on the stone, then use a sign key to decode the name Ptolemy in hieroglyphs. They put the steps of the decipherment in order and explain how the three scripts made it possible.
The score panel keeps track of points, checks, and first-try answers for the lesson.
Chemistry · Lesson 1.9
Identifying an element from its spectrum
Students stack an element's lines under an observed strip and compare them within a tolerance. The wavelengths come from the NIST Atomic Spectra Database.
Here hydrogen matches all four lines, and the lesson explains why the other elements do not.
Grade 6 Science · Lesson 4.6
Plate boundaries and plate motion
Students read how the USGS describes the San Andreas Fault and work out how far the Pacific Plate moves in ten years. They then sort earthquake, trench, and ridge evidence by the kind of plate boundary and use ratio tables to scale plate speeds over millions of years.
Narrow photographs sit beside the text they illustrate, and each caption names the photographer and license.
Grade 7 Social Studies · Lesson 5.1
Four early places in the Americas
Students study Uxmal, Tenochtitlan, Machu Picchu, and Cliff Palace through an 1843 engraving, the 1524 Nuremberg map, and expedition photographs. They describe what each land demanded of the people who lived there.
This lesson is shown in the Dark theme. Every lesson has Light, Sage, and Dark themes, larger text, a clear font, read-aloud, and a reading ruler.
Edumon · included with Plus
A role-playing game where answers win battles
Students answer questions to prove their worth and grow their monster team. They can also battle their teams against each other with questions you choose. Parents pick from the question library or write their own, and can switch Edumon on or off for each student.
Compare programs
How Trailpost Plus compares
Calm, focused lessons. Students spend their time on the reading, problems, and writing. You control what each student learns and plays.
Trailpost Plus is priced for the whole family. The other programs here are priced for each child.
| Feature | Trailpost Plus | Time4 | Mia | IXL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly price | $149 | $335.58 | $480 | $159 |
| Children included in that price | Up to 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Full courses in math, language arts, science, and social studies | Practice only | |||
| Games built into lessons | ||||
| Edumon, a full-length learning role-playing game | ||||
| Printable packets with answer keys | Sold separately | |||
| Choose which lessons and games each student sees | Grade levels only | Partly | Partly | |
| Parent page with each student's results | ||||
| Build and assign your own courses |
Other programs as described on their own sites on November 3, 2026. Prices are for one child on a yearly plan. Time4Learning takes 10% to 25% off for two or more students, and IXL adds $40 a year for each added child. An X means the program's site does not list that feature.
Games and simulations
Original games and classroom simulations
Trailpost makes its own games and simulations for history, science, math, reading, and typing. Plus members play them in the browser, and each one is also sold in the shop.
The Oregon Trail: Classroom Caravan
The class travels 2,170 miles as one wagon company of up to 40 players, deciding how to cross each river and how to spend supplies.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Students follow Phileas Fogg's eight stops. At each one they read a passage from the novel, answer a question, and spend from a travel bag.
Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Manuscript
Students search six rooms, question five people, and use the clues in their case file to find a stolen manuscript.
Punnett Kennel
Students fill in a Punnett square for two parent dogs, predict a litter of eight puppies, and then see which puppies arrive.
Solve the Spire
Students climb a tower by building number sentences. The answer to each sentence is the damage dealt to the creature in the room.
REWIND: The 24-Hour Detective
Students get cases by text message and set a clock dial to replay what happened at each time.
Morse Desk
Students work at a telegraph clerk's desk, reading, hearing, and tapping out Morse code.
Sushi Belt
Students type the word on each dish before it reaches the end of the conveyor belt.
These eight are a sample. Trailpost has more than 50 games and simulations, and the full list is in the shop.
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Single products to buy and keep
Games, simulations, interactive stories, courses, and tools, with files you download and keep. From $4.99.
Free to try
Free lessons and games, no sign-up needed
Open any of these in the browser with students.