EHEapp
The elective home education app
Living and learning with our children is one of life’s great joys. Evidencing we’re doing a great job; not so much. The EHEapp is about taking away the stress and getting back to what matters – enjoying family life.
Developed by graduates of home education
The EHEapp was created by a team of three, two of whom were home educated themselves, one of whom has been home educating for over 25 years. We truly understand the incredible value of home education. You can read more about our personal journey on the ‘About Us‘ page. We designed this app as a tool to help home educators easily document their children’s educational journey.
Features
The EHEapp has been developed with a set of unique features to help make journaling your child’s educational journey an easy and enjoyable experience.
Multiple entries per day
Life happens all the time and everywhere – the app allows entries to be added as easily as sending a chat message wherever and whenever you like.
Tagging
When you make an entry you can add as many tags as you like to quickly and easily see exactly what you’ve been up to and get immediate feedback on the educational elements of the entry.
Numeracy and Literacy
Every tag in the EHEapp has a numeracy and literacy breakdown. This means that whatever you’ve been up to the app will reflect the true educational value to your child
Progress
When your child makes any progress simply click the progress button next to the entry. At the end of the year you’ll have ample evidence of just how much progress has been made.
easily add photos
Having an app on your phone makes adding photos incredibly easy. You can very easily add multiple photos to each record to show just how much fun you’ve been having.
educational philosophy
The app has an educational philiosophy generator that is 100% home education positive and deals with many of the negative stereotypes home educators often have to address.
siblings
Add as many of your children as you need. Each child has a completely unique and individual journal.
Secure Sharing
You don’t have to share anything – you can simply use the app as a way of journaling your educational journey – or you can share as much or as little as you want. You are in complete control of your data at all times.
Secure Storage
The best journal in the world is of no value if it can’t be easily accessed. We provide easily accessible secure online storage to ensure your journal is always accessible.
Security
While keeping a journal is a great way of removing the stress from evidencing your child’s education, the security of the information you journal is also paramount. ISO27001 is the gold standard in information security and Zergles LLP, the developers of the EHEapp is independently audited to ensure it conforms to all ISO27001 standards.
Online Storage Portal
All the entries you create are accessible at our secure online portal.
Accessibility
Our secure online portal is accessible at all times. You have complete control over what is stored, how long it is stored for, and when it is removed. You also have complete control over what, if anything, is shared; how long it is shared; and who it is shared with.
ANALYSIS
This is where all that tagging comes into its own. You can see exactly what you’ve done and you can see what this looks like in terms of the numeracy, literacy, STEM, life skills and socialisation.
Entries
One of the great things about having the EHEapp on your phone is that your phone is always with you so you can log your educational journey pretty much in realtime. What you log is entirely up to you. It might be a simple entry about a lesson completed or it may be a brief overview of a chat you had. The joy of home educating is that almost everything counts whether it is the beauty to be found in a sonnet or the practicality of a interpreting a flat pack instruction manual.
Every entry in the EHEapp has one or more tags – a tag is simply the category the activity falls into. So if you go out to see some live music with some friends you might tag it #outing #social #music. The app uses these tags to keep track of educational elements. It also uses tags to sort your entries so you can see exactly what you’ve been up to.
Every entry in the EHEapp can be marked as progress, you simply press the light bulb icon and the entry will be highlighted with a yellow border and you will then be able to quickly and easily sort your entries to see where progress has been made. For a bit more of an in-depth look into what progress is see our blog post on progress.
Photos
Smartphones have released the inner photo journalist in all of us and there’s no better use of all this chronicling than adding meaning and context to your educational journey whatever route you’ve decided to take. Every entry – and remember you can have as many entries a day as you need – can have one or more photos attached. This could be of a piece of work or an outing to a museum; a photo makes your entries both more enjoyable to make and more fun to look back on.