Apply-ED helps parents create structured, curriculum-aligned home education programs for registration applications. We take your intake responses - about your child's year level, learning goals, strengths and interests - and build a complete, submission-ready program document tailored specifically to your child.
We take the complexity out of working out what to include, how to organise it, and how to present it, so you don’t have to start from a blank page or guess what’s expected.
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Apply-ED does not create day-to-day lesson plans, daily activities, or a teaching timetable. Instead, the program produced is a planning and overview document. It outlines learning intentions, broad activities, resources, and ways to monitor progress across study blocks, while leaving daily teaching decisions flexible and in the hands of the parent or carer.
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Apply-ED does not submit applications on behalf of families. You receive the completed program document, ready to attach to the application that you submit yourself.
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Parents/carers remain fully responsible for planning, delivering, and overseeing their child’s learning. Apply-ED supports parents and carers by organising their educational intentions into a clear, compliant program, reducing the time and stress involved in writing it from scratch.
Apply-ED is designed for Australian families applying for or renewing their home education registration. We support families at every stage of their homeschooling journey—especially beginners—by helping them create a structured program without needing any formal teaching or curriculum writing experience. From Foundation Year to Year 10, our platform adapts to your family's unique style, with a program built around your child's year level, goals, interests and learning context.
Apply-ED supports families across all Australian states and territories.
Each program is aligned to the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) and tailored to meet the specific registration requirements of your state's home education authority. During the intake process, you select your state and we build your program to reflect what your registration body expects to see.
Apply-ED supports all year levels from Foundation Year (Prep/Kindergarten) through to Year 10. Each program is built to match your child's specific working year level, not just their age or enrolled year.
Yes - you can choose.
If your program begins mid-year, you may either:
We’ll ask you this during the intake process so your program reflects your preference and aligns with your state’s registration expectations.
Both options are valid. The choice simply determines how progression is structured across your Study Blocks.
Every Apply-ED program is built individually, around the specific child it's for. Not customised from a template.
Curriculum coverage stays the same for every child at a given year level, that's set by your state. What changes for your child specifically is how the program is shaped: the teaching strategies, the pacing, the rhythm of each study block, the kinds of activities and evidence we suggest.
During the intake we ask in detail about your child, their year level, their learning goals, their interests and motivations, how they learn best, what's worked and what hasn't. We also ask about supports that matter to your family: ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, anxiety, sensory needs, giftedness, twice-exceptional learning. The program is built around those answers.
Every program is human-reviewed before it reaches you, and individually checked against your child's profile. Nothing is sent until it's right for the child it was built for.
Yes.
You can submit an intake for multiple children in a single order. Each child receives their own individual program, built specifically for them - their year level, learning approach, goals and context.
Apply-ED works with how your child actually learns, including ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, anxiety, sensory processing differences, giftedness, twice-exceptional learners, and other specific supports your family relies on.
Your intake is where this happens. We ask in detail about your child's strengths, challenges, attention patterns, sensory needs, what's worked and what hasn't. The program is built from those answers, the teaching strategies, the pacing, the rhythm of each study block, the kinds of activities and evidence we suggest. Everything reflects how your specific child engages with learning.
We're not clinicians, and we don't make medical assessments or recommendations. What we do is build the program around the child your intake describes, including all the parts of how they learn that a one-size-fits-all template can't accommodate.
Yes.
All Apply-ED programs are aligned to the Australian Curriculum (ACARA). Each program includes ACARA content description codes anchoring the learning focus of every study block — providing clear, verifiable evidence of curriculum alignment for your state's home education authority.
Learning areas are the broad subject areas that make up a home education program - for example, English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health and Physical Education. Registration bodies require that home education programs address the key learning areas relevant to your child's year level.
Your Apply-ED program organises content around these learning areas, showing what will be taught, how and with what resources.
The learning areas included depend on your child's year level and your family's approach. You select which areas to include during the intake. Available learning areas include:
A Study Block is a structured period of learning within your home education program. Each program includes 4 Study Blocks, with each block covering approximately 8 weeks of learning.
Together, the 4 Study Blocks form your full registration year plan. They loosely align with school terms, while allowing flexibility if your program begins mid-year.
Study Blocks group your learning intentions, activities and resources into manageable sections across the year - showing that learning is planned and progressive without prescribing daily schedules.
Each selected learning area includes:
Each Study Block outlines:
No timetables, grades, or exams are included.
Yes - every Apply-ED program includes detailed weekly learning plans across every learning area, at no extra cost.
A Weekly Learning Plan outlines how learning will be implemented in practice during a specific week within a Study Block. It details:
Weekly plans give you practical, week-by-week guidance, so you know what to teach, how to teach it, and what to look for as your child progresses. They're particularly important for NSW registration, but every Apply-ED program includes them regardless of your state.
The Weekly Learning Plan demonstrates how your broader Study Block goals translate into structured, observable learning across the week.
It does not prescribe rigid daily scheduling, but it shows that learning is intentional, progressive and aligned to curriculum expectations.
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Apply-ED programs are structured with four Study Blocks per learning area. This ensures your program meets documentation and registration expectations while remaining clear and manageable.
In practice, you can adapt pacing or combine learning experiences as needed. However, the program document itself always includes four Study Blocks to form your full registration year plan.
No.
Study Blocks are not directly tied to school terms and do not dictate how learning must be scheduled. They provide structure for your registration plan, while you remain free to adjust pacing, move between topics, pause, extend, or integrate learning based on your child’s needs.
Start with a short-guided intake - we'll take care of the rest.
Once you complete the guided intake, we begin building your child's program. Your responses are used to construct a structured, curriculum-aligned program tailored specifically to your child — their year level, goals, strengths and learning context.
The program is then thoroughly assessed before it is finalised and delivered to you. You will receive a completed DOCX file, ready to submit with your application.
Yes, but in a controlled way.
Technology is part of how we build programs efficiently. However, every program is individually assessed before it is finalised. Technology does not replace human involvement and review, and it does not make final decisions. We take quality seriously at every step - nothing leaves until it meets our standard.
The program you receive is built specifically for your child. No two Apply-ED programs are the same.
You receive a completed home education program document via email in DOCX format that:
Yes.
Every program goes through a human review process to ensure it is clear, personalised, complete, and appropriate for submission.
If changes are required, a revised version of the program is created and reviewed again. Each approved program is treated as a final version for clarity and record-keeping.
Yes. We stay with you until your program is approved.
If your state's registration body requests changes to the program we've built, we revise it with you at no extra cost, for as many rounds as it takes to get your application approved.
To keep this fair and workable, revisions cover changes that relate to feedback from the registration authority on the program content or structure, and apply to the latest Apply-ED-supplied version of the program. Major scope changes outside that, like adding learning areas you didn't originally select, are handled separately.
Yes, and these are designed to be fair, not restrictive.
Revisions are for changes the education authority has asked you to make to the program we built. We'll work with you on those for as many rounds as approval takes.What sits outside the included revisions: new learning areas you'd like to add later, scope changes you've decided on yourself, or feedback that's not from the authority. We're still happy to help with those, they're handled as a separate update rather than under the included revisions.
Apply-ED cannot guarantee approval decisions, as they are made by the relevant education authority and are outside our control.
However, Apply-ED does guarantee the quality and structure of the program we produce. Programs are created to align with curriculum expectations and home education documentation requirements.
Yes.
Once delivered, the program document belongs to you and you are free to edit or adapt it as needed before submission. Many families choose to personalise wording or make small adjustments to reflect their circumstances.
That’s exactly what Apply-ED helps with. You provide information about your child and learning context, and Apply-ED helps translate that into clear, appropriate program language.
An Apply-ED Home Education Program is $0 AUD per child.
Optional add-ons are available at checkout:
Detailed weekly planning is included in every program at no extra cost. There are no subscriptions, no hidden fees, the price you see at checkout is the price you pay.
Yes.
Apply-ED supports families with multiple children, including children of different year levels and with different learning needs.Each child receives their own individually built program, your Year 5 child's program is constructed entirely separately from your Year 2 child's, even though you complete the intake in one session.
Two optional add-ons are available when you order:
Add-ons are selected at checkout and apply per child.
Payment is made at checkout before your program is built. We use Stripe for secure payment processing — your card details are never stored by Apply-ED.
Only minimal information is collected, such as:
No surnames, addresses, or sensitive personal details are required.
Parents remain fully responsible for the program and its implementation. Apply-ED provides personalised structured documentation support but does not assume responsibility for teaching or educational outcomes.
Your information is used only to build and review your home education program. It is not shared or used for unrelated purposes.
No obligation. No submission on your behalf.
