What is a learning record?
A learning record is evidence of the learning already happening in your home — kept, dated, and easy to look back on.
It's not a lesson plan — that's what you intend to do. It's not a report card — that's someone else's judgment. A learning record is simply proof of what actually happened: the questions, the projects, the outings, the small moments that add up.
Why keep one
Two reasons, and most parents have both. The quiet one: on the days you doubt yourself, a learning record shows you — in your child's own moments — that it's real, and it's enough. The practical one: when someone official asks to see progress (an Authorised Person in Australia, an ERO review in New Zealand, a portfolio review in the US), you already have the evidence, gathered as you went instead of scrambled together the night before.
You don't need a curriculum to keep one
Registration in most places doesn't require a particular app or format — records can be digital, project-based, or a mix. What they need to show is that learning is happening. A learning record does exactly that, without turning your home into a school. That's the gap Liber was built for: keeping the evidence, not managing a syllabus.
How Liber makes it effortless
You capture moments as they happen; Liber gathers them into a record and helps you see the learning inside them. As Zephyr, a homeschool mum, put it: "If I had to do this all by hand, I would have every intention but in reality it would not happen."
About learning records
Is a learning record the same as a portfolio?
Close. The record is everything you've captured; the portfolio is that record arranged to show someone — including yourself.
Will a learning record satisfy my registration requirements?
Requirements differ by state and country, and you should always check your own. Liber gives you dated, organised evidence of learning to draw on — it's the raw material, not a guarantee of approval.
Do I need to record every subject?
No. You record what happens; the coverage becomes clear as moments add up.
Keep the evidence that's already there.
No grades, no worksheets. Just a calm way to see what's already real.
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