Kiddolog and My Homeschool QLD: Are They Worth It for Queensland Families?

When Queensland home educators ask each other "what do you use?", two names come up repeatedly in Facebook groups and co-op conversations: Kiddolog and My Homeschool. Neither is a full curriculum provider in the traditional sense, and neither is specifically built around the HEU's annual report requirements — which is exactly where families start to feel the gap between what these tools promise and what they actually deliver for Queensland compliance.

This post looks at what each tool actually does, where it genuinely helps, and what it can't do for you.

Kiddolog: What It Is and What It Isn't

Kiddolog is an Australian homeschool tracking and portfolio tool — not a curriculum. It's designed to help families record learning activities, upload work samples, track subjects against curriculum frameworks, and generate reports. The platform is used across Australia, not QLD-specifically, and its Australian Curriculum alignment makes it broadly applicable for Queensland families following the AC.

What Kiddolog does well: It's genuinely useful for the collection habit that makes annual reports manageable. You can log learning activities as they happen, attach photographs of work samples, add notes, and tag entries by learning area. At annual report time, you have a searchable archive of the year's learning rather than a pile of loose papers.

For families who find the documentation side of home education stressful — the ones who leave everything until month 10 and then scramble — Kiddolog's app-based logging format reduces friction significantly. The mobile app means you can photograph a piece of Maths working-out immediately after your child finishes it, attach a brief note about what it shows, and file it in under two minutes.

What Kiddolog doesn't do: It doesn't write your HEU annual report for you. It doesn't generate the six annotated work samples in the format the HEU expects. It doesn't tell you whether your program is covering all eight learning areas adequately. And it doesn't advise you on the annotation — the "here's what this piece of work shows about my child's learning" component that HEU assessors actually read.

The platform is an archive tool. The thinking — the annotation, the curatorial judgement, the program planning — still belongs to you.

Cost: Kiddolog operates on a subscription model. Pricing changes periodically, but it's positioned in the $10–$15 per month range (approximately $120–$180 per year). There is typically a free trial available.

Who it suits: Kiddolog suits families who want a digital-first portfolio system and are comfortable with app-based tools. It's particularly useful for families with multiple children, where the logging and organisation overhead is higher. It's less useful for families who already have a working folder system and find the additional app layer creates overhead rather than reducing it.

My Homeschool: What It Is and What It Claims

My Homeschool is a structured curriculum provider — not just a tracking tool — that offers Australian Curriculum-aligned learning programs across all year levels. It markets itself with a "100% success rate with state registration bodies," which is a meaningful claim for Queensland families navigating HEU registration and renewal.

The program delivers lessons in a structured weekly format, covering English, Maths, and integrated unit studies across the other learning areas. It's more hands-on than an all-in-one digital platform like Euka and is built around parent-facilitated teaching rather than independent student learning.

What My Homeschool does well: For a family that wants an existing curriculum framework rather than assembling one from scratch, My Homeschool provides genuine structure. The unit study format covers multiple learning areas simultaneously, which is efficient for families who find juggling eight separate subjects unwieldy. The content quality is generally well-regarded in Australian homeschooling communities.

The registration support claim is worth taking seriously for first-year Queensland families. My Homeschool has enough experience with Australian state registration bodies — including the HEU — that their program is structured to produce the kind of evidence that annual reports need. That doesn't mean you don't still have to annotate and select samples yourself, but it means you're less likely to reach month 10 and discover a learning area gap.

What My Homeschool doesn't do: It's a curriculum, not a compliance system. Using My Homeschool doesn't mean your annual report writes itself or that you're guaranteed to sail through an HEU assessment. The HEU evaluates your specific program documentation and work samples — what your child learned and how you've recorded it. A family on My Homeschool who doesn't annotate work samples, doesn't maintain their educational program, and doesn't document evidence of learning will still struggle at annual report time.

The "100% success rate" claim should also be understood in context: most HEU applications succeed. The registration process is designed to be achievable, not to screen families out. The relevant question is not whether you'll be approved, but whether the curriculum serves your child's actual learning needs.

Cost: My Homeschool pricing varies by year level. Approximate costs run $500–$1,200 per year depending on the level and whether you're adding supplementary resources. This puts it in the mid-range of Australian curriculum providers — less than all-in-one platforms like Euka, more than a self-assembled approach.

Who it suits: My Homeschool suits families who want a done-for-you curriculum structure with Australian Curriculum alignment and prefer print-based, parent-facilitated learning over digital or self-paced models. It works well for primary and junior secondary. Families with strong subject-knowledge preferences or specific learning needs may find the unit study format too general for senior secondary.

The Gap Both Tools Leave

Both Kiddolog and My Homeschool address parts of the home education experience well. Neither addresses the HEU documentation requirements in a structured, QLD-specific way.

What Queensland families actually need alongside any curriculum or tracking tool is:

• A clear understanding of what the annual report requires (six annotated work samples, documented coverage of all eight learning areas, evaluation of progress against goals)
• A format for annotating work samples that satisfies what HEU assessors look for
• Templates for the educational program and goal-directed plan that the HEU references against your annual report
• A systematic approach to selecting work samples that represent genuine evidence of progress rather than just completion of activities

This is where Queensland-specific documentation templates become useful — not as a replacement for curriculum or tracking tools, but as the structural layer that connects your year's teaching to the HEU's specific requirements. If you're using Kiddolog to collect and My Homeschool to teach, you still need to know how to curate six samples from your archive and write annotations that satisfy an HEU desktop audit.

The Queensland Portfolio and Assessment Templates at homeschoolstartguide.com/au/queensland/portfolio/ are designed to fill exactly that gap — giving you the annotation frameworks, report templates, and documentation structures that neither Kiddolog nor My Homeschool provides.

Side by Side: Key Differences

The Practical Answer

Most Queensland home educating families don't choose between Kiddolog and My Homeschool — they decide whether either solves their specific problem. If your problem is disorganised records and annual report panic, Kiddolog is worth trialing. If your problem is not knowing what to teach and wanting a clear weekly structure, My Homeschool is worth investigating.

If your problem is understanding what the HEU actually wants from your documentation and how to give it to them, neither tool addresses that directly. That requires QLD-specific guidance on the annual report requirements, work sample annotation, and the gap between a good curriculum and a good compliance document.

The combination that works for many QLD families is: a curriculum that suits the child (whether that's My Homeschool, a self-assembled approach, or something else entirely), a simple collection habit for work samples, and documentation templates calibrated to the HEU's specific expectations.

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