Can we cap classes by room size and teacher preference?

Yes. A class’s capacity is the smaller of the room’s capacity and the teacher’s limit, and full classes take a fair waitlist that promotes automatically.

Do we have to use anyone else’s terminology?

No. Every label — groups, students, teachers, classes, levels — is configurable, so the app can say Families, Class Periods, and Grade Bands if that’s how your co-op talks.

The Skills Fest

Class scheduling software for homeschool co-op days

Co-op class days with real capacity, family self-registration, and rosters — without the shared-spreadsheet chaos.

The Skills Fest runs homeschool co-op days as scheduled classes: set class periods as timeslots and classrooms as rooms, place classes on a drag-and-drop grid, and let families register students with a signup code — no student email addresses required. Class capacity follows room and teacher limits, waitlists promote fairly and automatically, and organizers get check-in, attendance, and printable rosters.

Co-ops usually start from the blank template and name everything themselves — families, class periods, subjects, grade bands — because every label in the app is configurable. The defaults below are just the starting point you’d rename.

What the app calls things for Homeschool co-ops

Every label is configurable — you name the words below, and they appear everywhere: menus, buttons, and reports.

Concept	Default	Blank-template default (rename freely)
Small groups	Units	Units
Participants	Participants	Participants
Group leaders	Unit Leader	Unit Leader
Teachers	Teacher	Teacher
Awards / classes	Courses	Courses
Levels / ranks	Level	Level

What you get

Configurable terminology

Rename the small groups (Club/Troop/Pack), the awards (Honor/Merit Badge/Adventure), the participants, the leaders, and the levels or ranks — the whole app speaks your organization’s language, starting from one of ~12 templates or a blank slate.

Drag-and-drop schedule grid

A rooms-by-timeslots board. Drag classes between rooms and times; room capacity and a max-classes-per-room limit are enforced as you go.

Class capacity & fair waitlists

A class’s capacity is the smaller of the room’s capacity and the teacher’s limit. Full classes take a waitlist with automatic, fair promotion when a spot opens. Multi-session classes, minimum-level requirements, secondary teachers, duplicating a class into other timeslots, and a “manage students” roster with add/remove and schedule-conflict handling are built in.

Family self-registration — no email required

Leaders share a signup code; kids create an account with just a username and password. Staff and leaders can use email magic links when email is enabled, but it is never required.

Day-of check-in

Check-in numbers, live counts, and background-check flags for the door on event day.

Reports & exports

Registration grids, unit summaries, attendance summaries, printable timeslot rosters, background-check lists, and member exports — sortable and searchable in the browser, downloadable as CSV or PDF.

Questions from groups like yours

Yes. Each student gets a simple username-and-password account from the co-op’s signup code — no email addresses needed — and registers for the classes that fit their grade band.

The Skills Fest is independent software. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any organization named on this page; names are used only to describe the groups our customers belong to.