MiaPrep is the newest online high school curriculum offering from the Miaplaza family of educational sites. It offers a flexible, self-paced curriculum that you can tailor to your student’s learning needs. 

Self-paced/independent work through, flexible

The self-paced aspect of MiaPrep allows your student to take the time they need to actually understand the concepts presented to them. They’ll never get left behind in a topic because they can redo lessons and assessments as many times as they need.

If you have an advanced learner, they can push ahead in the subjects they excel in, rather than having to wait for the next school year to begin. When you enroll with MiaPrep, you are given access to the full suite of high school curriculum, so you can fit lessons directly to your student’s learning needs and abilities. Set the number of lessons you want your student to accomplish over the set amount of days you had in mind, and watch them take ownership of their own education. 

Homeschool Schedule

On your parent account, you are in control of when lessons begin, when they end, and when you or your student needs to take a break. And since it’s all internet-based, your student can take their learning along with them when your family decides to take that spontaneous vacation you always wanted! This flexibility puts you in charge of your family’s schedule, rather than being forced to shape your family’s life around your local school district. 

How Parents Can Stay Engaged

Though you encourage your learner to be independent and take responsibility for their education, you obviously still want to be involved with their work. MiaPrep allows you to be as engaged as you’d like.

You can view your student’s progress and assessment scores on the Reports tab on the Parent Portal. You can check and make sure your student is completing lessons at the pace you assigned, and assess any weaknesses for possible review. As with our lower school curriculum found on Miacademy, Always Ice Cream, and Clever Dragons, MiaPrep’s online high school curriculum offers offline work and printables for you and your student to engage with together if you so choose. 

MiaPrep offers you the best of all worlds: a top-of-the-line curriculum developed by experts in their fields with online and offline work, a flexible schedule based on your family’s lifestyle, independent and self-paced work that gets your student ready for the more autonomous learning expected from them in college, and Reports to help you keep your student on track. We’re excited to help you and your family flourish through high school life!  

If you still have questions, join our Parent Facebook Group or contact our friendly customer service team at parents-help@miaprep.com.

Written by: Chelsie Morris

MiaPrep’s online high school curriculum offers fully-moderated Community features. This enables your student to engage with students across the world in a safe, adult-supervised environment. 

MiaPrep’s Community feature allows students to direct message each other, create teams centered around certain topics, write in a weekly online literary magazine read by their peers, create and upload videos (must be approved by parents and site moderators), create digital art, and run an online shop selling their digital art for “gold,” our virtual site currency, which they can spend on other digital items around the site. 

Unlike other social media platforms, MiaPrep has a team of trained adult moderators that must read and approve every message, post, design item, video, and status update before it goes live for other students to see. If anything violates MiaPrep’s Community guidelines, our moderators delete the post and send a note to the student explaining why it was denied approval. Often, a post will be rejected because it breaks a safety rule that a student doesn’t understand.

For example, we have strict rules about what a student can share about their location. If they share the name of any local organizations they participate in (like a school name or the name of a local place of worship), or any other possible local identifiers like radio stations, camps, or places of business, our moderators reject it with with a note explaining why it is unsafe to share location identifiers. 

Disrespect toward other students, including unkind comments and bullying, is also tagged and rejected with a note about respecting others on the internet. If a student persists in rude or inappropriate behavior, we notify parents or guardians through email and “ground” that student from community features for a certain time period (time varies according to infraction). During this grounding period, students will have access to lessons and assignments but will not be able to interact with other students.

 We do not allow students to share links to other websites, nor do we allow them to share usernames where they could be found outside of our MiaPrep platform and engage in unmoderated communication. We reject all material that is considered inappropriate for high school ages, based on age-ratings found at Common Sense Media. Many of these rules are enforced as part of federal regulation, COPPA, which was enacted to protect children’s privacy online. For more information on COPPA, visit Complying with COPPA: Frequently Asked Questions.

You can think of MiaPrep’s Community platform as social media on training wheels: a safe, supervised introduction to the world of social media. With our moderated Community, your student learns important life skills while discussing ideas and connecting with other students. This is definitely a favorite feature in our elementary and middle school programs. Many students on those sites are looking forward to being able to continue to interact with their friends online on MiaPrep while their parents are resting easily, knowing their children are not being exposed to inappropriate or damaging content.    

If you have any questions about our MiaPrep Community features, our team of qualified customer service representatives are online and ready to help. You can contact representatives by chat. Simply select the blue “Support” or “Chat” button at the bottom right. You can also find us on Facebook, or email us at parents – help @ miacademy . co (without spaces).