Harmony Ed | Corvallis Important Email (September Newsletter Email)

by | Sep 18, 2025 | Corvallis, Montana

Hello Harmony / Montana Families,

Happy September!
We hope you’re settling into the school year and finding your rhythm.

Don’t miss our Family Focus Fridays! Each week, we’ll highlight one of the curriculums we offer, giving you an overview and helpful insights. (Dates are listed below.)

And as always, your mentor is here to support you. If you have questions or need help, please reach out — you can expect a response within 24–48 business hours.

In this Touchpoint:

  • Back to School Picnic
  • Calendars 
  • Flex Information
  • Canvas Tips
  • MobyMax Placement Tests and Quiz Resets
  • Family Focus Friday
  • Possible Resources
  • Resource Ordering
  • Get Social

Calendars
Stay up to date on important dates and events with our calendar found on the Parent Dashboard. Here you’ll find information such as Flex submission dates, testing dates, school dates,  etc. For school specific dates you can go to the link for your school below.

Corvallis School Calendar: https://www.csd509j.net/calendar/

Canvas Tips
Here are some useful tips in Canvas for Flex, Portfolio, and Homeroom courses. 

Once in your child’s Canvas account, select Calendar on the left side. The calendar view shows the previous and upcoming submissions for that student’s courses in Canvas.

  • You can click on the item and a box will pop up with details. You can then click on each item to go right to the submission in the course.

Also, be sure to check back in Canvas to see comments from the graders and teachers. In the student’s Canvas account, there will be alerts on the right for any comments from teachers. Or you select the course, then select Grades > Score. If there is a comment icon, you can click on that to see the comment.

  • Based on the comment, you might want to resubmit the assignment. 

PLEASE remember there is a separate account with parent email credentials for the daily attendance question. It will not be available in the student work submission account using the student ID credentials.

MobyMax Placement Tests and Quiz Resets
If your child has a MobyMax course, be sure to check out the helpful information in the MobyMax section of the Curriculum Orientation. If you would like your child to take a placement assessment for Language Arts or Math, please contact your mentor, and we’ll get that set up for you. 

Also, if you would like your child to retake a MobyMax quiz or redo a lesson, please contact your mentor with the module name and quiz or lesson title, so that we can reset it. Lessons and quizzes that have been reset will generally appear in the Assignments tab on the MobyMax student dashboard.

Flex Information
Here are the Flex submission dates for the 1st semester. Be sure to submit your student’s worksheets on time as this tracks attendance and progress.

To find helpful information about Flex courses, log into the Family Resource Center and go to the Curriculum Orientation. From the sidebar menu in the Flex sections, you will find FAQs, which include submission instructions and a submission video. 

Family Focus Friday
Join us for our interactive Family Focus Fridays sessions designed to support and empower parents in the homeschooling journey.

What to Expect:

Practical tips for utilizing the curriculum offered by Harmony Q&A sessions to address specific family curriculum needs

Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm MDT/MST

Location: Google Meets: meet.google.com/ckw-pyow-fyw

Duration: 1 hour

Dates and Curriculum/Program covered:

9/12/25: How to Use Harmony Choice Add-ons

10/17/25: Moby Max 

10/31/25: Portfolio

11/14/25: Bright Thinker

12/12/25: DreamBox

1/16/26: Aleks 

 1/30/26 Electives

2/13/26 Moby Max 

2/27/26 Edgenuity

3/13/26 Bright Thinker 

3/27/26 Edementum

4/10/26 DreamBox 

4/24/26 Mixed Bag Q&A

Possible Resources
At Harmony, we are always excited about the resources we can offer to students to help with their education. You will want to order your curriculum and technology first, and use remaining funds for a variety of things to help your student learn. We have included a few fun ideas and examples of how you could use the funds we provide for your student. Most items have price limits so if you are wondering about them please ask your mentor.

  • Books
  • Craft Supplies
  • Printer
  • Webcam
  • Zoo/Museum Passes

Resource Ordering
Ordering is open for all types of orders. For all the ordering types except reimbursement, you can submit one order per semester per student. The 1st semester ordering period goes until Oct 31, and the 2nd semester ordering period is Dec 1 – Jan 31.

  • Request Technology: This is the best place to order laptops to make sure they are ordered in case there are any hold-ups with your orders.
  • Request Educational Supplies & Resources: Order all your general supplies, workbooks, textbooks, pencils, art supplies, museum membership, etc. You can submit items from multiple websites.
  • Request 3rd Party Payments: Once your 3rd party vendors are approved, you can request the payment for them here. You will receive a check to pay them once it is processed. If your child is taking a full-year class, make sure to split up the payments and only pay by semester.
  • Internet Payments: Use this to request up to $225 payable to your internet service provider per semester. Note: This is limited to one per family.
  • Request Curriculum Subscriptions and/or Kits: If you want to purchase curriculum or other subscriptions offered through Harmony (like MobyMax, Dreambox, etc.) and use it as an extra resource, this is the place.
  • Request Reimbursement: Reimbursements can be submitted up to 10 times per year – once for each month of the school year. Receipts dated May 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026 can be submitted.
  • Request Educational Subscriptions: Educational subscriptions include subscriptions for Tinker Crate, ABC Mouse, Kiwi Crate, and dozens of other educational subscription options. If you don’t see an item listed, you can request that subscription when you request school supplies on the resource order form.

Get Social
Are you part of our growing community of Harmony parents? If not, please join us and get social. It’s a great place to share what is working with your family, ask questions of other parents, and receive updates on Harmony news.

Emery Melendez, Program Manager (emelendez@harmonyed.com)
Mindy Call, Assistant Account Manager (mcall@harmonyed.com)
Jamie Staples, Mentor (Jstaples@harmonyed.com)
Melanie Ramos, Mentor (mramos@harmonyed.com)
Shelby Quiero, Mentor (squiero@harmonyed.com)
Kyle Thorn, Mentor (kthorn@harmonyed.com)