Support & FAQs

The Scio Acad­e­my math mas­ters mem­ber­ship costs only $25 per month for the entire fam­i­ly to attend all of our  math classes.

The Scio Acad­e­my writ­ing mem­ber­ship costs $25 per month for the entire family. 

Join the Scio com­mu­ni­ty by reg­is­ter­ing here.  Your sim­ple month­ly pay­ment gains your entire fam­i­ly access to every tuto­r­i­al that Scio offers. 

• Mem­ber­ship includes all of our math tuto­ri­als for your entire house­hold, take as many or as few as you want
• Attend live tutor­ing ses­sions via zoom — code is sent via email to members 
• Scio pro­vides the tran­script for­mat, course descrip­tions, and course syllabi
• Stu­dents com­plete the work for the course on the syl­labus and attend the live session
• Stu­dents email ques­tions to their tutor
• Scio records and archives all ses­sions enabling stu­dents to go back and focus on prob­lem areas 
• Par­ents check their stu­den­t’s work and assign grades

Enroll­ment in all scio tuto­ri­als is avail­able to all mem­bers and their imme­di­ate house­hold fam­i­ly members. 

To access record­ed class­es sim­ply join scio and click on the spe­cif­ic course from the mem­ber­ship site.

To access a live webi­nar, reg­is­ter for the spe­cif­ic webi­nar by sub­mit­ting the reg­is­tra­tion form for the course on the course site.  An email will be sent to you with direc­tions on how to join the class live. 

Each Scio course is designed to encour­age your stu­dent to work independently. 

Each course has required texts that the stu­dent works through along with the online lessons that scio offers.  Some texts are spe­cif­ic.  For exam­ple, our shake­speare cours­es require cer­tain pub­li­ca­tions of the spe­cif­ic play. 

Since they are pri­mar­i­ly tutor­ing, our mem­ber­ship tuto­ri­als are more broad.  For exam­ple, our pre­al­ge­bra course videos are designed to work along­side most pre alge­bra texts.  You, as the par­ent, choose the text for your child to work through inde­pen­dent­ly.  The stu­dent then gains addi­tion­al help, insight, and instruc­tion through the Scio course.  If your child is in pub­lic or pri­vate school, then he will work through his text for school while attend­ing the scio classes. 

If you need help choos­ing a text for your stu­dent to use along­side one of our cours­es, please feel free to con­tact us. 

Math Mas­ters Mem­ber­ship includes unlim­it­ed access to all courses:

• Arith­metic course : archived record­ed lessons and quizzes 
• Pre alge­bra course : archived record­ed lessons and 32 live week­ly webinars.
• Alge­bra 1 course : unit review lessons and 32 live week­ly webinars.
• Geom­e­try course : access to all live tutor­ing ses­sions plus the recordings. 
• Log­ic course : access to all live tutor­ing ses­sions plus the recordings. 
• Alge­bra 2 course : From Foer­ster’s clas­sic Alge­bra and Trig­nom­e­try text
• Pre Cal­cu­lus : From cus­tom hand­outs and Foer­ster’s Alge­bra and Trigonom­e­try text 
• Inter­me­di­ate Alge­bra course : AOP­S’s Inter­me­di­ate Algebra
• Pre Alge­bra Review Couse : 4 mod­ule review course 
• Alge­bra Review Course : 6 mod­ule review course

In short, Scio Acad­e­my’s math mem­ber­ship includes:

1. A com­plete house­hold mem­ber­ship for one low price
2. Unlim­it­ed access to all of our math tutoring
3. Con­nec­tion to a math tutor via email to ask any math spe­cif­ic questions 

Any­one can join scio!   Scio’s cours­es are ide­al­ly geared for mid­dle and high school stu­dents.  Mem­ber­ship is per fam­i­ly so the cost does­n’t change based on the num­ber of stu­dents in your home, mak­ing Scio an afford­able edu­ca­tion­al option for all fam­i­lies.  Whether you are sup­ple­ment­ing your child’s edu­ca­tion or using Scio cours­es as main course­work, Scio cours­es have some­thing for everyone! 

Scio mem­ber­ship is per fam­i­ly so if your fam­i­ly has 2, 3, or 8 stu­dents, they can all join any class­es that we offer.  For exam­ple, your 7^th grad­er can take part in our pre­al­ge­bra course, while your 9^th grad­er is in alge­bra and your sopho­more is read­ing through Geom­e­try with us!  It’s all includ­ed for each per­son in your imme­di­ate fam­i­ly for one low month­ly price!

Scio cours­es are designed for mid­dle and high school cours­es.  If you are won­der­ing what lev­el math­e­mat­ics course your stu­dent is in, then we rec­om­mend that you give your child a math place­ment exam, check out the resource page to see where to find some of these. 

You can also have your stu­dent watch some of our record­ed class­es to see how he under­stands the con­cepts in each course. 

We work hard at Scio to make all of our mate­r­i­al and cours­es both chal­leng­ing but also easy to nav­i­gate and under­stand­able.  If you are strug­gling with this, please vis­it the forum, or con­tact us with your questions. 

The Scio online com­mu­ni­ty can be found on our face­book page or in our face­book group

As an online mem­ber­ship, our tuto­ri­als are designed as tutor­ing ses­sions cen­tered on prob­lem solv­ing and ques­tions.  Because fam­i­lies grad­ing poli­cies dif­fer, Scio does not grade stu­dents’ work. Some of the tuto­ri­als like log­ic do con­tain unit assess­ments online to help make assess­ing a stu­den­t’s progress eas­i­er on the par­ent, but Scio does not offi­cial­ly grade stu­dents’ work. 

Scio offers full ser­vice live cours­es which do assign and assess stu­den­t’s work with­out assign­ing a for­mal grade.  As small group cours­es our live cours­es are able to assess a stu­den­t’s work com­ple­tion on a month­ly basis. 

Under Scio’s tutor­ing mem­ber­ship:  As the par­ent, you are in con­trol.  That is why we don’t require that stu­dents attend spe­cif­ic cours­es at spe­cif­ic times, but try to defer all of our ser­vices to meet you where you are at.  Most home­school par­ents find them­selves giv­ing up some free­dom to meet a high school edu­ca­tion’s require­ments.  We don’t want to add any more lim­i­ta­tions to you and your fam­i­ly.  That’s why we offer tutor­ing via email and record all of our ses­sions.  That way your stu­dent gets the help that he or she needs with­out adding yet one more require­ment to your schedule. 

Under Scio’s live cours­es: You are still in con­trol. Yes, Scio assigns the work, leads the dis­cus­sions, and assess­es the stu­den­t’s assign­ments, but as the par­ent you hold and will always hold veto pow­er.  If your stu­dent can’t make a class or can’t com­plete an assign­ment in the way that we assigned it, then let your course instruc­tor know and we will adjust to your needs. 

Our return pol­i­cy is sim­ple: If you don’t like it, then can­cel anytime. 

There’s no oblig­a­tion for you to con­tin­ue to pay for a ser­vice that isn’t serv­ing your fam­i­ly. We under­stand that every fam­i­ly needs to do what’s best for their fam­i­ly. We strive to serve our mem­bers, but under­stand that math tutor­ing online isn’t for everyone. 

When you can­cel you will no longer be charged for your account, but will receive access to Scio for the remain­der of the paid mem­ber­ship. If you have a year­ly mem­ber­ship and can­cel with­in the first 30 days, then please email our admin@scioacademy.com to receive a refund. 

Scio Acad­e­my’s online small group tutor­ing is a unique com­bi­na­tion of gen­er­al instruc­tion and spe­cif­ic assis­tance.  Each of our live ses­sions meet week­ly from Sep­tem­ber — May and are com­posed of two elements: 

1. short instruc­tion based on the course’s syl­labus, and 
2. tutor­ing based on the stu­dents’ questions

Each ses­sion is record­ed and stored under the spe­cif­ic tuto­r­i­al for future view­ing and learn­ing.  In fact, join­ing Scio in the sum­mer gives you time to view and watch last year’s tutor­ing sessions.