Note: If your student was signed up for the Homework Monitor program last year, the program
doesn't automatically carry over to this year; you must sign up again in order to participate this year.
Homework Monitor Sign Up: Online method
Or click here for how to sign up in person, by fax, or via U.S. mail.
Step 1: Read carefully and thoroughly all the requirements and details.
To do so, just scroll down on this page past the Sign Up Form until you reach Homework Monitor: Details and Requirements.
(Alternatively, you may download and print a PDF version of the info.)
Step 2: Please complete and submit the Homework Monitor Online Sign Up Form
But...do so only, only, only after you've read the program requirements and only if you agree with them;
we don't want to disappoint you by not meeting your expectations.
Homework Monitor Online Sign Up Form
Yes! Please sign my student up for Homework Monitor.

Student last name:
Student first name:
Student ID number (required):
Student grade level:
Parent/guardian complete name:

Enter E-mail address at which you want to be contacted
Whose E-mail address is this?
(For example: mom & dad's home; or mom's work; or etc.)

Is there a second E-mail address at which you want to be contacted?
Whose E-mail address is this?

Click on the Submit button:

(The Reset button clears this form.)
Step 3: You will receive an "instant" confirmation that looks like this



The Homework Monitor program for your student begins automatically within two school days of your receiving the confirmation. (Remember, it's not a perfect system, but it should give you an overall picture of whether your student homework pattern.)

* The confirmation should just appear; if not, you may need to "refresh" or "reload" your browser.
Important: If somehow you do not receive this "instant" e-mail confirmation that we received your online Homework Monitor Sign Up,
please call the Counseling Center, 805 374-1168 and ask to speak with or leave a message for Rachel Elman;
report to her that you didn't receive the confirmation. Thank you.
Homework Monitor: Details and Requirements
1. The teacher will:
• Let the counseling office know of missing or incomplete work.
—In class on a daily basis, the teacher will let the counseling office know if the student has a homework "infraction".
An "infraction" occurs when the student:
•Does not have yesterday’s assignment ready to turn in (or to add to the packet) today at the beginning of the period; or
•Has not completed yesterday’s assignment; or
•Has turned in work that in the teacher’s judgment shows obvious lack of effort.
At the discretion of the teacher, an infraction may include work assigned to be done entirely in class. Also, teachers vary regarding which infractions they will report; please click here to see your student's teachers' participation.
2. The counseling office will:
• Send an E-mail to the parent to indicate that the student has a homework infraction.
—The E-mail's purpose is so that you may discuss the missing or incomplete work with your student; please do not ask the counseling center to forward any message to the teacher; with up to a third of the school on the Homework Monitor system in a given school year, it is not feasible for us to serve as a conduit to teachers about individual assignments; please see below for the recommended method of staying informed about the assignments.
3. The parent will:
• Reply to our E-mail (by clicking the Reply button of the browser & typing "Message received").
—Colina reserves right to terminate students from program if parent does not reply to our e-mail or make confirming call.
—Regretfully, if there are three "no e-mail replies" by the parent, the student may be terminated from the Homework Monitor Program. In order to run this program successfully, we need to be sure you are receiving our intended messages.
• Hold the student responsible for doing the missing or incomplete work.
—The parent can find out what the work is by checking the student's Assignment Notebook, viewing the "My Homework Today" feature on Colina's website (www.colinamiddle.org).
—Homework Monitor is not intended to generate "back and forth" e-mails between parent and teacher about what is missing/incomplete; the dialogue should be between parent and student; if there are still questions, the student should approach the teacher the next school day to clarify what's missing/incomplete.
—Please note that teachers vary as to how much, if any, credit is given for late work, and as to how late they will accept makeup work; your student should have been informed by each teacher at the start of the year about their makeup-work policy; if you are not certain, please check with the teacher via his/her web page, or by note, phone or email.
Additional information:
• Most, but not all, academic teachers participate in the Homework Monitor program. Participating teachers vary as to when they inform parents of missing/incomplete assignments. For example, some teachers will send the e-mail home the same day as the assignment was collected; some will e-mail the following day; others will e-mail after the work has been graded; still others, if they collect work in "packets," will e-mail after a packet has been collected/graded.
Click here for a chart that lists each teacher's participation.