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Students! Finish your homework, improve your grades, and have fun doing it! Parents! Put your mind at ease while your child safely explores fun and educational content with Cosmeo. This online homework help service charges a fee for access to extensive educational content—including:

•  Video segments to aid visual learning
• Reference articles for studying and writing reports
• Games to challenge your brain
• Images and photography

Cosmeo feels almost like an online encyclopedia full of not only text, but also photos, graphics, videos, and more. And it’s all educational and helpful to students. Some of the online homework help services we reviewed are free services. However, for a monthly fee, Cosmeo offers a much larger variety of in-depth lessons and step-by-step tutorials. The site has colorful, interactive software, and at only $9.95 per month (or $99.00 per year), provides in–depth homework help for grades K–12 on math, science, English, social studies, health, art, music and more.

Cosmeo’s home page gives a pretty good overview of what you’ll get with your subscription, and if you’re still undecided, they offer a free 30-day trial. Take the service for a test drive, use it, see how it performs, and then decide if it meets your family’s needs. To start the free trial, you will still need to provide credit card information (which will be charged if you decide not to cancel the service).

It’s also important to note that each subscription includes access for 4 student accounts (each with a separate screen name and password) and one parent account.

Features Set:

Cosmeo provides homework help on an extensive list of subjects such as algebra, U.S. and world history, writing and composition, chemistry, physics, and more.
Students can access over 30,000 video lessons and step–by–step tutorials, 15,000 quizzes, 27,000 articles, and over 200 links to teacher–approved educational websites. There are also great extra features:

• WebMath provides students with step–by–step solutions to specific math problems or allows students to hear a teacher explain lessons that correlate to commonly used textbooks.
• Curriculum Explorer will match lessons and tutorials to students’ state curriculum standards.
• Brain Games encourages students to apply their knowledge through virtual models and interactive lessons.
• Today in History will inform the student about important discoveries, inventions and world events on any day in history.
• Encyclopedia has over 27,000 articles on specific subjects.
• Clip Art can be downloaded to spruce up science fair projects or other school presentations.
• Trusted Links lead to hundreds of teacher-approved education websites.
• My Favorites allows students to save and organize all their video lessons, tutorials, and important web links.

Additionally, because the service is related to the Discovery Channel and Discovery Education, a subscription includes access to selected video from Discovery networks, including Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and Discovery Kids. You’ll find video from favorites such as Jeff Corwin, Mythbusters, Bill Nye, and more. Videos are age appropriate and can be tied to state standards, reinforcing concepts your students are learning in school.

With Cosemo, exploring the Internet is safe for children because Cosmeo only links to teacher–approved websites. Parents can feel secure letting their child learn and explore on their own. A Parent account allows parents to monitor their child’s progress, block keyword searches and check their child’s viewing history.