Online courses for igcse, but with no coursework/essays

[Chocolate4me]

Hi, my son is most likely going to home Ed from Year 7 due to Asd, a particular dislike of school and writing. I've looked into online courses for igcse's but alot of them are live lessons which is restrictive for planning his time to do the learning... Or they have tutors who set and mark homework. I'm looking for courses that can be accessed online at anytime, either interactive learning alongside study books, or recorded lessons he can watch at any pace. The whole point in doing the igcse's is to keep the written work and pressure to a minimum so I'm not too keen on a tutor and homework.
Can anyone recommend anything?
I guess he could just use study books and old papers, but he does like the online element. We've been using century tech in primary and a few other online programmes but not quite sure what is out there for igcse.

Also, for those that have done this, what do they study in perhaps year 7/8/9 before moving to these courses?

Thanks

My children were enrolled with MyOnlineSchooling last year. One has ASD, dyspraxia and auditory processing disorder. The other has joint hypermobility syndrome. Both did not do well in conventional school, but they like home education.

MOS offered live lessons but they also send you a recording of the teacher lesson by email. This is to review the material covered, but also to cover students who have missed the live slot. The recording lacks the interactive component of live lessons between student and teacher. However, you may wish to contact them to see if they would allow your son to enrol and just watch the recordings. My children will not be using online school this year, but the following resources are useful for igcse (I am a teacher as well as parent-home educator)...bitesize, TES lesson plans, youtube revision tutorials on any subject. It is possible to prepare for igcse without an online course as you can buy the study workbooks for individual subjects. You may find it more beneficial to hire a private tutor.

I would personally be careful picking any distance learning schools offering igcse. I used to work for some of them, and their resources are often out of date and tutor response times can be slow. Look online at reviews using Trustpilot or another independent website before committing. Good luck!

Thank you for the reply, I did a bit more research and realised century tech do in fact offer some igcse course videos, and absolute maths might work too. And yes, we could use the books alongside that too. I liked the idea of someone else, a company, being responsible for making sure we were covering all the syllabus needed, but without the added pressure of scheduled interactive classes, and extra homework. Interesting to know some companies aren't actually following what they should be learning!

I was going to recommend Absolute Maths but I see you have found it already. Along those lines there is LearnTec for Computer Science and Southwest Science School for Biology, Chemistry and Physics. They all do a self paced recorded lesson option. Humanatees do lessons on their YouTube channel up to KS3 (I think their GCSE courses are all live) for History, Geography, Religion and Philosophy.

My son is year 9 and is already doing some GCSE subjects which is not uncommon with Home Ed. Many will begin studying the subject from around age 12 with a view to spreading the exams over 2-3 years.

I'm a private English tutor teaching IGCSE, AQA and Edexcel. You'll also find a lot of videos on Youtube which cover the different elements of the English exams which your son can access in his own time. Not sure if all teachers I've seen on there previously have caught up yet with the new 9-1 version of the 0500/0900 English exams, though. I'm sure it won't be long until they do!