Ohio HOD users, please help

[kidsforHim]

Could someone please tell me how it works using HOD in OHIO? We are praying about moving there and I'm learning requirements to homeschool in OH. For the end of the year assessment I would probably opt not to do achievement tests. So how does it work to show what they've learned in each subject? I was just giving my dd her dictation from Bigger and I was trying to figure out how it works when you use dictation.
I'm feeling near overwhelmed with just plain homeschooling high school and getting CM methods figured out for grading and all and moving to a new state where there is more requirements for all grades is too much. I"m real close to getting textbooks or workbooks or enrolling them into the church christian day school in OH.
I am a 'visual' so the more detailed your experience in how to do this or ideas of what you have done would be very helpful.
Thank you!

[LynnH]

First I just want to reassure you that it isn't hard to homeschool in Ohio. We have always done standardized achievement and since dc only have to score overall in the 25th percentile even my ds with dysgraphia and some memory and processing challenges has always done fine. I test him using the Stanford at home. However if I wanted to do the end of the year portfolio it would be very easy with HOD. In the guides before CTC you would just take a few samples from each subject of your students work. So for next year if your dc was in Preparing it would look something like this. Take a 3 ring binder and include the following. The studied dictation would be the sample for spelling. You would just take a sample from the beginning, middle and end of the year to show how the passages increased in difficulty.You would have DITHOR work book pages for the lit component and a few pages from Rod and Staff for the grammar. You would also include just a few of the creative writing assignments based on the poetry as well as a few of the vocabulary cards. For History you would have written narration from beginning, middle and end of year. You would also put a few pages of Draw and Write Through History as well as a few pictures of the history projects and a book lists of all the books she read and ones you read to her. You could even write down one oral narration from the beginning of the year and one from the end. For Science you would take a few pages from the science notebook and some lab report pages. Math you would just include a few pages from again beginning, middle and end of the year.

All you have to show is that the student is progressing in accordance with their abilities. You don't have to show they are at any grade level or anything like that. There are lots of homeschool moms who have their teaching licenses so they are able to review the portfolios so it isn't intimidating at all.