Management

This chapter presents everything you need to know about Typing Pal’s management tools.

• School Management
  • Adding a School — If your subscription allows it, add a school to the list of schools you administer.
  • Default Keyboard — Set the default keyboard type for your school.
  • Location — Specify your school’s location and time zone.
• School Administrator Management
  • Adding a School Administrator Account — Add a school administrator account to delegate the management of a school’s accounts to a chosen administrator.
  • Editing or Deleting a School Administrator Account — Edit or delete the account of a school administrator.
• Teacher Management
  • Adding a Teacher Account — Add a teacher account.
  • Editing or Deleting a Teacher Account — Edit or delete a teacher account.
  • Granting Group Access to Teachers — Determine whether a teacher can access all groups in a school or only his or her own groups.
  • Managing Teacher Permissions — Restrict specific permissions for teachers to either add, delete or modify groups, student accounts and text collections or to reset results. Settings apply to all teacher accounts collectively.
• Group Management
  • Adding a Group — Add a group or several groups at a time by importing a list.
  • Editing a Group — Edit the name of a group, its description, its teachers or its welcome message.
  • Group Settings — Edit certain settings to apply them to all the student accounts in a group.
  • Deleting a Group — Delete a group along with the student accounts it contains or move them to another group in a single operation.
  • Live Supervision — See your students’ activity in real time from a dynamic new dashboard.
• Student Management
  • Adding a Student Account — Choose from three methods to add student accounts.
  • Editing or Deleting a Student Account — Edit or delete a student account.
  • Moving a Student Account from One Group to Another — Move a student account from one group to another or from one school to another.
  • Editing Student Permissions — Edit student permissions to block or grant access to certain features.
  • Automatic Deletion of Inactive Accounts — Disable the automatic deletion of inactive student accounts.
• Export
  • Export a list of students, groups, teachers or schools to archive certain information or prepare an update by using the import feature.
• Account Creation by Import:
  • Excel and CSV Templates — Download template files in Excel or CSV format.
  • Import File for Student Accounts and Groups — Create the file containing the student and group accounts to be imported.
  • Import File for Teacher Accounts and Groups — Create the file containing the teacher and group accounts to be imported.
  • Import File for Schools — If allowed by the subscription, create the file containing the schools and school administrators to be imported.
  • Importing a List of Students, Teachers or Schools — Import the file that will be used to create the accounts, groups, and schools you need.
• Account Update by Import
  • Update student accounts by importing an Excel or CSV file.
• Bulk Edit
  • Bulk edit the settings or options for a set of accounts, groups or schools.