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In order to get an idea of your students’ progress, we suggest evaluating their typing ability at the beginning and at the end of the training program by using Typing Pal’s Initial Test and Final Test.

The difficulty level of the Initial Test is the same as that of the Final Test. Since the two tests are identical, you can compare both sets of results as a way to measure your students’ progress at the end of their Typing Pal training.

It’s no secret. Knowing how to type is an essential skill in today’s world. Your students are pros at tapping away on their smartphones, but are they just as sure-handed on a keyboard? The key to helping them develop their typing technique is regular practice in the classroom.

So how do you keep your students motivated throughout the year? By making learning into a game! We have created a wide variety of free worksheets that are perfect for motivating your students!

Parents are crucial in helping their children persevere and succeed at school. A new feature of Typing Pal — School Edition is a report that allows parents to follow their children’s progress in class more easily.

This Halloween, friendly monsters and little ghosts will be roaming our streets in search of goodies. In the spooky spirit of the holiday, Typing Pal is offering a whole new keyboard experience by taking a dark turn of its own.

Typing Pal now offers dark mode, a dark-colored display eagerly awaite...

In order for students to use Typing Pal with an external keyboard, the Smart Punctuation option needs to be deactivated in the tablet’s settings.

For administrators, the start of the school year often involves a delicate operation: large numbers of student accounts must be moved into the right group for their new class. This is usually the job of the account's Super Administrator or the School Administrator, and can be done in the following ways:

Once your students have successfully completed all the exercises, you can set them new challenges by raising the group’s accuracy and speed targets.

To do this, select the Adapt existing scores to current targets and Apply to existing students in the group options. Once these settings have be...

Bulk editing helps you save time by configuring dozens, even hundreds, of groups or accounts in one go.

Your students can improve their efficiency by using several keyboard shortcuts, thereby allowing their fingers to remain on the keyboard before the activity starts.

Choosing the right font can help your students better distinguish letters and make reading easier. That is why Typing Pal now offers a choice of several fonts in which to display the exercises and practice texts.

Typing speed is measured in words per minute or characters per minute. You can choose either of these units depending on the context, your training program or your personal preference.

Your students’ results are invaluable. However, in some cases, it may be useful to selectively delete them. For example, you may want to delete the results of certain activities you want students to start over or reset the final test so students can retake it in a supervised school environment.