Typing for your class
Peabody's typing course is free and needs no student accounts. Open it on each device, give a short test once a week, and print a sheet for every lesson.
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| What | Open this | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| The course | The typing lessons | 18 lessons, two keys at a time, with the hands on screen. Each student starts at lesson 1 and their place is kept in their own browser. |
| The whole course on one page | The course map | Every lesson in order and where that student is. |
| A lesson on the projector | Typing on the board | The big keyboard with the next key lit. You step through it while the class types. Nothing is scored or saved. |
| The games | Typing games | A finished lesson earns a play of a game that uses only the keys learned so far. |
Typing tests
| Test | Good for |
|---|---|
| 1 minute typing test | A weekly check. Younger students see stars, not numbers. |
| 3 minute typing test | A steadier number, from about 3rd grade. |
| 5 minute typing test | The speed a student can keep up. |
| Typing speed by grade and age | The ranges to compare with, each with its source. |
The tests keep nothing. A student's result is on their screen until they leave, so have them print the result card or write the number down.
A printable sheet for every lesson
Each sheet has the lesson's keys, the finger for each, three practice lines and a log.
Lesson 1 · Lesson 2 · Lesson 3 · Lesson 4 · Lesson 5 · Lesson 6 · Lesson 7 · Lesson 8 · Lesson 9 · Lesson 10 · Lesson 11 · Lesson 12 · Lesson 13 · Lesson 14 · Lesson 15 · Lesson 16 · Lesson 17 · Lesson 18
Give a lesson and see how it went
- Open the assignment maker and pick a typing lesson or a short passage. Make a typing assignment
- Share the link or the QR code. It works at school and at home.
- Each student types a seat number you give them, then the lesson. No name and no account.
- Open your results page to see each seat.
- Open the typing class view to see every seat across all your typing links: lessons finished, the next lesson, fastest and latest words a minute, and a trend. Typing class view
| You see | You never see |
|---|---|
| The seat number, whether it was finished, words a minute and seconds. Accuracy is in the CSV download. | A name, an email or what the student typed. Results are locked in the student's browser with your key before they are sent, so Peabody cannot read them. They are deleted after 9 months. |
The class view is put together in your browser from links made in that browser. Nothing new is stored, and it shows seat numbers, not names.
What it does not do
- The class view shows lessons and passages you assigned with a link. A student's own place in the course lives in their browser, or in their family's Peabody account, and you do not see it.
- A timed test cannot be assigned yet. An assignment is a lesson's practice lines or a short passage.
- Peabody's class mode does not show typing. How class mode works
On a Chromebook
- A Chromebook has no Caps Lock key. Alt + Search turns it on and off, so if a student's letters come out capital, that is why.
- The top row of keys is shortcuts (volume, brightness) and not F1 to F12. The lessons use none of them.
- Most Chromebooks have no number pad. Lesson 17 teaches the number row along the top, which every keyboard has.
- Both Shift keys work. Lesson 16 teaches a big letter with Shift held by the other hand's pinky.
- Most keyboards have a raised bump on F and J, for fingers to find home without looking. The first lesson starts there.
- Headphones help in a shared room.
If the site does not open at school, the filter check says what to ask IT for.