Typing Web Instructions

In grade three this year, your child will be learning the basics of touch typing. At school and at home, we will be using the program Typing Web (www.typingweb.com/tutor), along with various web-based keyboarding programs (which can be found here). For maximum growth, students should be practicing their keyboarding at home for approximately 20-30 minutes per week (think 10 minutes per night, 2-3 times a week). Here's a great article on how to motivate kids to improve their touch-typing skills.

In comparison to show the benefits of touch-typing, here is a chart which shows handwriting speeds in various ages along-side keyboarding speed:

Instructions for Typingweb.com

Go to www.typingweb.com/tutor

We recommend Firefox or Safari. Other browser may also work. If you are having trouble getting the typing program to load, please try a different browser.

Login

Use your regular school username which is your last name and ID number.

Use your regular school password. Remember the capital letter.

Click on your next lesson.

Avoid Advertisements

When the lesson is loading, an advertisement appears on the screen. Do not click on it.

There are also advertisements along the side and top of Typingweb.com. Practice being safe online by not clicking on them without your parent's permission.

View Your Progress

Click on Statistics for a selection of graphs and other data about your typing.

Practice Often

Try to practice at least 2-3 times per week. Work on lessons, not games for at least ten minutes per session. Your teacher may assign typing on certain days or for certain amounts of times.

Class Scoreboard

If your teacher has it turned on, you can view your class scoreboard. The scoreboard resets each week. That means each week someone else can be in the top 5 slots. You can view the scoreboard ranked by typing speed or by time spent typing.

Games

There are 12 different typing games. The typing games do not count towards your total time spent typing. The games may use keys you have not yet learned to type. You may have to uncover the keyboard to play them.