Admin Interface
As an admin account, how can I access courses to practice my typing skills?
Admin accounts can access the course section. Simply click on the link below: https://www.typesy.com/type/courses Or, you can click on the three dots: Click on Student Interface: Click on "View Student Interface":
Where can I edit details of my student’s account such as name, username or password?
You can change the name of the student account under the admin interface. Simply click Users > Search the user by name, or class > Click the user's First Name > Click on User Menu > Edit
How do I enroll a student into a class or curriculum?
To enroll a student into a class, go to Classes > Create Class > Enter the details requested: *Admin accounts can choose a curriculum while creating a class. Once the class is created, enroll the students.
How do I create a student account?
Once your admin account has been created, you will need to create your student/child's user account. Please follow the steps below: 1) In the Admin Interface, click on "Users." 2) Click on “Add Users.” 3) Enter the details as requested. (You can use ...
What is the difference between Student Account and Admin Account?
In Typesy for Schools and Homeschool, there are two types of accounts: admin and student. An admin account is for teachers, instructors, or homeschool parents/carers to set up students, assign curriculums, and monitor progress. A student account is ...
Can I add one content from Typesy Teaches Office in a class?
You may need to assign the whole curriculum to your class. To do this, please go to Class > Select Curriculum > Select Assign A pop-up will appear showing all the available curriculums after clicking the "Assign Curriculum". Choose the curriculum ...
How does Login As work?
Login As allows teachers to see how their changes in class-settings are applied on the student's end. While logged in as a student, teachers won’t be able to make changes/progress. Login As is available in the three-dot menu on the student list and ...
How do you check how many classes a student enrolled in?
Go to the users tab from your admin interface. Under the Classes section, you can see the list of the classes the student enrolled in.
Is there a way for me to tell when a user last logged in to Typesy?
Yes, there is. Go to the classes tab from your admin interface. Under the student section, there’s a “Last Login” column. If you can’t find the “Last login” column, you can enable it by clicking the column settings and find last Login. Admin ...
Is there a Video Tutorial for the Admin Interface?
Yes, you can access Admin Interface Video tutorials here: https://www.typesy.com/help/
Can I Pause multiple classes at the same time?
Yes, you can pause multiple classes. Go to the Classes tab and select the class you want to update. On the upper left, click the pause icon “Bulk update pause.”
Can I Delete multiple classes at the same time?
Yes, you can delete multiple classes. Go to the Classes tab and select the class you want to update. On the upper left, click the trash icon “Bulk update delete.”
Can I Assign a curriculum for multiple classes at the same time?
Yes, you can assign a curriculum including multiple classes. Go to the Classes tab and select the class you want to update. On the upper left, click the book icon “Bulk update curriculum.”
Can I choose the settings for multiple classes at the same time?
Yes, you can select settings for multiple classes. Go to the Classes tab and select the class you want to update. On the upper left click the setting icon “Bulk update settings.”
How do I Hide the Keyboard Display for all of my students?
Go to the Class Settings tab from your admin interface. Under the Typing settings section, there’s a setting named Disable Keyboard. You can turn off the display keyboard to hide it.
Is there a way to Disable the Games for all of my students, so they can focus on the courses?
Go to the Class Settings tab from your admin interface. Under the General settings section, there’s a setting named Disable Play Section. If this setting is enabled, the Play section will be hidden. This will force the student to focus on the ...
Is there a way to unlock all of my student courses, so they can skip and go in any order?
Go to the Class Settings tab from your admin interface. Under the General settings section, there’s a setting named Disable skipping ahead. If this setting is enabled, students can’t skip courses. So disable this option to allow students to skip ...
How do you Unpin a Class?
To unpin a Class, simply go to the“Classes” tab in your Admin interface. Select a Pinned class and hover your mouse, then click theUnpin Icon button.
How do you Pin a Class?
To pin a Class, Simply go to the “Classes” tab in your Admin interface. Select and hover your mouse over a Class and click the Pin Icon button.
How do we Restrict students from changing their Usernames?
Go to the Class Settings tab from your admin interface. Under the General settings section, there’s a setting named Disable Username change. If this setting is enabled, students can’t change or reset their username.
I print my class logins but I only see the username, and all the passwords are gone. How do I get my students to login without a password?
Definitely Typesy can export or print your users’ logins. However, if you entered your own passwords when you imported your users, Typesy does not have access to your passwords. It can only populate temporary passwords. Thus, when you export your ...
Everytime I import my students, I always get the “username already in use” error message. I look at our file and in our Typesy users but it’s not in use at all. How do I go about this?
The username is compared against all users in Typesy. If you get the “username already in use” error, it means that another account or school is already using that username. Please enter a different username for those students instead.
Can I Assign a Curriculum to Individual students in a class?
There is no way to assign a curriculum to individual students in a class. You can create a new “advanced” class with just one (or multiple) student/s and assign the new group the extra curriculum.
Can I Clone Wordlist in the admin interface?
Yes, you just have to go to Word Work>Hover the wordlist you want to clone, then click “View/Edit”, then you will be directed to the Wordlist page, then click “Word List Menu”, then click “Clone.” A dialog will pop up that will let you input the new ...
Do I have full control of the students’ Word Discover in the Wordlist?
Yes, you just have to go to Class>Settings>Word Discover. Then you can control the Word Discover: Dictionary / Wikipedia / Wiktionary and whether to turn these on or off, or let the student decide.
How do I Clone a Test/assignment in the admin interface?
Go to Class>Tests and Assignments, then click the 3 dot menu on the right side of the test/assignment you want to clone, then click “Clone.” There’s two options for cloning, and you can choose whether you want to clone a test/assignment in the same ...
How do I require my student to take the test or assignment first before doing anything else?
When creating a test/assignment, you can see 2 tabs: “Basic Options” and “Advanced Options.” You simply go to Advanced Options and check Force Immediate Completion. By doing this, you can now force the student to take the test/assignment first before ...
How do I select Multiple Students (of my own choice) in the Students tab?
Simply check multiple checkboxes that appear when you hover over the pictures of students in the table.
How do I Remove a Teacher from the class?
Go to the Class>Teachers tab then click the 3 dot menu on the right side of the teacher you want to remove from the class, then click “Remove from the class.”
How can I Add or enroll a Teacher in a class?
Go to Class>Teachers tab then click the Add Teacher button. Then choose the teacher(s) you want to add in the class and then click the Add button.
How can I Sort a Table?
You can sort it by clicking the label of the column in the table. After clicking, you can see an arrow beside the label (Arrow up means ascending order and Arrow down means descending order).
How do I Enroll a student in the class?
Go to a class > Students tab > then click the Enroll Students button. Then choose the student(s) you want to enroll, then click “Enroll Selected Users.”
How do I Remove a student from the class?
Go to Users then click the student you want to remove and you will be directed to the User’s Screen. Next go to Classes and now you can see the classes where the student belongs. Remove the student from that class by clicking this icon . Or you can ...
Do I have full Control of the Student Settings in their typing activity?
Yes, simply go to the settings of the Class then go to Typing.You can now change a student’s Typing settings, whether to turn it on or off, or let the student decide.
I want my students to focus on the courses. Can I restrict them from accessing the Play section?
Yes, you can discourage students from accessing the Play section. You can go to the class where the students belong and go to Settings>General and turn on the Display Play Section.
As an admin, can I “test” out the curriculum?
Yes, you absolutely can test the curriculum as an admin, but not in the admin interface. You just have to click the 3 dots(that's the Menu) seen in the upper right corner and then click "Student Interface." In the Courses tab, you can now see the ...
How do I limit student access to this program?
You can pause multiple classes at once or just select classes. Simply go to Admin>Classes>Select the Class>Overview>Pause access to this class. If you wish to pause several classes at once, you can go to: Admin>Classes>Select ALL or Select the ...
Where can I print Certificates for my students’ completed courses?
Simply go to Admin > Classes > select a class > Students > select a student > Progress > Print Certificate. The print certificate button is automatically available for the completed lessons.
How do I know the Most Appropriate Curriculum that I should assign to my students? Can you suggest a curriculum that I should let my students start working on?
Typesy can recommend a curriculum automatically when you create a class. Go to Classes > Create Class, then select the grade level of your students and Typesy will set the recommended keyboarding curriculum for you automatically. These are only ...
Can I set a Password for an entire Class?
Teachers can assign a unified password that the students can use to login to their Typesy account. To set a class-wide password, go to your Class Overview screen > Class Menu > Set Class-wide password. You can also remove this password from the Class ...
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