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Why Your School District Should Have Spanish Typing Lessons
When choosing typing lessons for your school district, Spanish language integration may seem more like a bonus rather than a necessity. However, Spanish typing lessons may be the key to many students’ success — both in technology and in language learning. Here’s why you should consider a typing program that provides an option for Spanish typing…
Read More »Connecting the dots…
I was recently asked to share something on my heart with the amazing Typing Agent community. Before I do so, let me take a minute and introduce myself. My name is Kris Wheeler and I am the financial coordinator at Typing Agent and have loved working here for the past 2 years! I am also a…
Read More »New Features and Updates
New Typing Agent Features New Challenge Typing App Fifty new challenge lessons have been added.These lessons will be unlocked for students with 10,0000 experience points and have unique typing lessons to improve accuracy, speed, and endurance. Spy Mode Lessons Starting in World 12 of our 3+ Keyboarding Foundations typing app the keyboard will be hidden and…
Read More »New Printables Available for Teachers
New Typing Agent Certificates and Printables Available for teachers in the “more options” or “…” area of the teacher dashboard: English and Spanish Parent letters: Use these letters to send home and introduce Typing Agent and the importance of keyboarding and technology to parents! These letters are completely editable as well. K2 and K2+ Printable Offline…
Read More »Our Latest In Online Typing Games
Introducing Typing Streaks! I’m sure many of you have heard of Snapchat…well for those of you who know, Snapchat has an intriguing feature called Snapchat Streaks! Snapchat Streaks or as some call it Snapstreaks is a creative way to get people to use their app every day and if they do this successfully, a flame emoji…
Read More »Gritcoins for Typing Games
Gamification = increased learning and that is why Typing Agent is all about keyboarding and technology gamification for students! Since the release of our new version TA 5, we have heard from many of our teachers how much they loved having their students be able to use the Gritcoins they earn for completing their lessons for…
Read More »New Typing Agent Features
Here at Typing Agent we value all of the ideas and suggestions we get from you, our teachers and admins, and we make it a priority to add those suggested features and tools into our program. Here’s a peek at some of the latest features we’ve just launched. Keep your eyes out, you may just see…
Read More »Clever’s New Tool for Class Rosters
Typing Agent has just released an exciting and very handy new tool for schools using Clever to roster their students – Classroom Sync. Now when student updates are performed via the Clever Portal, rather than having to wait until the next day for the students to sync to a classroom, teachers can simply click the green…
Read More »Just Released by Typing Agent
Supplemental Lessons Curriculum You asked for it and we delivered. Now you have instant access to hundreds of additional keyboarding lessons for your students. These can be assigned to students in the Curriculum area. Expanded Reporting New reports are available for schools and districts. One of our more popular reports from TA Classic makes its debut…
Read More »Fun New K2 Offline Typing Activities
Introducing keyboarding to our youngest typists is important to develop proper keyboarding skills early and now, in response to many requests from our teachers, we are excited to introduce Typing Agent’s new K2 and K2+ Offline Activities! Get ready for your students to sing, play games, color, paint, glue and have even more fun learning to…
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