The Curriculum Page: Previewing Lessons Before You Assign

Curriculum in the left-hand menu opens everything Typing.com teaches, one curriculum at a time. It is where you go to see what a grade covers, and to open any lesson exactly as your students will see it before you assign it.

The page is two sections of cards. Core Curriculum holds fourteen: Kindergarten through 12th Grade, plus Adult Learner. Each card gives the curriculum's name, a line saying what it covers and three bullets under that. Click a card to open it.

Other Curriculums holds five more: Typing.com Legacy, Español Curriculum, Português Curriculum, Kindergarten - Legacy and 1st Grade - Legacy. What Is The Legacy Curriculum? covers the first of those.

A curriculum opens on a page of its own, headed by its name, what it teaches, and the range of speeds students typically finish it at. Its tabs are Lessons, Typing Tests, Games, and a fourth named for your own state's standards. WPM / Averages Grade Level puts those speeds in context.

Lessons runs the curriculum's units down the left in five groups: Learn To Type, Applied Typing, Beyond Typing, Computer Applications and Personalized Typing. Which units sit in each group varies from one curriculum to the next. A crown on a unit means that unit requires PLUS.

Choosing a unit shows its Unit Overview on the right, and under that the unit's lessons, numbered and broken into named stages. Each lesson gives an estimated time and a Preview button. The Custom Lessons unit, under Personalized Typing, is subtitled Created By Your Teacher - see Create Custom Lessons.

Step 1: Click Preview on the lesson you want.

Step 2: The lesson opens full screen under the heading Student Preview. Its name, its estimated time and its number of screens are on the left, and the screen you are on is under the heading.

Step 3: Work through it with Previous Screen and Next Screen along the bottom, or click a numbered screen to go straight to it. The lesson is live, so you can type it the way a student would.

Step 4: Close the preview with the X in the top right.

Previewing does not touch anyone's progress: a lesson you open this way is not recorded against any student's account, however far through it you type.

Typing Tests and Games work the same way, every row carrying its own Preview. The preview names what it has opened, as Test: 1 Minute Typing Test or Game: Keyboard Ninja, and a test also gives its length estimate.

The fourth tab lists the standards the curriculum meets in your state. Standard Type and View by at the top set how the list is built, Expand All Standards opens every entry at once, and each standard is given with its code and its full text. Standards Alignment Reporting turns that list into a table of which students have met each one.

Scope & Sequence, at the end of the tab strip, is a download rather than a tab. It opens Typing.com's PDF guide to classroom standards, and it is the same guide whichever curriculum you are on.

Pro-Tip: The curriculum a class runs is set in Class Settings - see How Can I Change My Class Curriculum. And once you have found a lesson worth setting, How to Create an Assignment shows how to assign it.