Onboarding Document for School Admins

• Standard username and password

• Clever 

• ClassLink

• Google Classroom

• Google SSO 

• Microsoft Teams

Note: You can only choose one type of integration. Once you opt for one of the integrations listed above, you must have admins, teachers, and students log in to Typing.com the same way. If you don’t log in to Typing.com using the chosen method of integration, the student data and teacher account will not be synced and there will be no student progress visible in the school account.

Step 1: Go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup. The first screen asks What is your role in education? - choose School Administrator.

Step 2: Click Faculty in the left-hand menu, then Invite Faculty and Invite Teachers. The window offers a Copy Invite Link you can share, or a box for work email addresses, one per line, which you send on with Review Invites. Invite School Admin is in the same menu. Invite Teachers to My School/District walks through it.

Note: if you see "This account already exists in a different district and can not be invited.", email support@typing.com and we will sort it out for you.

Step 3: Your teachers create their classes and add their students - see Create a New Class (Teacher) and How to Know the Best Way to Add Students.

Step 4: Ask your students to go to https://www.typing.com/student/login and log in with their username and password. As soon as they do, a license is assigned to them and their accounts become PLUS, ad-free accounts.

A school admin sees the school's own figures on the Reports page, including a Teacher Usage report - an overview of each teacher with their number of students, total time spent typing and total screens typed. Reports about a particular class or student are read in the Teacher role, and to open a class that is not yours you have to add yourself to it: open the class, go to its Teachers tab and use Add Teachers.

School-wide and District-wide Settings covers the defaults a school admin can set for every class on the account.

Step 1: You do not need to create a Typing.com school account. Set the classes and students up on the Clever side instead.

Step 2: Add the Typing.com application in Clever and share the data with us. Clever FAQs and Sync With Clever (Teacher/Admin) have the detail.

Step 3: Wait 24 hours for the account to sync. After that your students can log in to Typing.com through Clever, and their accounts become PLUS as they do.

Step 1: As with Clever, there is no Typing.com school account to create. Your roster is built in ClassLink and the Typing.com app is shared from there - see ClassLink FAQs and Sync With ClassLink (Teacher/Admin).

Step 2: Allow 24 hours for the first sync to finish. Your students then reach Typing.com from ClassLink, and become PLUS as they start logging in.

Step 1: Go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup. The first screen asks What is your role in education? - choose School Administrator. On the sign-up screen that follows, sign up with Google.

Step 2: Click Faculty in the left-hand menu, then Invite Faculty and Invite Teachers. The window offers a Copy Invite Link you can share, or a box for work email addresses, one per line, which you send on with Review Invites. Invite School Admin is in the same menu. Invite Teachers to My School/District walks through it.

Note: if you see "This account already exists in a different district and can not be invited.", email support@typing.com and we will sort it out for you.

Step 3: Each teacher syncs from their own account and decides which Google Classroom classes come across to Typing.com.

Step 4: Go to https://teachers.typing.com/login, click Google under Log in with:, then click Classes in the left-hand menu and Sync with Google Classroom above the class table. The window Select Google Classroom Classes to Sync opens with one card per Google Classroom class; click each class you want so it reads Syncing, then click Sync Selected Classes at the foot of the window. Sync With Google Classroom (Teacher) covers it step by step.

Step 5: Ask your students to go to https://www.typing.com/student/login and click Google under Log in with:. As soon as they do, their accounts become PLUS, ad-free accounts.

Step 1: If you want to log in with Google but not use Google Classroom, go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup, choose School Administrator and sign up with Google.

Step 2: Each teacher creates their own classes, and students join them through the self-join link with their Google accounts - see Use the Student Self-Join Link (Teacher).

Step 3: Click Faculty in the left-hand menu, then Invite Faculty and Invite Teachers. The window offers a Copy Invite Link you can share, or a box for work email addresses, one per line, which you send on with Review Invites. Invite School Admin is in the same menu. Invite Teachers to My School/District walks through it. Linking a teacher's account to the school account is what gives that teacher the school's PLUS licenses.

Step 4: Ask your students to go to https://www.typing.com/student/login and click Google under Log in with:. As soon as they do, their accounts become PLUS, ad-free accounts.

Anyone with a Microsoft account can use Microsoft SSO to log in to Typing.com. This applies to district admins, school admins, teachers, and students.

Step 1: Go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup. The first screen asks What is your role in education? - choose School Administrator. On the sign-up screen that follows, sign up with Microsoft.

Step 2: Click Faculty in the left-hand menu, then Invite Faculty and Invite Teachers. The window offers a Copy Invite Link you can share, or a box for work email addresses, one per line, which you send on with Review Invites. Invite School Admin is in the same menu. Invite Teachers to My School/District walks through it. Linking a teacher's account to the school account is what gives that teacher the school's PLUS licenses.

Note: if you see "This account already exists in a different district and can not be invited.", email support@typing.com and we will sort it out for you.

Step 3: Each teacher syncs from their own account and decides which classes come across to Typing.com.

Step 4: Go to https://teachers.typing.com/login, click Microsoft under Log in with:, then click Classes in the left-hand menu and use the sync button above the class table. Choose the classes you want and click Sync Selected Classes. Sync With Microsoft Teams (Teacher) covers it step by step.

Step 5: Ask your students to go to https://www.typing.com/student/login and click Microsoft under Log in with:. As soon as they do, their accounts become PLUS, ad-free accounts.