Onboarding Document for Teachers

• Standard username and password

• Clever

• ClassLink

• Google Classroom

• Google SSO

• Microsoft Teams

A Classroom account is a single-teacher account: a class on it has no Teachers tab, so there is no way to add another teacher to it. That tab appears on School and District accounts. Converting is free and keeps your classes, students and data: on My Account Settings click Change to School or District Account.

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

Step 2: Create your classes and add your students - see Create a New Class (Teacher) and How to Know the Best Way to Add Students.

Step 3: 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.

* Do not create a Typing.com account in the Teacher Portal. Ask your school's IT administrator to add the students in Clever instead, and wait for the account to sync overnight.

Step 1: Set the classes and students up on the Clever side, choose the Typing.com application and share the data with us. Clever FAQs and Sync With Clever (Teacher/Admin) have the detail.

Step 2: Students log in by going to their Clever account and clicking the Typing.com app.

* Do not create a Typing.com account in the Teacher Portal.

Step 1: Follow Clever's own instructions.

Step 2: Your students log in through Clever, exactly as they do for a district Clever integration.

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

Step 2: Each teacher syncs from their own account and decides which Google Classroom classes come across to Typing.com.

Step 3: 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 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.

Step 1: If you want to log in with Google but not use Google Classroom, go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup, choose Teacher and sign up with Google. You create your own classes, and students join them through the self-join link with their Google accounts - see Use the Student Self-Join Link (Teacher).

Step 2: 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 login 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 Teacher. On the sign-up screen that follows, sign up with Microsoft.

Step 2: Each teacher syncs from their own account and decides which classes come across to Typing.com.

Step 3: 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 4: 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.