Differences Between a Teacher Account and a Student Account
Ever wondered, “What’s the difference between a Teacher Account and a Student Account?” While it might sound obvious, there are important distinctions that make each account unique. Let’s dive in!
Teacher Pro Tip: Teacher accounts cannot be converted to student accounts (or vice versa). If you want to take the same lessons as your students, create a student account using the same email and password as your teacher account. You can create a free student account HERE.
What Your Teacher Portal Empowers You to Do
The teacher portal is your command center for managing most student account settings. You have the flexibility to control various aspects of your students' learning experience, ensuring they progress in the best way possible. Below is a list of class settings you control from your teacher portal.
Class Settings:
- Lesson Progression: Allow or disallow redoing completed lessons, non-sequential progression, and screen restarts.
- Lesson Configuration: Enable or disable the use of the backspace key and show or hide the on-screen keyboard during lessons.
- Features: Control access to typing tests and the class scoreboard.
- Account Settings: Manage account changes, access from small screens, and whether students can toggle typing sounds and dictation.
- Language Settings: Choose the keyboard layout and website language for your class.
- Permitted IP Addresses: Control from which IP addresses students can log in. The IP address is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network.
- Class Status: Set your class status to Active or Paused.
- Messages: Leave messages for your students to see when they log in.
- Benchmarks: Set requirements for screen completion (speed and accuracy) and earning stars (parameters for accuracy).
- Lessons: Select which lessons are active for your class.
- Games: Choose which typing games are available for your students.
- Details: Select the curriculum language, change the class name, grade, and period, and modify the self-join code for your class.
- Reports: Print and download reports of your students' progress in the Reports tab.
What a Student Account Gives You
A student account is all about enhancing typing skills through lessons, games, and achievements. Create a free student account (no email required) and join a teacher's class anytime.
Student Pro-Tip: Choose the right username when creating your account, as it’s your unique identifier and cannot be changed later. Only teachers can change a student’s username.
Student Account Benefits:
- Engaging Lessons: Improve typing skills with structured lessons and earn stars for each completed screen.
- Achievements: Track your progress and accomplishments in the Achievements tab.
- Fun Videos: Learn the importance of typing correctly with informative videos.
- Customization: Personalize your account with different themes or curriculum which can be changed anytime.
- Linked to Class: If linked to a teacher's class, certain settings will be managed by your teacher, like keyboard layout, website language, the ability to change your password, and more. Note: If you find restrictions to certain settings you expected to have available the best thing to do is to talk to your teacher and see how they feel about allowing a degree of student control over some configurations.
If your student account is not linked to a teacher's class, you have full control over all settings. Enjoy the freedom to customize your learning experience and make the most of Typing.com!
Embrace the power of Typing.com and enjoy a tailored experience that supports effective learning and teaching. Happy typing!