Onboarding Document for Teachers

Classroom (Teachers): Integration Options

Standard username and password
Clever
ClassLink
Google Classroom
Google
Microsoft Teams

*Teachers with a Classroom/teacher account cannot add or invite co-teachers to their class. They must have a School or District account in order to add co-teachers to their class. Teachers can convert their classroom accounts to School or District accounts freely on their account page in the teacher portal.

Steps for Standard Username and Password:

Go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup and create a Teacher account
Teachers will have to create classes and add students. (link to create classes and link to add students)
The students need to go to www.typing.com/student/login and log in with their login credentials. As soon as they do that, they’ll get a license assigned to them and their accounts will become PLUS, ad-free accounts.

Clever (District Level):

* Do not create a Typing.com account in the teacher portal; instead, please contact the school’s IT administrator and ask the IT admin to add the students in Clever and wait for the account to sync overnight

For Clever Integrations, you must set up classes/students on the Clever side. You have to select the Typing.com application and share the data with us.
To log in, the students have to go to their Clever accounts and click on the Typiong.com app.

Clever Library Sync:

* Do not create a Typing.com account in the teacher portal

Please follow the steps by clicking on this link
To log in, the students have to go to their Clever accounts and click on the Typing.com app.

Google Classroom Integration

Go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup and create a Teacher account. Please make sure that you sign up with Google (Click on the Google button on the sign up page)
Each teacher will have to manually sync with Google Classroom from their own teacher account and they will decide which Google Classroom classes they want to sync with Typing.com.
To sync Google Classroom classes with Typing.com, the teachers have to go to www.typing.com/teacher/login > click on ‘Log in with Google’ > go to ‘my classes’ > click on ‘sync with Classroom’ > select the classes that they want to sync > scroll all the way to the bottom and click on ‘sync selected classes’
Finally, you need to ask the students to go to www.typing.com/student/login and log in with Google. As soon as they do that, their accounts will become PLUS, ad-free accounts.

Google SSO

If you want to log in with Google but not use Google Classroom, you have to go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup and click on ‘Sign up with Google’ - You will be responsible for creating your own classes, and you’ll have to use the self-join link to add the students to the classes. With the self-join link the students will be able to join the class with their Google accounts by logging in with Google.
Finally, you need to ask the students to go to www.typing.com/student/login and log in with Google. As soon as they do that their accounts will become PLUS, ad-free accounts.

Microsoft Teams

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

Go to https://teachers.typing.com/signup and create a Teacher account. Please make sure that you sign up with Microsoft (Click on the Microsoft button on the sign up page)
Each teacher will have to manually sync with Microsoft Teams from their own teacher account and they will decide which classes they want to sync with Typing.com.
To sync Microsoft Team classes with Typing.com, the teachers have to go to https://teachers.typing.com/login > click on ‘Log in with Microsoft > go to ‘my classes’ > click on ‘sync with Microsoft > select the classes that they want to sync > scroll all the way to the bottom and click on ‘sync selected classes’
Finally, you need to ask the students to go to www.typing.com/student/login and log in with Microsoft. As soon as they do that their accounts will become PLUS, ad-free accounts.