For teachers and schools

Typing Tutor in the classroom

This is how Typing Tutor will work for a school when it launches: who's in charge, getting 28 kids set up without typing 28 forms, and getting shared classroom computers ready.

Your school gets its own address

Each school has its own address, like yourschool.mytypingtutor.ai. Your school's teachers, classes and kids live there, separate from families and from other schools.

A school admin sets it up and invites the teachers. Each teacher then runs their own classes. Kids never get an email address or an account; a teacher creates a profile for each one.

Schools are set up with us rather than by signing up online. If you'd like your school on it, get in touch: a contact address will be published on this site before launch.

Who does what

School admin: Looks after the school’s address and invites the teachers.
Teacher: Runs their own classes: adds kids, gets devices ready, prints login cards, reads progress and stories.
Kid: Taps their avatar, types their PIN and plays. No email, no account of their own.

Add a whole class from a spreadsheet

Copy the columns out of your class spreadsheet and paste them into the bulk-add box in the dashboard. Commas (CSV) and tabs (TSV, which is what you get when you copy cells from a spreadsheet) both work. Up to 200 kids at a time.

One kid per line

Ava, 4821, 5A, fox
Ben, 1937, 5A
Chloe, 6604, 5B, owl
Dev, 2250, 5B

Example only: make up your own PINs.

Name, up to 40 characters. A first name or nickname is plenty.
PIN, exactly four digits.
Class, optional. A short name like "5A".
Avatar, optional: dragon, unicorn, fox, octopus, penguin, frog, whale, owl. Leave it blank and the list cycles through all eight.

A header row like name, pin, class, avatar is skipped. Before anything is created you get a preview table with problems flagged on each row, such as a three-digit PIN or an avatar that doesn't exist.

Getting classroom computers ready

Show the class code. The teacher puts a short code, or a QR code, up on the board. It works for 15 minutes.
Each device enters it once. From then on, that computer or tablet only shows that class's avatars.
Kids tap their avatar and type their PIN. Every login after that is just those two steps.

Printable login cards

Teachers can print a card for each kid with their avatar, name and PIN. Hand them out for the first few sessions, or keep them in the classroom for kids who forget.

What the teacher sees

Progress per kid

Stars, and for each game the kid's level, rounds played and when they last played it.
Every story, in full

The story library shows what each kid wrote in the AI games and what the storyteller wrote back.
PIN resets

Forgotten PINs happen. Setting a new one also lifts the lock a profile gets after ten wrong tries.
No kid email, anywhere

The only email addresses in your school's space are the staff's. Kids have a display name, an avatar and a PIN.

A kid who plays at school and at home

They have two separate profiles. The school one belongs to the school and is managed by the teacher; the home one is managed by a parent. Progress and stories don't move between them.

What it doesn't do

No self-serve school sign-up. A school is set up with us, not from a form on this site.
School and home profiles aren't linked. A kid's stars and stories at school stay at school, and the same goes for home.
No self-serve account deletion yet. Teachers can remove a kid's profile, but closing a staff account or a school's space is done by request for now.
No rostering integration. It doesn't connect to Google Classroom, Clever or a school information system. Class lists come in as pasted text.
A 4-digit PIN isn't a password. It keeps a classmate from wandering into someone else's profile. It won't stop a kid who watched their neighbour type it, or who found a login card.

The safety page covers what the story checks can and can't catch.