I am a little peeved with Typing.com. I have used it for more than ten years with my students. Now they have blocked many of the features unless you are premium. The price to go premium is $9.99 per student license per year. With 450 students coming through my class, there's no way our district will pay that price. Do any of you use a typing program that is free, but it still has the bells and whistles?
I use typing club. It works ok but I can only have 3 classes out of my 5 on there
I use Typing Club too! My students are happy and engaged. I just learned that the other two teachers in my grade level use Typing.com. So glad I’ve got my kids set up in Typing Club instead.
Wow! Inflation is hitting everywhere. Does typing.com really think anyone’s school district is going to cough up $9.99 per student? Private schools can afford better programs and public schools barely supply printer paper. I guess typing.com is about to learn a difficult lesson.
Chief
I have used Typing.com for so long, and last year, I have students who were able to complete almost every module, and now they can only access the main three levels, stories, and reinforcements.
Typing.com is what I used to always use when I taught typing too! What a bummer. I have also heard about Keybr being cool because it lets you customize lessons for your students. Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but it always sounded cool to me!
Enthusiast
I used keybr.com with students several years ago to great success, I don’t know how they are now…
https://www.keybr.com/
Chief
Thank you. I will check it out. I am going to talk to the head of our department to see if there is any funds that could purchase the licenses
Omg I didn't know they started doing this! What a bummer that they are charging for this. It was free for so many years and we have used it as well. Like someone said inflation is really affecting everyone and everything.