‘Type-Net for Schools’ – was launched in Spring 2011. The idea was to create a ‘community’ of schools using Typequick online courseware. The main feature of membership is a unique annual courseware site licence which is only available to Type-Net members, but there are other benefits too. With the site licence, each member school is able to enrol as [...]
Now you can order Typequick Professional or Typequick for Students Online with your credit card. Typequick Online involves a secure web site where you can access your own personal course using your own unique user name and password that will be emailed within a day or two once you have placed your order. Either the Professional [...]
Now you can test the typing skills of your students online, using our optional automated typing test program, ‘Skill Evaluator’. And it is so easy to use! Just click a button in the Typequick administration system and a student who is already enrolled for the Typequick online courseware will be prompted to do a typing test when they [...]
Since joining Type-Net in March this year, St. Crispin’s School in Wokingham, Berkshire – a specialist school Mathematics, Computing and Leadership, has enrolled almost 800 pupils onto the Typequick for Students course via the Type-Net for Schools annual licence scheme. Mike Elward, Assistant Head at the school and the Director of e-Learning, who has been in charge of [...]
When it comes to touch-typing training, Pitman Training is frequently the first name on many people’s lips. Founded over 100 years ago (and famous over the years for training an army of secretaries in shorthand and typing) the company delivers a wide range of computing and work-related skills training courses, many of which lead to [...]
Type-Net for Schools was launched in January this year to address the urgent need for good typing skills in schools across the UK. Pupils are using computers in schools more than ever before, for assignments, research, assessments and even some exams. Yet few schools deliver any form of keyboard skills training. Recent research indicates that, whilst around [...]
Recently we receieved this email from Dennis Bruce, who learned to type using Typequick some years ago:- “Whilst clearing out my home office I found the floppy disc (ask your father about them) of the Typequick Keyboard Training Course that I bought many years ago. I have never tested my speed, but I am the only UK [...]
Recent research conducted by the BCS – Chartered Institute for IT – revealed that pupils in secondary schools are spending, on average, about three hours a day on a computer. They are using them for research, assignments, homework etc…, so computers have clearly become an essential tool for thousands, if not millions, of pupils across the [...]
A recent broadcast on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 featured Isabel Nisbet, the outgoing head of Ofqual, who was arguing for a move towards computerised exams. She said that paper-based exams were “running the risk of becoming invalid, because their medium of pen and ink differs from the way in which youngsters (now) [...]
Type-Net is a new online service delivered and supported by Type&Test Ltd that provides keyboard skills training for pupils and staff along with other related benefits. One significant benefit is the freedom to recover the cost of your school’s annual Type-Net membership fee by charging parents for the online typing-training courseware that Type-Net provides. All member schools will [...]
Recent research that we conducted indicates that whilst around 80% of schools think it would be a good idea to teach touch typing, only around 15% actually teach it. Those that don’t say it is because they fear that the cost will be too high, that they don’t have the time to teach it or they don’t have [...]