Typing Pal Overview
At GRE, third, fourth and fifth grade students have Typing Pal accounts that they can use to practice their typing skills. They have all logged into their accounts at least once in the STEAM lab. Typing Pal is web based, allowing students to practice in their classrooms and at home. This typing program allows students to progress at their own pace through various typing activities and teaches proper finger placement on the keyboard. The more they practice using the home row keys and the correct finger placement the more precise they will be in their typing and communicating their thinking to others.
Part #1: Logging into Typing Pal
TIP: Please keep in mind each school has their own web address for Typing Pal, so be sure to bookmark the specific web address for Gold Rush.
Username: district username
Typically this is a student’s last name, first name first initial, middle name first initial. For example fleetmm or bartakj.
TIP: students will not include @s.dcsdk12.org
Password: lunch number
TIP: students will not include Dcsd before their lunch number, as they do for their email login.
Part #2: Navigating within Typing Pal
Once students are logged in they will see:
Students will click on LEARN, in the upper left hand corner. Typing Pal tracks the Exercises that students have completed, they may click on the next one and keep typing.
