March 2020 COVID Update
Keyboarding Online has been watching the news like all other businesses, and with our own children in the school systems, we are well aware of some of the latest difficulties educating students. We at Keyboarding Online have been thinking about how we could support an increasing number of students working from home. Student Login Cards […]
Free BigBlueButton Virtual Classroom!
Free BigBlueButton for Subscribers! We here at KeyboardingOnline understand how frustrating this quarantine is. Classrooms have been shutdown, spanning over 140 countries! School districts all over the world are scrambling to figure out how they can teach their students. Instead of sitting around, we decided to come up with a solution for our subscribers. We […]
New Online English Typing Practice Trends
Typing – especially blind typing – has become a core skill for many industries. From copywriting to data entry, everyone should know how to quickly turn their thought into coherent, correct lines of text. Thankfully with online English typing practice platforms, this can be done faster, easier, and cheaper than ever. While lagging behind Mandarin […]
Google Classroom Syncing
Google Classroom Syncing is now live inside the Teacher Manager! We have been working on this feature the past few months and are happy it is now available to all schools that use this feature. Benefits of Google Classroom Syncing This feature brings with it another way to create your classes and students without having […]
January 2020 New Features, New Look!
We have a lot go over here, and we hope your new semester is off to a great start! We know we surprised many of you with our new site. So here is an overview of new features to look for: NEW Website NEW Keyboarding for Kids NEW Error Checker NEW Games Still to come in […]
Will “Voice to Text” ever replace Keyboarding?
Through the past several years, voice-to-text speech recognition software has come a long way. It is now on phones and computers, and seen as a quick and easy way to send a quick message. Will it ever progress to the point that it makes keyboarding obsolete? The Perfect Scenario I think most everyone would agree […]
Keyboarding Motivation: The Basics
Let’s all admit it: typing is no fun. It is not fun to copy text for minutes at a time, and can be quite frustrating if you make mistakes and have to repeat it all over again. So, how can we provide some keyboarding motivation for our students and pupils to give them more energy […]
Technology behind Keyboarding Online
Here at Keyboarding Online, our goal is to always stay one step ahead of any competition. We were the first online typing program for schools, and we still provide the latest in technology for education. Humble Beginnings of Keyboarding Online When Barbara Ellsworth taught at Mesa Community College, she researched and started developing her own […]
How do you break bad typing habits?
Breaking bad habits is not easy. You may have heard that it takes 7 days to develop a habit and 21 days to break one, that may not be true as research show. Breaking bad typing habits can be done, but it can be frustrating. The easiest way to break a bad habit is to […]
Typing + Financial Education = Millionaire
Weird right? How does keyboarding have anything to do with becoming a millionaire??? But, when its used with financial education, it can be quite powerful. Finance radio talk show guru Dave Ramsey routinely does a special hour when he has listeners call in and explain to others how they saved, invested, and now have a […]