Welcome to Austin ISD's Custom Typing.Com Support Site
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Helpful Information
Beginning September 1, 2005, all Austin ISD Campus Staff and students have had access to this online keyboarding tutorial site. Custom Typing has keyboarding lessons geared for 3rd grade through adult levels.
Promotional Materials

Staff Intro Handout.doc by Debbie Smith
Staff Intro Handout.html by sjeske

Parent Letter.doc for sending home or including in your campus newsletter, informing parents of this resource and required password and logon for their child(ren). Each child will have a unique login and password that matches their Learning.com login and password.
Restrictions

Logons and passwords are not to be posted to internet web sites nor printed in documents for general public viewing.
Campus Logons Each campus has a unique administrative logon to be used by a person or team responsible for setting up classroom groups and generating reports on student progress. Contact your IT facilitator for this logon and password.

Student accounts have been imported for all K-8th grade students, including their unique login and password information. Your campus CT Admin can generate classroom lists containing this information.
Flash Required The Flash plug-in is needed to properly use these tutorials. If you are getting a black screen when you open a tutorial, you will need to download and install the latest version of Flash. Follow this link to download Flash for Mac or PC:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/
Tracking Progress Your campus CT Admin can generate a variety of reports by class/group or for your entire campus, including a list of all student names with their login information.
Training Sequence
 We recommend selecting the Computer-Guided Mode for students. This list shows the sequence of lessons in this Mode.

Guide To Administering CustomTyping.com

1
 Admin Login Each campus has one administrative login that allows the user to setup groups, add and assign students to groups, and generate reports. Check with your campus ITRC or IT Facilitator for login and password information.
2
 Student Logins AISD has populated this online resource with K-8 student names by campus as of 9/5/07. New students following that date will need to be added by the CT Admin on each campus. Each student has been assigned a unique login and password that allows the user to access lessons from networked computer a school and computer at home with internet service. Each campus CT Admin can generate class lists including student names and their login information.

Students should log in to Custom Typing using the following link:
3
 Adding Groups We recommend the CT Admin add a new "Group" for each class planning to use Custom Typing. The (All Groups) selection contains all students on your campus.
4
 Assigning students to groups
Current students can be assigned to groups by first selecting (All Groups)
Scroll down the list of students "Checking" those names to be added to a class's Group.
Click the "Change Settings" button.

For younger students we suggest starting with "10" WPM and "Computer Guided" Web Site Mode.

Feel free to adjust settings to best meet the needs of your own students. Remember to Save Changes. This process must be repeated for each group.

Change the "Group" and other settings to match this group of selected students.
Adding New Students

Click the Add Student button and fill in the screen that appears appropriately.

 Adding New Students.mov
5
 Generating a Class List
Start by selecting a group, checking all student names, then selecting Reports.
Next, select Summary Report.
Select Name and Account Username then Generate Report and print. Student Username and password are the same.
Generating Class Lists.mov
FAQ's "How do I change a student's login and/or Password?"
The CT Admin can change any student's settings. This video shows how to change user name and password.

"Why can't I hear the audio in these tutorials?"
These tutorials have a voice track for the online guide that requires speakers to benefit from the instruction. If you have speakers, make sure they are not muted. Turn up the volume if they have a volume control or go to your computer's sound control panel or system preferences and make sure the volume setting is turned up.

"Why do I get a blank screen when I open a tutorial?"
The Flash plug-in is needed to view these tutorials. See the Flash section above for installation instructions for this player.

"How do I introduce this to my campus staff?"
We recommend you schedule a 15 minute introduction at one of your next staff meetings.

1. Distribute the the Staff Introduction handout.

2. Show the Quickstart movie clip .

3. Provide each teacher with his/her class list with user names.

4. Download, modify, print, and distribute the parent introduction letter to your parents as appropriate.

.Visit AISD's Website

index.html updated 10/15/07 - sj