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Typing.com is the only platform to offer full district support at no cost with no limitations on content or administrative features. Typing.com may be free, but it rivals the best paid typing tutor software in features and usability. In order to get typing work there a few things you have to get sorted, like: Find out your typing speed. So before I could put myself forward as the speediest typist in the west I needed to know how fast I could type. A few years ago, I could do 90 wpm (words per minute), which is pretty darn fast. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing lies within Education Tools, more precisely Teaching Tools. The Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing installer is commonly called MavisBeacon.exe, Icon6D954544.exe, MBTTPE.exe, Millionaire.exe or MSRUN.EXE etc. Mar 20, 2018 Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing lies within Education Tools, more precisely Teaching Tools. The Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing installer is commonly called MavisBeacon.exe, Icon6D954544.exe, MBTTPE.exe, Millionaire.exe or MSRUN.EXE etc.

Typing Pal is a fun way to help your students learn or perfect their keyboarding technique. What’s more, it provides powerful tools to manage your user accounts and customize the training program.

Typing Pal is a valuable tool for students to learn typing and keyboarding skills;

its three environment levels and customizable texts keep learning relevant to students' classes and skill levels.

• A Variety of Exercises
  Watch your students gradually perfect their technique with the help of predefined exercises.
• Skill-enhancing Activities
  Use Typing Pal’s algorithm to provide activities tailored to each student’s specific needs.
• Collections of Texts
  Easily add new texts to create original content relevant to your program.
• Multiple Tests
  Gauge your students’ skill level with the initial test and follow their progress with the help of timed tests.

Games lighten the learning process and allow your students to have fun as they practise on different areas of the keyboard. You can choose to block access to them if, for example, you choose to use them as a reward for reaching a new milestone.

Like your students, you too can access your account from any PC, Mac, Chromebook or iPad connected to the Internet.

Custom URL

Create a custom URL bearing your school’s name, such as https://my-school.typingpal.com.

One-click Login

via a Google or Office 365 account.

• Attentive Coaches
  Inspire your students with the help of virtual coaches who guide them through their training.
• Kudos for Accuracy
  Watch your students aim for perfection so they can unlock golden icons for each of their activities.
• Custom Certificate
  Give each student a magnificent certificate in recognition of their successful completion of the Final Test.

View the students’ logs to assess their performance and watch the video replays to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Choose a grading system and generate report cards directly from the statistics report.

Effortlessly manage one or several schools from a single account. Use our smart system for importing lists to create and update multiple accounts at a time.

Use Excel and CSV Formats

to import and export your data.

We want to make our web-based application a safe learning environment for your students. Therefore, we make every effort to comply with the most established standards for safeguarding personal information.

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing.

History[edit]

The typing program was initially released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks and has been published regularly ever since. The original version was written by Charles R Haymond, an independent computer programmer living in Berkeley California who later worked for the Department of Homeland Security.^[4] The first version written for MS-DOS was created by Norm Worthington, Walt Bilofsky, and Mike Duffy.^[2] Editions of Mavis Beacon are currently published by Encore Software (hybrid Mac and Windows) and Software MacKiev (macOS only) and are available throughout the retail sales world. An early version supported both QWERTY and the alternative Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout. Later versions supported only QWERTY until the 2011 Ultimate Mac Edition from Software MacKiev which returned full Dvorak keyboard lessons to the product. Earlier versions were made for Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family (version 1 only), Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Palm OS (version 16), and Amiga. The current^[when?] Windows and Mac versions are published under the Broderbund trademark by both Encore and Software MacKiev.

Features[edit]

The program includes a number of speed tests and constantly tracks the user's words-per-minute typing speed. It also includes a number of typing games of which some versions have been included since the first release. (The 2011 Ultimate Mac Edition for macOS, published by Software MacKiev, also includes two-player competitive typing network games, integration with iTunes, Dvorak keyboard support, practice typing song lyrics, RSS news feeds and classic novels.) A certificate of achievement can be printed by the user upon the completion of tests.

Name[edit]

Mavis Beacon is not a real person. The original photo of Mavis Beacon was of Caribbean-born model Renee L'Esperance. She was introduced to Les Crane, the former talk-show host, while he was shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Crane, who was then a partner in The Software Toolworks, invented the sobriquet.

Mavis Beacon's first name was taken from Mavis Staples, lead vocalist for the Staple Singers. The surname derives from beacon, as in a light to guide the way.^[5]

Reception[edit]

A favorable review^[6] in 1987 by Peter Lewis, technology writer for The New York Times, gave the program an early boost.

Compute! favorably reviewed the program in 1989, stating that children, adults, and experienced typists would find it useful, and citing its support of Dvorak training.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^Norman Worthington: Executive Profile & Biography, Bloomberg, ...One of Mr. Worthington's earliest ventures was Software Toolworks, one of the first highly successful consumer software companies...
2. ^ ^abBiersdorfer, J. D. (31 December 1998). 'Next They'll Say Betty Crocker Isn't Real, Either'. The New York Times.
3. ^Walt Bilofsky's Home Page - Software Publisher, ... I was one of three programmers who designed and created the perennial software hits The Chessmaster and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing...
4. ^Codex Gamicus:Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Retrieved October 31, 2019.
5. ^MACKLIN, William (November 19, 1995). 'Supertypist Mavis Beacon Is A Creation Of Marketing'. Seattle Times.
6. ^Lewis, Peter H. (17 November 1987). 'PERSONAL COMPUTERS; Feedback In Typing Program'. The New York Times.
7. ^Randall, Neil (January 1989). 'Mavis Makes It Easy'. Compute!. p. 70. Retrieved 10 November 2013.

External links[edit]

Mary Beacon Typing Test

• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing by Encore (Windows and Mac editions)
• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing by Software MacKiev (Mac OS X edition)

Mary Beacon Typing Practice