Typesy Homeschool – The Best Online Typing Program for Big Families!

Are you looking for an inexpensive, large family friendly homeschool typing program that doesn’t require you to do anything but set it up online?  Typesy Homeschool is exactly what you are looking for!

“I can type just fine,” retorted my 14 year old as she slowly pecked with two fingers at the computer keyboard in front of her. 

“Um, I don’t think so,” I sighed. 

After a full CD typing course, she could barely type 15 words per minute, and she stared at her hands the entire time.  #epichomeschoolmomfail

I had hoped the colorful graphics and games would make typing stick in her brain, but I quickly realized it would take going through the CD multiple times for her to make the mind-fingers connection needed – and even that might not be enough.  She needed actual lessons. Once I realized this fact I wasn’t sure what to do.  Were her skills “good enough?”  Would text-typing win out over real typing, making this an obsolete skill anyway?  Should I make her go through the old CD over and over again, hoping to get better results?

No, No, and No!  I needed to find a homeschool typing program that would work the first time without boring or frustrating my kids.

That’s when I discovered Typesy Homeschool!

{This post was sponsored by Typesy, but the opinions are entirely my own.}

For $67 a homeschool mom can have 4 student accounts for 5 whole years!  That means if your kids are close enough in age, you can get a whole heap of them through this typing class with one subscription!

There are bigger packages for larger families and homeschool groups, plus, you can go in with another family and share any of the plans!  SEE THE TYPESY PLANS HERE >>

How to set up Typesy Homeschool Typing Lessons

Step 1: Set up Class & User Accounts

When I first signed up for my Typesy account, I created a new class that looks like this:

You can name your class whatever you want just make it easily identifiable.

Next, you will need to create user accounts for each of your kids.  You can do this from the sidebar icon labeled Users. 

Step 2: Determine & Set Goals

Next, set classwide goals for WPM (words per minute) and Accuracy from the admin screen at the top of the site. 

Admin > Classes > Select Class > Settings

If you’d rather give your children individual goals you can do this two different ways. 

From the Admin screen:
Create a class made up of each individual child and set their “classwide goal” from the settings for their “class.”

From child’s user account:
From the Home screen of your child’s individual account, click on their avatar and then click on Goals.

Step 3: Individualize Each User Account

You can set the font style, size, and background individually or classwide in the same manner as you set the goals (see Preferences under your child’s avatar). This is a really fantastic feature that is particularly helpful for children who have visual learning struggles. 

I wanted my kids to be able to play typing games, so I chose Interactive from the Curriculum tab.

Admin > Classes > Select Class > Curriculum

I really like that the games correspond with where they are in the lessons, helping to reinforce what they are learning.  You don’t have to worry about your child trying to play games that are beyond their skill level.

By the way…my kids LOVED creating their avatars!  Lia was very pleased with how hers turned out!

How Typesy Homeschool Teaches Typing

There are 377 lessons in Typesy.  The lessons are separated into courses and the courses into sections.  This is an extensive program that goes far beyond what most typing programs are teaching, including prefixes, suffixes, numbers, and even dictation!

Every lesson has a video that teaches hand placement and useful tips and tricks to make typing easier for your child. 

From there, your child will begin typing rows of letters.  The lessons are long enough to grasp the concept, but not so long that your child wears out.  They can also choose games from the navigation bar to reinforce what they are learning.

The dashboard is easy to navigate and quite intuitive; however, I found each course (not lesson) to be too long to do in one setting.  My kids often do more lessons in each course than I require, but I would highly suggest you set a time limit or a number of lessons for your children as a guideline if they aren’t good at setting their own limits.

You can easily check each child’s WPM and Accuracy from the Admin screen.  You can also see their individual progress through the lessons if you click on their avatar.

Typsey Homeschool is ad-free, so you don’t have to worry about your kids being inundated with flashy distractions.  And best of all, if you don’t love it, you can get a full refund + $50, even if it takes you A YEAR to decide if the product is right for your family!  WOW!

My Typesy Settings

Because it’s nice to see how other moms have set up the program, I wanted to share my personal Typesy settings from the Settings screen.

Admin > Classes > Select Class > Settings

I do not allow the kids to skip lessons ahead, I don’t mind if they play, and I don’t mind if they create their own exercises.  I disabled the Hall of Fame feature because that is internet-wide and my children found it frustrating not seeing their names up there.

I allowed them to create their own avatars, but no photos, and I set individual goals rather than classwide, so that is toggled off.  I did a fixed sans serif font because I felt it would be easier to read.  I gave the student the option to have the keyboard shown on their screens (they can get rid of it at any time).  I turned the backspace on.  I gave them the choice to have the program beep at them if they got a letter wrong because my children are not fond of beeping (the mistyped letter does turn red and changes to the letter they typed – something my 14 year old doesn’t like either).  I also set a minimum for accuracy and speed as a checks and balances.

Personally, I am extremely pleased with Typsey Homeschool!  The program is doing a much better job teaching my kids typing skills than the cheap CD I purchased a couple of years ago.  The courses are extensive and thorough, the games relevant and helpful, and the interface is very user-friendly.  Plus, the price and customer service are phenomenal!  Definitely a thumbs up homeschool curriculum!