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Tap'Touche (Various Versions)

A typing test on the monitor of a laptop.
Model: 
Home, School
Manufacturer Name: 
Druide informatique Inc

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Product Description: 

Tap'Touche is a simple and efficient web-based program for beginners and intermediates who want to touch type at full speed. It allows users to adopt best practices and fix bad typing habits. In a few weeks, users will develop essential keyboarding skills that will improve their performance at school or at work. 

Home Edition

This version is designed for personal use.

School Edition

This version is designed for students.

Main Features: 

These features are common to all versions:

  • Three learning environments (ages 6 to 11, ages 12 to 16, ages 17 and over).
  • Skill-enhancing Activities: Use Tap'Touche’s algorithm to provide activities tailored to each student’s specific needs.
  • Multiple Tests.
  • Educational Games.

Home Edition includes these additional features:

  • A Comprehensive Lesson Plan:
    • Improve skills with more than 200 training activities, including pre-determined and custom exercises, practice tests, and assessments.
    • A powerful algorithm responds to individual needs by focusing on the most problematic keys.
  • Smart Typing Games: Tap'Touche offers educational games that target specific areas of the keyboard to work on, and rewards each completed activity with a gold icon. 
  • Collect badges by taking the 50 challenges available in the app. Virtual coaches encourage users to keep training until they get a certificate of achievement.

School Edition includes these additional features:

  • Tap'Touche is a tool for students to learn typing and keyboarding skills.
  • For all grade levels.
  • Comprehensive and personalized training.
  • A Variety of Exercises: Students gradually perfect their technique with the help of predefined exercises.
  • Collections of Texts: Easily add new texts to create original content relevant to a program.
  • Gauge students’ skill level with the initial test and follow their progress with the help of timed tests.
  • Games lighten the learning process and allow students to have fun as they practice in different areas of the keyboard. Users can choose to block access to them if, for example, they choose to use them as a reward for reaching a new milestone.
  • Easy School and Home Access: Access the account from any PC, Mac, Chromebook, or iPad connected to the Internet.
  • Custom URL: Create a custom URL bearing a school’s name, such as https://my-school.typingpal.com.
  • One-click login via a Google or Office 365 account.
  • Enhanced Motivational Tools
  • Attentive Coaches: Inspire students with the help of virtual coaches who guide them through their training.
  • Kudos for Accuracy: Watch students aim for perfection so they can unlock golden icons for each of their activities.
  • Custom Certificate: Give each student a certificate in recognition of their successful completion of the final test.
  • Colorful Badges: Cheer on students with 54 badges designed to foster their perseverance and encourage them to reach higher goals.
  • Advanced Statistics Report: 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.
  • From School to School District: 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 data.

Primary Specifications: 

These specifications are common to all versions:

  • Connect on Windows, Chromebook, Mac, and iPad.
  • TypingPal on Mac and Windows: 
    • Windows 7 or later, OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or later.
  • Browser Compatibility:
    • Internet Explorer 11 or later, Safari 10 or later, Google Chrome 60 or later, Firefox 52 or later, Edge 38 or later.
  • TypingPal on Chromebook:
    • Chrome OS 60 or later.
  • TypingPal on iPad:
    • iOS 11 or later, iPadOS 13 or later.
  • Model Compatibility:
    • iPad 5th generation or later, iPad Air 2 or later, iPad mini 2 or later, iPad Pro or later.
  • This product requires a wireless physical keyboard (Bluetooth) or a standard physical keyboard with a Lightning-USB/Dock-USB adapter.

Options & Accessories: 

These options are common to all versions:

  • Language of activities: French
    • Keyboards: French (azerty), Canadian Multilingual Standard (qwerty), Belgian (azerty), French Canadian (qwerty), Swiss (qwertz).
  • Language of activities: English
    • Keyboards: US (qwerty), UK (qwerty), Canadian Multilingual Standard (qwerty).

More Information: 

See Manufacturer’s website for Tap'Touche Home Edition.

See Manufacturer’s website for Tap'Touche School Edition.