Microsoft Authentication

The easiest way to log in to Typing Pal is with a sign-in partner, but you first must have a Microsoft account.

This function is unavailable if you use provisioning with ClassLink.

Start by linking your Microsoft and Typing Pal accounts. The linking is done from the Login page or from your Settings.

Once the two accounts are linked, simply click the link Log in with Microsoft and you’re done!

You can unlink the two accounts at any time. Super administrators, administrators and teachers can also unlink sign-in partners from other users’ accounts, depending on their management privileges.

School login page Subscription login page

Microsoft Account

You can log in with the same Microsoft account that you use for Microsoft’s various services.

If you do not already have a Microsoft account, you can create one by filling out a form on the following page: https://account.microsoft.com.

Link the Microsoft Account to the Typing Pal Account

From the Login page

For a school administrator, teacher or student

  1. On the School login page, click the log in with Microsoft link.
  2. Sign in to Microsoft. If the browser is already connected to your Microsoft account, simply select your Microsoft account.
  3. Indicate whether you already have a Typing Pal account.
    • School administrators, teachers and students who already have a Typing Pal account will have to sign in with their Username and Password, then click the Link button.
    • Students who do not yet have a Typing Pal account will need to create one, using their Signup code, and then click the Finish signup button.

For the super administrator

  1. On the Subscription login page, click the log in with Microsoft link.
  2. Sign in to Microsoft. If the browser is already connected to your Microsoft account, simply select your Microsoft account.
  3. Enter the super administrator’s Password and then click the Link button.

From your Settings

  1. Once logged in to Typing Pal, click your Identifier and choose the option My settings from the menu.
  2. In the Authentication section (or Sign-in partners in the student interface), click Link an account next to the Microsoft logo.
  3. Sign in to Microsoft. If the browser is already connected to your Microsoft account, simply select your Microsoft account.

Log In With Microsoft

  1. On the Login page, click the log in with Microsoft link.
  2. If the browser is already connected to your Microsoft account, simply select your Microsoft account.

Enable Automatic Logout From the Microsoft Account

You have the choice of enabling the option Always log out from the user’s Google or Microsoft account for all the accounts in the Information panel of the School summary.

By doing so, you ensure that a Microsoft account session does not remain open in the browser when a user logs out of Typing Pal.

Unlink a Microsoft Account

From Typing Pal

  1. Once logged in to Typing Pal, click your Identifier and choose the option My settings from the menu.
  2. In the Authentication section, click Unlink an account next to the Microsoft logo.

From Microsoft

  1. Once logged in to Microsoft, go to your profile’s homepage and click the Privacy tab.
  2. In the section Apps and services, click the link Apps and services you’ve given access.
  3. Under the Typing Pal / Tap’Touche application, click the Edit link.
  4. On the page that displays the information to which Typing Pal has access, click the Delete these permissions button.

Unlink a Microsoft Account From Other Users’ Accounts

  1. Go to the School administrators, Teachers or Students tab, depending on your management privileges and the type of account you want to unlink.
  2. Check the boxes next to the accounts you want to edit.
  3. In the upper right-hand corner of the list, click More, then select Unlink sign-in partners.
  4. In the pop-up window that appears, check the box to confirm you read the warning, then click Unlink.

Users who created their account with Microsoft do not have Typing Pal credentials (i.e. a username and password). If you unlink their account and the sign-in partner, those users will no longer be able to log in to Typing Pal. Make sure to create them Typing Pal credentials in the management interface.

  • For a teacher or a student
    1. In the Profile panel of their Summary, click the Edit button.
    2. Select Edit profile.
    3. Enter a username and password, then send them to that teacher or student.
  • For a school administrator
    1. In the Information panel of the School Summary, click the three dots next to their name among the Assigned administrators.
    2. Select Change school administrator.
    3. Enter a username and password, then provide them to that school administrator.

Block Login With a Microsoft Account

By default, students can sign in with a Microsoft account. To block this option, uncheck the Allow login with a Microsoft account option in the Information panel of the School summary.