Group Management

A group consists of a set of student accounts, usually belonging to students who are in the same class and follow the same Typing Pal program (age group, language of activities, targets, etc.).

Update 2026

Students can be part of multiple groups.

Each group is assigned one main teacher. Additional teachers can be added to help manage the group as needed. A teacher account can access and manage multiple groups. The super administrator or a school administrator can also manage groups.

Note—One or more of these management functions may be disabled for teacher accounts if permissions have been revoked by an administrator. In such cases, the function will appear grayed out in the interface, and the administrator responsible will be displayed when the cursor is held over it.

Second language Update 2026

Typing Pal’s exercises and activities are available in both English and French. If you want to grant students access to all exercises and activities in a second language, you need to create a separate group and change the language of activities. You can also change the language of the interface for a group. These can be modified when editing the group. Find out more in our blog article on this topic.

A tag next to the function shows if it is unavailable due to account provisioning.

Adding a Group Unavailable

Groups can be added in two ways:

  • Click the Groups tab, then click the Add group button, fill in all the required fields, assign the group to one or more existing teacher accounts or create a New teacher account to be automatically assigned to the group, then click Add.

    Note—Only super and school administrators can create new teacher accounts when adding a group, and only a single account can be created during this step. If no existing teachers are assigned to the group first, the newly created account will be automatically attributed to the group as the main teacher.

  • Import an Excel or CSV file to create teacher and student accounts; groups listed for each account in the upload file will be automatically created if they do not already exist in the system and assigned to the account in question.

Editing a Group

Edit a group from the Group Summary screen.

General Information

Click Edit in the General Information panel to update the group’s general information.

  • Group name—A name that serves to identify the group Unavailable
  • Description—An optional description for additional details about the group Unavailable
  • Assigned teacher—The teacher accounts assigned management privileges for the group Unavailable
  • Welcome message to students—An optional personalized message to display on the students’ homepage

Language and keyboard Update 2026

Click Edit in the Language and keyboard panel to update the language of the interface and of activities, platform, input method and keyboard layout for the group.

  • Interface language
    • English
    • French
  • Language of activities
    • French - Belgium
    • French - Canada
    • French - Switzerland
    • French - France
    • English - UK
    • English - USA
  • Platform
    • ChromeOS
    • MacOS
    • Windows
  • Input method
    • U.S.
    • Canadian Multilingual Standard
    • British
    • French Canadian
    • French
    • Belgian
    • Swiss French
  • Layout
    • Reverse L-shaped enter key
    • Bar-shaped enter key

Settings

Click the Edit button in the Settings panel to customize the group’s settings.

  • Interface appearance
    • Light
    • Dark
    • System value
    • Student’s choice
  • Age group
    • Ages 6–11
    • Ages 12–16
    • Ages 17+
  • Allow students to access games
  • Allow students to access practice texts
  • Allow students to access Word Waves
  • Allow students to access improvement activities
  • Allow students to change their password Unavailable
  • Allow students to view video replay
  • Allow students to enable sound effects
  • Manage display options for activities

Grading

Define a grading scale for student performance by clicking the Edit button in the Grading panel.

Targets

Set or update the unit of measure for speed as well as speed and accuracy targets for students in a group by clicking the Edit button in the Targets tile.

Live Supervision

Supervise the activity of all the students in a group in real time from the dynamic dashboard in the Student Accounts panel on the Group Summary screen.

Each tile represents a different student account and indicates its status (Online or Offline) and the activity underway, if any.

Tiles are displayed for all student accounts by default. Click Online or Offline in the top right corner of the panel to filter them by status.

Deleting a Group Unavailable

Groups can be deleted in two ways:

  • Check them off on the list that appears under the Groups tab, then select Delete from the More menu. Confirm that you have read the warning in the pop-up window and click Delete.
  • Go to the corresponding Group Summary screen and select Delete group from the Actions menu. Confirm that you have read the warning in the pop-up window and click Delete.

Note — Student accounts must belong to at least one group. If the group you want to delete has student accounts that do not belong to another group, those accounts will be permanently deleted.

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