Elective · Grades 6-8 · 9 Weeks
Learning Basic Keyboarding
Short daily practice, real measurement. Four self-paced modules, 3-5 minute drills, and a one minute speed test each week — aligned to Virginia CTE keyboarding competencies and built to document progress for a home instruction program of study.
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- Pretest
- not taken
- Drills logged
- 0 / 12
- Best speed test
- not taken
- Posttest
- not taken
The four modules
Work through them in order, at your own pace. The on-screen keyboard appears in Module 1 only — after that your fingers are on their own.
Module 1: Home Row & Correct Technique
Where your hands live, and how they should feel.
a s d f j k l ; and the space bar
Open module →Module 2: Top & Bottom Rows
Reach up, reach down, always come home.
q w e r t y u i o p and z x c v b n m
Open module →Module 3: Numbers, Symbols & Punctuation
The keys that turn letters into real documents.
1-0, shift, caps lock, . , ? ! ' " @ # $ % & ( ) -
Open module →Module 4: Speed, Accuracy & Document Basics
Put it to work: real paragraphs, real documents.
Review of all keys, plus tab, enter, backspace, and editing keys
Open module →How the grade is earned
- Daily drills completed (logged automatically)30%
- Weekly one minute speed tests20%
- Module checkpoints20%
- Documents produced in Module 415%
- Posttest growth from pretest baseline15%
Daily routine (15-20 minutes)
- 1Posture and warm-up check — 30 seconds.
- 2Two or three timed drills of 3-5 minutes each.
- 3One 1-minute speed test, recorded automatically.
- 4Write one line in your log: what got easier today?