Half of this course is drilling touch typing until you stop looking at your hands. The other half is producing real documents — a letter, a résumé, a school report — that look like someone competent made them.
Speed matters less than accuracy, and accuracy comes from practice. We give you the drills and a target, and we check your progress every week.
Jobs this leads towards
Real roles people do after this course and the ones that follow it.
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Administrative assistant
Letters, records, spreadsheets — fast, accurate typing is the core skill.
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Any office or customer-facing role
Typing well and producing a clean document is expected everywhere.
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Students heading for exams and college
Essays and applications are typed; speed and formatting matter.
Certifications
What this course prepares you to sit. Exam vouchers are included.
- Microsoft MO-110 (Word Associate)
Is this for me?
Ninety seconds, no wrong answers, nothing recorded. It tells you how closely this course matches what you enjoy — and where to look if it does not.
Try it — two minutes
The kind of thing you would actually do in this course. Nothing is saved; it is just to see if you enjoy it.
What a week looks like
Day to day, so nobody is surprised.
- One evening a week, two hours, in the lab with an instructor beside you.
- Every session starts with ten minutes of typing and ends with something you made.
- A short practice task to try at home on any device, never graded.
- The last session of the course is a show-and-tell for families.
Three questions from week one
Get them wrong and you belong here. Get them right and you belong here too. Nothing is recorded.
Books worth having
None of these is required — the course lends what it needs. These are the ones worth owning.
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Computers for Seniors For Dummies
Nancy Muir
Ignore the title: it is the clearest zero-assumptions book in print.
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Typing.com (free website)
Ten minutes a day is worth more than any book.
What to bring
Usually nothing. Where something small helps, it is here.
- ▸Nothing to buy. Laptops are lent for the course.
- ▸A notebook for passwords and new words.
- ▸Headphones if you have them.
Do this at home
Between sessions. Ten to twenty minutes; the people who do this are the ones who finish.
- Habit 1Type for fifteen minutes a day; write your speed down.
- Habit 2Write a one-page letter to somebody and print it.
- Habit 3Make a spreadsheet of your week.
What you will be able to do
- Touch type at 35+ words per minute with good accuracy
- Format a document properly: headings, spacing, lists, page setup
- Build a clean one-page résumé
- Use spell check, track changes and comments
What you will use
- Microsoft Word
- Google Docs
- Keybr
- MonkeyType
What the course covers
The lesson plan for this course is being written. Register and we will tell you the moment it opens.