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I am teaching a keyboarding/computer class for 6 weeks. We have a program for practicing keyboarding, and it tells how fast students type. How do you assign grades for the lessons. Students backspace and correct errors, so all that is recorded is words per minute.
Jean Bullock I never allowed them to backspace. I lowered the wpm minimum instead. Backspacing becomes a habit. You didn't mention how old the students are. Just decide how fast you think they ought to be. Set that as 100% and work down from there.

A fast way to do it is to use Excel. Create a column of numbers from 30 to 0. In the next column type in...See More
Nov 26, 2009


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