Typing Lessons For Schools

Video - KAZ in Education

KAZ (short for Keyboarding A to Z) is a professional accelerated-learning typing tutor, specially designed for use in schools and further education. Hundreds of schools around the world use KAZ to make it quick and easy for students of all ages from 6 to adult to learn to type.

With it’s high quality Adobe Flash interactive multimedia training with text or audio instruction, KAZ Typing Tutor is also Special Needs enabled and is widely used for dyslexic students.

KAZ makes teachers task simple and easy. With motivational materials, the ability to Import the school database, sample lesson plan and Teachers Guide, it’s never been easier to teach students to learn to type. e-brochure

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The same professional typing tutor selected by The Open University, UK Government Learndirect, hundreds of schools and colleges, businesses and government departments in the UK, USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and more…

Developed for schools, KAZ has dramatically reduced the time and increased the enjoyment associated with learning to touch type for all ages from 5 to adults. Typically KAZ takes just 90 minutes to teach the A-Z keys and around 4 hours to cover the complete keyboard. Practice is provided in small bursts with KAZ Speed Builder.

This makes KAZ the ideal choice for any school, especially where the time available is limited, fast results are needed and where maintaining student motivation to learn is vital. Learning can be split into sessions and students learn to touch type words within minutes.

Where most typing tutors are based on old learning methods with boring typing drills and dozens of exercises and analysis, the revolutionary KAZ method is based on 11 words in just 5 phrases.

With an estimated one million users, KAZ is widely used in primary and secondary schools and in further education colleges. Hundreds of thousands of Open University and LearnDirect students have also benefited from learning with KAZ.

Key Features

• Probably the worlds fastest way to learn to type. e-Brochure
• Universal accelerated learning for all ages from 6 to adult
• BETT Awards Finalist 2006
• Interactive multimedia, with text or audio instruction
• Lesson plan, Teachers Guide, motivational materials
• SCORM version will run in school's Learning Management System
• Free support
• Easy to use back office to import students and monitor progress
• SEN enabled. Widely used by dyslexic students
• Easy to try – no obligation trial
• Easy to do business with – speak to real people who care

"I am seeing some excellent accuracy and speed results. KAZ is user friendly and it is really good that I don't have to keep monitoring students escaping to play the keyboard games that most other typing programmes have attached to them."
Harriette Tana, Te Kauwhata College, New Zealand

"The students do enjoy using KAZ some even use their lunchtime break to come in and practice!! and the fact that it can be accessed at home too is a big plus. As you know, we've just re-licensed for another year, which pretty much speaks for itself. The Staff Training session went very well. We did it over 2 days with a 2-week interval between the days. We also presented a small prize and trophy to the best achiever to make it more fun and encourage a bit of competition!"
Margaret Warren, IT Support, Kingswood School

"The combination of my expertise and ability to monitor progress during the sessions and your excellent software, proved a winner. KAZ was easy to operate and staff can now use it to build their skills in the future."
Gill Grant, Bournemouth and Poole College

"I have used KAZ in an after school typing club for junior children. It was very successful, one Y5 girl used KAZ at home and at school for several weeks and now has a typing speed of 56wpm! Very impressive!"
Emily Finan, Louth St Michael's School

"KAZ is one of the most appealing and user friendly software keyboarding packages that I have used"
SchoolZone Evaluation

"Other typing tutors are cumbersome compared with KAZ. If you want to learn to touch type without hours of tedious training that could put you off for life then this has to be the program for you."
Educate Online Worldwide

"The children are eager to come to the classes and they are all finding the software easy to use."
Sandra Ground, Verwood First School

"KAZ Touch Typing has proven to be a great success with all the students who have been using it. KAZ is fun and a very effective tool to learn to touch type in a short period of time."
Petra Young ICT Consultant

"It is a very good touch typing program that I have recommended to many people, even purchasing on behalf of parents. Children and adults are able to very quickly learn the keys and have success typing. KAZ is a great program!"
George Higgins, Highfield Priory School

"Thank you for providing a very simple-to-use, child friendly course. It has been a great help to the pupils I have taught so far and I will now roll the programme out to the entire school."
Sarah Troughton

"User found the software easy to use, reliable and effective. A large majority of students would recommend the software to family, friends and other students, and thought the software should be provided for students in future years."
Extract from The Open University's Student Research Report on KAZ

"Ufi have delivered KAZ through the learndirect network since 2001. In this time the product has been popular, and very well received by learners. KAZ is a good introduction to touch typing and has been delivered by learndirect both as a standalone product, and as a superb accompaniment to Word Processing CBT."
John Bright, University for Industry

"KAZ's clever phrase-based approach really does work"
Computer Active Magazine
"I certainly enjoyed the experience. Lessons and atmosphere were low-key, clear and thorough and the threading and building on what you have learned is awesome. I think it's ingenious how you blend instruction for adults and kids into one package."
Herb Kiltzner

"If you can't already touch-type, start learning with KAZ."
Jack Schofield, Guardian Newspaper

"As good as it claims to be. It is everything it claims to be, it is easy to understand, colourful. I found it very easy not to look at the keys whilst I was typing."
Mary Day, Suffolk,
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"I bought a version of this about 5 years ago and successfully learned to touch type. I am going to buy the latest version now as my kids need to learn. Highly recommended for its simplicity."
Sion Williams

"It just works, which is great and how all software should be, uncomplicated simple to install and use, great…"
Ricardo Suarez, IT Services, Microsoft Certified Professional – Hull College

"We have been KAZ users for 5 years. KAZ Online far exceeds our wildest expectations. Our students and parents love it."
Lauren Pacini, Ruffing Montessori School, USA

"Thanks for your prompt reply. I really appreciate the time and interest that you have shown. It says a great deal about your company that you take the time to be so helpful. This is not true of many organisations so you are to be congratulated"
Trevor Marsden New Zealand

"Thank you so much for your reply. I followed your instructions and everything is fine. Once again thank you for your support and efficiency. I certainly will be recommending this software to colleages"
Geoff Goldberg

"I'm continually receiving thanks from Open University students who had felt 'stuck in the molasses' when working at their computers, and now can concentrate on their work rather than the keyboard."
Professor Marc Eisenstadt, Chief Scientist, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

These is just a selection from the feedback we have had for KAZ.