Progressive drills for QWERTY, Dvorak, AZERTY, and QWERTZ keyboards
See 5. Getting Started on a Drill to get started right away.
Individual Scoring and History
Each user gets a Pupil file which contains the detailed history of the Pupil’s typing performance. In addition the log can be saved and the graph and log can be printed. See 6. The History Window
Mastery Goal and Certificate Printout
The status of your Mastery and what is required for Mastery are presented in the History window and a summary of the status of mastery for each drill appears in the main window. Once you have achieved Mastery for a Drill, you can print a Certificate of Mastery acknowledging that you have mastered that Drill. See 9. Lesson Plan
ParaTyper Game
Alternate your routine of drills with a challenging and truly fun typing game.
Type Downloadable Books
Put a book you downloaded from Project Gutenberg, or any other long plain text file, in the Drills folder. Master Key will paginate the book so you can pick a page at a time to do as a drill or use in ParaTyper.
Create Your Own Drills
The Drill Editor allows you to edit existing drills or create new ones. It features key vocabulary filtering while typing or pasting text and the ability to write your own typing tips. See 7. The Drill Editor
Multiple Class Support with Class Editor and Class Reports
Pupils may be divided into classes and Drills may be divided into Units so that an entire school may leave all the Pupil and Drill files in one file structure. Pupils may choose their class at any time or be prompted when Master Key is launched or when a Pupil logs-off. Teachers may conveniently edit the settings of a Class of Pupil files at a time and switch between classes easily. All of the settings for all of the Pupils in a Class can be edited at once and selectively applied to single or multiple Pupils. This is a fast way to assign a particular Drill and Speed Goal to a whole classroom. Teachers can than see the results of an entire class at a time and easily open each pupil history in the Class Reports. See 8. Classes and Units
Support for Centralized Files on the Network
Master Key can share a large centralized set of Pupil files and Drills with other users on an file-sharing network, allowing any user to use any lab computer whether Mac or Windows. In addition, a single set of preferences can be used for all lab computers, ensuring consistency and simplifying the changing of settings on multiple computers. It can also be setup to work with individual network accounts. See 10. Multiple-users/Network
Rules and Options
The Teacher can can turn several abilities on and off for Pupils. And users can have their own subset of options for Display and Sound. See 3. Changing the options
Two-tier Password System
Passwords for both Pupils and the Teacher can be turned on and off. The Teacher password is a master key to all Pupil files. Teachers can change their passwords and decide whether or not Pupils can change their passwords. See 4. Passwords