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LearningHub, TypingHub & Testy

The everyday tools inside your account: LearningHub for skill practice one question at a time, TypingHub for touch typing, the forum for asking a teacher, and Testy, the AI coach who sits in the corner of the site and has a page of his own.

What LearningHub is
LearningHub is skill practice one question at a time, with an explanation on every answer and a mastery dot for every skill.
1 min
Meet Testy, the AI coach
Testy is the AI coach built into Test Academy. He sits in the corner of most pages and has a page of his own for real tutoring.
2 min
Answering a question in LearningHub
How a LearningHub question is answered, where Show explanation lives, and what Skip for now does.
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How LearningHub chooses questions
LearningHub does not set a difficulty level. It picks the skill worth practising next and brings back the questions you got wrong.
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Mastering a skill and tracking progress
How a LearningHub skill becomes mastered, what resets the dots, and where a student sees their progress.
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Comeback questions
A question missed in Maths or Thinking comes back later inside normal practice. There is no comebacks list to open.
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Free LearningHub questions and daily limits
An account without a bundle gets a limited number of free LearningHub questions that never refill. Bundle and class students get a daily allowance.
1 min
Battle in LearningHub
Battle puts a small group of students on the same question with the same clock, with a chat rail and a Top battlers board.
1 min
What TypingHub is
TypingHub is touch typing practice, open to every signed in account. It needs a computer keyboard.
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Taking a typing test
The four typing test modes, what wpm, raw, accuracy and consistency mean, and which runs count on a board.
1 min
The Learning pathway
The Learning pathway teaches vocabulary and typing together: reps of the word, then its sentences, typed cleanly.
1 min
Battle in TypingHub
A typing Battle is a live race against other students, with a rating, a lobby and a chat rail beside it.
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The typing leaderboards
Every typing mode and setting has its own board, with a weekly and an all time view. Only clean runs on plain settings count.
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Testy in the corner of a page
The Testy dock knows which page you are on and suggests what to ask. It can also report a problem to the team.
2 min
Testy's own page
Testy's page is the tutoring side: conversations, mental maths drills, vocabulary practice and a progress screen.
1 min
Writing with Testy
Testy's writing studio marks a whole piece, gives bands and next steps, and pins notes beside the lines they are about.
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Testy on a marked test
On a marked paper Testy can see the question on screen, what was answered and why, and explain it in the student's own words.
1 min
Your plan
Your plan is Testy's running list of what to do next, on the dashboard and on Testy's page, with a Week view and your own tasks.
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The guided tour
The guided tour walks through the dashboard step by step. It never starts by itself: ask Testy, or press Tutorial.
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The Getting started list
The Getting started list inside the Testy dock ticks itself off as a student actually does each thing.
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How much Testy you get
Testy has two separate allowances, one for tutoring and one for the dock. One refills daily, and for some accounts the tutoring one is a one off.
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What the forum is
The forum is a moderated study room: ask a question and get a worked answer from a Test Academy teacher.
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Who can use the forum
The forum comes with any Test Academy course or online bundle. Without one the pill shows a padlock.
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