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What's new in RapidTyping Tutor 5.3

Dec 24, 2018
  • What's New in RapidTyping 5:
  • Edition of 3 September 2018, version 5.3:
  • Current lesson:
  • When a user finishes the final lesson of the current course, the next course will start automatically.
  • Student list:
  • Moving students between groups. («Drag-and-Drop» or «Ctrl+X» and «Ctrl+V» shortcuts)
  • Moving studend accounts into another group
  • Statistics:
  • Added «Speed» and «Accuracy» markers on the diagram current item's label.
  • Added «Shift» and «Ctrl» hot-keys for item selection on the lesson statistics diagram.
  • Markers on diagram labels
  • Lesson editor:
  • Moving lessons between sections and courses.
  • «Create new section» command added.
  • «Properties» window has been deleted from the «Lesson editor».
  • The «Save statistics of the incomplete lesson» has been moved from «At the close application» section into the «Lesson Duration» section. Also, this option is disabled when «Do not stop the lesson» is selected.
  • The «Save all» menu command saves all courses for all keyboard layouts.
  • Creating new section with typing lessons
  • Also:
  • The «Confirmation» message box appears if the user does not have right-access to the Student/Lesson folders.
  • Check-box «Apply to all» has been added to the «Confirmation» window when existing groups, students or courses are inserted.
  • More than 50 bugs have been fixed.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 5.1 (Dec 22, 2015)

  • Ergonomics interface design in the Windows 10 style
  • Now, RapidTyping suggests the shortest way of typing the composite characters
  • Application now launches faster over the local network in classrooms
  • New French express-course for advanced users by François Goethals

New in RapidTyping Tutor 5.0.108 (Dec 1, 2015)

  • Added the support of characters entered using the Alt+Num key combination.
  • Updated the 'Login' dialog window where the group/student name can be entered into a corresponding field or selected from a list. All of the entered data is validated.
  • You can now select several groups and assign the courses to all of them.
  • Fixed a number of bugs in the classroom, including an update to the current lesson on a students' machine if a teacher has deleted or modified the lesson or course with this lesson; the results are properly exported to PDF on Windows 10 systems and many other minor bugs.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 5.0.107 Beta (Oct 30, 2015)

  • Added the Italian UI language. - Fixed minor bugs.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 5.0.106 Beta (Oct 20, 2015)

  • Fixed bugs that occurred while working with touch-sensitive displays.
  • Disabled the possibility to work with a virtual keyboard using a mouse on systems without a touch-sensitive display.
  • Fixed a bug with the virtual AZERTY keyboard resetting to QWERTY during French lessons.
  • Fixed minor bugs, including course renaming with a double click, changing the width of the student list window, etc.
  • Added the Albanian UI language.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 5.0.323.99 Beta (Feb 9, 2015)

  • 432: Update Serbian language file
  • 433: Bug fixing

New in RapidTyping Tutor 5.0.100.56 Beta (Jul 26, 2014)

  • Current lesson:
  • speed and accuracy for current lesson in real time;
  • remaining and elapsed lesson time;
  • passed lessons marked in the Lesson menu;
  • support for multi-language lessons;
  • support for laptop keyboards;
  • Student Panel:
  • added support for student groups;
  • different courses assigned to different student groups;
  • student password;
  • student statistics from teacher's computer( or system administrator );
  • now, convenient to add big number of students;
  • import/export the student/group statistics;
  • Statistics Panel:
  • overall lesson rate added;
  • statistics for each symbol/key ( speed, error, time-out ) typed added;
  • statistics for keystrokes added ( includes the system keys type( Shift, Alt, BackSpace ), repeated error keystrokes );
  • preview the course, lesson and char/key statistics together;
  • Lesson editor:
  • undo/redo for lesson edit;
  • split lesson by character, words, sentence, paragraph;
  • import/export lesson course( including course options );
  • new course option: customise definitions of good/bad results;
  • new course option: customise metronome options;
  • new course option: show/hide metronome;
  • new course option: show/hide the Result window in the final lesson;
  • new course option: show/hide the lesson text highlight;
  • new course option: enable/disable the BackSpace key;
  • Courses:
  • English courses updated;
  • Greek courses updated;
  • French courses added;
  • Hungarian courses added;
  • Netherlands courses added;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 5.0.82.42 Beta (Feb 25, 2014)

  • Current lesson:
  • speed and accuracy for current lesson in real time;
  • remaining and elapsed lesson time;
  • passed lessons marked in the Lesson menu;
  • support for multi-language lessons;
  • support for laptop keyboards;
  • Student Panel
  • added support for student groups;
  • different courses assigned to different student groups;
  • student password;
  • student statistics from teacher's computer( or system administrator );
  • now, convenient to add big number of students;
  • import/export the student/group statistics;
  • Statistics Panel
  • overall lesson rate added;
  • statistics for each symbol/key ( speed, error, time-out ) typed added;
  • statistics for keystrokes added ( includes the system keys type( Shift, Alt, BackSpace ), repeated error keystrokes );
  • preview the course, lesson and char/key statistics together;
  • Lesson editor:
  • undo/redo for lesson edit;
  • split lesson by character, words, sentence, paragraph;
  • import/export lesson course( including course options );
  • new course option: customise definitions of good/bad results;
  • new course option: customise metronome options;
  • new course option: show/hide metronome;
  • new course option: show/hide the Result window in the final lesson;
  • new course option: show/hide the lesson text highlight;
  • new course option: enable/disable the BackSpace key;
  • Courses:
  • English courses updated;
  • Greek courses updated;
  • French courses added;
  • Hungarian courses added;
  • Netherlands courses added;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.9.4 Beta (Aug 26, 2013)

  • Current lesson:
  • speed and accuracy for current lesson in real time;
  • remaining and elapsed lesson time;
  • passed lessons marked in the Lesson menu;
  • support for multi-language lessons;
  • support for laptop keyboards;
  • Student Panel:
  • added support for student groups;
  • different courses assigned to different student groups;
  • student password;
  • student statistics from teacher's computer( or system administrator );
  • now, convenient to add big number of students;
  • import/export the student/group statistics;
  • Statistics Panel:
  • overall lesson rate added;
  • statistics for each symbol/key ( speed, error, time-out ) typed added;
  • statistics for keystrokes added ( includes the system keys type( Shift, Alt, BackSpace ), repeated error keystrokes );
  • preview the course, lesson and char/key statistics together;
  • Lesson editor:
  • undo/redo for lesson edit;
  • split lesson by character, words, sentence, paragraph;
  • import/export lesson course( including course options );
  • new course option: customise definitions of good/bad results;
  • new course option: customise metronome options;
  • new course option: show/hide metronome;
  • new course option: show/hide the Result window in the final lesson;
  • new course option: show/hide the lesson text highlight;
  • new course option: enable/disable the BackSpace key;
  • Courses:
  • English courses updated;
  • Greek courses updated;
  • French courses added;
  • Hungarian courses added;
  • Netherlands courses added;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.9.2 Beta (Aug 23, 2013)

  • Current lesson
  • speed and accuracy for current lesson in real time;
  • remaining and elapsed lesson time;
  • passed lessons marked in the Lesson menu;
  • support for multi-language lessons;
  • support for laptop keyboards;
  • Student Panel
  • added support for student groups;
  • different courses assigned to different student groups;
  • student password;
  • student statistics from teacher's computer( or system administrator );
  • now, convenient to add big number of students;
  • import/export the student/group statistics;
  • Statistics Panel
  • overall lesson rate added;
  • statistics for each symbol/key ( speed, error, time-out ) typed added;
  • statistics for keystrokes added ( includes the system keys type( Shift, Alt, BackSpace ), repeated error keystrokes );
  • preview the course, lesson and char/key statistics together;
  • Lesson editor
  • undo/redo for lesson edit;
  • split lesson by character, words, sentence, paragraph;
  • import/export lesson course( including course options );
  • new course option: customise definitions of good/bad results;
  • new course option: customise metronome options;
  • new course option: show/hide metronome;
  • new course option: show/hide the Result window in the final lesson;
  • new course option: show/hide the lesson text highlight;
  • new course option: enable/disable the BackSpace key;
  • Courses
  • English courses updated;
  • Greek courses updated;
  • French courses added;
  • Hungarian courses added;
  • Netherlands courses added

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.6.6 (Nov 23, 2012)

  • The problems with Bold font, on some non-English version of Windows, is fixed;
  • The tabulation symbols is shown always in the lesson;
  • English course for experts updated;
  • Greek course for experts updated( tabulation symbols added )

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.6.5 (Aug 3, 2012)

  • The problems with Bold font, on some non-English version of Windows, is fixed
  • The tabulation symbols is shown always in the lesson
  • English course for experts updated
  • Greek course for experts updated( tabulation symbols added )
  • German, Greek and Russian interface language updated
  • Other minor bugs fixed

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.6.3 (Jul 3, 2012)

  • Metronome improved ( strongly depend on the experience of users );
  • Lesson Mode "Requires the right character type": Pressing BACKSPACE deletes only the last error ( without moving cursor );
  • The button-link to the "Typing Games" page( "About" dialog box ) added;
  • "Right-hand" finger scheme fixed; thanks to Wim De Backer, modemadvies.be
  • Visual bugs on some video-cards fixed;
  • The English-USA interface language added;
  • Other minor bugs fixed;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.6.2 (May 23, 2012)

  • Typing test:
  • Expert courses are available for the following keyboard layouts:
  • Arabic ASDF Eastern with Arabic-Indic digits;
  • German (Dvorak Type)
  • German (NEO)
  • German (de_ergo)
  • German (Latin1 without dead keys)
  • Greek (220)
  • Greek (220)
  • Greek (319
  • Greek (220) Latin
  • Greek (319) Latin
  • Greek Latin
  • Greek Polytonic
  • Russian (Typewriter);
  • US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L;
  • Other:
  • Latvian interface language added; thanks to Anete
  • other minor bugs fixed;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.6.1 (May 9, 2012)

  • Typing test:
  • Expert courses are available for the following keyboard layouts:
  • Arabic ASDF Eastern with Arabic-Indic digits;
  • German (Dvorak Type)
  • German (NEO)
  • German (de_ergo)
  • German (Latin1 without dead keys)
  • Greek (220)
  • Greek (220)
  • Greek (319
  • Greek (220) Latin
  • Greek (319) Latin
  • Greek Latin
  • Greek Polytonic
  • Russian (Typewriter);
  • US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L;
  • Other:
  • Latvian interface language added; thanks to Anete
  • other minor bugs fixed;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.6 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • Typing test:
  • BiDi algorithm added( full support Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Khmer, Thai and other languages );
  • in current version the real font can be chosen for lesson;
  • bug for missed space character at the end of the line( in Multi-edit mode ) fixed;
  • Arabic beginner and expert typing course updated. ( requires lesson reinstall ) thanks to Ibrahim Saed
  • English expert typing course updated. ( requires lesson reinstall )
  • Lesson editor:
  • splitter between lesson text and lesson characters window added;
  • font size scale added;
  • "Show/Hide keyboard"(F9) hotkey added;
  • Virtual keyboard:
  • scaling on wide-screen monitors improved;
  • Other:
  • Windows 2000 compatibility restored;
  • RapidTyping news buttons for Google+, Facebook, Twitter added; ( under "About" )
  • saving splitter position added;
  • Arabic interface language updated; thanks to Ibrahim Saed
  • Greek interface language updated; thanks to geogeo.gr
  • other minor bugs fixed;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.4 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • Typing lesson editing:
  • Drag & Drop function for lesson list editor added;
  • context menu in Lesson Editor added;
  • Cut, Copy and Paste functions in context menu in Lesson Editor added;
  • Virtual keyboard:
  • touch screen support added;
  • keys under cursor( or finger in touchscreen mode ) now highlighted;
  • new highlight toggle feature for Control key( Shift, Ctrl, Alt );
  • Typing test statistics:
  • percentage ratio of errors for wrong letters typed for the whole lesson is shown;
  • Languages:
  • Traditional Chinese interface language updated ( thank you Robert Lee );
  • Greek interface language updated ( thank you www.geogeo.gr );
  • Russian interface language updated ( thank you Tatiana Belous );
  • Other:
  • arranging the application titlebar for left & right position( with languages ) added;
  • refreshing the application titlebar after interface language changed;
  • other minor bugs fixed;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.3.3 Beta (Dec 10, 2011)

  • percentage ratio of errors for wrong letters typed for the whole lesson is shown
  • arranging the application titlebar for left & right position( with languages ) added
  • refreshing the application titlebar after interface language changed
  • touch screen support added
  • Drag & Drop function for lesson list editor added
  • other minor bugs fixed

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.2 (Nov 16, 2011)

  • added the Greek course
  • added support for the 680x420 screens
  • added support screen rotation
  • added the "blank" lesson background
  • added the word count in the lessons editor
  • moved the "Show/Hide keyboard" option to the user level page
  • fixed the delay for loading the course on the weak video cards on Windows 7
  • fixed minimize/maximize bug for left, right or top Task Bar
  • fixed splitter bug for maximized window
  • fixed some minor bugs

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.1 (Sep 1, 2011)

  • added Windows Themes support ( the contrast schemes, big fonts, not-system fonts support )
  • added the finger scheme for Anti-RSI layout( Two hands #6 )( thanks to Robert Boari )
  • added the changing of the statistics parameters on the Results dialog box
  • improved common application performance
  • some user interface improvements
  • fixed bug with Greek accents;( thanks to Sotiris Theodosopoulos )
  • fixed some minor bugs

New in RapidTyping Tutor 4.0 (May 17, 2011)

  • Added multi-line support;
  • Added support of the Alt+Shift+key;
  • Improved running speed ( including running by LAN and Flash card );
  • Improved user interface.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 3.4.5 (Jan 5, 2011)

  • Added the BackSpace key support;
  • Added modes for continue lesson:
  • "Requires the fixing the wrong characters";
  • "Requires the right character type",
  • "No requirements";
  • Speed up the startup application:
  • Updated Chinese Traditional translation

New in RapidTyping Tutor 3.4 (Dec 14, 2010)

  • Added Serbian interface translation; Thanks to Ivan Starchevicy
  • Added full Russian lesson course; Thanks to Tatiana Belous
  • Added support for Euro-keyboard( Alt Gr symbols );
  • Added support fonts with non-fixed width;
  • Added support Unicode fonts;
  • Added customizing of lesson and keyboard fonts;( Options->Lesson->Font )
  • Added English lessons for follow Latin keyboard layouts

New in RapidTyping Tutor Beta 3.3.6 (Nov 30, 2010)

  • Added Tips panel for beginner;
  • Added the lesson creating from file(s)
  • Added full German lesson course; Thanks to Matthias Eller
  • Added full Arabic lesson course; Thanks to Ibraheem Saed
  • Added the silent install mode;
  • Updated the German interface translation.Thanks to Matthias Eller
  • Fixed the font char-set bug in some languages;
  • Fixed some controls in the right-left interface.

New in RapidTyping Tutor Beta 3.3 (Aug 9, 2010)

  • Added Arabic interface language
  • Updated Chines Traditional interface language
  • Fixed bug with left-right text direction on the Arabic and Hebrew keyboard layout

New in RapidTyping Tutor 3.2.9 (Jul 17, 2010)

  • Added lesson background schemes;
  • Added support the right-left languages in the typing lessons; Thanks to Ardeshir Abasi for detailed bug report
  • Improved work on older video cards.
  • Fixed the running bug on the some Windows version.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 3.2.7 (Jul 14, 2010)

  • Added Greek interface language.
  • Updated Chinese Traditional interface language.
  • Updated Bulgarian interface language.
  • Updated Farsi interface language.
  • Fixed bug with system context menu ( by Alt+Enter ).
  • Fixed bug with label and the numbers on "Results" dialog box on the left are in WPM.
  • Fixed the running bug on the Windows XP SP2.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 3.2.6 (Jul 6, 2010)

  • Added the control "Sound" in the main window;
  • Added the background music;
  • Added more 30 sound effects;
  • Added the mode of the random choose of sound effect;
  • Added support of the sound schemes.
  • Added Farsi interface language. Thanks to Ardeshir Abasi
  • Added support right-left interface.
  • Fixed bug with "Wait cursor" on the some dialog boxes.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 3.2.5 (Jun 14, 2010)

  • Added the control "Sound" in the main window;
  • Added the background music;
  • Added more 30 sound effects;
  • Added the mode of the random choose of sound effect;
  • Added support of the sound schemes.
  • Added Farsi interface language. Thanks to Ardeshir Abasi
  • Added support right-left interface.
  • Fixed bug with "Wait cursor" on the some dialog boxes.

New in RapidTyping Tutor 3.2.3 (Jun 1, 2010)

  • Added the notice "Caps Lock was pressed" in the window "Current Lesson";
  • Added highlight of current lessons language in the menu "Language".
  • Added support of the addition "Theme Colors".
  • Added support of the addition "User Avatar".
  • Added support of the addition "Spanish lesson course".
  • Fixed: The parameter "Speed" in the "Results" dialog box depends upon selected parameters in the Options->Statistics window;
  • Fixed bug with right thumb on the virtual keyboard;
  • Fixed visual bug on the bottom of large statistics table.
  • Fixed restoring position of the window "Options".
  • Fixed restoring position of the current lesson.
  • Improved mode "Pause" in the window "Current lesson";
  • Disabled processing system keys such as Volume Up, Volume Down etc. in the current lesson;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 3.2 (May 28, 2010)

  • Added icons for marking of numpad/mainpad lessons
  • Added dialogs "Lesson Properties", "Section Properties"
  • Added 99 colors for interface themes
  • Fixed bugs of user course editing
  • Fixed disappearance of the translation in the dialog "Options"
  • Fixed visual bug on the splitter
  • Fixed sound-driver bug on some versions of the Windows 7

New in RapidTyping Tutor 2.9.7 (Oct 12, 2009)

  • Added: Chines Simplified interface language;(thanks fksec)
  • Fixed: some major bugs

New in RapidTyping Tutor 2.9.4 (Jul 22, 2009)

  • Added: sound scheme setup
  • Fixed: some minor bugs;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 2.9 (Jun 3, 2009)

  • Added: themes of dialogs
  • Fixed: minor bugs

New in RapidTyping Tutor 2.8.5 (Apr 7, 2009)

  • Added: 3D-sound effects.
  • Fixed: some minor bugs;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 2.8 (Apr 1, 2009)

  • Added: User's Rating
  • Added: User's Awards
  • Improved: Rhythm metronome
  • Update: Addition User's avatars
  • Fixed: some minor bugs;

New in RapidTyping Tutor 2.7.7 (Mar 13, 2009)

  • Added: the dialog selecting user's avatars;
  • Added: resizing 'Select User' and 'Select Avatars' dialogs;
  • Added: revise of running copy application;
  • Added: saving last active tab in the dialog 'Results'
  • Improved: typing metronome;
  • Fixed: saving user's lessons with accents;