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I want to love but....
Normally, I love this app but this year it is constantly crashing or just doesn’t load at all. I have been using HWT and KWT for four years and this year the app and the computer program never work. It would be nice if you actually fixed these problems, both online and in the app. This has been very frustrating. Please fix the problem!Show lessreptiletornado
This app is intended to be setup by Occupational Therapist or teacher
This app works fine as a developmentally appropriate typing tutor, but must be set up by teacher or therapist in order to have full access and functionality. It is intended to support lessons provided by teacher or therapist.
Edit: after the most recent iPad software update it has begun to freeze between lessons. One of my students found that pressing the 'x' at top right corner resets the session and pressing arrow on right side again progresses to the next session. Can be frustrating, but progress does continue.Show lesshawestfall
Frustrating
Cannot get to workIronman14900
Please read--Would be great if it worked
We like the program. It works well on the computer but the app is buggy. After finishing a lesson, the app screen stays blank and does not advance to the next slide. Please fix!!!!!FarmGranola
Not Free
Looks great, you get it, you need PIN, not free, WHY does Apple let this go on? It should say Not Free, and let me buy it instead going on a wild goose chase. Bah humbug.Lrpd123
Deception through Omission
Purchased app to teach my 8-yr-old how to type. Open app and app asks for PIN number. Hmmmm. Go to Live Insights website. Create an account. Get pin. Enter in a bunch of info and set up my child as a student. Go back to app. Find and click on my child's name. Cool, now we are getting somewhere . . . nope. Now app redirects me back to website, where I apparently must purchase one or more licenses before app will function. Try calling Live Insights for help. No one answers. Just get a voicemail box, which I can't leave a message on because it is full. Now I give up. What a total waste of time. Thanks Apple App Store for failing to mention anything about this in the app description.Show lesssad beemo face
Not available to general public?
This app doesn't look like it's available to the general public. I downloaded it and it asks me for a PIN to log in. When I try to click on "What's my PIN" and asks me for my email. Once I type my email (thinking I will be able to register then) it says "Invalid email". Description should specify this is not for general public and only available for those with pre-established PINs.Show lessBelita2013
Don't waste your money
I am a big fan of the HWT curriculum, I have used their products for a long time, but this keyboarding curriculum is an embarrassment and a huge waste of money.
First, I bought the license for the first grade keyboarding program. When my son and I sat down to start it, it forced us to do 6 weeks of preschool and Kindergarten level review, which consists of things like dragging and dropping puzzle pieces. That is way below grade level, has nothing to do with keyboarding, and even that portion of the app is not well done. I finally gave up and just completed it myself and it was frustrating even as an adult because the pieces don't "click" into place easily and it's very boring, repetitive, and takes forever.
There is an option in the teacher set up portion to skip the 6 weeks of review, so I selected that, closed the app, and restarted. It still would not allow us to skip it, even after doing this about 10 times. I finally called tech support, which said that while yes, it allows you to skip the 6 weeks of review, in some of the levels there is still mandatory review that is not skippable. Okay, that makes no sense, but okay. I gave up and completed one of the review lessons on my own just to get through it since my son was getting frustrated. At the end of the lesson it showed me my progress chart and guess what? I had 5 more weeks of review to go! So apparently the skipping option just randomly doesn't work.
The next day I bought the license for the second grade keyboarding program because my son had his heart set on doing the keyboarding and I figured if there is 6 weeks of mandatory review then at least it would be at first grade level instead of preschool/Kindergarten. Wrong. There are still these drag and drop puzzle pieces games, albeit fewer of them.
When you start the app you select whether you are using an iPad with a separate keyboard or an iPad by itself. Despite restarting the app numerous times (again) it did not recognize our keyboard. The keyboard works fine, I'm using it right now to type the review. The app is just in shambles, totally unusable, and I'm shocked they even released something that plain does not work. I have wasted my money on this and will deleting it and buying some other keyboarding program from the App Store, and will not be using any more of their products.Show less2asd4us
cannot find external keyboard
The iPad version of this app cannot find a bluetooth-connected external keyboard. iI know the keyboard works because I'm typing this review with it! Please fix, the app is fairly useless without this capability.no external keyboard
No external keyboard - Incorrect message
I have an external keyboard. It is turned on and I am using it to compose this review. The KWT app does not recognize that I have an external keyboard. You would think that this feature would be a priority for an app that teaches typing... the routine to check if there is a bluetooth keyboard attached. Just to be sure, I tried three external keyboards.Show lessb rain ct
