Dictate in any app · Education
Classroom is used by teachers with thirty children and no free periods. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Google Classroom without you touching the keyboard.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Google Classroom has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None of its own. It sits alongside Docs, where Google does offer voice typing.
School teachers have less discretionary time than almost any other profession. Feedback on thirty pieces of work, plus announcements, plus parent communication, all happens in the gaps between lessons.
In practice people use it for: Assignment instructions, private comments on student work, class announcements, and rubric feedback.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Google Classroom:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Google Classroom decides where the text lands, not Typally.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Classroom's comment box posts on a button, but the assignment editor autosaves. Check where you are before speaking.
Typally types into private comments and rubric feedback, so thirty children can each get a specific sentence within one break. It works in the assignment editor too. Nothing installs into Classroom, though on school-managed Chromebooks you will need to check what your device policy allows — Typally is a Windows and macOS app.
A primary teacher leaves one specific sentence on each of thirty pieces of writing, spoken in the twelve minutes of a break. It is the first time that term every child got individual feedback.
Dictate private comments on student work. A sentence naming what the child did well is worth more than a grade, and it is the thing there is never time to type.
Classroom's comment box posts on a button, but the assignment editor autosaves. Check where you are before speaking.
Not directly. Voice typing is a Google Docs feature; Classroom's own fields have no speech input.
Yes. Private comments and rubric feedback are ordinary text fields.
Chromebooks run a different platform — Typally ships for Windows and macOS, so check what your school allows.
There is a permanent free tier of 100 minutes a month. Pro costs $7.99/month and raises the limit.
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