To what extent is Moodle usable in Arabic

To what extent is Moodle usable in Arabic

by Jan Oosthuizen -
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Hi All.

I am doing an evaluation of various LMS solutions for a client. They need an LMS that is fully functional in English, French, Portuguese, and Arabic.

I need to know to what extent Moodle is usable in Arabic. I saw that 72% of Moodle has been translated into an Arabic language pack, but what does this mean? How much of Moodle will a user be unable to use because of that remaining 28% that is not available?

Also, on language packs, will a separate deployment be required for every language pack? Or will users be able to simply select their language and see a different language version of the deployment?

Are language packs available in Moodle Cloud?

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In reply to Jan Oosthuizen

Re: To what extent is Moodle usable in Arabic

by Tim Hunt -
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I don't know about the arabic language pack, but I can make the following general points:

  1. Hundreds of registered Moodle sites in the middle east (https://stats.moodle.org/), and that includes some big players like the Arab OU.
  2. Moodle has many features, most of which you won't use. And most features have obscure error messages. 72% of all strings translates can easily be 99.9% of strings anyone ever sees translated.
  3. If you hit an un-translated string that is really important for your Moodle site, you can immediately fix it in your own site using Language customisation - so you won't be stuck waiting for someone else to translate it.
  4. And, translating Moodle is a colaborative effort, so as well as fixing the translations yourself, you can contribute them back to the main project at https://lang.moodle.org/.
Regarding how this is all configured, and how it looks to users, the best thing is to get a test site, and experiment for yourself. You can start experimenting at the demo site https://qa.moodledemo.net/ which seems to have lots of languages installed. You can also read the docs at Language settings.
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