Mary, aren't we in the territory of language support in Moodle? I mean the Languages forum.
Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Moodle in English -> Languages -> plugins that support foreign characters/language -> Re: plugins that support foreign characters/language
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Hi Marybeth
Me too searching for a suitable method for a wider audience. As I see the problem is not limited to Moodle. Ask the language team how they enter, or expect their students to enter, other languages when they produce office documents.
The Italian, French, Spanish, German bunch is the easier part, since a) the central piece is the Latin alphabet and b) generally one needs one key stroke per character or at most two (depends on the keyboard driver). I imagine Chinese to be a huge challenge. My mother tongue is Indic. We have the problem that our letters are just the elements, our words are sequences of phonemes. There is a classical typewriter scheme for that, which only 5% of the people master. (I don't.) 20%, like me, go for transliteration. using an intermediate, mostly a web-based interface, converting say Gr to ග්ර. The other 75% just transliterate. So, you read "Grama Sevaka" instead of "ග්රාම සේවක". Very ugly.
@AL
All that said, virtual keyboard sounds promising. But shouldn't that be a part of the operating system than an application, say Moodle. It reminds me that there in the case of web application there is the web browser as the intermediary. Aren't there keyboard add-ons for browsers?
Me too searching for a suitable method for a wider audience. As I see the problem is not limited to Moodle. Ask the language team how they enter, or expect their students to enter, other languages when they produce office documents.
The Italian, French, Spanish, German bunch is the easier part, since a) the central piece is the Latin alphabet and b) generally one needs one key stroke per character or at most two (depends on the keyboard driver). I imagine Chinese to be a huge challenge. My mother tongue is Indic. We have the problem that our letters are just the elements, our words are sequences of phonemes. There is a classical typewriter scheme for that, which only 5% of the people master. (I don't.) 20%, like me, go for transliteration. using an intermediate, mostly a web-based interface, converting say Gr to ග්ර. The other 75% just transliterate. So, you read "Grama Sevaka" instead of "ග්රාම සේවක". Very ugly.
@AL
All that said, virtual keyboard sounds promising. But shouldn't that be a part of the operating system than an application, say Moodle. It reminds me that there in the case of web application there is the web browser as the intermediary. Aren't there keyboard add-ons for browsers?
Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> Weekly graded homework -- Which activity to use? -> Re: Weekly graded homework -- Which activity to use?
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Grüezi, Nachbar!
My memory! We've met. I took part in the Special track: STACK at MoodeDACH23. That is where I saw the power of STACK - and saw the quality and dedication of its community.
Anyway, the best neighbours can have conflicts. I was proposing you to go in the direction of computer-marked assessments whereas you want quite the opposite. Intrigued me at the beginning knowing the student numbers at the ETH. Looks like that the ETH has no need to count the hours and minutes of its teaching assistants. Just joking, if you can afford the personal attention, that is the best; a luxury for most of the universities in other parts of the world.
Anyway, the question is whether there is a staggered work-flow with the Assignment activity. The Moodle Assignment is underrated, it competes with the Quizz in, luckily, mostly non-overlapping application areas. It had been enhanced even more recently, I heard. I'm not up-to-date. Maybe others know.
The fundamental question when it comes to mathematics assignments is: Do you expect the students to enter mathematical equations in to the computer? I don't mean the meaningless Equation Editor of Microsoft, but you guessed it, LaTeX. Or, do they fill paper worksheets?
Same with the teachers. How do they want to enter the corrected formulae?
A lot is going to depend on that.
P.S. Yes, I have an illustrious almost namesake. Ironically, his given name is Anand (delight).
Moodle in English -> Teaching with Moodle -> Creating entire course via text (with links to hidden but available activites) -> Re: Creating entire course via text (with links to hidden but available activites)
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Judging from the image I'm trying to explain the course the teacher wants to build. Correct me, if I'm wrong.
- The "course" in Moodle consists of only a Course homepage.
- At the top there is a table of content with the chapters of the course listed.
- The name of each chapter in the ToC is linked to a Course_formats#Custom_sections, (earlier called just a section of the course), which should not be visible on the course homepage.
- Each such section in turn is a detailed lesson plan (Monday, reading: text book p.9, ..)
If that is correct, the Moodle course has no true content. It is just a collection of lesson plans, divided in to weeks, each week divided in to Monday/Wedensday/Friday, each in turn lists where the material is and what type of an activity is planned.
In Moodlesphere the Course is something more comprehensive, people want to put not only the content in to it but also guide students through learning activities. The "Course_formats#Custom_section" in the subject title I understood mean that the course would look something like this:
Each hyperlink being either an activity or another content page of the same style. What your teacher plans is something very simple. Doesn't the idea "One section per page" suggested by Daniel solve his problem?
Moodle in English -> General help -> Moodle 4.5 Fresh install- Boost theme problem -> Re: Moodle 4.5 Fresh install- Boost theme problem
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
None of the three things you mention, Opcache, Boost theme problem (from 2016!) and max_execution_time may have connection to what you observe. More likely the "slasharguments" problem. See:
- Re: Theme Issue
- Re: Theme Issue
and many more.
Hint: Use the Advanced forum search. It is in the right hand drawer.