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MooTyper
BEFORE YOU UPGRADE NOTE! A previous version of MooTyper changed the lesson file layout! Depending on your version, after your upgrade, an admin may need to click on the Edit gear icon and select, Import lesson / KB layout. Depending on the speed of your server, this can take a while.
In the past, if you have created any lesson files of your own, you may need to modify them to be compatible with the new Lesson file format in this MooTyper version. Comparison with a file from this version will show you that each exercise is followed by the exercise name using the same sequence of keystrokes, /**/, as a delimiter.
MooTyper is an Activity module. A course admin, manager, or teacher creates the activity and prepares it for use by selecting the keyboard layout and lessons to use. It can be set up to present a series of exercises from a lesson or to present one selected exercise from a lesson as a typing exam. Once set up, students can then start to type the current exercise. When a student finishes an exercise his achievement is saved into a database, so the teacher can then view grades.
Numerous keyboard layouts are available in MooTyper. If you do not see what you need, ask me, and I will see what I can do about developing it: Arabic, Armenian, Belgium(Dutch), Bulgarian, Croation, Czech, Danish, Dvorak(US), English (UK), English(US), EnglishWKeypad(USV6), Estonian, French, FrenchWKeypad(FRV6), German(Swiss), German, GermanWKeypad(V6), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, numberKeypadOnly, Portuguese(Brazil), Portuguese(Portugal), PortugueseWKeypad(PortugalV6), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, SpanishWKeypad(V6), Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uyghur, and Vietnamese.
You can visit the website URL listed down below, create an account, and try any of the listed layouts. If there is a layout not listed, that you would be interested in trying, please make a request in the comments below, or at the github Source control URL location.
For this MooTyper release, immediately after you upgrade, you may need to go to one of your MooTyper activities and in it's Administration block, click on, Import lesson / KB layout, so you will get versions of all the new keyboard layouts and lessons. Depending on how you do the upgrade, your old keyboard files may be erased. In that case you will get an error that can be cleared by going to Setup for each MooTyper, and select a keyboard layout to use. Old keyboard versions are not necessarily compatible with the styles.css file included in this version. In some cases, this version includes multiple layouts.
Recent New Features - note that the page was getting so long, I have removed previous version, New Features, lists.
- New Completion settings are available, Exercise, Lesson, Precision, WPM, and MooTyper Grade.
- Can use Whole grade for combined precision and WPM grade.
- Can use Whole grade for just a precision grade.
- Can use Whole grade for just a WPM grade.
- Can use Rating average, count maximum, minimum, or sum for combined precision and WPM grade.
- Can use Rating average, count maximum, minimum, or sum for just a precision grade.
- Can use Rating average, count maximum, minimum, or sum for just WPM grade.
- Added new grade column on both, View all grades, and on the, View own grades, pages.
- When using Ratings, added new, Ratings information, section to the grades tables on both , View all grades, and on the, View own grades, pages.
- Added date/time to the CSVexport file name.
- Added new icon look feature for Moodle 4.0.
- Added basic activity completion for Moodle 3.11 and higher.
- Added capability to delete unused keyboard layouts.
- Added links to, View all course mootypers, on the grade pages, the end of lesson page, and the end of exam page.
- Fixed the bug where the cursor color was not being backed up or duplicated correctly.
- Added plain text to the, Add new exercise to this lesson, button on the exercises page.
- Added capability for an admin to remove database entries and physical files, for keyboard layouts that are not needed.
For any additional information please visit us on GitHub or post in MooTyper's forum topic.
Sorry to see that your students are experiencing lags/freezes. While MooTyper does try to update the statistics bar once every 4 seconds, it has been my experience that lags and freezes have always been due to the users computer and operating system, as that is where all the "work and calculations" are being done. I regularly see results from the MooTyper activities available on the publicly accessible, Website URL, listed above, that go well up into the 300+ hits per minute. My personal best that I can remember seeing was 480. Did not realize how good that was until I had already hit, Delete. I would be interested to see/hear what type of computers and what operating system your students are using.
Thank you for the feedback. On a personal note, in my development work, my OS is also Windows 10 and my main browser is usually Firefox, followed by Opera, Chrome, and last, Edge. Truthfully, I have not noticed MooTyper problems while using any of them.
When you say you are using the latest MooTyper, I presume that's v4.2.0. Did you have any other version installed before that?
This is exactly what I would love to see in Mootyper:
https://internet.intersteno.it/page.php?id_primario=8&id_secondario=121&language=fiammingo&language_text=fiammingo&external=true
You can correct your mistake, if you do so, it doesn't count as a mistake. But if you don't notice it and you leave the mistake in it, it does count.
Thank you very much for your work AL Rachels. I have created a course for my students and they are delighted.
But I have a problem. Users with macOS operating systems cannot enter accents. Windows users can. How could I solve this? Thank you very much. I work on Moodle 3.8 and Mootyper version 4.2
Write to me, drachels@drachels.com. I need to know what language and what keyboard layout you are using. I'm sorry but the only thing close to a Mac that I have access to, is an old iPad that has to be a least ten yours old, so I might not be able to help much.
This is a great plugin. With this, I am wondering whether there is a way to change the mode from exam to lesson once the activity is already created?
So, if you really need to make the change, log in as a site admin, then start the MooTyper and click on the Settings button between the View all grades and View my grades buttons. As long as you are logged in as an administrator, the Mode drop down will be enabled and you can changed to any of the three modes, Lesson, Exam, or Practice. At this point, to be fair to everyone, the teacher or admin then needs to DELETE all the grades in the MooTyper activity so that everyone has to do all the exercises. I find that it is actually easier to just create a new MooTyper activity set to the Mode I want to use.
Upgrading to new version
mod_mootyper
Exception - Call to undefined function xmldb_mootyper_install()
More information about this error
Debug info:
Error code: generalexceptionmessage×Dismiss this notification
Stack trace:
line 891 of /lib/upgradelib.php: Error thrown
line 651 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_modules()
line 1937 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 719 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()
Any ideas? We have removed the old version.