MooTyper

Activities ::: mod_mootyper
Maintained by AL Rachels
MooTyper implements a typing practice/instruction functionality into Moodle.
Latest release:
1022 sites
877 downloads
52 fans
Current versions available: 6

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 other features and capabilities, visit the link below, More documentation on the plugin.

For any additional information please visit us on GitHub or post in MooTyper's forum topic.

 

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Contributors

AL Rachels (Lead maintainer)
Jaka Luthar: Original author
Yerb Khan: Original concept
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  • SREE VISHNU
    lun., 16 de ago. de 2021, 10:20
    Hi AL Rachels,

    I'm having a problem here. I've made a typing test activity. When I click on the activity, the page automatically scrolls down to the paragraph, skipping over the information above. This only occurs on specific devices. When I try it on a desktop, it does not automatically scroll down, but it does on a laptop. Do you have any suggestions for this problem?
  • AL Rachels
    mar., 17 de ago. de 2021, 08:54
    What kind of laptop? What operating system? What version of Moodle? What version of MooTyper? Truthfully, I only have two old laptops and four tablets left from my teaching days, and cannot get any of them to do what you describe.
    On one of the problem laptops, right click on MooTyper and select, Inspect, then click on the, Console, tab and see if it gives you any helpful information.
  • AL Rachels
    mar., 18 de ene. de 2022, 02:08
    Thanks to Robert Schrenk, MooTyper no longer uses absolute paths to the layout filenames.
    As always, if anyone finds a problem with this release, or needs something changed or added to the plugin, please let me know.
  • FELIX XAVIER DHAS DEVA DHASON
    vie., 22 de jul. de 2022, 13:34
    Hello Rachels,

    After Installing Mootyper and configuring the test, When I am clicking setup it raises the error like below


    Debug info: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
    SELECT * FROM mdlae_mootyper_exercises WHERE lesson=
    [array (
    )]
    Error code: dmlreadexception
    Stack trace:

    line 486 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
    line 1273 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
    line 175 of /mod/mootyper/classes/local/lessons.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
    line 383 of /mod/mootyper/mod_setup.php: call to mod_mootyper\local\lessons::get_exercises_by_lesson()


    I am having Moodle 4.0 and the latest mootyper plugin.
    database : mariadb (5.5.5-10.3.35-MariaDB)
    php: 7.3

    Kindly help me to sort out please,without sleep I had spent two days around this issue but not able fix it.
  • Richard Hahn
    vie., 16 de sept. de 2022, 15:40
    Hi Al!
    Thank you for the great plugin! I am currently having it tested and the faster typers among the students experience lags / freezes when typing over 110 keys/minute. I am currently trying to figure out, what could be the cause for this behavious on our side, testing different browsers, etc. Are there any server requirements you recommend?
  • AL Rachels
    vie., 16 de sept. de 2022, 20:44
    Hi Richard,
    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.
  • Richard Hahn
    jue., 22 de sept. de 2022, 16:07
    Thank you, Al, for getting back to me. We have been testing for a week or so now, under Windows 10 (Edu). MS Edge has proven to lag heavily, so we switched to Chrome, which works way better. We are still experiencing issues with some exercises, where students are typing and suddenly are redirected to the finish screen (without having finished). There is no time limit set ("0"), so I don't really know where that comes from. Current working theory is that the text length has sth to do with it. Therefore I eliminated longer texts for the moment to observe if the rest works. I'll keep you posted!
  • AL Rachels
    jue., 22 de sept. de 2022, 21:22
    HI Richard,

    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?
  • 29 UNO
    lun., 5 de dic. de 2022, 03:48
    I'm trying to use the demo. My user is your Moodle website is fannyga. Can you give me access? Thank you
  • AL Rachels
    lun., 5 de dic. de 2022, 06:18
    Send me a message using the email in my Moodle profile. You need to do like it says on the web site and create an account, and include your details in the message. Then I can upgrade your access in a course to, student or teacher.
  • Jenthe H.
    mar., 19 de sept. de 2023, 03:42
    Feature request: could it be made possible to allow a student to correct a typo, but only if the student notices the typo? At this moment there are only two options: 1) a student *must* correct the mistake OR 2) a student cannot correct a mistake. I would like to give my students exercises in which they correct a typo if they notice it, and if they do correct it it doesn't count for the error %. If they didn't correct it than it obviously does count for the error %.
    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.
  • Jenthe H.
    mar., 19 de sept. de 2023, 03:46
    One other feature request: could it be made possible (in the form of a new setting?) to automatically end AND save the exercise once they finish typing the exercise? Right now they have to click a button to save the result, but some of my students forget to do so and click away. This is frustrating because I have no result and the student has to start from scratch. Automatically finishing the exercise once the text has been typed, would be amazing.
  • AL Rachels
    mar., 19 de sept. de 2023, 04:18
    Hi Jenthe - Thanks for your interest in additions/improvements to the MooTyper plugin. I will add both of your suggestions to my TODO list for future consideration, but do not expect speedy results. For the past eight months, I've been having pretty severe bouts with eye problems that have limited my work time and put me far behind where I would like to be, on my list. Right now I'm working on a number of "completion" settings and made the mistake of just today trying my new code in the upcoming Moodle 4.3. I about had a heart attack! NONE of them worked in the new Moodle code base. I went and looked at the ongoing QA Test directions for Completion, which I discovered is on hold, so my pulse calmed down for the moment. LOL They must be aware of the problems and are working on them.
  • Pablo S. A.
    mié., 7 de feb. de 2024, 21:01

    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
  • AL Rachels
    jue., 8 de feb. de 2024, 06:04
    Hi Pablo
    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.
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