Moodle plugins directory: MooTyper | Moodle.org
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.
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This is truly an amazing plug-in! - My students just LOVE it!!!
I tried to add another language as described (README.md file).
"To implement any other layout you have to:
Create a php file with keyboard layout defined with HTML. Create a javascript
file (with the same name and .js extension) that implements the logic of the keyboard
layout."
I've added two files with the same name(.php & .js) - did not work
I'll be very happy with any suggestions ...?
If anyone tries the new Website URL listed above, you can create an account and self enroll as a student in any course listed. I am in the process of creating content (Slowly due to working on MooTyper code.) so if you need me to add something, let me know. Other student or teacher access can be provided if you contact me directly.
It only comes with a few samples due to it's capability of supporting other languages, but creating your own is easy to do. I do have a fairly comprehensive set of lessons for English, but have not had time to post them on my sample site. They all have to be modified for the new scrolling paragraph style exercises capability. Been very busy working on the recent QA Testing for Moodle 3.5 and creating code for GDPR compliance, and just haven't had time to do that.
I wish your wife to be healthy.
I am not a programmer. I do not know how to use the file even if you give it to me.
Let me know how to use it, so I will try.
Anyone wanting the same functionality for any of the other language keyboards, let me know and I will try to do them on a first-asked, first-served basis.