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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I have upgraded to 1.4. Thank you for the fix. I noticed today an error that comes up if a user clicks on "Mootypers" in the activities block. Please see below for the specifics (debugging on).
Strict Standards: Creating default object from empty value in /srv/www/htdocs/mod/mootyper/index.php on line 61
MooTypers
Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: PHP catchable fatal error
More information about this error
Debug info: Argument 1 passed to html_writer::table() must be an instance of html_table, instance of stdClass given, called in /srv/www/htdocs/mod/mootyper/index.php on line 85 and defined
Error code: codingerror
Stack trace:
line 397 of /lib/setuplib.php: coding_exception thrown
line 1441 of /lib/outputcomponents.php: call to default_error_handler()
line 85 of /mod/mootyper/index.php: call to html_writer::table()
2. About this error: I think I forgot this $table = new html_table(); line before the table setup in the index.php file. I'll add a new version soon...but not today - I was in the forest these three days cuting wood ... soooo tired... :|
3. I opened a forum topic so from now on we'll discuss there, i guess ...
4. I see you guys are from US so please correct me if I make / made any major grammar mistake...
Off topic - I notice you are in Slovenia. I am in the Los Angeles area. I am a big fan of the Slovenian hockey player, Anze Kopitar. It was great to see photos of him on Lake Bled with the Stanley Cup.
I am using Moodle 2.5.5
I install Mootyper on my moodle after editing version.php.
I change this in version.php:
From:
$module->requires = 2012062500; // Requires this Moodle version
To:
$module->requires = 2013051405; // Requires this Moodle version
Mootyper installed and working fine untill I found this:
When I clicked "To manage exercises and categories click here" there is list of lessons but there is no check box displayed to select them
I am not a PHP hardcoder so please help me in this issue...
Aditya
Can you help us to translate and program your plugin to catalan and spanish language?
I'm using Moodle 2.8 and it works, but I'm having trouble putting the letter ç
Please, I would love to have the keyboard in Portuguese, because it could be used in Portugal and in Brazil.
You would enter this keyboard? I ask this because I could not in any way put to work the character ç
Here in Brazil we have the letter ç on the keyboard
Look this image: http://prntscr.com/5dmm7q
Thank you for your help