MooTyper

For many reasons, that I do not want to go into right here and now, I have recently been moving and expanding the MooTyper demo site and courses to a new location: https://drachels.net/moodledemo/course/index.php?categoryid=4
With all the extra details being added, it is going slower than I thought, but mostly because I keep adding to what's there. As of today, there are still many courses that need all the "stuff" added to them, and truthfully, I am easily distracted and just jumping from one course to another, in whatever order strikes my fancy. Mostly I am trying get to courses that use languages with a different alphabet. e.g. I did a Hindi course yesterday and would love any feedback. https://drachels.net/moodledemo/course/view.php?id=1508
If there is a course, that is currently empty and awaiting all the exemplar activities to be added, but you would like to see it upgraded sooner-than-later, ask and I will get right on it.
It is my plan to make standard Lesson files for each course and make them easily copied/downloaded for your own use/evaluation.

For anyone interested, the master branch at github listed above, has just gotten a revamped function for marking MooTyer results as, Suspicious. It also fixes a previously uncaught bug in the, All hits, result, which I just today realized was typically very wrong if someone just stopped typing an exercise, say, to play a game, instead of doing the lesson/exercise. 2026040902 Suspicion now tracks counter rollback anomalies and long no-progress gaps between check intervals in classes/local/results.php. 2026040903 In timed exercises, suspicion now compares typed pace against exercise length/timelimit context and uses an early-stall check (good initial pace, long idle tail, low completion ratio). 2026040904 Corrected full-hits tracking in all active typing scripts. Note that this "Fixes" those long exercises that take over ten minutes to type. If you work steadily, it will not be marked as suspicious, like before.
I want to do a little more testing, but hope to release a new version next week after I have a chance to fix a couple more of my TODO items.
If anyone has anything they would like to see added to MooTyper, send me a message or list it here and I will see what I can do.

Just completed the push to master branch. Many visible and many more changes "under the hood" as we say around here. I am still checking performance on various Moodle and DB combinations, but good so far.

@ Carpe Diem et al,
I know it has been a long time since Carpe Diem inquired about a Korean KB layout and typing capability for MooTyper, and may not need it now, but others might. So, Just to let everyone know, a few minutes ago, I was able to complete my first full sentence of an exercise written in Korean. I am running Behat and other tests, but will push this code to the MooTyper master branch, soon, so that interested parties can try it out. If anyone wants to try it on my server, send me an email and I can give you access.

Hi Al
I hope you are well, it's been ages.. MoodTyper appears to work on Moodle 5. Could you update the supported extension on your end to Moodle 5 so that it installs automatically each week when we update our Moodle instance? It saves us so much time. Cheers.

Replied directly to the message you also sent.

We have upgraded mootyper. And get this message:
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.

Thank you, Al Rachels for answering my concern.

Hi @Ezekiel Lozano, Changing the Mode from Exam to Lesson or Practice is something that ONLY an admin can do but you really should NOT do so because in Exam mode the student is required to complete only the one exercise of the Lesson, that the teacher has selected for the Exam. Since some students may have already completed the activity and passed, the activity will still be shown as Completed for them if you change the Mode. Anyone who has not yet started the activity, or completed with a passing grade, they will have to do ALL the exercises in the Lesson. Yes, this means if someone tried the activity in Exam mode and FAILED, they will have to complete all the exercises in the lesson.
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.

Good day, AL Rachels.
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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.