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MooTyper

Maintained by RACHELS, DANIEL A.
MooTyper implements a typing practice/instruction functionality into Moodle.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 2.2-5.2 See all versions
Latest release: 2 months ago
Installations: 1058
Downloads (last 90 days): 386

Frankenstyle name: mod_mootyper
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I'm a Portuguese PT tranlator in Moodle: https://lang.moodle.org/local/amos/credits.php#credits-language-pt
I´m "working" in this one! I'm also admin of a Moodle site.
Can you help me? My KB layout:
https://imgur.com/a/9DV4w
I enter the name of keys in a copy of Portuguese v4.php
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JLaGtl1ZpvbFRGmoge5PneiB4w4PpBUc
But something wrong. After i will "program" the .js file.
TIA
Hi Karthick,
Currently, there are no keyboard layouts for those languages. It is okay to create your own versions of them, if you want to. I will try to help create them, but need to know details of what operating system the students computers will be using and I would also need to see a picture of their keyboard for each language. It will be best to contact me directly via email, drachels at drachels dot com.
Just to let everyone know, I am very close to a new MooTyper 3.4.1 release that on screen is much more compact than any previous versions. The keyboard layouts are more compact and you can set the background and normal key colors for each different MooTyper activity. The current version of all the new code is in the master branch at github. Just doing a little more internal comments and need to check that it works on other versions of Moodle. So far I've only had time to test 3.3 and 3.4.
Hi Team,
Currently, we are leveraging MooTyper with other languages (Thai,Malay,Vietnamese, Siamese) for TH,VN and ID regions. So as part of the process, i could not find the indicated languages on to "KEYBOARD LAYOUT" of Mootyper. Is there anyway i can get it somewhere (or) it requires development. Your response is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Karthick
Just released a new MooTyper 3.4.0 version that has been tested on and works on any Moodle version that is 2.7 or higher. Thanks to some gentle prodding, testing, and some much appreciated help from Derek Henderson, there are numerous code changes that make MooTyper more secure, and also removes the template.css file entirely. Thanks also to Jelle Pauwels, Matthias Giger, and Ruben Cancho for help with the new keyboard layouts, and for Ruben's continuing help with work on the keyboard layout files. For users who upgrade an older version of MooTyper to this current one, be sure a check the description at the top of this page as you will need to switch to using the new keyboard layouts.
Sorry for the two days in a row release. The first one included a lot of new security code changes. The 10/26/2017 release is mostly code cleanup and comments for internal documentation.
I just posted the new MooTyper V3.3 release. The Spanish keyboard layout is greatly improved with the help of Ruben Cancho. He also discovered that there is an old, known problem with Linux keyboard drivers that prevents combined keys from working. He and I are both trying to figure out a workaround.
There are two new keyboard layouts included. I created the Dvorak one, just to see if I could learn the new layout after using qwerty for over fifty years. Haven't really had the chance to try to learn it yet, though. The other new layout, Belgium(DutchV3) was at the request of Jelle Pauwels. With his help in testing, it only took a few hours spread out over a few days. That's because his work day is ending, when mine is just starting.
In general, every layout has some major changes in the code, new characters added, and the visual keyboard designed updated. Many new combined keys can be typed, that just were not included in prior releases. Characters rendered in black are typed with just the one key and shift when needed. If a character is rendered in blue, it needs to also use the Alt gr key plus the shift key at times. Red characters are used to create combination letters and also use the shift key at times. Generally the red keys can also be typed by themselves by typing the key followed by the space bar.
As always, let me know if you have any questions or problems.
Hi S Moodle, Which version are you using? The capabilities you are interested in should already be available in MooTyper. When looking at a grade table, the column headings when clicked will sort the column while maintaining row integrity. In other words, if any user looks at, View my grades (owngrades.php), they will see the results of all exercises in a lesson, listed by Completed date time order. Click the, Completed, heading and the list will change from most recent finish first, down to the oldest date in the lsit. If they then click on the WPM heading, the list will reorder and list the exercise results from slowest to fastest WPM. Click WPM once more and the list will then be reorganized from fastest to slowest. Each heading works in a similar fashion.
If a teacher, manager, or admin goes to, View all grades (gview.php), the column headings work in a similar manner. In addition, clicking the Student heading, sorts the list alphabetically by last names, A to Z changing to Z to A when clicked again. The teacher, manager, or admin can control the who the information is displayed for, by changing the drop down menu selections. For instance to see how everyone performed on a particular exercise, select, by exercise, and then an exercise number. To see how an an individual student performed, you can select, by user and then change from All to an individual name. When looking at results for an individual, clicking on any heading reverts back to seeing results for All users.
I hope to soon release a new MooTyper version 3.3 for Moodle 3.2.x and 3.3.x, that will also add a horizontal bar chart under each of the grade tables. My work in progress v3.3 BETA, sorts the bar chart to reflect the sort order of the grade table.
Just released a new version MooTyper 3.2.0 that has changes to the styles.css file to make it compatible with older themes as well as the version of Clean and Boost in Moodle 3.2. I had to tweak all the keyboard layouts to look "right" with the new styles.css file so you will need to click on, Import lesson / KB layout, in the MooTyper Administration block, so the new version 2.1 keyboard layouts are available for use.
I should have a new MooTyper 3.3.0 ready for release soon that makes use of the new Chart api in Moodle. Right now my development copy adds a bar graph to the bottom of each of the grade pages, with a bar for Hits/minute, Precision, and WPM for each user/lesson.
Just released a new version MooTyper 3.1.4 that includes new backup capability, continuous typing, and limits the wpm rate to positive numbers only. Backup works for individual MooTyper activities as well as course backup, both with and without user data. The user data is only the grades table information. Continuous Type is now an optional setting. When off, a user must type the correct key before they can go on. Continuous Type when set to yes, will show the incorrectly typed letter and go on to the next. If a person made too many mistakes in the past, the corrected wpm could show as a negative number, which is misleading. This latest version limits the displayed corrected wpm to zero and higher, only.
Hi Joost,
Thanks for your interest in MooTyper. I had spotted those same problems, but have delayed putting out a new release as there is one other problem that I have not had a chance to track down yet due to working on other projects. The keyboard render does not look the same in Boost based themes, as it does with the Clean theme, and others. In Boost, all the keys for the on-screen keyboard seem to render much smaller. For anyone interested I have put the fixes Mentioned above, in the master branch at github.
Hi AL,
We found a few issues in the MooTyper css and scss, causing a breakdown in Boost-based themes. I know there is no version for Moodle 3.2 yet, but it might be nice to have fix for these:
webkit-border-radšius: 4px; ==> should be webkit-border-radius: 4px
and in declaring margin, on the final value it doesn't say px, but x.
Looking forward to a fix for these, so MooTyper can properly run in 3.2 with Boost-based themes.
I suspect it is a permissions problem. Your web server needs to have both read and write access to the styles.css file so it can implement your color selections for MooTyper.
I just did some updating today and checked the debugging section to get this output:
Warning: file_put_contents(mod/mootyper/styles.css): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/gnucr/public_html/courses/mod/mootyper/settings.php on line 144
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I'm not using MooTyper at the moment with any courses but wanted to shared and hope to get some advice for resolving smile.
Hi Jaka, I already have a modified typer.js that allows continuous typing. Was just curious if anyone wanted the capability since, to make it into a setting, requires changing other files and adding a new field to the database. I have most of the work done except for the database mods. I haven't moved any of my development code to github yet is why you didn't see it.