Moodle Educators – How to create a typing practice activity in Moodle Course

Moodle LMS is world’s most popular open source learning management system with approx 400 million users around the globe. It is used in all types of learning requirements from corporate companies, universities, schools, medical and other industries. In this post we will see how you can create a typing activity in Moodle course.

Online learning has gained traction since last few years due to the pandemic as well as to keep up the pace with modern trends. However, learning how to type can be one of the trivial skill which needs to be mastered with practice.

MooTyper Moodle plugin allows you to have a typing practice/instruction functionality into Moodle. 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.

The plugin supports different keyboard layouts which includes many popular keyboard layouts e.g. Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Portugese, Russian etc. The activity can be used in three different modes:

• Practice mode – students proceed through a lesson in the order of the exercises listed in the lesson. It also allows a student to delete the results of an exercise attempt, and try it over.
• Lesson mode – like practice mode, students proceed through a lesson in the order of the exercises listed in the lesson. Only an admin, manager, or teacher can delete an exercise result, and let the student try again.
• Exam mode – only one exercise from a lesson is presented for the student to attempt. Only an admin, manager, or teacher can delete an exam mode result, and let the student try again.

When a student finishes any exercise, in any mode, the results are saved into a MooTyper database, so the teacher can view individual student progress.

You can download the MooTyper Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here.

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