Multilanguage content in Moodle

Multilanguage content in Moodle

by Stephan Robotta -
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Multilanguage content in Moodle

Room D11, 15.06.2023, 14:00

Some participants share whether they use multilang in their daily teaching or whether they set up multiple parallel courses.

Support in Moodle via Filter
  • Notation als <span lang=”XX” class=”mutlilang”>language dependent content</span>
  • Works on content and headlines
  • Pro:
  • Already built in, no plugin required.
  • Works via basic HTML that should not interfere with any other content.
  • Works in all places where the filters are applied.
  • Contra:
  • some HTML knowledge necessary
  • lacks some user friendly handling (between different language tags must not be anything else but a space, fallback is first language) 
Support via Multilang V2 Plugin Filter
  • Notation als
  • Works on content and headlines
  • Works in all places where the filters are applied.
  • Pro:
  • Easy usable for the inexperienced user.
  • Allows blocks anywhere, different languages must not be connected.
  • Has a “catch all” function {mlang other}
  • Contra:
  • Additional plugin required
  • Does not work in all cases (e.g. inside cloze questions), or where the filter array is not used (MDL-31235, MDL-61286)

Given both ways are activated, how to transmit the knowledge to the faculty?

Plugins:

Suggestion:  why not use the translation technology for courses that is used on the Moodle Academy. This is worth to think of.