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Voice typing in Moodle

Moodle is self-hosted and endlessly customisable, and every course still needs writing. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Moodle exactly where your cursor was.

From the people who build Typally. If Moodle's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.
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In short

  • Moodle's own dictation: None. Editors are standard rich-text fields.
  • What Typally does instead: puts text wherever the cursor is, in Moodle or in anything else you have open.
  • Best used for: activity instructions

Does Moodle have built-in dictation?

None. Editors are standard rich-text fields.

Why dictate in Moodle at all?

Moodle is chosen by institutions that want control, which usually means a small team supporting many courses. Course descriptions, activity instructions and feedback all fall on individual teachers with no support staff.

In practice people use it for: Activity instructions, assignment feedback, forum replies, course summaries, and quiz question text.

How to dictate in Moodle

Setup happens once, outside Moodle, and then applies to every program on the machine:

1

Download and sign in

Grab the build for your platform and create an account.

2

Click into the right box in Moodle first

Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Moodle before starting.

3

Talk while holding the key

The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.

4

Read it before you move on

Moodle's editor varies by installation and theme, and some versions handle pasted or injected formatting unpredictably. Dictate plain prose.

What Typally adds in Moodle

Typally types into activity instructions, feedback fields and forum replies, so the instructions that generate half your support email can be written properly. It works the same on any self-hosted installation, since it types into the browser rather than integrating with Moodle.

What this looks like in practice

A teacher rewrites the instructions for the six activities students always ask about, speaking each one as if explaining it in class. The support email for that unit drops noticeably the following term.

One habit that makes it work better

Dictate the activity instructions in full. Half the support questions a course generates come from instructions that assumed knowledge the student did not have.

What to watch out for in Moodle

Moodle's editor varies by installation and theme, and some versions handle pasted or injected formatting unpredictably. Dictate plain prose.

Frequently asked questions

Does Moodle support speech input?

No. Its editors are standard text fields.

Can I dictate quiz questions?

Yes, though the answer options each need their own field.

Does it work on a self-hosted Moodle?

Yes — a system-level tool does not care where the site is hosted.

Try it in Moodle

You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.

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