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Producing multilingual content

STACK questions can be easily localized for different languages using the multi-language content filter. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Multi-language_content_filter. That is to say, a single question can exist in multiple languages and the user can choose the language they use.

This page deals with translating text within individual questions. It does not deal with translating the Moodle and STACK interface. See the page on Language packs and translating STACK.

Installation

  1. Your site administrator must enable the Moodle multi-language content filter.
  2. The multi-language content filter must be applied before the MathJax filter, otherwise strange results will occur.

Authoring questions

The filter works by searching the document for all multilang blocks and displaying the block that matches the selected language.

<span lang="en" class="multilang">...Text in English...</span>
<span lang="fi" class="multilang">...Text in Finnish...</span>

If no block matching the user's language can be found, the block encountered first is displayed. In the above example the English block would be displayed if the user's language was not either English or Finnish. The English block should be the first block in the documents in order for it to be the default language in case no matching language can be found.

When translating STACK assignments into different languages, it should be noted that the question text field may not contain multiple instances of input or validation fields of the same name. This means that the input and validations fields must be placed outside multilang blocks in order for them to be visible in all the available languages. The following example will illustrate this.

STACK would not accept the following question text:

<span lang="en" class="multilang">
   <p>
      Let \( {\bf a} = ({@a@}, {@b@}) \). Find a vector \({\bf b}\neq {\bf 0}\) such that it is perpendicular to \(\mathbf{a}\)
   </p>
   <p>
      \({\bf b} = \Big(\)[[input:ans1]]\(,\) [[input:ans2]]\(\Big)\)
   </p>
   <div>
      [[validation:ans1]]
   </div>
   <div>
      [[validation:ans2]]
   </div>
</span>

<span lang="fi" class="multilang">
   <p>
      Olkoon vektori \( {\bf a} = ({@a@}, {@b@}) \). Anna vektori \({\bf b}\neq {\bf 0}\) siten, että vektorit ovat kohtisuorassa toisiaan vastaan.
   </p>
   <p>
      \({\bf b} = \Big(\)[[input:ans1]]\(,\) [[input:ans2]]\(\Big)\)
   </p>
   <div>
      [[validation:ans1]]
   </div>
   <div>
      [[validation:ans2]]
   </div>
</span>

But this question text causes no issues:

<span lang="en" class="multilang">
   <p>
      Let \( {\bf a} = ({@a@}, {@b@}) \). Find a vector \({\bf b}\neq {\bf 0}\) such that it is perpendicular to \(\mathbf{a}\)
   </p>
</span>
<span lang="fi" class="multilang">
   <p>
      Olkoon vektori \( {\bf a} = ({@a@}, {@b@}) \). Anna vektori \({\bf b}\neq {\bf 0}\) siten, että vektorit ovat kohtisuorassa toisiaan vastaan.
   </p>
</span>

<p>
   \({\bf b} = \Big(\)[[input:ans1]]\(,\) [[input:ans2]]\(\Big)\)
</p>
<div>[[validation:ans1]]</div>
<div>[[validation:ans2]]</div>

Changing STACK's language

If you have written a multilingual question, and a student wants to see it in a certain language, they have to change their preferred language. In Moodle, this is done by clicking on their profile, and then going to Preferences, Preferred language and selecting the language. This will not only change the language of all question text (where multilingual blocks have been used), but also the language of the default Moodle and STACK interface (if this translation is available). The specific language pack has to be installed on your server by the server administrator to allow this. More information is available in the developer docs under Translating STACK.

Further reading

The STACK project has been translated to many languages. Information on specific languages, installing language packs and how to contribute to translations can be found here.

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