atingi - Technical specifications and recommendations

System

Standard Moodle plugins are employed for course activities and resources
Additional community contributed and custom plugins used in atingi include BigBlueButton, Attendance, Appointment, Course Certificate, Open Badges, Reports, Invitation Enrolment, Multifactor Authentication, Tiles Format etc.
An identity management system (Keycloak) for authentication of users and integration with other systems through Single-sign-on (SSO)
A helpdesk management system (Zammad) to provide support to atingi users

Learners can have a first look at the public course portfolio (content library) as a guest without registering or creating an account
To start learning and taking part in courses, registration is required
Learners can register by creating an account on atingi using their email and password or they can use their existing accounts on other platforms such as YOMA or Google

Currently atingi has eleven system languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Kinyarwanda, Lao, Nepal, Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Moodle offers language packs for several other languages – some of them more comprehensive than others; atingi will constantly be adding more languages to its system
Courses can be provided in any language, even outside the system language. atingi currently has courses in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Kiswahili, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Bengali, Bahasa etc.

Course Certificates: certificates are automatically issued to learners upon fulfilling course completion criteria. The certificate includes course name, learner name, date, verification URL, and unique certification ID
Open Badges: standard, verifiable, portable, and shareable digital micro- credentials with embedded information about the skills and achievements of their recipients provided by Open Badge Factory

You can create course content either directly on atingi, using H5P or an authoring tool

There are several activities and resources from the Moodle repository available for every course you create on atingi.
H5P allows the creation of more interactive content using the “content bank” on atingi
You can also use adapt, articulate rise or another so-called “authoring tool” to set up screen-size responsive, interactive course modules which can be imported via SCORM.

In the editing mode, all standard file formats can be uploaded to a course on atingi such as DOCX, PDF, JPG, PNG, GIF, MP4, MOV, MP3, M4A, CSS, XLSX
It is also possible to integrate HTML code in a course
Supported file formats that can be used within H5P are listed here
For ready-made content SCORM packages from version 1.2, IMS or XML files can be imported to atingi

For some activities, you might want to import existing question banks. To do so, the following formats are accepted: Aiken Format, Blackboard, Embedded answers (Cloze), Examview, Gift Format, Missing word Format, Moodle XML Format, WebCT Format

The general upload limit on atingi is 4GB. However, we don’t recommend uploading such large images or videos
For mobile-friendly use, the recommended maximum file size is at 2MB for mobile data use and 20MB for Wifi connection
For videos, it’s recommended to host them on YouTube and link them to the course, because the video platform responds to individual internet speed (additionally, YouTube automatically creates subtitles)
Course images should be uploaded (not linked) in size 16:9 (e.g., 447x252 pixels) and not be bigger than 1 MB - ideally less than 500KB.
Generally, we recommend uploading several small files/images/packages instead of a single large file

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge
Other browsers might display course content incorrectly (especially Internet Explorer) or not working together smoothly with all plug-ins (e.g., BBB)

Especially for course certificates not all fonts work well with different languages and writing systems
“Free serif” is confirmed to display a variety of languages correctly (e.g., Vietnamese, Arabic, German)
For mandarin, “STSong Light” should be used

This can be done via the course settings or via HTML by adding the target=”_blank” attribute