Moodle logs more than most learning platforms, which is why this question comes up about it more often. The detail is real, but it is the wrong kind of detail to answer "was this pasted".
Moodle logs events, not input. A paste into an ordinary Moodle text box or assignment leaves no trace in the log store, because the browser does not report it. What can genuinely restrict paste is Safe Exam Browser or a locked quiz. For written work, the revealing record is the document you drafted in.
No. Moodle keeps a detailed log store, and none of it records keystrokes or clipboard use. A submission arrives as text, and the log records that a submission arrived.
The confusion is understandable. Moodle administrators really can see a long list of a student's activity, far more granular than most platforms expose, and if you have seen that list it is reasonable to assume it contains everything. It contains everything Moodle is told, and the browser does not tell it how a text field was filled.
These are server-side events. Every one of them is something Moodle itself did in response to a request. Typing happens entirely in the browser and produces no request until you submit, which is exactly why it leaves no log entry.
Safe Exam Browser, which many institutions pair with Moodle quizzes, locks the machine down for the duration of an assessment and commonly disables copy, paste and switching applications. That is a block rather than a log: paste will simply not work.
Some quiz question types and plugins also disable paste in their input fields, usually to stop answers being moved between questions. Again, the behaviour is prevention, not detection. Nothing is recorded because nothing is allowed to happen.
If you are inside a proctored or locked assessment, that is the end of the discussion. Running other software during one is precisely what those tools exist to catch.
Many Moodle installs run a similarity plugin on assignment submissions. It compares the submitted words against sources and, increasingly, scores them for AI-writing patterns.
That layer is completely indifferent to input method. Typing text in produces an identical submission and an identical score, as covered in does Turnitin detect copy-paste.
An auto typer changes how text arrives and nothing else. On Moodle specifically, that means it changes nothing at all unless your drafting document is the thing being looked at.
No. Moodle logs server-side events such as page views and submissions. Typing happens in the browser and produces no request until you submit, so there is nothing for the log to record.
They can see a detailed list of events, timings and often IP addresses. It is more granular than most platforms expose, but it is a record of requests to the server, not of what happened in your browser.
It commonly disables copy, paste and application switching for the duration of an assessment. That is prevention rather than detection, so paste simply will not work.
No. It compares the submitted words against sources and scores writing patterns. Input method is invisible to it, so typing and pasting give the same result.
In the document you drafted in. A shared Google Doc keeps version history showing exactly how text arrived, which is far more revealing than any Moodle log entry.
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