Moodle Plugins directory: Plugin type: Activities | Moodle.org
Activities 
Activity modules provide the main activities in course, such as Forums, Assignments, Quizzes and so on.
Join the discussions about activities in the General add-ons forum.
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Assignment (49)
Different extensions of assignments
Different forms of assignment submissions (Moodle 2.3 onward)
Assignment feedbacks (10)
Different forms of assignment feedbacks (Moodle 2.3 onward)
Different forms of assignments to be graded by teachers (Moodle 2.2 and earlier - /mod/assignment)
Book (4)
The book activity that is in core. It can have sub-plugins.
Book tools (4)
sub-plugins for the book activity module
Plugins extending the Custom certificate module features.
Elements are used to design the certificate.
Database (7)
Plugins for the database activity module
Database fields (5)
Databases can be extended with new field types
Database presets (2)
Database settings, templates etc can be saved as presets
LTI (2)
Integration with external tools via IMS Learning Tool Interoperability standard.
LTI services (0)
Allow the implementation of LTI services as described by the IMS LTI specification.
LTI sources (2)
LTI providers can be added to external tools easily through the external tools interface. This plugin type is specific to LTI providers that need a plugin that can register custom handlers to process LTI messages.
Quiz (190)
Ways to extend quizzes
Quiz access rules (24)
Plugins for controlling access to quizzes
Quiz reports (22)
Quiz reports show results and statistics
Question types (87)
New types of questions
Plugin type for extending question bank functionality.
Question behaviour (25)
We question your behaviour!
Question formats (21)
Question formats for import/export
SCORM (2)
New reports for the SCORM activity module
Subplugins for the https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_certificate
Workplace certificate element plugins.
Workshop (3)
Workshop activity module has a number of plugin types
Change how grading is allocated
Change how grades are evauated
Grading forms for workshop
Course Life Cycle is a plugin that executes reoccurring tasks on your Moodle platform.
A course life cycle workflow consists of steps and triggers. Triggers are the deciders which define under which conditions a workflow is started or proceeded.
A course life cycle workflow consists of steps and triggers. Steps are the actors which process courses within a workflow.
mod_hvp
Create and add rich content inside your LMS for free. Some examples of what you
get with H5P are Interactive Video, Quizzes, Collage and Timeline.
Latest release: 27671 sites 7k downloads 606
mod_customcert
Enables the creation of dynamically generated certificates with complete customisation via the web browser.
Latest release: 27386 sites 12k downloads 506
mod_bigbluebuttonbn
Integrate BigBlueButton within Moodle - including record and playback of sessions.
Latest release: 5162 sites 1k downloads 409
mod_attendance
A plugin that allows an attendance log to be kept. - includes an optional block for easy access to relevant functions.
Latest release: 20538 sites 6k downloads 402
mod_game
The game activity module makes use of questions, quizzes and glossaries to create offer a variety of interactive games.
Latest release: 8579 sites 3k downloads 320
mod_checklist
A checklist can be created by a teacher (or generated from the activities in a course) and then the students or teachers can check-off each item as they are completed.
Latest release: 8101 sites 3k downloads 214
mod_scheduler
An appointment scheduler for planning face-to-face meetings between teachers and students. Teachers can set up time slots, and students can choose one of these on Moodle.
Latest release: 5838 sites 1k downloads 211
mod_subcourse
Subcourse behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is automatically fetched from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units.
Latest release: 3793 sites 1k downloads 200
mod_certificate
This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher.
NOTE: This plugin is no longer receiving any new features. Only bug fixes are being applied. I have been working on a new plugin which can be located at https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_customcert which allows complete customisation of the PDF via the browser, whereas this plugin requires FTP and PHP knowledge. Both plugins can be installed on a site at once with no issues.
Latest release: 4875 sites 569 downloads 195
mod_offlinequiz
The Offline Quiz activity allows the creation of multiple choice tests with questions from the question bank of a Moodle course, which are handed out to students in printed form. After completion, the answer forms are scanned and can be automatically evaluated online directly in Moodle.
Latest release: 2113 sites 1k downloads 188
mod_icontent
The plugin for Moodle (Content pages), was designed so that from it, tutors, teachers and technicians can add content in courses, following usability and accessibility standards.
This tool will be responsible for signaling the good practice of adding text, images, multimedia, among others. In it, the content will be distributed in pages, so that the monitoring of the content does not become something exhausting and tiring. The plugin also has a bookmark, so that the participant can be located, based on last logged furthermore allow the inclusion of public or private notes, which the participant can provide feedback on the content studied on the page and enjoy and reply comments from other colleagues.
Latest release: 1151 sites 115 downloads 175
mod_simplecertificate
This is a new activity module, Simple Certificate,which no needs to change any code to add a new certificate format, and moodle's administrator don't need to upload image files.
The certificate text are full customizable, using special text marks that will be replaced by variables (like student name, course name, grade, ...), don't need to change any translation file.
Latest release: 4782 sites 1k downloads 169
mod_vpl
VPL is an activity module to manage programming assignments
Latest release: 2312 sites 1k downloads 164
mod_booking
The module is perfect for managing participants and subscription of online and offline courses and events.
Latest release: 1365 sites 764 downloads 152
mod_choicegroup
This module allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course. The teacher can select which groups students can chose from and the maximum number of students allowed in each group.
Latest release: 7310 sites 2k downloads 152
mod_studentquiz
StudentQuiz enables students to collaboratively create their own question pools in Moodle. Students can filter these questions into quizzes, and they can rate and comment questions while working through the quizzes. StudentQuiz computes each students contribution and learning progress and compares this with the community. The created questions become part of the Moodle question bank and can be reused in other Moodle quizzes. The video "StudentQuiz in a minute" tube.switch.ch/videos/d0e37788 provides a quick introduction.
Latest release: 1241 sites 425 downloads 136
mod_attendanceregister
This is an activity module for tracking time spent by Students (or other users) in a Course or in a related group of Courses.
Latest release: 1781 sites 520 downloads 132
mod_accredible
Accredible lets you issue digital certificates, open badges, or Blockchain credentials from your Moodle instance. They are a feature-rich replacement for the PDF certificates normally generated for your courses.
Latest release: 637 sites 308 downloads 126
mod_quizgame
Quizventure is an activity module that loads quiz questions from the course it's added to. The possible answers come down as space ships and you have to shoot the correct one.
Latest release: 1683 sites 386 downloads 126
mod_supervideo
The Super Video Module and Kapture enhance the teaching experience on Moodle by providing optimized video viewing and efficient video lecture production, enriching the learning environment for both teachers and students.
Latest release: 2984 sites 547 downloads 124
mod_facetoface
Face-to-face activities are used to keep track of in-person (e.g. classroom) trainings which require advance booking.
Each activity is offered in one or more identical sessions. These sessions can be given over multiple days.
Reminder messages are sent to users and their managers a few days before the session is scheduled to start. Confirmation messages are sent when users sign-up for a session or cancel.
This module may be of interest to administrators looking for a way to provide event management support for blended learning environments.
Latest release: 1331 sites 1k downloads 115
mod_publication
Online texts and files can be collected and published via the Student Folder activity and thus made available to everyone in a Moodle course. Submissions can be made directly by uploading or alternatively can be taken over by teachers from an assignment activity.
Latest release: 2658 sites 562 downloads 115
mod_hsuforum
Open forum are designed to increase engagement and provide a responsive, modern alternative to standard Moodle forums.
Latest release: 1321 sites 880 downloads 114
mod_evoting
The E-Voting activity module enables students to vote via their smartphone or their laptop and to have the results displayed on a graph in real time.
Latest release: 1225 sites 373 downloads 113
mod_board
Encourage discussions and thought-sharing with Board, a post-it board activity for students!
This is an anonymous collaborative activity where the teachers sets out a number of columns with
editable names and then students add contributions, or posts, to columns.
Latest release: 3544 sites 1k downloads 112
mod_openmeetings
OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone and/or webcam, share documents on a white board, discuss in a chat, share your screen or record meetings. It is available as hosted service or you download and install a package on your own server.
Latest release: 504 sites 267 downloads 110
mod_organizer
The Organizer enables students to register for appointments, which can be created by teachers.
Latest release: 1097 sites 674 downloads 109
mod_lightboxgallery
This resource allows you to create 'Lightbox' enabled image galleries within your Moodle course.
As a course teacher, you are able to create, edit and delete galleries. Smallthumbnails will then be
generated, which are used for the thumbnail view of the gallery.
Latest release: 3847 sites 1k downloads 108
mod_poster
Poster is a resource activity module allowing to create a web page. What makes this module unique is that the contents of the poster page is composed of Moodle blocks (such as HTML block, Calendar block, Latest news block etc.). It provides yet another place within the course where blocks can be put without polluting the course front page.
Latest release: 695 sites 186 downloads 101
mod_activequiz
Active quiz started originally as an update to the realtime quiz module, which has now grown into a separate module due to the very large functionality additions/changes. You will be able to offer in class quizzes on any device using a responsive theme, any question type from the question bank, use timed/not timed questions, grades reported back to the grade book, group quizzing (with a group attendance feature), view student responses in real time to offer in-class discussion about the results, and more!
Latest release: 1175 sites 79 downloads 97
mod_treasurehunt
Outdoor, indoor and virtual-map treasure-chases with geolocation and QR codes. This module for Moodle allows to organize outdoor-serious-games with your students. TreasureHunt supports Moodle Mobile App and also implements a browser-based play application (no need to install any native app) and a geographical editor for encoding the stages of the game. The game can be configured with a range of options that make the module to be very flexible and useful in many situations: individual/team, moving/desktop-marking, scoring from time, position, completion, etc.
Languages: Chinese, English, German, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, more to come...
Latest release: 385 sites 249 downloads 94
mod_unilabel
The Moodle plugin "mod_unilabel" enables you to include some nice formated text on the course- or frontpage.
There are 5 different content types included (extendable sub plugins):
- Simple text
- Carousel
- Collapsed text
- Course teaser
- Topic teaser
Latest release: 2063 sites 1k downloads 93
Create tests that efficiently measure users' abilities by adapting the questions difficulty to the estimation of user's ability.
Latest release: 711 sites 281 downloads 93
mod_journal
This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time.
Latest release: 3759 sites 2k downloads 93
mod_reservation
This activity module permits to schedule an event with a defined reservation time.
Latest release: 988 sites 258 downloads 93
mod_googlemeet
The Google Meet™ for Moodle plugin allows the teacher, without having to leave Moodle, to create a Google Meet room and make available to the students the recordings of the room saved in Google Drive.
Latest release: 3728 sites 699 downloads 90
mod_pdfannotator
The PDF annotator allows students to insert questions, comments and remarks on learning materials in PDF format
directly into the document. Since all students, lecturers and tutors can read and answer the questions and
comments asked, it is made easier to clarify open questions on lecture slides, scripts and other PDF learning
materials quickly and in a concrete context.
Latest release: 2556 sites 875 downloads 88
mod_learningmap
A learning map provides an easy way of improving the visualization of activities and their completion state in a moodle course. It can be used for easy creation of dependent activities and individualization of learning paths.
Latest release: 1925 sites 627 downloads 86
mod_geogebra
This module allows the incorporation of GeoGebra activities in Moodle and save its state.
Latest release: 3078 sites 773 downloads 84
mod_realtimequiz
Face-to-face quiz with all students answering the questions at the same time.
Latest release: 1346 sites 237 downloads 82
mod_congrea
Modern virtual classroom with sharing / collaboration for your Screen, Audio, Webcam, whiteboard, documents, media with students, ask questions, bookmarks and notes with optional recording.
Latest release: 327 sites 52 downloads 76
mod_tutorialbooking
The signup sheets module (formerly known as tutorial booking) is designed to allow instructors of a course
to create slots that the students can sign themselves up to.
Latest release: 560 sites 87 downloads 71
mod_grouptool
With the Grouptool activity, teachers can create groups and give students the opportunity to register and deregister for these groups independently or, if necessary, to register for waiting lists.
Latest release: 591 sites 223 downloads 67
mod_moodleoverflow
A non-linear, non-chronological discussion forum. Similar to the forum activity, but focuses on straightforward question-and-answer discussions. Additionally, users rate posts and gain a rating score ("reputation") by being rated by other users. Users who have started a discussion can mark an answer as helpful; and teachers can mark a post as a (correct) solution to the posed question.
Latest release: 465 sites 205 downloads 66
mod_dataform
The Dataform module allows the course manager to design and construct an entry form from various input elements (text and rich text fields, urls, files, pictures, etc.) in a flexible layout. Users can then add information records to a collection, which can be viewed in various ways and searched for particular items.
Latest release: 644 sites 151 downloads 66
mod_revealjs
Displays multimedia HTML5 presentations and slide shows in users' web browsers. A web friendly and more feature rich alternative to MS PowerPoint and PDF. However, presentations must be uploaded to moodledata via FTP and you'll need to learn some basic HTML to create presentations for it.
Latest release: 228 sites 57 downloads 65
mod_hotquestion
This plugin will help teachers to collect entries/posts from users in or out of a classroom.
Latest release: 895 sites 217 downloads 62
mod_exagames
The goal of this activity is to bring the aspect of game-based-learning into Moodle-courses.
The way the acitivity works is that two of our exagames are based upon quizzes given to students within a Moodle course (braingame and exaclick), one activity links games created with the OpenSource-platform gamelabs.at directly into Moodle courses. See readme.txt for further instructions.
Latest release: 363 sites 88 downloads 60
mod_stickynotes
Sticky Notes is a very simple activity for creating a sticky notes wall for your brainstormings, ranking...
It can be configured as a collaborative or individual activity, and teacher can choose to enable votes, repositioning of notes, limitation for notes and votes, set codes for 6 available background colors...
Notes can be moved by drag n drop to offer the most simple experience !
Latest release: 1294 sites 300 downloads 58
mod_newsletter
This is a newsletter module for moodle. First stable release. It provides the basic features of common newsletter tools. Using it with moodle VERP bounce processing is recommended. But we will add an additional bounce processing feature that will be easier to configure.
Latest release: 295 sites 104 downloads 55
mod_readaloud
ReadAloud measures reading speed and accuracy without creating extra work for teachers. AI auto-grading and robust HTML5 recording allows teachers to collect reading fluency data quickly and easily.
Latest release: 457 sites 298 downloads 54
mod_diary
Diary is a very advanced version of the Journal plugin. The most notable addition is the capability to make multiple, separate, entries per day, and do so on multiple days. This allows students to revise their writing while retaining the original version. The addition of statistics with auto rating for any min/max combination of characters, words, sentences, or paragraphs also helps to track revision progress of a students writing. The activity can be set to use multiple, time released, writing prompts with each one having it's own auto-rating settings. With the latest v3.7.5 release you can use completions for, View, Receive a grade, and Receive a passing grade.
Latest release: 994 sites 468 downloads 53
mod_ratingallocate
This Module lets you add an activity to courses, in which users can rate choices. You may then distribute the users fairly to the choices by maximizing overall 'happiness' in terms of ratings.
This may be an alternative to the choice activity or first-come-first-served.
Latest release: 612 sites 148 downloads 52
mod_mediagallery
This plugin allows instructors/teachers to create a space for students to submit "galleries". These galleries can be based on images, audio or video.
Latest release: 1472 sites 362 downloads 52
mod_collabora
This activity module provides a document editor for real-time collaboration. Changes to a document are immediately reflected for other users who are accessing the same document. Moodle users can collaborate on simple text files, word, spreadsheet and presentation documents or upload a document.
The plugin requires a self-hosted Collabora Online Server (CODE) that is accessed using the so-called WOPI protocol.
Latest release: 661 sites 197 downloads 51
mod_videoconference
This Video Conference edition integrates into Moodle as an activity module so video conference rooms can be added to courses as activities.
Latest release: 7 sites 25 downloads 49
mod_qcreate
The Question Creation Activity is a graded activity where students must create questions in the Moodle question bank. A teacher grades the questions.
The students get a grade for the questions they create.
Latest release: 77 sites 10 downloads 47
mod_skype
NOTE: Skype will be retired on May 5, 2025.
Skype activity plugin module implements a user listing and shows, Create Conference, Create Chat, Send Voicemail, Add Contact, and Send File links to any user who has entered a Skype ID into their profile.
Latest release: 799 sites 162 downloads 44
mod_description
The course description plugin is a resource which displays the course name and the course description on the course page (at the location where it is placed). It is a small but handy tool.
Latest release: 219 sites 86 downloads 42
mod_mplayer
Plays audio, video, and playlist files
Latest release: 161 sites 16 downloads 42
mod_tracker
Provides network capable, multi instance bindable user support / ticket management. Generalisable for use in course as managed todo list.
Latest release: 164 sites 172 downloads 41
mod_jazzquiz
JazzQuiz lets the teacher run a preplanned quiz, but with the power of improvisation. Several improvise questions are included, which lets you quickly run a multichoice or short answer question during the quiz. You can also start a vote on the students' responses. After the session, you can review the responses for each question (even repolls). You can also download reports for attendance or responses in CSV.
Latest release: 511 sites 161 downloads 40
mod_customlabel
Course elements is a content strategy to improve course writing quality and editorial stability by providing preshaped pedagogic elements. The integrator or administrator (through custom CSS rules) can take over the styling of the elements. Some elements can have local dynamic behaviour, or have an internal logic strategy based on other data of Moodle.
This plugin is supported by ActiveProLearn SAS.
Latest release: 172 sites 40 downloads 40
mod_stampcoll
The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment, similar concept to badges) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc.
Latest release: 148 sites 64 downloads 40
mod_turnitintooltwo
The Turnitin Direct V2 plugin is being replaced by the LTI 1.3 integration. The end of support date for the Turnitin Direct V2 plugin with Moodle is on December 31, 2026.
Latest release: 2305 sites 1k downloads 39
mod_reader
The Reader module for Moodle 2.x tracks the students' reading achievements.
Latest release: 188 sites 22 downloads 36
mod_wordcloud
With the wordcloud activity, it is possible to collect terms together with your course participants in a brainstorming process and to display them graphically in order of frequency. This can be used, for example, to capture a picture of the mood or to create a basis for a discussion.
Latest release: 492 sites 218 downloads 35
mod_quest
Activity for engaging the students into a game of questions (named as challenges). The students can be authors of challenges.
A competitive scoring scheme is used to foster motivation.
Latest release: 208 sites 50 downloads 35
mod_ivs
Encourage discussions with pinpointed video comments, add in-video questions or highlight important sections visually. Social Video Learning made easy with the Interactive Video Suite!
Latest release: 231 sites 105 downloads 34
mod_simplelesson
Simple Lesson has features in common with Book, Lesson and Quiz. It has been designed as a formative assessment tool. For summative assessment Quiz and Lesson have more features such as timing and access restrictions.
Latest release: 163 sites 36 downloads 33
mod_teambuilder
Developed by UNSW, this is an advanced tool for building teams based off a set of criteria. You ask your students some questions, and then develop a predicate based off their answers for your teams. This is great if you want a little more control than "Assign Randomly" but less work than "Manual Allocation".
Latest release: 67 sites 14 downloads 33
mod_pdfjsfolder
PDF.js Folder is a plugin intended to make sure that added PDFs always open in the browser.
Latest release: 87 sites 58 downloads 33