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 (29)
Different types of assignments
Different forms of assignment submissions (Moodle 2.3 onward)
Different forms of assignment feedbacks (Moodle 2.3 onward)
Assignment types (8)
Different forms of assignments to be graded by teachers (Moodle 2.2 and earlier - /mod/assignment)
Database (4)
Plugins for the database activity module
Database fields (2)
Databases can be extended with new field types
Database presets (2)
Database settings, templates etc can be saved as presets
Workshop (3)
Workshop has a number of plugin types
Change how grading is allocated
Change how grades are evauated
Grading forms for workshop
Quiz (104)
Ways to extend quizzes
Quiz reports (6)
Quiz reports show results and statistics
Question types (65)
New types of questions
Question formats (10)
Question formats for import/export
Question behaviour (14)
We question your behaviour!
Plugins for controlling access to quizzes
SCORM (1)
New reports for SCORM
Book (4)
The book activity that is in core. It can have sub-plugins.
Book tools (4)
sub-plugins for the book activity module
LTI (0)
Integration with external tools via IMS Learning Tool Interoperability standard.
LTI sources (0)
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.
LTI services (0)
Allow the implementation of LTI services as described by the IMS LTI specification.
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.
3895 sites
3k downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 5:37 PM
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.
265 sites
235 downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 16 September 2016, 7:29 AM
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.
2400 sites
2k downloads
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Latest release: Sunday, 11 June 2017, 7:04 AM
mod_offlinequiz
The MC Offline quiz module (mod/offlinequiz) adds paper-and-pencil multiple-choice quizzes to Moodle. In offline quizzes students mark answers to questions on a sheet of paper (the answer form).
852 sites
939 downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 14 April 2017, 5:21 PM
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.
1076 sites
633 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 5:55 PM
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!
643 sites
665 downloads
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Latest release: Sunday, 15 January 2017, 3:07 AM
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.
2539 sites
1k downloads
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Latest release: Monday, 26 June 2017, 4:35 AM
mod_bootstrapelements
Bootstrap Elements gives you the ability to add modal and toggles to your courses, helping to improve the layout of courses.
499 sites
167 downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 9 January 2015, 6:36 PM
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.
492 sites
513 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 3:48 PM
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.
3411 sites
2k downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 7 July 2017, 10:15 AM
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.
353 sites
404 downloads
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Latest release: Saturday, 13 May 2017, 3:36 AM
mod_subcourse
The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units.
811 sites
364 downloads
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Latest release: Saturday, 10 December 2016, 7:10 AM
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.
1903 sites
1k downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 12 May 2017, 7:13 PM
mod_wiziq
WizIQ’s virtual classroom module enables Moodle users to create an interactive online learning environment. Using it you can schedule, administer and deliver real-time online classes from your Moodle website.
781 sites
904 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 6:04 PM
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.
893 sites
238 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 6:16 PM
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.
996 sites
1k downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 15 June 2017, 12:03 AM
mod_accredible
This enables you to issue dynamic, digital certificates and open badges and Blockchain credentials on your Moodle instance. They act as a replacement for the PDF certificates normally generated for your courses.
173 sites
499 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 8 June 2017, 4:45 PM
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.
676 sites
334 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 12 May 2016, 4:46 AM
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.
739 sites
715 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 9:51 AM
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.
332 sites
329 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 8:22 AM
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.
353 sites
227 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 10 January 2017, 7:37 PM
mod_mplayer
Plays audio, video, and playlist files
305 sites
505 downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 17 March 2017, 4:34 PM
mod_videoconference
This Video Conference edition integrates into Moodle as an activity module so video conference rooms can be added to courses as activities.
45 sites
150 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 4:39 PM
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 maximising overall 'hapiness' in terms of ratings.
This may be an alternative to the choice activity or first-come-first-served.
146 sites
183 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 5:41 PM
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.
230 sites
52 downloads
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Latest release: Sunday, 24 January 2016, 5:26 PM
mod_skype
Skype Activity Module
For moodle 1.9- download can be found here: http://download.moodle.org/download.php/plugins/mod/skype.zip
For all other versions: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=mod_skype
467 sites
312 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 7 September 2016, 3:28 PM
mod_virtualclass
Kindly use Congrea plugin. This plugin is now obsolete.
62 sites
34 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 3 December 2015, 6:54 PM
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 Edunao.
311 sites
219 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 16 March 2017, 6:24 AM
mod_pdfjsfolder
PDF.js Folder is a plugin intended to make sure that added PDFs always open in the browser.
75 sites
89 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 8:22 PM
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.
57 sites
55 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 28 December 2016, 11:51 AM
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".
97 sites
100 downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 19 May 2017, 8:35 PM
mod_tracker
Provides network capable, multi instance bindable user support / ticket management. Generalisable for use in course as managed todo list.
401 sites
209 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 7:05 PM
mod_courseboard
- quick and uncomplicated way to tell what bothers him/her about teacher/student/course
- teacher can have a quick summary how his course is seen from the students perspective
- teacher can answer questions
- students can trade informations, help with little problem
74 sites
25 downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 15 January 2016, 9:39 PM
mod_turnitintooltwo
Turnitin's Moodle Direct v2 integration activity module is a standalone Moodle module with the aim of representing the full suite of Turnitin's features within the standard Moodle workflow. The module is an upgrade on the previous Turnitin plugin and is developed and maintained by Turnitin.
1582 sites
1k downloads
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Latest release: Monday, 3 July 2017, 7:38 PM
mod_grouptool
The grouptool module (mod/grouptool) enhances the functionality of Moodle default groups. Two of the additional features are the possibility for students to enrol themselves in groups with waiting lists, and the transfer of grades within groups.
112 sites
148 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 9:11 PM
mod_languagelab
This is a new version (v3) of what used to be MoodLL.
Basically, this replaces the traditional cassette tape language lab. There is a module for students to record themselves and teachers to review and grade the work. This version also includes a class monitor. So, if a teacher uses it inside the classroom, he/she can monitor student progress the same way they used the traditional language lab by listening to live streams of the students, responding live to students, giving a thumbs up and so on.
123 sites
40 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 27 November 2014, 5:30 AM
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.
71 sites
66 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 4:03 PM
mod_tab
The tab display module allows you to setup your information in a tabbed format. This helps to clean up your course by combining several resources into Tabs.
570 sites
147 downloads
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Latest release: Saturday, 23 January 2016, 7:59 AM
mod_ejsappbooking
This plugin lets you add a javascript-based booking system to handle the connections to the remote laboratories developed using EJS and added to your Moodle courses by means of the ejsapp plugin.
57 sites
149 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 5:18 AM
mod_congrea
Vidya.IO's Congrea lets you collaborate in real time during online delivery of classes and training sessions. It lets you share your Screen, Audio, Webcam, whiteboard with students.
140 sites
90 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 4 August 2016, 2:52 PM
mod_ejsapp
This plugin lets you add any Java or Javascript application (typically virtual and/or remote experiments) created with Easy Java(script) Simulations (EJS) to your Moodle course.
219 sites
480 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 6 July 2017, 8:56 PM
mod_groupformation
Formation of optimized learning groups - by topic preference or best match of individuals' charatceristics and preferences; in one easy to use Moodle acticity; languages available: German, English
61 sites
148 downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 26 May 2017, 6:33 PM
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.
196 sites
120 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 22 December 2016, 4:16 AM
mod_advmindmap
This is a modification of the original Mindmap module for moodle formerly found on ekpenso.com.
This Advance Mindmap module allows you to create mindmapping activity in moodle.
Added features include:
- Every user now have a separate mindmap in one single activity, with links to view others' mindmap.
- Dummy group mode: multiple mindmaps with simple group name that everyone can view and edit (for group mindmapping without having to setup groups in the course)
- Lock mindmap: prevent editing of mindmap when someone is editing it during group mindmapping
Currently, it is not backward compatible with Moodle 1.9x, please install it on Moodle 2.x only.
648 sites
156 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 2:41 PM
mod_moodecgrpmanagement
This activity is heavily based on the " Group choice" activity module, and behaves roughly like it. Making a choice enrols you in a group, changing your choice unenrols you from the precedent group and enrols you in the new one, and so on.
This activity allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course. The teacher can choose from which groups the students can chose, and the maximum nummber of students allowed in each group.
The students can view the members of each group before making a choice, and (if the teacher allows it) change their selected group until the deadline. They can alswo create their own public or private group protected with a key. Other student can contact the group creator for asking the registration Key.
Each group creator can add informations about his group a description, a video or an image. A map with the group's members location will also be display in a group Detail page.
31 sites
158 downloads
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Latest release: Friday, 19 May 2017, 10:08 PM
mod_ipal
This Moodle module (/mod/ipal/) allows Moodle to support in-class polling/"clickers"/"Peer Instruction"/concept quizzes/anonymous surveys/etc.
Students can respond using any web-enabled device or the free IPAL App we have written for both the Android and iOS smartphones.
Teachers can create questions, use questions from the standard question bank, or import ConcepTest provided by Harvard Physics Professor Mazur.
177 sites
129 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 6:05 AM
mod_collaborate
Moodle integration plugin for Blackboard Collaborate with Ultra experience. Use of this plugin requires a Blackboard Collaborate license.
199 sites
251 downloads
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Latest release: Thursday, 12 January 2017, 9:36 AM
mod_sharedresource
Shared resource provides Moodle with a full featured central resource repository handling full indexing with LOM based metadata schemas. Central library front end and search engine.
207 sites
51 downloads
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Latest release: Sunday, 17 April 2016, 10:38 PM
mod_registration
Teachers can create some examination dates. They define date, time, and place of the examination. Furthermore they define maximum number of students and maximum number of points. After the registration date, they define the points for each student. These can be printed with or without student names. Each student can register/unregister only himself/herself.
88 sites
42 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 4:33 PM
mod_studentquiz
StudentQuiz enables students to collaboratively create their own question pools within Moodle, Students can filter these questions into quizzes, and they can rate and comment on questions while working through the quizzes. StudentQuiz collects usage data for each question and ranks students based on their number of created questions and correct answers. Please also see the accompanying question behaviour plugin --> https://moodle.org/plugins/qbehaviour_studentquiz.
64 sites
213 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 3:37 PM
mod_allocationform
The Allocation form module is designed to allow instructors of a course to create slots that the students can sign themselves up to.
20 sites
9 downloads
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Latest release: Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 9:39 PM
mod_videochat
This 2 Way Video Chat edition integrates into Moodle as an activity module so private video chat rooms can be added to courses as activities, in example for evaluating students.
23 sites
38 downloads
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Latest release: Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 4:34 PM