Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Simple Navigation Block Blocks This block provides a navigation as it is often used on standard websites. David Bogner 7
Lernstar Themes Full responsive theme (for desktop, tablet, smartphone) in different custom colors. David Bogner 7
Bookings overview Blocks This block provides an overview of all bookings made with the booking module. Depending on the rights in the different booking module instances the user can see his/her bookings only or bookings made by others sorting them by course or user. David Bogner 8
OpenDesktop Activities This combines Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop with BigBlueButton and is perfect for live online cooperation in real time. David Bogner 12
Wunderbyte Table General plugins (Local) This plugin provides a huge enhancement of the table lib in Moodle. You can now use filtering, templates and different methods to display data in a clean and structured way easier than ever. This plugin is used combination with other plugins like mod_booking and should make life easier for Moodle developers. To have a quick demo install it and on your site go to /local/wunderbyte_table/demo.php David Bogner 12
Datalynx Activities This Moodle plugin is a powerful data management tool that allows you to create digital workflows for data management. David Bogner 32
Newsletter Activities 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. David Bogner 52
Campus Themes Campus theme allows you to customize the look and feel of your moodle site as much as possible. It provides an elegant way for designing the header. It is fully responsive and optimised for MNET authentication and provides all common features of modern moodle themes such as slideshow, custom category design, social icons,... David Bogner 85
squared Themes The theme is generally based on squares. If you like squares, that is definately your first choice, if you do not like squares, you might consider it as well, because it looks really good ;-). David Bogner 135
Booking Activities The module is perfect for managing participants and subscription of online and offline courses and events. David Bogner 135
Halboo Themes This theme was created from the Decaf theme by Lei Zhang. So it has the features of this theme : AwesomeBar with administrative links and navigation, fluid theme 3 columns, ... Added new area for blocks, bootstrap, new styles, ... Alain Bolli 4
User-IP Mapping quiz access rule Quiz access rules This plugin allow us to restrict a user to attempt the quiz only from a pre-allocated location(e.g IP address). IIT Bombay 1
Auto activate quiz attempt button access rule Quiz access rules The “Activate Attempt” plugin makes the “Attempt quiz now” button auto-appear at quiz open timing without requiring to refresh the page. IIT Bombay 7
Quiz Filedownloader Quiz reports The filedownloader plugin lets you download files attached to questions within a quiz. The plugin lets you choose which questiontypes will be included in the download. Also it will create a textfile that cointains user and meta information for each downloaded file. Antonia Bonaccorso 7
Compile discussions Blocks This block will list all the forums and advanced forums in a course, in two drop-down menus. Selection of a forum from the menu will display all discussions in that forum, in nested layout, on a single page. This can be convenient for printing. Steve Bond 3
MCQ breakdown Quiz reports Provides a tabular breakdown of results for quizzes containing MCQs. Steve Bond 28
Adaptive for external grading Question behaviour question behaviour for questions that are automatically graded by a grading back-end, especially stores the grader feedback for display. Used for qtype_proforma. Karin Borm 1
ProFormA format Question formats converts ProFormA tasks into proforma programming quiz questions. This question format is needed by the question type ProFormA. Karin Borm 2
ProFormA Programming Question Type Question types Quiz question type for automatically graded programming questions. Questions can be created in Moodle or imported as ProFormA tasks (https://github.com/ProFormA/proformaxml). Plugin requires the qbehaviour_adaptiveexternalgrading plugin and ProFormA Praktomat (https://github.com/elearning-ostfalia/Proforma-Praktomat). Karin Borm 19
Birthday Blocks Shows birthdays Anthony Borrow 2
Verbal feedback Activities Verbal feedback allows structured feedback of student's presentations by one or several persons. Luca Bösch 19
Differentiator General plugins (Local) A tool to efficiently formulate and save learning goals based on the Differentiator by Ian Byrd. Learning goals are persisted for every user in your Moodle installation. Luca Bösch 20
Quiz archive report Quiz reports Moodle quiz report plugin to achieve archiving your test, by printing out all attempts at once. Luca Bösch 45
Solution sheet Assignment feedbacks Allows teachers to upload files with solutions to their assignment, which can be released to students manually or at a scheduled time. Henning Bostelmann 34
Scheduler Activities 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. Henning Bostelmann 190
User Information Block Blocks This block intends to give the user a few shortcuts in order to navigate quickly through every Moodle site. Besides it advices the user about unread messages and information about the last access to the LMS. It's already translated into spanish, english, portuguese and chinese. Federico Botti 7
Debug toolbar General plugins (Local) A plugin for developers that turns performance information into a toolbar. Julien Boulen 3
Links Blocks This block is allows a site administrator to display links to users based on specific user profile fields Stephen Bourget 24
Pcast Activities Activity module to create podcasts in Moodle Stephen Bourget 48
Markdown Filters This plugin parses Markdown syntax in text areas and labels using a filter. It is built on top of the Excellent Parsedown PHP library. Kevin Bowler 1
Mahara Local General plugins (Local) Extra Mahara MNet Functions. Required for the Mahara Assignment Submission and Mahara Assignment Feedback plugins (for Moodle 2.5 and earlier) Tony Box 4
Custom Course Menu Blocks A block to display enrolled courses in a highly configurable manner for both students and teachers. Tony Box 32
Manager Interactive Activities of iAssign Blocks This plugin is a block allowing access an area to the teachers' cooperation for manager interactive activities of iAssign. Leônidas Brandão 1
iAssign Filter Filters This plugin is a filter to incorporate any iLM (interactive Learning Modules) activities in any Moodle text. Leônidas Brandão 1
Insert interactive activity (iAssign) by TinyMCE editor TinyMCE (legacy) This plugin is a plugin for TinyMCE editor for insert any iLM (interactive Learning Modules) activities in any Moodle text. Leônidas Brandão 2
iAssign Activities iAssign (Interactive Assignment) package aims to enhance activities in Moodle, allowing the incorporation of "Interactive Learning Modules" (iLM) to Moodle. iAssign also provides: an area to teachers cooperate (Block); a filter to incorporate any iLM in any Moodle text (Filter); and a TinyMCE editor button (TinyMCE Plugin). Attention: in order to proper work, iAssign needs its associated packages - block, filter, and editor (please, get all of them). Leônidas Brandão 6
BOARD Themes BOARD is a beautiful one column theme for Moodle 3.0.X to brings a unified solution for access in desktop or mobile. This theme also features: (1) redesign of all the icons for resources and activities, (2) single pulldown menu in a mobile style and (3) customisation of logo and color. Rodrigo Brandão 1
Board Course formats "Board" (Grids and Blocks) is a course format in grid for Moodle 2.8 or later with full flexibility between sections and columns. You can choose quantity and width of columns and quantity of sections in each column. Rodrigo Brandão 64
Buttons Course formats Buttons is a course format that creates a menu with buttons to access the sections, one by one. Please favourite ♥! Rodrigo Brandão 242
slate Themes This is a bootswatch theme for the Bootstrap3 theme Bas Brands 4
cerulean Themes This is a bootswatch theme for Moodle 2.7 and Bootstrap3 Bas Brands 6
Linkedin Blocks This is the block that must be used in combination with the LinkedIn Auth plugin Bas Brands 6
Classic Themes Theme classic is a simple theme based on the Boost theme. It uses the 3 column grid and the navigation block and settings block. Bas Brands 6
Goodbye General plugins (Local) Allows self registred users to delete their account Bas Brands 9
Bootswatch Themes This is a child theme for Bootstrap3, it allows site administrators to select a Bootswatch. A Bootswatch is a sub-theme for Bootstrap based themes. The bootswatches used on this theme are created by Tomas Park, see http://bootswatch.com/. A Bootswatch contains the variables en settings for styling Bootstrap themes, they are easy to create and maintain. Bas Brands 11
Swipe Activities Get feedback on text, images and videos in a fun interactive way Bas Brands 12
LinkedinAuth Authentication This is the authentication part of the LinkedIn auth plugin. A Linkedin Block provides the user interface for this plugin Bas Brands 13
Google Analytics General plugins (Local) This plugin is replaced by the local_analytics plugin which can communicate with Google Analytics and Piwik! Bas Brands 17
Elegance Themes Elegance is a beautiful two column Moodle theme with robust functionality and lots of custom settings. Bas Brands 51
Bootstrap Themes This is a Moodle theme based on the Bootstrap CSS framework. It has minimal styling and can be used to create User Experience optimized themes Bas Brands 66