Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
RecordingsBN Activities Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings Fred Dixon 41
Adobe Connect Activities Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro Tyler Bannister 41
Media Player Activities Plays audio, video, and playlist files Matt Bury 43
Debate Activities Debate is a moodle activity which allows students to debate in a given topic inside moodle. A K M SAFAT SHAHIN 43
Diary Activities 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. AL Rachels 44
HTML5 canvas sketch game Activities a Moodle activity for making html5 canvas sketches. Luuk Verhoeven 44
Skype Activities 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. AL Rachels 45
TaskChain Activities TaskChain activity module for Moodle 2.x Gordon Bateson 46
Question Creation Activity Activities 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. Jean-Michel Védrine 47
Pcast Activities Activity module to create podcasts in Moodle Stephen Bourget 48
Flash Card Set Activities Flashcards Valery Fremaux 48
Video Conference Activities This Video Conference edition integrates into Moodle as an activity module so video conference rooms can be added to courses as activities. Teodor Nica 49
Collabora - Collaborative document editing Activities 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. Learnweb – University of Münster 49
Mod Super Video Activities 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. Eduardo Kraus 50
Fair Allocation Activities 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. Learnweb – University of Münster 50
ReadAloud by Poodll Activities 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. Justin Hunt 51
Media collection Activities This plugin allows instructors/teachers to create a space for students to submit "galleries". These galleries can be based on images, audio or video. Adam Olley 52
MooTyper Activities MooTyper implements a typing practice/instruction functionality into Moodle. AL Rachels 52
Sticky Notes Activities 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 ! Olivier Valentin 52
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
Group self-selection Activities Lets students create and select groups. Roger Barras 53
Hot Question Activities This plugin will help teachers to collect entries/posts from users in or out of a classroom. AL Rachels 56
Exabis Games Activities 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. Andreas Riepl 57
xAPI Launch Link Activities Launch external xAPI (Tin Can) activities from Moodle and track on a Learning Record Store (LRS). Compatible with Storyline, Captivate, and others! David Pesce 57
Dialogue Activities Dialogue between two users Dan Marsden 58
WizIQ Virtual Classroom Plugin Activities 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. WizIQ Inc. 62
Grouptool Activities 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. AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation 63
Dataform Activities 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. Itamar Tzadok 64
Moodleoverflow Activities 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. Learnweb – University of Münster 65
Presentation Activities 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. Matt Bury 67
Signup Sheets Activities 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. The University of Nottingham 68
Pulse Activities Automated notifications and powerful completion logic for better course workflows Stefan Scholz 68
Learning map Activities 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. Mebis Lernplattform 68
Video Time Activities Embed videos from Vimeo and Youtube easily in your course, use activity completion to track videos and much more! Stefan Scholz 70
360° feedback Activities A simple 360° feedback activity plugin for Moodle. Jun Pataleta 76
HotPot Activities HotPot module for Moodle 2.x Gordon Bateson 76
Realtime Quiz Activities Face-to-face quiz with all students answering the questions at the same time. Davo Smith 77
Congrea Activities Modern virtual classroom with sharing / collaboration for your Screen, Audio, Webcam, whiteboard, documents, media with students, ask questions, bookmarks and notes with optional recording. Pinky Sharma 78
Google Meet™ for Moodle Activities 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. Rone Santos 78
PDF Annotation Activities 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. Bernd Decker 80
GeoGebra Activities This module allows the incorporation of GeoGebra activities in Moodle and save its state. Projectes TAC Dep. Educació Catalunya 83
Mindmap Activities Mindmap module for Moodle Tõnis Tartes 84
Unilabel Activities 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 Andreas Grabs 85
Adaptive Quiz: CAT (Computer-Adaptive Testing) implementation for Moodle Activities Create tests that efficiently measure users' abilities by adapting the questions difficulty to the estimation of user's ability. Adam Franco 85
Treasure Hunt Activities 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... Juan Pablo de Castro 86
Bootstrap Elements Activities Bootstrap Elements gives you the ability to add modal and toggles to your courses, helping to improve the layout of courses. Jez H 88
Journal Activities This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. Cosmin HERMAN 89
Reservation Activities This activity module permits to schedule an event with a defined reservation time. Roberto Pinna 90
Active quiz Activities 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! John Hoopes 95
Organizer Activities The Organizer enables students to register for appointments, which can be created by teachers. AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation 98