Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
command line manager Administration tool admin/tool/cmdlinetools : Command line tools for moodle technical administration cmdlinetools is a command line tools integrated in moodle that enable execute moodle administrative task threw php command lines Céline Perves 3
Email utilities Administration tool This plugin is intended to become a place for a suite of semi related email utilities to help improve the security, scalability, and performance of emails. Catalyst IT 3
Course Summary Overwrite Administration tool Overwrites the course summaries for every course in a particular category. Colin Perepelken 3
S3 Log Archiver Administration tool This plugin will take entries from the Moodle standard log store table and export them to AWS S3. Catalyst IT 3
Asynchronous course import Administration tool This is a Moodle admin/tool plugin that imports a big number of courses from a CSV file using asynchronous scheduled tasks to avoid any browser's timeout errors. Matthieu Cornut 3
A/B config Administration tool A way to A/B test config, or slowly turn on config for certain audiences or % of traffic. Catalyst IT 3
Upload external content completions Administration tool Provides a bulk upload tool to load completions results for Moodle Courses that consist of a single External Content Activity, the information is loaded from a Text Delimited File Lushonline Consulting 3
Legacy files migration Administration tool This plugin is designed in order to migrate legacy course files to private files area for a choosen user Céline Perves 3
GDPR Policies plus Administration tool The aim of this plugin is to enhance the tool_policy plugin on the specific issue of user acceptation and later modification of the policy acceptance through the "cookie" banner. Laurent David 4
Language pack dropper Administration tool Moodle admin tool to download and update language packs which are not located / maintained in AMOS. Moodle Partner lern.link 4
Rebuild Course Cache Administration tool Moodle admin tool to rebuild the course cache for all courses. Alex Rowe 4
Merge PDF Files Administration tool The ‘Merge PDF Files’ plugin offers the user a convenient way by which they can merge the files (only PDF documents) in a Moodle course. Kashmira Nagwekar 4
Oauth2 token unlink event Administration tool The following plugin allows you to remove emails from linking accounts in moodle with oauth2 services, useful in cases where the linking message was never delivered and the entry is blocked with the user's account, allowing administrator this linking process to be performed again. Jonathan Lopez 4
Command line environment check Administration tool Replicates the Moodle environment check but for the command line. Useful for checking dependencies where you might not (yet) have web access. Howard Miller 5
Blocks Manager Administration tool An admin tool that allows you to control a block layout across units. Catalyst IT 5
Direct SSO Entrypoint Administration tool Moodle admin tool which provides an entrypoint that can be used as persistent URL where external websites can redirect users directly to the Moodle SSO mechanisms without ever showing the login page to the user and especially without the need that the user clicks on a SSO button on the login page. Moodle Partner lern.link 5
OpenSesame Connector Administration tool The OpenSesame Connector (tool_opensesame) is a course integration tool providing the ability to automatically create and configure Opensesame courses within Moodle. It also contains all of the main settings required to integrate with OpenSesame content. Abbie Jones 5
Custom fields for learning plan templates Administration tool This plugins allows to create custom fields for learning plan templates, just like what we have for courses. Daniel Neis Araujo 6
Mentor external database Administration tool This plugin syncs parent/mentor relationships using an external database table Michael Vangelovski 6
modedit Administration tool Provides edit and delete links to all activities and resources on a page. This is useful if there's some content that has broken the page layout. Mark Sharp 6
Upload external content courses Administration tool Provides a bulk upload tool to create Moodle Courses that consist of a single External Content Activity, the information is loaded from a Text Delimited File Lushonline Consulting 6
admin tool for block "Restore courses from remote Moodles" Administration tool admin tool to manage scheduled task of block_my_external_backup_restore_courses plugin my_external_backup_restore_courses_admin is admin tool plugin that enable to manage scheduled task of block_my_external_backup_restore_courses plugin Céline Perves 6
Password Validator Administration tool A tool for enforcing various security standards and guidelines for passwords for Moodle. This plugin aims for compliance with the Australian Information Security Manual (currently May 2019), and above that, the NIST standards from the document 800-63B. Many of the controls are optional and user configurable, with the most safe values set by default, but allow for great customization for any configuration, while enforcing safe, sensible guidelines for passwords. This password checks also include securely testing for potentially compromised passwords using: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Catalyst IT 7
Security Questions Administration tool This plugin adds a framework for adding and enforcing security questions for users to perform a password reset. Currently it only operates on the Moodle Core 'Forgot Password' page, however it is easily extensible to other forms. NOTE: This plugin only has native compatability with Moodle 3.8. For Moodle 3.7, MDL-66173 must be cherry-picked to allow the plugin to interact with Moodle. See Readme for more detailed instructions Catalyst IT 7
Power users generator Administration tool This generator uses the Marvel API to generate users from your favorite characters in your Moodle instance. David Carrillo 7
Redirects Administration tool A very simple plugin which allows admin to set redirects based on url. Redirects can be from existing Moodle pages like from one course to another, or they can be 'vanity' urls from non existing urls into a page inside Moodle. Catalyst IT 7
Excimer profiler Administration tool This is a Moodle admin plugin that provides developers with insights into not only what pages in your site are slow, but why. It uses the the Excimer sampling php profiler to so. Catalyst IT 7
Health center Administration tool The health center is a tool for detecting miscellaneous problems on your site. Moodle HQ 8
Manage all RSS feeds Administration tool This admin tool allows managers to view all RSS feeds on a Moodle site. It shows who owns the feed, which courses have the feed exposed via an RSS block, and gives the manager the option to globally delete the feed. Charles Fulton 8
Upload Single Page Courses Administration tool This admin tool will bulk create course with a single Page activity from a text delimted file. Lushonline Consulting 8
Adhoc Task Manager Administration tool Adhoc task management interface for Moodle 2.7+. Skylar Kelty 8
Environment Ribbons Administration tool This plugin allows you to set ribbons in the 4 corners of your site, displaying either static text, or dynamic text driven from a script. Conn Warwicker 8
Upload block settings Administration tool This plugin allows administrators to upload a CSV file containing block settings for courses. You can add or delete blocks, so the tool enables you to apply a default set of blocks for some or all courses on a site. You can also reset the set of course blocks to the default for that course format. Eoin Campbell 8
Bulk Change User Profile Fields Administration tool This plugins adds a bulk action to change user custom profile fields. Daniel Neis Araujo 9
Dynamic cohort manager Administration tool A plugin to dynamically manage cohorts. It can add and remove users from cohorts based on rules, which themselves are composed of conditions. Catalyst IT 9
Delete Messages Administration tool Moodle never delete messages from message table. This plugin enables you to set a maximum time to messages stay in user box before auto delete them. It also enables the purge old messagens from database and erase messages of old conversations. Esdras Caleb Oliveira Silva 9
MoodleDT - Development Tools Plugins for Moodle Administration tool This plugin is a set of tools to assist in developing plugins in Moodle. Luciano Oliveira Borges 9
APCu management Administration tool Moodle plugin which adds a PHP APCu management GUI to Moodle site administration. Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. 9
Generate custom CSS for Moodle Mobile Administration tool A plugin to help override the default colors for Moodle Mobile and manage other custom CSS. It walks you through picking out replacement colors and adding other custom CSS, then generates a file for you to set as your mobile CSS. Alison of Sheesania 9
Content translation manager (superseded) Administration tool The Content translation filter provided a way to quickly translate the content of Moodle courses into different languages. It has now been superseded by a new, improved plugin set. Please now use the new plugin as it maintains translations when the original language content is updated and has many other improvements, but works largely the same way than this plugin did! it's coming soon to the Moodle plugins database, but available now on github: https://github.com/andrewhancox/moodle-filter_translations Moodle HQ 10
Date watcher Administration tool The Datewatch plugin allows other Moodle plugins to execute a callback every time some date occurs. Moodle Workplace 10
Ally Administration tool Ally webservices plugin Anthology Ally 10
Cohort synchronization Administration tool This plugin allows the synchronization of cohorts and members in cohorts from the command line. There are 2 scripts CLI to do the synchronization: cohortsync.php, cohortmembersync.php Issam Taboubi 11
Cohort based additional html settings. Administration tool Allows additionalhtml settings to be applied based on the users site-level cohorts Catalyst IT 12
Import competency framework from RDF Administration tool This is an importer for XML/RDF formatted curriculum files from the achievement standards network. Damyon Wiese 13
HTML Bootstrap Editor (Tool) Administration tool The HTML Bootstrap editor RECIT makes it possible to create a much more attractive and ergonomic layout. Gustavo Bazzo 13
Reset MyMoodle Administration tool This tool allows reset all MyMoodle Users except main admin. Is for admins. Carlos Escobedo 13
Opencast API Administration tool This tool provides API functions as well as general settings for the different opencast tools (e.g. block_opencast, filter_opencast, repository_opencast) and is required by them. The tool stores the relation between courses and series ids and offers webservice endpoints for the opencast role provider. Learnweb – University of Münster 13
Database Navigation Administration tool Database Navigation (tool_navdb) is a database browsing plugin for Moodle. This plugin is designed especially for Moodle's DB structure and adds some practical tools. Some improvements are virtual foreign keys links, and contextual dropdown menus depending on the table, bookmarked table list and an interactive SQL filter editor. Ferran Recio Calderó 13
Advanced spam cleaner Administration tool Advanced Spam Cleaner tool for Moodle Ankit Agarwal 13