Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Recoil Themes This is a simple theme with fancy CSS styling. Featuring dark foreground elements with white backgrounds. Heavy use of drop shadows and some gradients to add a sleek and simplistic feel. Joseph Conradt 3
Dynamo Themes Dynamo is a 3 column theme for Moodle 2.4 (More versions soon to come). The theme features a textured header and background, with a banner for a custom logo to display. You can customize the colors and logo from the theme settings within Moodle. Joseph Conradt 3
SQL Buddy General plugins (Local) Integration of SQL Buddy for Moodle. Easy and secure MySQL database access and administration. Joseph Conradt 9
Moodlebook Themes Moodlebook is a three-column that emulates the look and feel of Facebook. Joseph Conradt 17
Kuet Activities Kuet introduces an innovative way to conduct interactive, engaging, and competitive voting sessions, quick responses, and gamified quizzes directly within your Moodle platform. It is an innovative gamified questionnaire module developed collaboratively by a consortium of 16 universities in Spain. This module is designed to make learning interactive, engaging, and competitive by incorporating various gamification elements into Moodle activities. UNIMOODLE Consortium 1
Groupfilter Excel spreadsheet Exports The 'Group filter XLS file' plugin allow you to export the grades of a course by filtering by groups, without the need to have set the course in 'Groups' mode. In addition, it allows you to indicate the user profile fields that you want to add in the export from the export page itself. The group name will also appear on the export sheet, whether it has been previously filtered or not. UNIMOODLE Consortium 2
Upload page activities completions Administration tool A tool to allow import of completion results for Page activities using a text delimited file. Lushonline Consulting 1
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
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
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
External content Activities The module enables a teacher to create a resource using the text editor. The resource can display text, images, sound, video and web links. Advantages of using the External content module rather than the standard page module is that optionally if the content links to an external site that records a completion status these can then be imported. Lushonline Consulting 14
Multiple Enrollments General plugins (Local) Plugin that provides single screen to enrol/unenrol multiple users and courses in just a few clicks. Livetek Software Consulting Services 20
Course Menu block Blocks The Course Menu block for Moodle provides navigation between course sections (topics/weeks) Alex Contis 23
Session Control Blocks The block allows to know the amount of time and the number of interactions of each user of the course during different types of period, days, weeks, months and complete courses Carlos Contreras 1
Surveypro Activities This module comes from the need to perform a very closely validated data collection to gather customized data. It allows the creation of custom survey assembling fields and format elements. Daniele Cordella 8
Group Members Blocks A block displaying all the group's participants in the group page. Martin Cornu-Mansuy 2
Forum Groups Blocks This blocks allows to display all active groups in the specified forum and the number of users in it. Martin Cornu-Mansuy 3
Enhanced Course overview Blocks This block will enhance my overview block and display courses in which a user is a teacher for example. Martin Cornu-Mansuy 4
RSS Thumbnail Blocks A block allowing to display a RSS feed as a caroussel Martin Cornu-Mansuy 6
Thumbnail links and action Blocks A block allowing to present some links as thumbnails and a Call to action button at the bottom of the block. Martin Cornu-Mansuy 7
Featured Courses Blocks Plugin allowing to put forward some courses and display them as thumbnails. Martin Cornu-Mansuy 12
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
YuJa Media Chooser General plugins (Local) Enables Moodle users to embed YuJa Enterprise Video Platform-hosted media content within Moodle Yuja Corp 1
Managexam results block Blocks Display Managexam results in a sidebar block Clément Costa 1
plugNmeet Activities Plug-N-Meet Open source web conferencing integration with Moodle Jibon Costa 26
Availability Block Game by level Availability restriction Restrict access to course content until students reach the required level in the Block Game. José Wilson da Costa 12
Grade overview Blocks The block provides an overview of student grades, based on the course grade report. This plugin allows the course teacher to select the activities that make up the evaluation group, which will be shown in the block! It allows different visions for monitoring the student and the teacher, where each one can follow the progress of carrying out the activities as well as the grades acquired. José Wilson da Costa 25
Block Game Blocks Block Game - An option to apply gamification to the Moodle platform. The purpose of the plugin is to apply gamification techniques to the moodle platform in a simple and uncomplicated way. José Wilson da Costa 67
Trail format Course formats Trail format was developed based on the Grid format plugin. He distributes the grids on a trail. Some features were designed to meet some aspects of gamification, being able to change the background style and transparency for grids. In addition to having the responsibility for mobile equipment. José Wilson da Costa 72
Bulk Email Administration tool This is an admin tool plugin for Moodle 3.9+ which adds an action to bulk user actions allowing you to send emails to a list of users. Darby Costello 22
Facility To Moodle 2 Blocks Supports Moodle 2.3 thru to 2.6. Fork of Guy Thomas' original Facility-to-Moodle block for 1.7-1.9 Marc Coyles 2
Parental Portal Blocks Supports Moodle 2.3 - 2.6, using YUI2in3. This plugin is a fork of the original MIS plugin for Moodle 1.9 by Guy Thomas / Alan Hardy. Marc Coyles 10
PlagiarismSearch Plagiarism PlagiarismSearch has been operating since 2008 as an in-demand solution even for the most exacting clients who seek multilayered check in numerous languages, utmost confidentiality of services, and continuous updates in functionality. Universities and content companies around the globe can make use of the customized services of plagiarism detection provided at the maximum level of professionalism. A free 30-day trial with 100 submissions is a great chance to test the service with no further commitments. Still, most of the clients pay for a full plagiarism search package after the trial month is over. Alex Crosby 3
Programmed responses Question types Question type which gets the question answer through a set of editable and non-native PHP functions. Useful for maths or statistics exercices which requires complex operations to get the answer. Gerard Cuello Adell 5
Graylog Logstore Log storage Logstore plugin for moodle to ship logs to graylog or other log backends which supports the GELF format. This plugin requires that you have a working Graylog/GELF compatible log management node. Graylog can be downloaded for free from graylog2.org. Transport protocols TCP and UDP are supported. Binoj D 2
Game Activities The game activity module makes use of questions, quizzes and glossaries to create offer a variety of interactive games. Vasilis Daloukas 308
Inactive identities filter Administration tool This Moodle plugin is designed to remove inactive identities. For now, two criteria are used for removal. Criteria are the time of inactivity and affiliation to the course. Boris Damjanovic 1
Supporter Administration tool Easily manage your users and courses within a single window without reloading whole pages. Look up users and courses, enrol students, change settings and much more. Technische Universität Darmstadt 42
My Notes Blocks A simpler mynotes system that integrates as moodle block to save user's notes from different areas such as site, course, modules, etc. gautam Das 23
Homework Blocks The Homework Block streamlines the process of managing homework activities by simplifying the way teachers set, track and mark their student’s homework. Homework Block not only provides benefits to teachers but also the students, school and parents too. Overnet Data 45
RSS Plus Blocks A slightly more visually appealing RSS News Feed block for Moodle 2.0+ Shaun Daubney 12
Aardvark Themes The original 'menubar' based theme for Moodle, evolved for the modern student. NO LONGER BEING DEVELOPED Shaun Daubney 300
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
Multiselect menu Custom field This plugin is a new multiselect profile inspired from the existing select customfield (customfield/field/select). Several choices can be selected using the usual multiselect form (autocomplete). Laurent David 7
Course Files Blocks This block provides information on the file usage on a given course. Andrew Davidson 13
Twitter Feed Blocks A block to show a twitter feed with markup that can be styled via themes. Andrew Davidson 16
Sketch TinyMCE Simple image "paint like" editor for new tinyMCE. Matthew Davidson 3
Site Outcomes report Reports Standard outcomes report. Matthew Davidson 4
Book chapter auto-linking Filters Autolink book chapters within a course. Matthew Davidson 11
Sketch TinyMCE (legacy) Simple image "paint like" editor for legacy tinymce. Matthew Davidson 11