Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Birthday Blocks Shows birthdays Anthony Borrow 2
Static text User profile fields This plugins allows to add static text to user profiles. Daniel Neis Araujo 2
YU Kaltura Media Local Libraries General plugins (Local) Local libraries plugin for third-party's non-KAF "YU Kaltura Media Package" Tomoya Saito 2
Gold, Silver, and Bronze (GSB) Medals Blocks **PLUGIN NO LONGER MAINTAINED** The GSB set allows automatic medal awards for Moodle courses based upon a defined benchmark criteria of activities and resources. The set consists of a report which allows the criteria to be benchmarked and a block to publicise the award to the teacher(s). R H 2
Mutant Banjo Themes A Bootstrap based theme that facilitates quick change of 'colour swatch' and font through the employment of graphical sliders. Gareth J Barnard 2
Hatsize Lab Activity Module Activities This activity module allows you to access Hatsize virtula training labs from within Moodle Hatsize Learning 2
Teams Meeting (TinyMCE editor) TinyMCE Microsoft Teams Meetings App for Learning Management Systems (LMS) integration into Moodle as the TinyMCE plugin. This plugin allows to create the meeting and automatically insert the meeting link into the editor content. Lai Wei 2
ALiSe CAT Quiz General plugins (Local) The plugin local_catquiz implements full Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) capabilities in Moodle. Using common one-dimensional Item Response Theory (IRT) models, test takers are presented only with questions that fall within their identified ability range, based on the answers they give. Magdalena Holczik 2
External zip utility Other tools Allows Moodle to use the command-line zip utility (/usr/bin/zip) instead of the PHP ZipArchive library. Aaron Wells 2
card2brain Activities With the SSO module for card2brain you can directly link your sets of flashcards. If you have a card2brain corporate account you can enable SSO authentication. With SSO enabled, your users can directly access the flashcards without login or register on card2brain.ch. webapps.ch smart engineering 2
Shibboleth Link Authentication This is an extension to the normal shibboleth authentication plugin and allows users to decide if they want to have a new account created based on their shibboleth login, or if they want to link the shibboleth-login to an existing account. Robert Schrenk 2
MySmark EDU Blocks MySmark EDU is a platform for the analysis of student satisfaction through emotional tagging. It allows students to leave feedbacks on Moodle events using MySmark's emotional tags (www,mysmark.com). Fabio Alessandrelli 2
Core Patchs Reports Scans the whole code base and searches marked patches in Moodle code. Valery Fremaux 2
vmatching Question types Vertical Matching Ravi Vare 2
Ephorus Plagiarism plugin Plagiarism Please see https://moodle.org/plugins/plagiarism_turnitin for further information. Ephorus Integrations 2
Discourse SSO General plugins (Local) This plugin enables your Moodle installation to act as a SSO provider for the Discourse discussion platform. John Azinheira 2
Music Scale Question types This question type deals with musical scales and may be useful for music theory instruction. The respondent is given a key and tonic, and is prompted to enter a scale. A question bank is included, including all major and minor scales, with and without a key signature. Answers are entered in a graphical user interface. Jay Huber 2
Filter stackview Filters This filter converts mod_stackview `[[stackview 3]]` shortcode to an embeddable widget (iframe). Luuk Verhoeven (Avetica) 2
Feedback Manager General plugins (Local) An extension to the question engine that allows for creating, sharing, assigning, and sending feedback to questions used throughout Moodle. This local plugin is the library for other plugins to provide an interface where questions are used (e.g quiz report). Nick Koeppen 2
Learning Outcome Wizard Blocks Used to suggest activities in Moodle to be added to courses. Anthony Franzi 2
Classroom Video On Demand Media Filter Filters Transforms Classroom Video on Demand content URLs generated by the Classroom Video repository plugin into the product's embedded media player. Supports full video, video segments, custom content, and web channels. Requires installation and use of the Classroom Video on Demand repository plugin. Chris Plapp 2
Learning Outcome Sequence List Blocks The sequence list used to approve sequences for use in the Wizard Anthony Franzi 2
Generico for TinyMCE TinyMCE A companion for Poodll's Generico filter. It makes available a select button, and a form for each Generico filter template from a popup dialog on the TinyMCE editor Justin Hunt 2
Via recordings Blocks The Via Block can only be used if you have the Via activity module. This block creates shortcuts to the Via activitiy recordings that have been shared within the course. SVI eSolutions 2
XML-RPC protocol Web service protocols Integrate Moodle with other systems using the XML-RPC protocol. Moodle HQ 2
Dompdf library General plugins (Local) Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. It is intended to be used as a library by other plugins. Darko Miletić 2
Web Service Get Contexts General plugins (Local) It is a web service designed to return contexts providing context level and instance ID. It includes a simple example. Francois J 2
my mentors Blocks Shows a students mentors/parents with profile picture, messaging link, and online status. Nathan Robbins 2
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
OSS Enrolment Enrolment Enrolment to manage groups, classes, teachers, students and parents infrastructure for an open school server (oss). Frank Schütte 2
VL eBooks Blocks This block offers customers using the Moodle VLE a seamless login to VLeBooks and can be added to a Moodle homepage or course. The Moodle block will display the VleBooks logo and the text 'Click to log in'. When clicked the block will build a validated url to call and seamlessly log in to VLeBooks. Andreas Wagner 2
iScholar Moodle Synchronization Administration tool The iScholar Moodle Synchronization is a Moodle plugin aimed to connect iScholar systems with Moodle. This plugin is focused on sync teacher and student data in iScholar with Moodle. iScholar Gestão Escolar 2
Repositório SWORD Upload Repositories Plugin to upload lerning objects to DSpace and link it in Moodle Marcelo Schmitt 2
Ask4Summary Blocks Ask4Summary is question and answer service for Moodle plugins. It will attempt to scan course activities for their sentence content, and compare them to user questions to produce a response. Mohammed Saleh 2
MEDIAL TinyMCE Editor TinyMCE (legacy) In order for the MEDIAL Video Assignment Activity to launch from the text editor you must install this TinyMCE Plugin. MEDIAL Video Assignment Activity allows Teachers and Students to create and respond to Video Assignments that are uploaded and cataloged in MEDIAL (a video streaming media library) rather than Moodle itself MEDIAL Streaming 2
Selfenrollment plugin seat availability status Blocks Selfenrollment plugin seat availability status block. Jitendra Gaur 2
ClickView Integration (Local) General plugins (Local) The ClickView settings plugin for Moodle enables you to configure and setup ClickView in Moodle. Shale Kuzmanovsk 2
edu-sharing Atto Plugin Atto The edu-sharing atto plugin adds the option to embed all kinds of edu-sharing content to all WYSIWYG fields. The new button will open the edu-sharing search engine and let you pick an item embed. Audio and video-files will be embedded with a player. Documents will be represented by a link. You may pick which version of the content you would like to provide in the course (always the latest vs. the version you just picked) Christian Ernst 2
Leeloo LXP Latest Blog Entry Blocks Highlight your Content Marketing Articles! Ludovic LEBLEU 2
Inscription by open badges General plugins (Local) Ibob and Ibobenrol add a new enrolment method in courses, subject to the possession of a particular open badges. It is a duo of plugins enabling users to enrol in courses via their Open Badges. frederic grebot 2
Aardvark Post-It Themes Aardvark Post-IT theme has been temporarily removed. Sorry for the inconvenience. Mary Evans 3
GuestQuiz Activities Guest Quiz is a Moodle activity that allow guest students to make simple and light quiz. The quiz is created from a subset of GIFT format. And Nothing from student activity in quiz is recorded. It's nothing more than old-style questions book where the answers are at the bottom of the page upside down. Dominique Palumbo 3
Moodle App link Filter for Atto Atto Atto plugin which makes it easier to apply the Moodle App link filter to some content. Dani Palou 3
TurtleStitch submissions Assignment submissions Add to your Moodle assignments the ability to include TurtleStitch projects Joan Guillén 3
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
Crot Pro Plagiarism Checker Plagiarism Crotpro is a connector to FREE plagiarism detection service. -At the moment search is being performed on English Wikipedia only. As studies show about 10% of plagiarisd papers coming from Wikipedia. Crot Software is planning to extend the search scope in the nearest future. -There is a limitation of 10 free checkups per month. Refer to the README file for more details on the service. Please note that service is on the BETA testing stage. Crotsoftware Team 3
Banners Blocks Allow community upload of graphic banners for display into an animated carousel block Iain Checkland 3
My mentees Blocks This block is a feature-rich version of the core Mentees block. Nathan Robbins 3
ConTag Blocks ConTag allows a teacher to easily tag Moodle items with concepts, that the student can then use to browse the items. A student can use this to focus on concepts that they are interested in. Developed by the Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group (http://www.ictg.canterbury.ac.nz/) Myse Elmadani 3
FN - My Menu (Simple Navigation Block) Blocks A simple navigation block for use as an alternative to default navigation block. After install, don't forget to hide the default Navigation block from students (but not teachers/course admins) Fern Oliveira 3