Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
WordPress Feed Blocks Plugin allows to show last posts from external WordPress website via WordPress REST API v1/v2. A lot of settings and skins support. Igor Sazonov 15
Web service template General plugins (Local) Template for creating new web services john saylor 11
McGraw-Hill AAIRS Blocks The MH AAIRS block is a Moodle integration with McGraw Hill's MH Campus and other educational tools and services. Sameer Sawant 4
Get User Cohort General plugins (Local) This plugin can be used to retrieve the cohorts of a given user in Moodle by providing the USER ID Christos Savva 5
sara Other tools This plugin to make integration with fedena mannagement system so the user that created in fedena will be created automaticly in moodle sara saranabil 1
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
Content Pages Activities The plugin for Moodle (Content pages), was designed so that from it, tutors, teachers and technicians can add content in courses, following usability and accessibility standards. This tool will be responsible for signaling the good practice of adding text, images, multimedia, among others. In it, the content will be distributed in pages, so that the monitoring of the content does not become something exhausting and tiring. The plugin also has a bookmark, so that the participant can be located, based on last logged furthermore allow the inclusion of public or private notes, which the participant can provide feedback on the content studied on the page and enjoy and reply comments from other colleagues. Léo Renis Santos 171
My Progress Blocks This block displays the user completion progress in a course. It is also possible to enable/disable the course, group, and cohort progression average. So, students can compare their performance with the others. Luiggi Sansonetti 14
MindMap Format Course formats Mindmap Course Format allows Moodle users using courses through interactive, personalized mindmap. Additionally, it provides features unavailable in standard Moodle, which are: graphical presentation of conditional dependencies and distinction of modules where student have problems (and which are near deadline). Łukasz Sanokowski 59
MindMap Course Blocks MindMap Course block development is now continued as MindMap format: https://moodle.org/plugins/view/format_mindmap Łukasz Sanokowski 7
STACK Question types The STACK question type adds a sophisticated assessment in mathematics and related disciplines, with emphasis on formative assessment underpinned by computer algebra. Christopher Sangwin 95
STACK response analysis Quiz reports A legacy report on the outcomes of any STACK questions in a quiz. (Not currently maintained) Christopher Sangwin 5
STACK 2.0 format Question formats This format imports questions saved from STACK 2 servers. Christopher Sangwin 1
Global Chat Blocks Global chat for Moodle. With this plugin teachers and students can communicate in real time through Moodle. Bruno Sampaio 35
Cubic Themes Cubic is a new theme for Moodle 2.3. Its objective is to provide users with a more user-friendly interface, which provides several forms of social awareness and some new concepts. Bruno Sampaio 9
Applications General plugins (Local) This local plugin introduces the application concept into Moodle, allowing users to add, edit, remove, or access external applications without leaving Moodle. Bruno Sampaio 9
Institutions General plugins (Local) This local plugin introduces the intitutions concept into Moodle. Bruno Sampaio 9
Applications list Blocks This block is dependent of another local plugin (https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=local_applications) that allows users to manage applications and access them without leaving Moodle. This block list all the favorite applications of a user and allows him to add new applications or access the applications management page. Bruno Sampaio 2
Content Curation by Anders Pink Blocks Easily curate, control and display relevant external content on any topic, right alongside your programmes and courses. Content can be updated automatically every few hours, or you can manually curate and decide which articles to display. You choose the keywords, sites and sources for any topic. We’ll return the latest and most relevant content to support learners and help them stay smart. Free version available. Full customisation requires purchase of API key. For more information see: https://anderspink.com/moodle-plugin Jake Salmon 11
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
YU Kaltura Media Gallery General plugins (Local) Media gallery plugin for third-party's non-KAF "YU Kaltura Media Package" Tomoya Saito 3
YU Kaltura Media Local Libraries General plugins (Local) Local libraries plugin for third-party's non-KAF "YU Kaltura Media Package" Tomoya Saito 2
YU Kaltura Media Assignment Activities Media Assignment plugin for third-party's non-KAF "YU Kaltura Media Package" Tomoya Saito 2
YU Kaltura Media Resource Activities Media Resource plugin for third-party's non-KAF "YU Kaltura Media Package" Tomoya Saito 1
Algolia Search engines This plugin provides Algolia integration for Moodle's Global Search. Algolia is a hosted Search as a Service provider making it easy for websites to integrate search without any need to install/maintain additional servers. It currently offers a free plan with 10k records and 100k API calls per month. Prateek Sachan 1
Quickmail Blocks A block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses. Developed by LSU. Robert Russo 115
Administrative Email Blocks A Moodle block that allows administrators to selectively email groups of users from within Moodle Robert Russo 10
BabelRoom Activities Babelroom integration module for moodle. This is a moodle activity module for creating, deleting and joining Babelroom conferences. John Roy 1
HTML Bootstrap Editor (deprecated version) Atto The HTML Bootstrap editor RECIT makes it possible to create a much more attractive and ergonomic layout. Étienne Roy 46
RECIT Autolink Filters This filter aims to integrate several types of parameters into the course, like an activity icon, activity completion, link to H5P, link to a section, so on. It also allows you to take advantage of Moodle's database and create a more personalized experience. Étienne Roy 13
Formula with steps RÉCIT Question types This question type is derived from the Formulas question. It allows you to generate a problem containing random variables or a table of values. It allows students to easily upload a photo of their mathematical approach. Étienne Roy 11
RÉCIT autolink Atto This Atto plugin makes easier to use the "moodle-filter_recitautolink". Étienne Roy 10
RÉCIT Apprentimètre General plugins (Local) The Apprentimetre is a Moodle plugin that presents Moodle data in a way that makes it easy to follow up on students and classroom management. Étienne Roy 2
Chemistry editor Atto Edit chemistry equations in Moodle 2.7, or later, using the mhchem extension to the MathJax or TeX filter. Useful for full and ionic equations, isotopes, equilibrium reactions, thermochemistry and reaction kinetics. Includes a periodic table of element symbols. Geoffrey Rowland 37
Jmol Filters Jmol/JSmol filter for embedding interactive 3D chemical structures. Geoffrey Rowland 15
Computer science editor Atto Computer science equation editor plugin for Moodle 2.7, or later, using either the TeX or MathJax filter. Designed for UK A Level (post-16) Computing and Computer Science curriculum, but can be easily customised for other levels or content. Geoffrey Rowland 12
Matrix editor Atto Moodle Atto Editor plugin for TeX/MathJax Matrices and Arrays. Geoffrey Rowland 7
Config Log Emailer General plugins (Local) This plugin sends an email to a specified user after it has detected a config setting was changed when running cron. The to and from email addresses can be changed in the settings page. Alex Rowe 6
Rebuild Course Cache Administration tool Moodle admin tool to rebuild the course cache for all courses. Alex Rowe 4
Eduteams: Task oriented groups block Blocks A Moodle block to groupings users depending of the task to do. The formed groups has diversity in gender, personality and intelligence. Bruno Rosell i Gui 4
Flex Quiz Activities Create quizzes where the number of questions and repetitions adapt to student performances. Standard quizzes can be taken to define the initial question pool. Andreas Roschal 16
Grades chart Assignment feedbacks A simple Moodle assign feedback plugin, allowing students to check how other students handled a given task by presenting their grades on a chart. Kacper Rokicki 6
Course files General plugins (Local) A simple Moodle local plugin that allows students and other course participants to view, filter and download the course files that are available to them. Kacper Rokicki 6
Choices export General plugins (Local) A simple Moodle local plugin that allows teachers to overview all Choice activities in a course, check the response rate and export all Choices along with their students' answers to a text file. Kacper Rokicki 2
OpenBiblio Block Blocks Connector for OpenBiblio library software: shows a numbered list of borrowed books and due dates in a Moodle block and a link to the OpenBiblio OPAC page. koen roggemans 3
Virtual Programming Lab Activities VPL is an activity module to manage programming assignments Juan Carlos Rodríguez-del-Pino 157
Tiny Font Color TinyMCE The Tiny Font Color provides two toolbar buttons and menu entries to set different text and background colors. Stephan Robotta 25
Cloze question editor TinyMCE Make it easy for users to create cloze question types via the TinyMCE editor. Stephan Robotta 14
Multi-Language Content (v2) TinyMCE This plugin will make the creation of multilingual contents on Moodle much more easier with TinyMCE editor. Stephan Robotta 11
Tiny HTML Blocks TinyMCE A plugin for the TinyMCE editor to insert predefined HTML blocks when editing a text in Moodle. This enables users that are not so experienced in HTML still use predefined snippets in places containing text. The idea is to have Moodle courses designed in an appealing way and only using the WYSIWYG mode of the editor. Also the courses and other places look more alike and preserve a certain corporate identity using the same snippets. Stephan Robotta 6