Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Help General plugins (Local) This plugin allows to manage a moodle based decentralized helpdesk with three support levels. It basically works with Moodle forums. The 1st level support works on course level, so you can create as many support courses as you like (in our case we have a bunch of schools in our Moodle, each school has its own support course). All 2nd and 3rd level support members get access to certain discussions in those forums, after the 1st level support forwarded an issue. Robert Schrenk 22
Unique Dashboard 🦄 General plugins (Local) Create customized dashboard with multi columns or tiled look for all employees or different ones for each departments! Veloxnet Ltd. 22
Shared Resources Center General plugins (Local) This additional component provides Moodle with a sote level Library front end, for exploring searching or browsing common pool of public resources, using a rich metadata based search engine. Valery Fremaux 22
Notify site administrators about new Email Signups General plugins (Local) This plugin sends an email notification message to the 'Support email' address every time a new Moodle user account is created via the 'Email signup' authentication plugin. The notification message contains some essential details about the account just created (email address, full name and user account name). The email is sent when the user signs up, not when the user account is confirmed. So the plugin will notify even about accounts that may never be confirmed. Iñaki Arenaza 22
Microsoft Word file Import/Export (Lesson) General plugins (Local) Import the contents of a Word file in '.docx' format file into a Lesson, splitting it into pages based on the "Heading 1" style. Also supports exporting lessons to Word format, for round-trip editing. Eoin Campbell 21
AI Connector General plugins (Local) The plugin that enables connection to AI services: ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion. This plugin allows the user to fill in all needed fields to make API calls and provides a test page to check if all connections work. Enovation Dev Team 21
Moodle PHPdoc check General plugins (Local) Tool for Moodle developers: allows to check phpdocs in the code for compliance with Moodle Coding Style. Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 21
Moodle App language strings General plugins (Local) This plugin is for translating the Moodle App language strings in AMOS only. (There is no point in installing it on your site.) Juan Leyva 21
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
Search Questions General plugins (Local) Adds text search to the question bank. Ray Morris 20
Flexible Menu 🤩 General plugins (Local) Remove and add menu items easily, customize Moodle menu with just a few clicks. Veloxnet Ltd. 20
Differentiator General plugins (Local) A tool to efficiently formulate and save learning goals based on the Differentiator by Ian Byrd. Learning goals are persisted for every user in your Moodle installation. Luca Bösch 20
Login splash page General plugins (Local) When presenting a login page that contains a form - many users will ignore all links on the page, and just enter their username/password into the form, forgetting they should use a "Login with Microsoft" or "Login via SAML" button on the page. This plugin provides a custom splash page that only shows the IDP/SSO buttons and (optionally) a link to the manual Moodle login form Dan Marsden 19
The augmented teacher General plugins (Local) The augmented teacher is a plugin that provides bulk e-mailing within courses using short codes such as users' first name, last name and course name. Tue Bjerl Nielsen 19
Question bank unused questions General plugins (Local) Extends the Moodle question bank to find questions which are / are not used in a quiz. Ray Morris 19
Learning Plan Auto-complete General plugins (Local) With this plugin installed, all learning plans will be marked as complete when all their competencies are completed by the user. Daniel Neis Araujo 18
Content security policy General plugins (Local) This plugin allows an admin to create a Custom Security Policy (CSP) in both reporting mode and enforcing mode. A simple use case is to detect and cleanup issues with non secure content after a migration from http to https, through to advanced policies to mitigate from XSS attacks. Catalyst IT 17
Boost course overview on campus General plugins (Local) Moodle plugin which adds support for filtering courses with block_course_overview_campus to the mycourses list in Boost's nav drawer Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. 17
Recycle bin General plugins (Local) This plugin adds a "recycle bin" for course modules to Moodle. Skylar Kelty 17
Badge Pool General plugins (Local) With this plugin you can create badge templates which can be used to simplify creating badges in all courses of your moodle system. Matthias Berlin (Schwabe) 17
Remote backup provider General plugins (Local) [SEEKING MAINTAINER] This local module allows you to restore a course from a remote Moodle instance into your current instance via a REST web service. The intended use case is quick restores from an archival Moodle instance into the current yearly instance. Charles Fulton 17
Purge question categories General plugins (Local) This plugin allows to delete question category with all questions and subcategories Vadim Dvorovenko 17
Cohorts in profile General plugins (Local) This plugin adds a section to the user profile with information about cohorts in which it is a member. Юрий Юринский 17
Boost Mega Menu (Bootstrap 4) General plugins (Local) Enhance Boost and Boostrap 4 compatible themes with a mega menu to display courses. NYIAJ dev 17
Google Analytics General plugins (Local) This plugin is replaced by the local_analytics plugin which can communicate with Google Analytics and Piwik! Bas Brands 17
Login as General plugins (Local) A local plugin that allows admin to add a list of loginas action links to the settings block. Itamar Tzadok 17
Feedback viewer General plugins (Local) The Feedback Viewer report displays the responses from all Feedback modules in a given course, filtered by user. Charles Fulton 16
Notify Cohorts General plugins (Local) Send custom notifications to members of selected cohorts Daniel Neis Araujo 16
moofactory Notifications General plugins (Local) moofactory-Notifications is a plugin that allows to send customized and personalized e-mails for course registrations, reminders for calendar events or non-connection. LMS Factory 16
QR Links General plugins (Local) QR code generator that provides a direct link to the page specified. When someone scans the generated QR code it will try to log them in via guest access to the specified link. Catalyst IT 16
Self cohort General plugins (Local) This plugins allow users to self register themselves as cohort members to a list of cohorts pre-selected by the site administrators. Daniel Neis Araujo 15
Checkboxes General plugins (Local) Changes activity completion information and buttons into checkboxes for Moodle 3.11 Bryce Yoder 15
Question Tracker General plugins (Local) Local Moodle plugin providing issue tracking for Moodle questions. André Storhaug 14
Old quiz and question attempts deletion General plugins (Local) Deletes old quiz and question attempts by scheduler task or by CLI command. Vadim Dvorovenko 14
Category Duplicate General plugins (Local) Local Plugin for duplicating a category and all it sub categories and courses to a new empty category. Usefull for new year creation. Yedidia Klein 13
Microsoft Word file Import/Export (Glossary) General plugins (Local) Import the contents of a Microsoft Word file (in '.docx' format) into a glossary, splitting it into terms based on the heading styles. The file can be from either Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. Also supports exporting glossaries to Word format, for round-trip editing. Eoin Campbell 13
Resort question categories General plugins (Local) This plugin allows to sort question categories and subcategories in alphabetical order. Vadim Dvorovenko 13
Create demo quiz General plugins (Local) Demonstration quiz is needed, for example, if you plan examination, and want to provide to students some quiz preview with same structure. Vadim Dvorovenko 13
Wiki export General plugins (Local) This plugin adds the ability to export Moodle wikis as either PDFs or epub documents. Davo Smith 13
Meta-course synchronization to groups General plugins (Local) [SEEKING MAINTAINER] Metasync creates and populates groups in a course based on the enrollment of metalinked courses. Willy Lee 13
Microsoft Account General plugins (Local) This plugin provides a simple client API for OAuth2-based authentication and token management for Microsoft Account. It also provides some helper functions for making REST API calls to services that use the Microsoft Account. Enovation Dev Team 13
List course files General plugins (Local) This extension allows teachers to view a list of all files in a course and to change the license for each file. It is also possible to download the files in a ZIP archive. Martin Gauk 13
Upload notification General plugins (Local) Students can receive mails for new material and a changelog will be generated for updated documents provided in the course. Hendrik Würz 13
eduMessenger General plugins (Local) eduMessenger is an instant messenger that's main purpose is connecting students and teachers in educational environments! eduMessenger uses Moodle as a background-tool to provide the messaging functionality to anyone who hosts their own Moodle instance as a basement for their groups and data. Robert Schrenk 12
Quick register General plugins (Local) This plugin provides a quick registration link with prefilled signup form data. C Blue 12
Remote course web service General plugins (Local) This local module provides a web service which returns a given user's courses based on username. Charles Fulton 12
Wunderbyte Table General plugins (Local) This plugin provides a huge enhancement of the table lib in Moodle. You can now use filtering, templates and different methods to display data in a clean and structured way easier than ever. This plugin is used combination with other plugins like mod_booking and should make life easier for Moodle developers. To have a quick demo install it and on your site go to /local/wunderbyte_table/demo.php David Bogner 12
Problem section General plugins (Local) Adds to the course a section where the teacher can submit a problem to groups of students and give them various collaboration tools to work together on a solution. Brice Errandonea 11
Compatibility Test General plugins (Local) This local plug-in provides the functionality to check the users browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari), Flash, Java, Quicktime and/or Silverlight version against a pre-set minimum version and notify the user that they are not meeting the sites minimum requirements. Chris Clark 11
CPD General plugins (Local) Allows Moodle users to log their CPD via their user profiles. Titus Development 11