Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Enrollments And Transcripts Blocks This block displays the courses enrolled by the users with the enrolled date. This block also displays the course transcripts once the user completes the course with any of the course completion criteria. Note: This block need the "certificate" module to be installed to get the transcripts. Niranjan eAbyas 15
Variable numeric set with units Question types This question type can have randomly selected numbers, and the student's answer must include the correct unit. Unit grading is done using the pmatch algorithm. Tim Hunt 15
Course Category Finder Blocks Course Category Finder is an extended version of the Course Finder Block. An Option is added to enable the user to search for categories as well as the courses. Aditional search filter and sort filter is added to search courses by start date, end date, course format and completion criteria. Tobias Kutzner 15
Image optimization Administration tool Images compression/optimization on uploading or updating Moodle hooks Igor Sazonov 15
Azure Active Directory Authentication Allows authentication against Azure Active Directory or Office 365. Useful for EDU customers of Office 365. Must be used with the block_azuread plugin Girish Bablani 15
Freehand drawing (ETH) Question types Free-Hand drawing question type. It is SVG based, and comes in two modes: simple mode and advanced mode. Teachers can annotate on student drawings by drawing over them. ETH Zürich 15
Jmol Filters Jmol/JSmol filter for embedding interactive 3D chemical structures. Geoffrey Rowland 15
Rocket.Chat Activities This plugin allows teachers to keep synchronized users enrolled in a Moodle course into a dedicated Rocket.Chat private channel. Céline Perves 15
Eduplayer Activities Html5/flash player for both video and audio media with sharing and download capabilities Humanage SRL 15
Dropdown dynamic menu User profile fields Dynamic menu user profile field for moodle Now users can create user menu fields whose values are retrieved from the moodle DB. Antonello Moro 15
TCPDF Fonts Administration tool TCPDF Fonts Manager for Moodle Rogier van Dongen 15
Interactive with explanation Question behaviour This behaviour is like the interactive with multiple attempts behaviour , but with an additional text box where students can give a reason why they gave the answer they did. Marcus Green 15
Restriction by dataform content Availability restriction The Dataform content availability condition allows teachers to restrict user access to an activity or section based on content of a designated Dataform instance in the course. Requires: mod_dataform plugin. Itamar Tzadok 15
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
Legacy (Retired) Motrain block Blocks This plugin has been updated here: https://moodle.org/plugins/block_motrain Frédéric Massart ⭐ 15
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
LinkedIn certificates Activity Activities This plugin allows you to create certificates that can be automatically linked to a linkedin account. C Blue 15
Capability explorer Administration tool An admin tool designed to help Moodle administrators understand how Moodle's capability system works. Simon Coggins 15
Speed Test Administration tool This is a network speed tester for embedding directly inside your moodle. Catalyst IT 15
Site news Blocks Display site news in full scale at my startpage. Jan Eberhardt 15
Cloze question editor TinyMCE Make it easy for users to create cloze question types via the TinyMCE editor. Stephan Robotta 14
YouTube PoodLL Widget / Generico A simple YouTube video viewer. Poodll Guy 14
A Virtual Classroom Plugin: WizIQ Blocks WizIQ’s Live Class web conferencing module enables Moodle users to schedule and deliver online classes using the WizIQ Virtual Classroom. This web based virtual classroom is equipped with real-time collaboration tools like, live chat, audio and live video streams for up to 6 people, whiteboard, screen and content sharing (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx, .swf, .flv and YouTube videos). Besides, administrators can download attendance reports, and students with permissions can view/download class recordings. After downloading the plugin, the administrator need to register on http://www.WizIQ.com/moodle/ or write to support@wiziq.com to get the customer key. WizIQ Inc. 14
RegExp Adaptive mode with Help Question behaviour This plugin is one of the 2 question behaviours to be used exclusively with the regexp question type. Those behaviours enable you to take advantage of the *Help* feature, which allows the student to "buy" a letter. Joseph Rézeau 14
Google Adsense block Blocks This plugin is no longer maintained, and will receive no future support. An updated version of Gennaro Varriale's Google Adsense block to work with Moodle 2.x. It allows the easy creation and display of Google Adsense blocks within Moodle. Marcus Green 14
Course module competency rating Administration tool The main goal of this plugin is to allow ratings in course module competency. Issam Taboubi 14
Download essay submissions Quiz reports Moodle Quiz Report Plugin for downloading essay submissions. Kashmira Nagwekar 14
Final countdown Blocks Countdown Moodle plugin / block Yevhen Matasar 14
Standard Fluid Themes Standard Fluid consists of a simple CSS File and extends the 'standard' theme to a fluid template. Web ICT ZHAW 14
DisCourse Activities The DisCourse activity offers the possibility to conduct group discussions in a multi-step procedure. coactum Entwickler 14
MiniLesson Activities Poodll MiniLesson combines several language learning activities into a simple, self-guided online lesson. It is designed to be a simple, interactive lesson for students, and easy for teachers to create and deliver. Justin Hunt 14
Wikipedia Blocks The Wikipedia block is a Moodle block to search in Wikipedia. Ralf Krause 14
Webinar Activities Enables web conferencing between Moodle and Adobe Connect to be added as an activity to any course. Joe Barber 14
Module completion tracker Reports The report_modulecompletion plugin is an essential tool for Moodle users who want to monitor the progress of their students. This plugin is designed to track the progression of students in all of their courses for a given period. The plugin is particularly useful for teachers and other educators who need to keep track of student progress and identify areas where students may be struggling. Sébastien Viallemonteil 14
EJSApp Booking System Activities This plugin lets you add a javascript-based booking system to handle the connections to the remote laboratories developed using EjsS and added to your Moodle courses by means of the ejsapp plugin. Ruben Heradio 14
Participation credit Workshop evaluation plugins Simple grading evaluation method that gives credit to peer-reviewers just for their participation in the activity without comparing their assessment with the others. David Mudrák 14
Amazon S3 bucket Repositories S3 folder (bucket) repository. Renaat Debleu 14
OneNote block Blocks This plugin provides a container for the Microsoft Account signin button and also Microsoft OneNote related action buttons. Enovation Dev Team 14
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
Report Blocks Display custom reports created with the 'Report Builder' anywhere in Moodle to enhance learning management. Moodle Workplace 14
Profile Field Identifier Blocks A plugin to prompt users to fill their optional & custom profile fields. 3i Logic LMS 14
Heartbeat check (eg Nagios / Icinga) Administration tool A load balancer heartbeat / health checker url, and also a configurable nagios compliant cron health checker. This should work out of the box with most load balancers, eg Amazon ELB, F5, HA proxy etc as most of these simply check the http status for 200 or non-200 response codes. Catalyst IT 14
Common Courses Blocks This block lists any courses you have in common (i.e. you are both enrolled in) with the user whose profile you are viewing. Sergio Comerón 14
Clipboard Blocks The Clipboard block enables you to duplicate activities and resources across your courses via the block. Tomonori Maruyama 14
Badge Awarder Blocks This block allows teachers to quickly and simply award badges in a given course by processing a CSV file upload. Karen Holland 14
Boost Learning Themes Boost Learning is a modern theme with icons of Material Design, and with configurable header. Eduardo Kraus 14
Advanced Grading report Reports Report on assignments that have been graded using the advanced grading methods, Rubric or Marking Guide. Shows a breakdown of the grades and comments. Covers similar ground to https://github.com/pauln/moodle-report_componentgrades The Rubric and Marking Guide breakdown reports can be reached from the course page by clicking on an assignment and selecting from this menu. The menu option shown will depend on the grading method of the assignment. Marcus Green 14
Cloud Poodll for Atto - audio and video recording Atto An audio and video recorder for Moodle. The recordings are stored in the cloud and can be automatically subtitled . Administrators can choose from recorder skins, and use Moodle capabilities to control the display of icons. Cloud Poodll for Atto is not dependent on any other plugin. Cloud Poodll for Atto is not dependent on any other plugins. Justin Hunt 14
Geolocation condition Availability restriction This adds the availability condition by gps coordinates to sections and course modules. This plugin requires the block_gps plugin to work. Robert Schrenk 14
Visitor Counter Blocks Displays a visitor counter in a block. David Herney 14