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Favourite plugins
List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name | Plugin type | Short description | Lead maintainer | Favourited |
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Dialogue | Activities | Dialogue between two users | Dan Marsden | 58 |
Atto HTML editor | Text editor | Lightweight, accessible, fast, mobile friendly text editor. | Damyon Wiese | 58 |
User bulk enrolment | General plugins (Local) | Moodle plugin which provides the possibility to bulk enrol a list of users who are identified by their e-mail adresses into a course. | Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. | 58 |
Notifications | Blocks | Not always logged in, you want to be up to date about new content, discussions or events in your Moodle courses? This moodle block implements a solution that periodically notifies learners about new content or activities included into a Moodle course. This solution will act as a sentinel that detects whether new contents or new activities have been included into the Moodle course, and notify the learners and/or the instructors about that. Notifications methods are: e-mail message RSS aggregator SMS message There is also a version of this plugin for Moodle 1.9 that can be downloaded from the Website. | Goran Josic | 58 |
Restriction by cohort | Availability restriction | Moodle availability plugin which lets users restrict resources, activities and sections based on cohorts. | Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. | 57 |
User Suspension | Administration tool | The Sebsoft User Suspension Plugin offers you the possibility to automate the process of suspending users and/or removing user accounts (using moodle's default methods to delete users). | Sebsoft BV | 57 |
Exabis Games | Activities | The goal of this activity is to bring the aspect of game-based-learning into Moodle-courses. The way the acitivity works is that two of our exagames are based upon quizzes given to students within a Moodle course (braingame and exaclick), one activity links games created with the OpenSource-platform gamelabs.at directly into Moodle courses. See readme.txt for further instructions. | Andreas Riepl | 57 |
Essay (auto-grade) | Question types | Essay (auto-grade) for Moodle >= 3.0 | Gordon Bateson | 57 |
xAPI Launch Link | Activities | Launch external xAPI (Tin Can) activities from Moodle and track on a Learning Record Store (LRS). Compatible with Storyline, Captivate, and others! | David Pesce | 57 |
Inactive User Cleanup | Administration tool | The inactive user cleanup is a useful solution that deletes an inactive user's account automatically. Additionally, the solution sends users emails informing them before deleting their account. Thus, if a learner logs in before the account is deleted, he or she will not be removed from the system. | DualCube Team | 56 |
Hot Question | Activities | This plugin will help teachers to collect entries/posts from users in or out of a classroom. | AL Rachels | 56 |
Drag and drop into text | Question types | A drag and drop question type where missing words have to be dragged into gaps in a paragraph of text. | Tim Hunt | 56 |
Heatmap | Blocks | The Heatmap block overlays a heatmap onto a course to highlight activities with more or less activity to help teachers improve their courses. | Michael de Raadt | 55 |
MathType filter by WIRIS | Filters | Type and handwrite mathematical notation in Moodle with MathType, the world leading equation editor. | WIRIS team | 55 |
Sandbox | General plugins (Local) | Moodle plugin which programatically restores courses to predefined course states. It can be used to provide playground moodle courses which will be cleaned periodically. | Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. | 55 |
Exabis Competencies - Competence grids | Blocks | Transform Your Moodle Experience with Exabis Suite: Empower Learners through Competency-Based, Personalized, and Adaptive Learning. #Competence #PersonalizedLearning #AdaptiveLearning | Andreas Riepl | 55 |
Soft Course format | Course formats | Softcourse is a course format that display sections with only an image and an optional text on the course homepage. Users don’t see the detail of the section, for instance, resources or activities. | Clément Prudhomme | 55 |
Cohort members to group | Enrolment | Cohort to group sync for users already enrolled via different method. | David Mudrák | 54 |
Filtered course list | Blocks | The Filtered Course List block displays a configurable list of courses. It is intended as a replacement for the My Courses block, although both may be used. It is maintained by the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP). | Charles Fulton | 54 |
Learning Analytics Enriched Rubric | Grading methods | The Learning Analytics Enriched Rubric (LA e-Rubric) is an advanced grading method used for criteria-based assessment. | John Dimopoulos | 54 |
Group self-selection | Activities | Lets students create and select groups. | Roger Barras | 53 |
Message My Teacher | Blocks | This block allows configuration of roles to be considered "Teachers" of a course. The block will then display a list of these teachers for the current course in the block, with a link to message each one. | Mark Johnson | 53 |
Record audio/video question type | Question types | A manually graded Moodle question type, where the student records a short audio response to answer the question asked. | Tim Hunt | 53 |
Course ratings | Administration tool | Add ratings and reviews to the courses | Marina Glancy | 53 |
Checklist | Grading methods | Moodlerooms is proud to release the Checklist advanced grading method, an easy way for the user and teacher to view a list of criteria and the associated grade value for each criteria. | Open LMS Development | 53 |
Newsletter | Activities | This is a newsletter module for moodle. First stable release. It provides the basic features of common newsletter tools. Using it with moodle VERP bounce processing is recommended. But we will add an additional bounce processing feature that will be easier to configure. | David Bogner | 52 |
Restriction by relative date | Availability restriction | Restrict module and section access based on a relative date. | Renaat Debleu | 52 |
Archaius | Themes | Archaius is a moodle theme with several options to customize your Moodle | Daniel Munera | 52 |
Sticky Notes | Activities | Sticky Notes is a very simple activity for creating a sticky notes wall for your brainstormings, ranking... It can be configured as a collaborative or individual activity, and teacher can choose to enable votes, repositioning of notes, limitation for notes and votes, set codes for 6 available background colors... Notes can be moved by drag n drop to offer the most simple experience ! | Olivier Valentin | 52 |
Navbar Plus | General plugins (Local) | Moodle plugin which enhances the functionality of Moodle's page header navbar. | Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. | 52 |
Sign In Sheet - Attendance / Signature list generator | Blocks | This block is a simple way to generate attendance / signature lists for students in your course. | Kyle Goslin | 52 |
User key authentication | Authentication | Log in to Moodle using one time user key based login URL. Auth plugin for organising simple SSO (single sign on) between moodle and your external web application. | Catalyst IT | 52 |
Media collection | Activities | This plugin allows instructors/teachers to create a space for students to submit "galleries". These galleries can be based on images, audio or video. | Adam Olley | 52 |
Shortcodes | Filters | Allows users to inject and modify content using shortcodes provided by other plugins. | Frédéric Massart ⭐ | 52 |
MooTyper | Activities | MooTyper implements a typing practice/instruction functionality into Moodle. | AL Rachels | 52 |
Multiblock | Blocks | Using Multiblock you can collect all those blocks together and use 'one block's worth' of space and put all those blocks into the one space with one of several layouts, whether it's tabs or an accordion, or something else. Several preset layouts are bundled with Multiblock. | Catalyst IT | 52 |
Elegance | Themes | Elegance is a beautiful two column Moodle theme with robust functionality and lots of custom settings. | Bas Brands | 51 |
Grade distribution | Grade reports | The grade distribution visualizes the distribution of the participants' letter grades in the grades overview. Changes to letter grades can be visually analysed, saved and overwritten if necessary. | AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation | 51 |
Auto assign cohort (deprecated for local_cohortauto) | Authentication | This Authentication plugin automatically assigns users into cohorts based on information in their user profile fields. | Dan Marsden | 51 |
Cloze Editor | TinyMCE (legacy) | An interface that integrates with Moodle 3.x, 4.0 and 4.1 TinyMCE (legacy) editor to support teachers in creating CLOZE (Embedded answers) questions in the GIFT syntax. It will also read and edit existing CLOZE items. THIS PLUGIN WILL NOT WORK IN MOODLE 4.2 ONWARDS. For Moodle 4.1, 4.2 and newer branches please see https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_cloze | Andreas Glombitza | 51 |
Logstore xAPI | Log storage | Logstore_xapi is a logstore plugin that emits xAPI statements to a Learning Record Store (LRS). Please post all questions, comments, and issues to Github (https://github.com/xAPI-vle/moodle-logstore_xapi). | David Pesce | 51 |
Multi-Language Content | Atto | This plugin will make the creation of multilingual contents on Moodle much more easier with Atto editor. | Julen Pardo | 51 |
ReadAloud by Poodll | Activities | ReadAloud measures reading speed and accuracy without creating extra work for teachers. AI auto-grading and robust HTML5 recording allows teachers to collect reading fluency data quickly and easily. | Justin Hunt | 51 |
Mod Super Video | Activities | The Super Video Module and Kapture enhance the teaching experience on Moodle by providing optimized video viewing and efficient video lecture production, enriching the learning environment for both teachers and students. | Eduardo Kraus | 50 |
Checklist | Exports | This is a grade export plugin which will create an Excel spreadsheet containing all the checkmarks from a single checklist. | Davo Smith | 50 |
Legacy (Retired) Mootivated | General plugins (Local) | This plugin has been updated here: https://moodle.org/plugins/block_motrain | Frédéric Massart ⭐ | 50 |
Use template on course creation | General plugins (Local) | This local plugin allows site administrators to create "template" courses which will be restored into new courses on course creation. | Charles Fulton | 50 |
Fair Allocation | Activities | This Module lets you add an activity to courses, in which users can rate choices. You may then distribute the users fairly to the choices by maximizing overall 'happiness' in terms of ratings. This may be an alternative to the choice activity or first-come-first-served. | Learnweb – University of Münster | 50 |
oEmbed Filter | Filters | A filter that will swap hyperlinks pointing towards supported websites with an embedded version using code retrieved from the site using the oEmbed protocol. An option for "Lazy" loading of some sites is also available. | James McQuillan | 50 |
Upload enrolment methods | Administration tool | This plugin allows administrators add the "Course meta link" and "Cohort sync" enrolment methods to a range of courses from a CSV file, and specify the role for the methods participants. They can also delete, enable or disable existing enrolment methods in a course. | Eoin Campbell | 49 |