Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
OfficeGrader Project Activities The OfficeGrader Project provides a way for students to use a Moodle site to submit Microsoft Excel/Word/PPT/Access documents for automated grading by the commercial OfficeGrader application suite (www.officegrader.com). The OG Project plugin also retrieves grades from the OfficeGrader grading server and posts them to the Moodle site. NOTE: NOT CURRENTLY BEING SUPPORTED Sarah Street 5
MEDIAL Video Streaming Activity Activities This Moodle video plugin allows Teachers / Lecturers to upload video or audio files using a specific MEDIAL Activity, creating a link to the file on the course page. MEDIAL Streaming 24
MEDIAL Video Assignment Submission Plugin Assignment submissions This Moodle video plugin allows Teachers and Students to create and respond to Video Assignments that are uploaded and cataloged in MEDIAL rather than Moodle itself. MEDIAL Streaming 8
MEDIAL Atto Editor Atto In order for the MEDIAL Video Assignment Activity to launch from the text editor you must install this Atto 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 7
MEDIAL Video Feedback Plugin Assignment feedbacks This plugin allows Teachers / Lecturers to give video or audio feedback to assignments that have been submitted using the MEDIAL Video Assignment Plugin MEDIAL Streaming 6
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
MEDIAL Filter Filters Converts MEDIAL links into embedded videos where content has been added using the Atto button in any activity where iframes are normally filtered out for security reasons. By default this is configured for student submissions via forums or workshops. However, it is possible to configure this for any activity where similar security restrictions apply. For a guide on installing and configuring the Filters plugin please see the following URL: https://medial-help.force.com/support/s/article/How-to-Set-up-Filters-in-Moodle MEDIAL Streaming 1
ShortMath Question types A question type for writing beautiful mathematical expressions using MathQuill. This question type is an extension of the shortanswer question type. André Storhaug 29
Question Tracker General plugins (Local) Local Moodle plugin providing issue tracking for Moodle questions. André Storhaug 14
Question Tracker Blocks Moodle Question Tracker Block plugin. André Storhaug 7
Proctoring for Moodle Quiz access rules Proctoring for Moodle is a quizaccess plugin to capture the user's picture via webcam to identify who is attempting the Moodle Quiz. It will capture the picture automatically every 30 seconds and store it as a PNG image. Brain Station 23 85
QR Code Atto Moodle Atto QR-Code is an Atto sub-plugin to easily create and integrate QR Code to Moodle Atto editor. Brain Station 23 11
Sharing Atto Moodle Atto Sharing is an Atto sub-plugin to easily create and integrate the Social Sharing button to Moodle Atto editor. Brain Station 23 6
Invigilator Quiz access rules Moodle Invigilator is a Moodle Quiz Access Plugin to capture the user's screenshot (entire display surface including tabs) to detect if the user is using unfair means during the Quiz. It will capture the screenshot automatically every 30 seconds and store it as a PNG image Brain Station 23 1
WebGL Activities Moodle webGL game activity plugin with Azure blob storage and AWS s3 webGL content upload. Brain Station 23 1
SSLCOMMERZ Payment Gateway Enrolment SSLCOMMERZ is a Moodle enrollment plugin based on the SSLCOMMERZ payment gateway that helps students to pay for courses with Bangladeshi currency. It supports all Bangladeshi Banks and online mobile transactions. Brain Station 23 1
Dashboard Chart Blocks Dashboard Chart plugin is a block plugin in moodle. This Plugin helps to generate different types of charts such as pie charts, line charts, horizontal bars, vertical bars. Users can choose the chart value and select the data limit to customizing their charts accordingly. The value of the chart will be displayed based on the data limit that has been set. Brain Station 23 1
Ezee Constellate - Reporting Dashboard Blocks Ezee Constellate is a reporting dashboard for Moodle. We have designed it to make Moodle reporting smarter and faster by extracting vital compliance data analytics into a single dashboard that shows up on your home screen. Constellate offers a visually pleasing Moodle reporting dashboard that is user friendly allows managers an at-a-glance view of their staff. John Stainsby 1
Vimeo Embed Filter Filters A shortcode-style embed code for Vimeo embedding that uses server-side code to choose whether to use iframe or object based embed code to ensure better compatibility with older versions of IE and newer tablets. tim st.clair 8
Public files Blocks A clone of the internal private_files block that is at the system rather than user context. Files added to this block are available everywhere the block is visible (to all logged on users). tim st.clair 5
Dark Blue 2.0 Themes A three column theme with a settings page that allows the user to change theme colors, etc. John St 16
MyMobile Themes myMobile is a theme for Moodle 2+ that is customized and optimized for smart phones and tablets. It is based on jquerymobile. For a device support grid, please visit the jquerymobile website (http://jquerymobile.com/). John St 13
SimpleSpace Themes This is a three column flexible width theme. John St 3
fadeback Themes A two column theme with a settings page to change logo and link color. From Newschool Learning John St 3
Solstice Themes An update to 2.1+ to the classic Moodle 1.X theme Solstice. John St 2
cover Themes A two column theme with a header that can be minimized and is sticky. From Newschool Learning. John St 2
newsie Themes A two column moodle2 theme from NewSchoolLearning. Features a horizontal submenu with the custom menu. Best used when custom menu items are only one level deep. John St 2
liven Themes A two column theme with a custom login page. Custom menu should be enabled in order to display user info in header. From Newschool Learning. John St 1
Eduplayer Activities Html5/flash player for both video and audio media with sharing and download capabilities Humanage SRL 15
Short Answer Similarity Question types A short answer similarity question type that allows a students written response answer to be automatically marked, using a multi-sentence similarity calculator. Yash Srivastava 10
Activity track Blocks This block show the total no. of activities pending and completed in percentage and number in a course where course completion is activated. Swati Sra 9
Coursework Activities The Coursework Activity has been written to provide a way to receive coursework and have it marked without teachers knowing which student the work belongs to. Multiple markers are also supported where a final grade can be agreed based on several options. It does not replace the standard assignment activity and is intended to work alongside it. Special thanks to Plymouth University, Royal Veterinary College and London School of Tropical Medicine for funding parts of the development and documentation. Alistair Spark 1
Youtube_Page_background PoodLL Widget / Generico This is a Generico filter to add a YouTube video as a BACKGROUND to a Moodle Course. It allows a user to easily add the video and simple details to the course without blocking out the exiting resources. Vernon Spain 15
pagebackground PoodLL Widget / Generico This a page background image for Moodle that allows you to "brand" a Moodle page with a background image in the standard Boost/Classic themes(not tested in others). Vernon Spain 5
Headerlogo PoodLL Widget / Generico Page Header Logo for Generico This Generico preset allows a user to add a logo to the course page header in the standard Boost theme. Vernon Spain 3
mojeID Authentication This is the authentication plugin for LMS Moodle which allows users to login/create account into the Moodle using the authority mojeID. (https://www.mojeid.cz/) Libor Soška 2
Inno Ed Tools General plugins (Local) The plugin is allowing you to collect statistics standard tag that is used to refer to the blog entry on each course and display the results in a report. You can also export it as a pdf file. It also has a feature to convert url links to QR code while export to gain direct access to specified link from a smart phone or other device. Noawanit Songkram 4
OpenMeetings Activities OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone and/or webcam, share documents on a white board, discuss in a chat, share your screen or record meetings. It is available as hosted service or you download and install a package on your own server. Maxim Solodovnik 108
Adaptable News Slider Blocks Part of the Adaptable UI set, this block allows you to add a news slider that displays: 1: Unread course announcements (from all enrolled courses) 2: Site announcements (front page news announcements) 3: Both of the above (combined course and site announcements) The slider uses the jQuery slick slider and whilst designed to work with the Adaptable Theme, it *may* work with other themes. Manoj Solanki 32
Course slider Blocks A simple course slider block that displays a chosen list of courses in a carousel. Manoj Solanki 30
Course discuss Blocks This block allows discussion on a section page, page or book chapter activity. Add this block to a block region that appears on a page of this type, to allow comments to be posted. Manoj Solanki 18
Course Status Blocks A block to clearly display and control visibility of a course from the course page (show / hide). Manoj Solanki 16
Discussion Feed Blocks This block aggregates and displays the latest discussions from all forums for all courses a user is enrolled on. It is possible to reply to posts when the block is displayed in the dashboard. On a course page, the block allows a user to reply to posts as well as create new discussions for a forum. Manoj Solanki 12
Assignment Overview Blocks A dashboard block to display a list of assignments and their status for the user. Manoj Solanki 1
SEMCO for Moodle Shop Solutions Enrolment Make your Moodle offerings accessible and bookable directly from your corporate website, all while ensuring seamless payment processing. With our plug-in seamlessly integrated with SEMCO, experience complete automation from online course booking to enrollment in Moodle, streamlining your entire process effortlessly. SEMCO Software Engineering GmbH 1
Remaining Lesson Timer Blocks Block for displaying the elapsed and remaining time in a timed lesson Greg Smith 13
Checklist Activities A checklist can be created by a teacher (or generated from the activities in a course) and then the students or teachers can check-off each item as they are completed. Davo Smith 199
Realtime Quiz Activities Face-to-face quiz with all students answering the questions at the same time. Davo Smith 77
Checklist Blocks This is a block which works with the checklist module and displays progress bars for a single checklist. Davo Smith 71
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