Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
National Education Network Resources Database presets This database contains links to around 50 of the UK's National Education Network's websites. Each entry has a description and fields for the relevant subject and key stage area. All of these fields are searchable; allowing teachers to search for relevant NEN resources quickly and easily. Jon Witts 3
Red Drop Down Menus Themes Theme developed for the National Training Federation Wales. Jon Witts 1
Simplest Themes The Simplest Moodle Theme - Moodle Classic child theme. LMS with AI 7
Python LMSwithAI machine learning backend Machine learning backends The Machine learning with Python plugin uses Moodle's Python-based machine learning solution. With this plugin you gain access to the predictions processor " Python LMSwithAI machine learning backend ", which allows you to perform machine learning operations in the Python environment without having to install the environment locally. LMS with AI 1
Teaching Assistant Block Blocks Open AI powered Teaching Assistant chatbot that understands your content. David Wipperfurth 5
meetzi-room Activities This plugin lets you create meetzi conference rooms for your moodle course Stefan Winterholler 4
Soundcloud Repositories Link to SoundCloud streams Troy Williams 6
Soundcloud Filters Replace SoundCloud URLs with the default wave player. Troy Williams 2
Repository File Manager Blocks This block contains a Moodle 2+ re-write of the Moodle 1.x file manager. Tim Williams 25
AutoView Presenter Activities Lecture capture system, supporting synchronised slides and subtitles with a web editing interface. Tim Williams 13
Course File Area Repositories Course file storage repository for Moodle 2, which replicates the Moodle 1.x course files functionality. Tim Williams 8
Jump To Navigation Blocks Adds a Moodle 1.x style "Jump To" menu to Moodle 2.x Tim Williams 7
MoodleMobile Text Messages Notifications The MoodleMobille messaging outputs plugin allows PageOne/JanetTXT subscribers to send standard moodle notifications via text message. Tim Williams 6
Amazon Associates Block Blocks This is a simple block which allows you to put amazon associates links into your moodle using either keywords or ISBN numbers. Tim Williams 2
Vulnerable Password Authentication This Moodle plugin attempts to check HIBP's list of exposed passwords. Enabling your learners to be informed if their password has ever been involved in a data breach. Josh Willcock 3
Clear Lessons Video Activities The ability to add videos from the Clear Lessons platform to a course. Josh Willcock 2
Abintegro General plugins (Local) Auth Token Authentication and Automatic Login For Moodle Users Into Abintegro Josh Willcock 1
IPA Filters The Moodle IPA Filter displays X-SAMPA as unicode IPA. The intent is to offer an easy and fast way to display the International Phonetic Alphabet in Moodle. Kevin Wiliarty 11
WordPress authentication Authentication WordPress OAuth 1.0a three legged authentication for Moodle 3.1+ Ian Wild 21
Wavefront Renderer Activities A Moodle activity that allows learners to upload and view 3D models in a gallery, as well as viewing individual models in augmented reality on supported devices. Supports both Wavefront .OBJ format models, together with .MTL material textures, and COLLADA .DAE digital asset exchange files. Models can also be displayed anywhere in Moodle that supports filtering by installing the filter_wavefront plugin (available separately). Ian Wild 16
Enhanced Choice Activities Based upon the Choice activity, an Enhanced Choice enables a teacher to ask a single question and offer a selection of possible media rich responses (instead of just text). Ian Wild 5
Wavefront Filter Filters filter_wavefront is a Moodle plugin that allows content creators to easily include 3D models from a mod_wavefront gallery anywhere in Moodle that supports filtering. Please note this plugin requires version 2022061104 or above of the mod_wavefront activity. Ian Wild 1
Atto HTML editor Text editor Lightweight, accessible, fast, mobile friendly text editor. Damyon Wiese 58
Horizontal rule Atto Horizontal Rule for Atto Damyon Wiese 36
Photo Themes This theme is meant as an example of how to create a theme extending Boost. It also provides useful settings for adding photo backgrounds to all pages Moodle. Damyon Wiese 30
Word count Atto Simple count words plugin for Atto. Damyon Wiese 29
Import competency framework Administration tool This admin tool allows import/export of competency frameworks using a comma separated value file (CSV). This imports and exports all data contained in the competency framework including related competencies, and any configured competency rules. Damyon Wiese 17
Import competency framework from RDF Administration tool This is an importer for XML/RDF formatted curriculum files from the achievement standards network. Damyon Wiese 13
HTML5 content editable editor Text editor Replacement text editor that uses HTML5 contenteditable regions to create a simpler and faster text editor. If you find any issues, please report them on github. Damyon Wiese 11
Vi like editor Text editor This is vi for Moodle. No really - it works! Why? Why not ? Damyon Wiese 6
More lock factories General plugins (Local) Additional lock factories for the new locking framework. Supports memcache and memcached. Damyon Wiese 1
BHS Academy Themes BHS Academy is a 3 column theme which utilises the Aardvark Post-it and Aardvark themes as it's base. Colin Wheelhouse 6
Yammer Blocks This block has been built to utilise the Yammer embedded feed API. Chris Wharton 12
Clean MACAM Themes Clean MACAM is a modified Moodle bootstrap theme which inherits styles and renderers from its parent theme. Its fits mobile and gives a nice dashboard esty wexler 1
Registration Activities Teachers can create some examination dates. They define date, time, and place of the examination. Furthermore they define maximum number of students and maximum number of points. After the registration date, they define the points for each student. These can be printed with or without student names. Each student can register/unregister only himself/herself. Marc-Robin Wendt 18
Mahara Assignment Submission Assignment submissions Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. Aaron Wells 30
Mahara Assignment Feedback Assignment feedbacks [For Moodle 2.6] an optional (but recommended!) addition to the Mahara Assignment Submission plugin. This plugin allows Moodle to automatically unlock submitted Mahara portfolio pages & collections after grading. Aaron Wells 6
External zip utility Other tools Allows Moodle to use the command-line zip utility (/usr/bin/zip) instead of the PHP ZipArchive library. Aaron Wells 2
Courseboard Activities - quick and uncomplicated way to tell what bothers him/her about teacher/student/course - teacher can have a quick summary how his course is seen from the students perspective - teacher can answer questions - students can trade informations, help with little problem Franz Weidmann 16
Teams Meeting (TinyMCE editor) TinyMCE Microsoft Teams Meetings App for Learning Management Systems (LMS) integration into Moodle as the TinyMCE plugin. This plugin allows to create the meeting and automatically insert the meeting link into the editor content. Lai Wei 2
Event Reminders General plugins (Local) This plugin will automate sending reminders for calendar events. Isuru Madushanka Weerarathna 152
Thai Buddhist Calendar Type Calendars Moodle calendar type for Thai Buddhist year PONLAWAT WEERAPANPISIT 4
Print out for review Question formats This plugin provides an additional export format for questions, which presents them in an easily readable, clear format, also suited for printout. stefan weber 18
Mass creation of multiple choice questions General plugins (Local) Moodle plugin that allows easy and fast bulk creation of multiple choice questions of different question types. stefan weber 10
Open Courses Blocks A tiny block that displays all courses a user can view but is not enrolled in (typically those are courses with open guest access). stefan weber 4
Taleem Themes Taleem is a responsive multi-purpose education multicolor Moodle theme which is ideal for educational and academic institutions websites. Vowel Web 1
Tiles format Course formats A course format which displays course topics as "Tiles", in a grid rather than as a list. When clicked, tile content is displayed under the tile with an animated transition. The layout adapts to different screen sizes and orientations. Within each tile, activities can also be set to display as "sub-tiles". For each tile, the teacher can pick an icon from a predefined set, or upload a background photo. David Watson 402
exportresults Quiz reports Generating a .odt file export for quiz results Sven Waser 2
Environment Ribbons Administration tool This plugin allows you to set ribbons in the 4 corners of your site, displaying either static text, or dynamic text driven from a script. Conn Warwicker 8
Quick User Search Blocks A simple block which lets you search for users in your Moodle system, with quick links to view their profile, login as them and send them a message. Conn Warwicker 6