Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
EcoHub LTI Source LTI sources Enable Moodle to launch Laerdal Medical courses with user-specific data for analytics and external compliance tracking purposes with a dedicated EcoHub activity. Martin Rieva 1
Exabis E-Portfolio Blocks Unlock the Power of Digital Portfolios within Moodle #eportfolio #competencies #evidenceoflearning Andreas Riepl 89
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 56
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
Exabis Student Review Blocks Empowering Educators for Periodic Student Assessments #competencies #personalisation #reports Andreas Riepl 23
Exabis Library Blocks Course-independent library Andreas Riepl 11
Question Filters General plugins (Local) This plugin enables additional search option within questions in large question banks Andreas Riepl 9
DUK-Reminder Blocks A simple block to send out reminders for different tasks from within a course. Andreas Riepl 6
Stream Themes Stream is a Boost child Moodle 4+ theme with some added settings that allow customization. Choose colors and icons styles, images for the course header and show courses and categories as cards on the frontpage. Hugo Ribeiro 17
Kitmoo Activities Module to create graphical environments in a course. Jair Alexander Riaño Castañeda 1
Regular expression short answer Question types This question type (for the Moodle quiz module) aims at a more advanced system of student's response analysis, through the use of regular expresssions. This question type is an extension of the SHORTANSWER type. It can be used on its own and can also be incorporated into the existing Cloze (embedded) question type. Joseph Rézeau 42
Export Glossary to Quiz Blocks A block to export a Glossary's entries to the Quiz Questions bank. Joseph Rézeau 24
Random select answers Question types A multiple-choice, multiple-response question type with particular scoring rules. Recommended if your question has many correct and incorrect answers from which "pool" a set number can be selected at runtime. Joseph Rézeau 17
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 12
RegExp Adaptive mode with Help (no penalties) 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. This behaviour does not cost the student any penalty when "buying" a letter. Joseph Rézeau 11
Lesson Essay Feedback Blocks The Lesson essay feedback block will display (to the students only) their previous attempts at Lesson Essays (if any), together with the teacher's comments and their grade (if essays have been graded). Joseph Rézeau 10
Random select answers format Question formats This import format plugin takes a Moodle XML file and imports all regular multichoice questions changing them into 'Random select answers' questions. Joseph Rézeau 1
Conditional field User profile fields A drop-down menu field that shows/hides some other custom profile fields depending on its selected value. Shamim Rezaie 70
Persian calendar Calendars This plugin provides Jalali calendar support for Moodle Shamim Rezaie 40
Associated input User profile fields An associated profile field, associates its value with a core optional profile field. Shamim Rezaie 36
File upload User profile fields A file upload profile field for Moodle Shamim Rezaie 33
Hijri calendar type Calendars This plugin provides Hijri calendar support for Moodle Shamim Rezaie 6
Mentees Improved Block Blocks This Plugin is just a fix for the original mentees because the mentees have to click 3 times before reach the course, Mentees Improved hows the student courses with a direct link to the course. Alan Reynoso 1
MovilQuiz - Lite Activities This module converts quizzes so they can be sent to cellular or other mobile device. These quizzes can be performed on the cell phone. The results of the quiz can be sent back to Moodle. rafael reyna 4
Edutech Preferences Blocks This plugin allows teachers to easily identify the needs of accessible content required by the students of each of their courses through a preference report. Ricardo Reyes 1
Screencast Filter Filters This is a text filter for Moodle that converts Screencast.com urls into embeded content. The current text filter will only replace hyperlinks with the embeded content. This currently only works for video short urls. Camtasia Relay 1
Faculty Contact Blocks Faculty Contact block creates an auto-generated list of faculty and their contact information on a course. Johan Reinalda 3
Roster Blocks The Roster block shows a page with a list of users in a course, with either a simply list of names,email, etc. (similar to the participant functionality), or a more enhanced list that shows their picture and the description from the student profiles. This is useful for faculty to get to know their students quickly and learn about their backgrounds easily. Please note that the most up-to-date version will always be in the github repository listed below. The Moodle module downloadable here may not be updated as frequently. The latest versions (for 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7) fix a bug where the settings page on sites installed from Moodle 2.x did not show the list of roles properly. (This worked on 1.x => 2.x upgraded sites). Johan Reinalda 3
eCampus eBook Page Activities This module add a resource that can create a direct link into a specific page in an eCampus eBook. This is only useful if your institution has the eCampus services. Requires the block 'ecampus_tbird' v1.1 or greater Johan Reinalda 1
Rewards Tally Blocks The Rewards Tally plugin provides a block to display the achievement points, or reward points, accumulated by the user and the user communities associated with the school or institution. 'User communities' could mean year groups, 'houses' or any other logical grouping used at the school. P Reid 1
Database Navigation Administration tool Database Navigation (tool_navdb) is a database browsing plugin for Moodle. This plugin is designed especially for Moodle's DB structure and adds some practical tools. Some improvements are virtual foreign keys links, and contextual dropdown menus depending on the table, bookmarked table list and an interactive SQL filter editor. Ferran Recio Calderó 12
SavaPage Blocks This block shows a button on the dashboard to open the SavaPage Open Print Portal Web App, so printed documents can be previewed and forwarded. The credentials of the authenticated Moodle user are trusted so no extra login is needed (single sign-on). Rijk Ravestein 2
Assignments Block Blocks A plugin for the learning platform Moodle that shows graded and open assignments in one block. Philip Raschke 3
UIkit Themes This theme is built from its core to work with UIkit (a framework similar to Twitter Bootstrap). It is designed to be easily customizable using an interactive visual styles manager. Eduardo Ramos 18
Courses to Calendar General plugins (Local) Display all your courses in the Calendar as Site Events from selected categories. Sometimes and for some reasons, you want to display to everyone your courses in the Calendar and this is exactly what this plugin does. Andres Ramos 37
FirePHP Blocks This block adds the FirePHP library (http://www.firephp.org) to your Moodle installation, mainly for development purposes. Frank Ralf 2
Auto-link Hijacker Filters This filter shamelessly hijacks the glossary auto-links by replacing all auto-linked URLs by another arbitrary one, e.g. one pointing to Forvo. Frank Ralf 1
GoToWebinar Activities This is integration method between Moodle and GoToWebinar . This new integration is designed to simplify the use of synchronous events within Moodle. It provides a single-sign-on between the two systems with easy creation and management of GoToWebinar meetings. Alok Kumar Rai 1
GoToMeeting Activities The GoToMeeting activity module provides the integration method between Moodle and GoToMeeting. It is designed to simplify the use of synchronous events within Moodle. It provides a single sign on between the two systems with easy meeting creation and management. Alok Kumar Rai 1
Evernote Portfolios This is the Portfolio plugin for Evernote. Vishal Raheja 5
User Expire block Blocks This block intends to give the user a notification about the expiration of his or her enrollment. Latest if for version 4 and up. Should work above that as well. Jeff Rader 10
Hot Question Activities This plugin will help teachers to collect entries/posts from users in or out of a classroom. AL Rachels 56
MooTyper Activities MooTyper implements a typing practice/instruction functionality into Moodle. AL Rachels 52
Skype Activities Skype activity plugin module implements a user listing and shows, Create Conference, Create Chat, Send Voicemail, Add Contact, and Send File links to any user who has entered a Skype ID into their profile. AL Rachels 45
Diary Activities Diary is a very advanced version of the Journal plugin. The most notable addition is the capability to make multiple, separate, entries per day, and do so on multiple days. This allows students to revise their writing while retaining the original version. The addition of statistics with auto rating for any min/max combination of characters, words, sentences, or paragraphs also helps to track revision progress of a students writing. The activity can be set to use multiple, time released, writing prompts with each one having it's own auto-rating settings. With the latest v3.7.5 release you can use completions for, View, Receive a grade, and Receive a passing grade. AL Rachels 42
Configuration Seeder General plugins (Local) A Moodle settings enforcer for custom developments; this plugin allows the automated setup of various configurations that are hard to setup through config.php' $CFG. It 'seeds' configurations in the DB at install or upgrade time. Contrary to configurations set through $CFG, these modifications are not locked, and allow Moodle admins to then update these. Didier Raboud 5
Oauth2 authentication plugin for Moodle (for Moodle 3.2 and earlier) Authentication Sign-in with an Oauth2 provider. The first time you sign-in, a new account is created. Sergio Rabellino 272
QuizExportAttemptsCsv Quiz reports A Quiz report for Moodle to export the attempts history as a CSV file Sergio Rabellino 1
Kaltura Video Package Other tools Kaltura plug-ins for Moodle 2.1 - 2.x and 3.x gonen r 40
CADO: Course outline & approval Activities Generates an interactive curriculum report from Moodle-held course information. Provides a course approval workflow within Moodle. Allows course variants to be compared, with differences highlighted. Upon approval, displays to students in either browser or Moodle app. Naomi Quirke 18