Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Self-assessment Question behaviour A question behaviour for manually graded question types, to let students self-assess their own response. Tim Hunt 17
Cohorts in profile General plugins (Local) This plugin adds a section to the user profile with information about cohorts in which it is a member. Юрий Юринский 17
Variable numeric set Question types A calculated numeric question type with variable and expression evaluation. All values are precalculated although a question can have several variants with different variable values for each variant. Tim Hunt 17
Purge question categories General plugins (Local) This plugin allows to delete question category with all questions and subcategories Vadim Dvorovenko 17
Login as General plugins (Local) A local plugin that allows admin to add a list of loginas action links to the settings block. Itamar Tzadok 17
VMoodle Experimental VMoodle packs a Moodle Virtualisation toolset for running many independant or mnet bound moodles as an array. Valery Fremaux 17
Moodlebook Themes Moodlebook is a three-column that emulates the look and feel of Facebook. Joseph Conradt 17
Aardvark Postit Note Themes Aardvark Postit Note is a simplified version of Aardvark Postit with the addition of some new settings. Mary Evans 17
Nextcloud Repositories Enable users to upload files from their private storage directly into Moodle. Supports Nextcloud and ownCloud! Learnweb – University of Münster 17
oohoo - Text to Speech Blocks OOHOO Text to Speech is a Moodle block that reads outloud the content of a resource Patrick Thibaudeau 17
Random activity Activities The "Random activity" activity type is a lightweight module that allows teachers to randomly split students among other activities within a course. Astor Bizard 17
alfaview classroom Activities alfaview is an app based video conferencing system (https://alfaview.com). This plugin integrates the alfaview video conferencing capabilities with Moodle. Franz C. Krüger 17
Content security policy General plugins (Local) This plugin allows an admin to create a Custom Security Policy (CSP) in both reporting mode and enforcing mode. A simple use case is to detect and cleanup issues with non secure content after a migration from http to https, through to advanced policies to mitigate from XSS attacks. Catalyst IT 17
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
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
Restore courses from remote Moodles Blocks block my_external_backup_courses : Restore courses from remote moodle platforms my_external_backup_restore_courses is a Moodle block that enable a user to restore courses from external moodles this block must be installed in each moodle course clients and course servers involved Céline Perves 17
Marks per section Quiz reports Quiz report plugin showing marks per section. Issam Taboubi 17
YouTube Anywhere TinyMCE (legacy) YouTube Anywhere enables direct recording and uploading into YouTube from the TinyMCE HTML editor. Justin Hunt 17
Questionnaire statistics Reports That is a report plugin that helps the admin to known how the questionnaire activities are being used by users. Paulo Júnior 17
Schoollege Themes Introducing a new theme for Moodle 3.9 and 3.10 that draws on some of the best user ehancements of the Fordson and Rebel Moodle themes! Schoollege is refined, elegant, and modern. Built using Boost, Schoollege adds custom header images, header textures, smart editing buttons, a full-screen Course Dashboard, a custom login page, and other features that enhance Moodle. Chris Kenniburg 17
Daily usage Reports Shows online users and daily usage that most affects performance on a graph. Also gives information about recently updated courses. Szilard Szabo 17
Course Finder Blocks A plugin to search courses in Moodle. 3i Logic LMS 17
Clear Backup Files Administration tool Course backups can be an expensive task at times. It could take loads of unnecessary space and memory on the server. Administrators can clear backup files on the server to free the server space. Shubhendra Doiphode 17
Sitewide User report Grade reports Site wide user report which can be filtered by course category or course Barry Oosthuizen 17
Google Analytics General plugins (Local) This plugin is replaced by the local_analytics plugin which can communicate with Google Analytics and Piwik! Bas Brands 17
Course overview (legacy) Blocks The Course overview block is visible on a user's Dashboard and shows a list of all courses in which a user is enrolled/has an assigned role. Howard Miller 17
Advance course search Administration tool Course search plugin is replacement of existing course search with the more better performance & extra features. Shashikant Vaishnav 17
HTML5 audio/video to MP4 filter Filters This filter allows the automated creation of MP4 sources for HTML5 and elements. Nicolas Dunand 17
Boost course overview on campus General plugins (Local) Moodle plugin which adds support for filtering courses with block_course_overview_campus to the mycourses list in Boost's nav drawer Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. 17
Learning Plan Auto-complete General plugins (Local) With this plugin installed, all learning plans will be marked as complete when all their competencies are completed by the user. Daniel Neis Araujo 17
Remote backup provider General plugins (Local) [SEEKING MAINTAINER] This local module allows you to restore a course from a remote Moodle instance into your current instance via a REST web service. The intended use case is quick restores from an archival Moodle instance into the current yearly instance. Charles Fulton 17
Bulk Activity Creation Blocks This block plugin allows users to create activities/resources in bulk. In other words, a moodle module can be copied to one or more courses or one or more categories/subcategories in one go. Shubhendra Doiphode 17
Opencast Videos Blocks This block can be used to link moodle courses to opencast series. Users with respective priviledges (in the following called teacher) can use this block to upload videos to moodle. These videos are transmitted to the opencast system by the cronjob and create a event for the respective series there. The block can be automatically set the access privileges of moodle user enrolled in the course. Learnweb – University of Münster 17
Word count TinyMCE (legacy) This plugin prints a word count in the bottom right-hand corner of your TinyMCE editor which updates as you type. Tony Butler 17
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
Collaborative submissions Assignment submissions Use live document collaboration within assignments, powered by Collabora Online Learnweb – University of Münster 16
Notify Cohorts General plugins (Local) Send custom notifications to members of selected cohorts Daniel Neis Araujo 16
jmail Blocks jmail is an internal mailing (aka internal email) tool for Moodle 2 Juan Leyva 16
Twitter Feed Blocks A block to show a twitter feed with markup that can be styled via themes. Andrew Davidson 16
GradeQR Activities Use QR codes to quickly grade assignments for completion. Students show you their work, show you their QR code, you scan it, and the grade is entered into Moodle's gradebook. Michael Backus 16
QR Links General plugins (Local) QR code generator that provides a direct link to the page specified. When someone scans the generated QR code it will try to log them in via guest access to the specified link. Catalyst IT 16
RecordRTC TinyMCE TinyMCE (legacy) Add audio and video annotations to text, anywhere a TinyMCE text editor is present. This plugin adds buttons for recording audio or video (with audio) to the editor's toolbar. Using WebRTC technologies, all recording is done instantly in the browser. After recording, users can embed the annotation directly into the text they are currently editing. The recording will appear as an audio or video player in the published writing. Jesus Federico 16
Integrity Advocate Block Blocks Online proctoring, identity verification and participation monitoring by Integrity Advocate. This is a privacy-first and accessibility friendly solution to ensure assessment integrity inside of Moodle activities. This block allows Moodle to show a proctoring interface to students, interact with the Integrity Advocate service, and show proctoring results to instructors. Scott Dellinger 16
Amanote - Paperless note-taking for your students Activities Amanote allows students to take clear and structured notes linked with their course materials. Adrien Fery 16
Feedback viewer General plugins (Local) The Feedback Viewer report displays the responses from all Feedback modules in a given course, filtered by user. Charles Fulton 16
ownCloud Repositories Enable users to upload files from their private storage directly into Moodle. Supports Nextcloud and ownCloud! Learnweb – University of Münster 16
ForumQ2A Experimental ForumQ2A is a new forum activity based on the open source platform Question2Answer(www.question2answer.org). Leyun Xia 16
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
QuizExport Quiz reports This is a quiz report plugin to export quiz attempts as pdf C Blue 16
NED - Sidebar Blocks Allows the functionality of the Site main menu block to work within courses. Fern Oliveira 16