Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
oohoo - Pop up Dictionary - Block Blocks OOHOO Pop-up Dictionary is a Moodle package that gives the students the possibility to double click on any word within a Moodle HTML resource and retrieve its definition from an online dictionary chosen by the teacher. Note that the plugin is separated into two downloads: filter and block. Patrick Thibaudeau 7
oohoo - Course search Blocks OOHOO Course Search does a complete search of all content in a course including: - Section Name and description - All activities (including all new plugins that you setup in the future) based on the "name", "intro" and "content" fields The result appears as a list of links. Nicolas Bretin 12
oohoo - Capture Repositories This repository allows users to record video, sound and take a photo WITHOUT a streaming server. This works as any other Moodle 2.x repository. It must first be enabled. Once enabled, it will show up in the file picker. Simply click on the "Capture" repository and choose if you want to record a sound, a video or have a picture taken from your webcam. Once you are done recording, you can edit your video by trimming the beginning and the end. Nicolas Bretin 6
oohoo - Calendar format Course formats This course format displays a course in a calendar format. Nicolas Bretin 16
ONLYOFFICE document converter Document converters This is a tool that enables Moodle to use an ONLYOFFICE server for converting documents. For example, this is useful in assignment submissions. In combination with an ONLYOFFICE server, submitted text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations are automatically converted to PDF to simplify the grading workflow. Learnweb – University of Münster 9
ONLYOFFICE document Activities This plugin allows users to edit and collaborate on office documents from Moodle using ONLYOFFICE Docs. Ascensio System SIA 15
ONLYOFFICE document Activities This plugin enables multiple users to collaboratively edit office documents from Moodle in real time using ONLYOFFICE Document Server (Online editor), and to save back those changes back to Moodle. Olumuyiwa Taiwo 8
ONLYOFFICE Assign Submission Assignment submissions This plugin is an extension of the mod_assign Moodle plugin and allows users to add a custom submission of the "ONLYOFFICE document" type in the .oform format. Ascensio System SIA 3
Online Users Map Blocks Similar to the online users block, but this block uses the geographical information from users profiles to display the locations of online users on an OpenStreetMap or Google map. The geocoding of locations are cached in the Moodle database and updated when cron runs. Alex Little 11
Online Judge General plugins (Local) The Online Judge plugin for Moodle is designed for courses involving programming. It can automatically grade submitted source code by testing them against customizable test cases (ACM-ICPC/Online Judge style). Andrew Naguib 1
Online audio recording Assignment submissions Audio recorder (Flash 10.1+) submission method. Records locally and uploads via HTTP POST, so there's no need for a streaming server! Paul Nicholls 32
Online Audio Recording Assignment types Audio recorder (Flash 10.1+) with optional manual upload option. Records locally and uploads via HTTP POST, so no need for a streaming server! Paul Nicholls 12
Onetopic format Course formats Course format that allows showing each topic in a tab, keeping the current tab between calls to resources, in such a way that when it returns from a module as the blog or the glossary it returns to tab from where you started. This format is based on the Moodle standard format: “Topics”. David Herney 161
OneNote submissions Assignment submissions This plugin allows students to work on an assignment in OneNote. This includes creating a OneNote page associated with an assignment submission, saving student's work from OneNote into Moodle as a zip package containing the HTML and any associated images contained in the submission, and recreating the OneNote page from the zip package saved in Moodle if necessary. Enovation Dev Team 22
OneNote Feedback Assignment feedbacks This plugin allows teachers to grade and providing feedback for OneNote assignment submissions. This includes viewing a student's submission in OneNote, creating a OneNote page associated with their feedback on the submission, saving that feedback from OneNote into Moodle as a zip package containing the HTML and any associated images contained in the submission, and recreating the OneNote page from the zip package saved in Moodle if necessary. Enovation Dev Team 19
OneNote block Blocks This plugin provides a container for the Microsoft Account signin button and also Microsoft OneNote related action buttons. Enovation Dev Team 14
OneLogin SAML SSO Authentication Authentication Automatically creates Moodle accounts and authenticates user identities via SAML from the OneLogin.com service. http://support.onelogin.com/entries/20508233-configuring-saml-for-moodle2 Sixto Pablo Martin Garcia 4
One-to-one Activities Whiteboard with Video conference - Made for one to one interaction between Teacher and Student. Jai Gupta 9
One Roster Enrolment A OneRoster enrolment plugin for Moodle, supporting version 1.1 of the IMS OneRoster REST specification. Andrew Lyons 7
Old Superscript/subscript editor please do not use any more Text editor Please use https://moodle.org/plugins/editor_ousupsub instead of this plugin. Tim Hunt 4
Old quiz and question attempts deletion General plugins (Local) Deletes old quiz and question attempts by scheduler task or by CLI command. Vadim Dvorovenko 13
OKMindmap Course formats OKMindmap plugin for course format in moodle. Nguyễn Văn Hoàng 1
Offlinequiz Cronjob Reports The Offline Quiz Cronjob Admin allows administrators to monitor and, if necessary, control important processes for the evaluation of offline quizzes in the backend of their Moodle platform. AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation 9
Offline session register Activities Offline session register allows to track time spent on an offline activity. Domenico Pontari 1
Offline Quiz Activities The Offline Quiz activity allows the creation of multiple choice tests with questions from the question bank of a Moodle course, which are handed out to students in printed form. After completion, the answer forms are scanned and can be automatically evaluated online directly in Moodle. AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation 176
Offline attempts access rule Quiz access rules This plugin adds a new access rule to allow the quiz to be downloaded for offline usage in the Moodle Mobile app. It requires the "Moodle Mobile additional features" (local_mobile) plugin installed. Juan Leyva 25
Offline Grading methods This Advanced Grading plugin allows course administrators to submit rubrics they have created offline and have it automatically inserted into the system when uploaded to use for grading. Zafeer Mohammed 3
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
Office On Moodle Activities The Office On Moodle module enable to use Office Online in Moodle.You can select "share file" or "view file" from your Onedrive. And can select group for "share file". Tomoyuki Nakamura 1
Office 365 Connection User profile fields This plugin provides a link in users' profiles to access Office 365 management functions. **This plugin has been replaced by the Microsoft Block** Enovation Dev Team 10
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 49
oembed (Atto) Atto This plugin enables you to embed media content in the atto editor using oembed. The list of content providers supported by this plugin is available here: http://oembed.com. Erich Wappis 1
ODS OAI-PMH Blocks This Moodle block plugin serves as Data Provider for OAI-PMH 2.0 Harvester. Plugin enables Moodle administrator to define global settings for Data Provider as well as default metadata sharing for courses. Sinisa & Vlatka V&S 1
Observation Activities This plugin allows easy management of observational assessments. It has the ability to record evidence of observation (text, file, pass/fail) by an observer marking an observee as well as manage time-slots and session bookings. Course coordinators can also delegate observation marking to other users (e.g. tutors). Catalyst IT 8
Object storage file system Administration tool A remote object storage file system for Moodle. Intended to provide a plug-in that can be installed and configured to work with any supported remote object storage solution. Catalyst IT 30
OBF displayer block Blocks Display user's OpenBadges on a block. Supports Open Badge Factory, Open Badge Passport and Mozilla Backpack. OBF Admin 15
Oauth2 token unlink event Administration tool The following plugin allows you to remove emails from linking accounts in moodle with oauth2 services, useful in cases where the linking message was never delivered and the entry is blocked with the user's account, allowing administrator this linking process to be performed again. Jonathan Lopez 4
Oauth2 Easy Themes Obsolote: this theme is not used anymore as the Oauth2 auth plugin now display the buttons. Jérôme Mouneyrac 1
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
Nuntius Profile Blocks This block type plugin allows showing the teacher in the course, even if it exists more than one teacher per group Alberto Ortiz 1
Numbas report SCORM This Moodle plugin provides a special report for Moodle's SCORM player, for use with Numbas exams. For each attempt, it shows the student's answers and scores against the correct answer for each part, in an easier to read form than Moodle's built-in "track details" view. Christian Lawson-Perfect 1
NovinPayamak Notifications Moodle SMS Message output system (Powered by http://novinpayamak.com). novinpayamak module is SMS message processor for Moodle 2.6 and above. (novinpayamak supports SMS in Iran. for more info: http://novinpayamak.com/) Hamed Azimi 1
Notify site administrators about new Email Signups General plugins (Local) This plugin sends an email notification message to the 'Support email' address every time a new Moodle user account is created via the 'Email signup' authentication plugin. The notification message contains some essential details about the account just created (email address, full name and user account name). The email is sent when the user signs up, not when the user account is confirmed. So the plugin will notify even about accounts that may never be confirmed. Iñaki Arenaza 22
Notify Cohorts General plugins (Local) Send custom notifications to members of selected cohorts Daniel Neis Araujo 16
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
Noticeboard format Course formats A topic based course format with the latest post in the news forum displayed at the top. Gareth J Barnard 11
Notetaker Activities A simple notetaker activity that allows a student to create notes within a course. Joanna Beaver 11
Notes and annotations on PDF, TextBook, Video, YouTube Filters Turn course materials (slides, textbook, video, YouTube, Vimeo etc.) to content that allows your learners to reach their full potential: note-taking, highlighting, class survey, learning analytics, oral comments, peer support, and much more... Adrien Fery 48
Notebook (Module) Activities The Notebook allows students to write their course notes within all the resources and activities offered in Moodle. Gustavo Bazzo 1
Notebook (filter) Filters The Notebook allows students to write their course notes within all the resources and activities offered in Moodle. Gustavo Bazzo 1