Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Eduplayer Activities Html5/flash player for both video and audio media with sharing and download capabilities Humanage SRL 15
LinkedIn certificates Activity Activities This plugin allows you to create certificates that can be automatically linked to a linkedin account. C Blue 15
Dropdown dynamic menu User profile fields Dynamic menu user profile field for moodle Now users can create user menu fields whose values are retrieved from the moodle DB. Antonello Moro 15
My programs block Blocks My programs block. Petr Skoda 15
Companion account Authentication The Moodle plugin auth_companion gives teachers the possibility to log in with a companion account. This will enable them to view and review a course from a participant's perspective. Andreas Grabs 15
Rocket.Chat Activities This plugin allows teachers to keep synchronized users enrolled in a Moodle course into a dedicated Rocket.Chat private channel. Céline Perves 15
Capability explorer Administration tool An admin tool designed to help Moodle administrators understand how Moodle's capability system works. Simon Coggins 15
Speed Test Administration tool This is a network speed tester for embedding directly inside your moodle. Catalyst IT 15
Site news Blocks Display site news in full scale at my startpage. Jan Eberhardt 15
Advanced Grading report Reports Report on assignments that have been graded using the advanced grading methods, Rubric or Marking Guide. Shows a breakdown of the grades and comments. Covers similar ground to https://github.com/pauln/moodle-report_componentgrades The Rubric and Marking Guide breakdown reports can be reached from the course page by clicking on an assignment and selecting from this menu. The menu option shown will depend on the grading method of the assignment. Marcus Green 14
A Virtual Classroom Plugin: WizIQ Blocks WizIQ’s Live Class web conferencing module enables Moodle users to schedule and deliver online classes using the WizIQ Virtual Classroom. This web based virtual classroom is equipped with real-time collaboration tools like, live chat, audio and live video streams for up to 6 people, whiteboard, screen and content sharing (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx, .swf, .flv and YouTube videos). Besides, administrators can download attendance reports, and students with permissions can view/download class recordings. After downloading the plugin, the administrator need to register on http://www.WizIQ.com/moodle/ or write to support@wiziq.com to get the customer key. WizIQ Inc. 14
Google Adsense block Blocks This plugin is no longer maintained, and will receive no future support. An updated version of Gennaro Varriale's Google Adsense block to work with Moodle 2.x. It allows the easy creation and display of Google Adsense blocks within Moodle. Marcus Green 14
Visitor Counter Blocks It displays a visitor counter in a block. David Herney 14
Final countdown Blocks Countdown Moodle plugin / block Yevhen Matasar 14
Event course Course formats The course format "Event" is intended to be used for short training events. Upon course creation, it creates a corresponding calendar event. Flotter Totte 14
Standard Fluid Themes Standard Fluid consists of a simple CSS File and extends the 'standard' theme to a fluid template. Web ICT ZHAW 14
Wikipedia Blocks The Wikipedia block is a Moodle block to search in Wikipedia. Ralf Krause 14
Webinar Activities Enables web conferencing between Moodle and Adobe Connect to be added as an activity to any course. Joe Barber 14
DisCourse Activities The DisCourse activity offers the possibility to conduct group discussions in a multi-step procedure. coactum Entwickler 14
Technical Project Activities The "techproject" activity module provides a complete project driving tool, IEEE compliant, in a pedagogical environment, for real project use or for pedagogical approach of project management. Valery Fremaux 14
Quick enrollment Blocks With this plugin you can quickly enroll users to many courses. Adrien Jamot 14
Margic Activities In the Margic activity, participants can create unlimited entries which can then be evaluated and annotated by teachers. coactum Entwickler 14
Course publish Blocks This plugin publishes a course link to a particular Facebook page. DualCube Team 14
External content Activities The module enables a teacher to create a resource using the text editor. The resource can display text, images, sound, video and web links. Advantages of using the External content module rather than the standard page module is that optionally if the content links to an external site that records a completion status these can then be imported. Lushonline Consulting 14
Forum discussion embed Filters Embed forum discussions anywhere with filter tags. Alex Morris 14
Bank Transference Payment gateways Tihs plugin, is a moodle payment gateway that provides support to payments made by bank transferences, or another manual payment methods that need to be approved by a person. Carlos Vicente 14
EJSApp Booking System Activities This plugin lets you add a javascript-based booking system to handle the connections to the remote laboratories developed using EjsS and added to your Moodle courses by means of the ejsapp plugin. Ruben Heradio 14
Wordcards by Poodll Activities Poodll WordCards is a word learning Moodle plugin. Words or phrases to be learnt are introduced with each instance of the activity. Students learn and review words by completing listen-and-type, choose-the-answer, speechcards or type-the-words tasks Justin Hunt 14
Participation credit Workshop evaluation plugins Simple grading evaluation method that gives credit to peer-reviewers just for their participation in the activity without comparing their assessment with the others. David Mudrák 14
Common Courses Blocks This block lists any courses you have in common (i.e. you are both enrolled in) with the user whose profile you are viewing. Sergio Comerón 14
Multiple graders Grading methods Advanced grading form allowing multiple graders for assignments Lucian Gabriel Pricop 14
Bulk resend new account email Administration tool Adds a bulk action to resend the new account email with a new password to users. Daniel Neis Araujo 14
Report Blocks Display custom reports created with the 'Report Builder' anywhere in Moodle to enhance learning management. Marina Glancy 14
Cloud Poodll for Atto - audio and video recording Atto An audio and video recorder for Moodle. The recordings are stored in the cloud and can be automatically subtitled . Administrators can choose from recorder skins, and use Moodle capabilities to control the display of icons. Cloud Poodll for Atto is not dependent on any other plugin. Cloud Poodll for Atto is not dependent on any other plugins. Justin Hunt 14
Interactive with explanation Question behaviour This behaviour is like the interactive with multiple attempts behaviour , but with an additional text box where students can give a reason why they gave the answer they did. Marcus Green 14
Download essay submissions Quiz reports Moodle Quiz Report Plugin for downloading essay submissions. Kashmira Nagwekar 14
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
Course module competency rating Administration tool The main goal of this plugin is to allow ratings in course module competency. Issam Taboubi 14
Reverse pattern match Question types A question type where the teacher provides some example sentences, and the student has to write a pmatch expression to match those sentences. Tim Hunt 14
My Grades block Blocks The my_grades block provides a display of all enrolled courses, overall grades and links to grade reports from the My Home page. Karen Holland 14
Geolocation condition Availability restriction This adds the availability condition by gps coordinates to sections and course modules. This plugin requires the block_gps plugin to work. Robert Schrenk 14
Profile Field Identifier Blocks A plugin to prompt users to fill their optional & custom profile fields. 3i Logic LMS 14
Heartbeat check (eg Nagios / Icinga) Administration tool A load balancer heartbeat / health checker url, and also a configurable nagios compliant cron health checker. This should work out of the box with most load balancers, eg Amazon ELB, F5, HA proxy etc as most of these simply check the http status for 200 or non-200 response codes. Catalyst IT 14
Amazon S3 bucket Repositories S3 folder (bucket) repository. Renaat Debleu 14
YouTube PoodLL Widget / Generico A simple YouTube video viewer. Poodll Guy 14
Clipboard Blocks The Clipboard block enables you to duplicate activities and resources across your courses via the block. Tomonori Maruyama 14
Badge Awarder Blocks This block allows teachers to quickly and simply award badges in a given course by processing a CSV file upload. Karen Holland 14
Boost Learning Themes Boost Learning is a modern theme with icons of Material Design, and with configurable header. Eduardo Kraus 14
Question Tracker General plugins (Local) Local Moodle plugin providing issue tracking for Moodle questions. André Storhaug 14
MiniLesson Activities Poodll MiniLesson combines several language learning activities into a simple, self-guided online lesson. It is designed to be a simple, interactive lesson for students, and easy for teachers to create and deliver. Justin Hunt 14