Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Venus Themes Venus is a fluid-width 2 column theme based on Binarius, for Moodle 2.4. It is part of a series of ten 'Planet' themes intended to provide a choice of visually accessible and/or fun colour schemes. Venus is designed to provide a fun, high contrast interface, and in one word would be described as PINK. It also includes a 2.4 compatible version of the MoodleBar developed by Lewis Carr, and uses the autohide functionality for course editing buttons outlined by Frankie Kam. Gordon McLeod 1
Luna Themes Luna is a fluid-width 2 column theme based on Binarius, for Moodle 2.4. It is part of a series of ten 'Planet' themes intended to provide a choice of visually accessible and/or fun colour schemes. Luna is designed to provide a reduced contrast simple interface. It also includes a 2.4 compatible version of the MoodleBar developed by Lewis Carr, and uses the autohide functionality for course editing buttons outlined by Frankie Kam. Yes, I know that Luna (the Moon) isn't a planet - but it fits this set of solar-bodied themes and exerts influence on the Earth. Hopefully Moon lovers will find this theme aesthetically pleasing. Gordon McLeod 1
Pluto Themes Pluto is a fluid-width 2 column theme based on Binarius, for Moodle 2.4. It is part of a series of ten 'Planet' themes intended to provide a choice of visually accessible and/or fun colour schemes. Pluto is designed to provide a high contrast interface with a dark background and yellow text. It also includes a 2.4 compatible version of the MoodleBar developed by Lewis Carr, and uses the autohide functionality for course editing buttons outlined by Frankie Kam. Gordon McLeod 1
Oauth2 Easy Themes Obsolote: this theme is not used anymore as the Oauth2 auth plugin now display the buttons. Jérôme Mouneyrac 1
Standard Themes This theme was part of the Moodle core distribution, but for Moodle 2.7+ has been moved to Moodle Plugins Mary Evans 1
Transition Themes Theme based on Material Design guidelines Magno Valdetaro 1
Competency Theme Themes The Competency theme is a special Boost child theme designed to enable focus on competencies in any discipline, for which learning plans are uploaded. Greg Rich Debonair 1
Zebra Themes A dynamic theme using @media queries to modify the layout on the fly. Danny Wahl 1
Education Book Themes Education Book has a simple and clean design. It has a flexible system that enable the administrator to adjust the top menu and choose your own favorite color scheme. Jessica Wu 1
Red Drop Down Menus Themes Theme developed for the National Training Federation Wales. Jon Witts 1
MultiLayout Themes MultiLayout is a theme with minimal styling which enables various 1, 2 or 3 column page layouts to be used from within the single layout file with little recoding (one line to be uncommented). It is intended to be used as a parent theme for further styling (in the same manner as Base/Standard) rather than as a complete site theme on its own. Alongside the multiple layouts, it also has additional block regions above and below main content to provide maximum flexibility for the layout of any page. Richard Oelmann 1
Université Themes The general aim of the theme, is to have a nice slightly corporate looking theme, which is fairly easy to completely change the colour scheme of, so that the administrator can more easily make it fit with their own institution’s corp id. Rolley Tickner 1
Auto Black Themes Auto Black moodle template is tested on moodle 2.0 or above, It has a dark background and simple design. Jack Zhou 1
Aerie Themes Fluid-width three column theme with a settings page and six extra block positions. Miriam Laidlaw 1
liven Themes A two column theme with a custom login page. Custom menu should be enabled in order to display user info in header. From Newschool Learning. John St 1
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
BOARD Themes BOARD is a beautiful one column theme for Moodle 3.0.X to brings a unified solution for access in desktop or mobile. This theme also features: (1) redesign of all the icons for resources and activities, (2) single pulldown menu in a mobile style and (3) customisation of logo and color. Rodrigo Brandão 1
Taleem Themes Taleem is a responsive multi-purpose education multicolor Moodle theme which is ideal for educational and academic institutions websites. Vowel Web 1
Atto HTML editor Text editor Lightweight, accessible, fast, mobile friendly text editor. Damyon Wiese 58
Marklar Text editor Reclaim the control over formatting your text with this Markdown friendly editor for Moodle. Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that is automatically converted to structurally valid HTML. David Mudrák 30
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
Superscript/subscript editor Text editor This is not a general purpose editor. Instead it is for inputting text with just superscripts and subscripts in question types. Tim Hunt 6
Vi like editor Text editor This is vi for Moodle. No really - it works! Why? Why not ? Damyon Wiese 6
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
Alternative PHP cache (APC) Stores The alternative PHP cache (APC) is an opcode cache for PHP that provides a persistent application data store cache to PHP applications. This plugin allows the use of that APC data store as a Moodle cache store. In turn allowing you to use APC within Moodle. Sam Hemelryk 5
WinCache cache Stores Plugin to enable MUC access to the WinCache PHP extension available on Windows platforms. Ryan Panning 4
Memcached Cluster Stores Memcached caching plugin that allows separate but synced stores, particularly useful for load balanced installs. Eric Merrill 3
XCache Stores XCache is a PHP opcode cacher designed to accelerate the performance of PHP execution. One of the features it provides is a variable data store that can be used within PHP code to persist variables between requests. This plugin is an XCache cache store designed to utilise that variable data store and allow Moodle to make better use of XCache. Sam Hemelryk 3
Elastic Search engines This plugin allows Moodle to use Elasticsearch as the search engine for Moodle's Global Search. The following features are provided by this plugin: Multiple versions of Elasticsearch, File indexing, Request signing, compatible with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Respects Moodle Proxy settings, Image recognition and webservices. Catalyst IT 22
Postgres Full Text Search Search engines A Moodle search plugin implemented using Postgres full text indexing with optional file indexing using Apache Tika. Matt Clarkson 11
Algolia Search engines This plugin provides Algolia integration for Moodle's Global Search. Algolia is a hosted Search as a Service provider making it easy for websites to integrate search without any need to install/maintain additional servers. It currently offers a free plan with 10k records and 100k API calls per month. Prateek Sachan 1
Azure Search Search engines This plugin allows Moodle to use Microsoft Azure Search as the search engine for Moodle's Global Search. Catalyst IT 1
Question trends SCORM It lets you see trends in your scorm activity Ankit Agarwal 34
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
Microsoft 365 Repository Repositories This plugin provides access to Microsoft 365 as a repository. Specifically, includes OneDrive for Business, Office Video, Office Delve as well as SharePoint Document Libraries and Group Files associated with Moodle courses. Enovation Dev Team 70
Personal YouTube Repositories Moodle repository plugin used to browse personal YouTube channels in order to publish public, unlisted and private videos. Roberto Pinna 32
Poodll Repository Repositories The Poodll repository allows you to record audio or video directly, to draw pictures or take webcam "snaps." Justin Hunt 22
AI Text to Image Repositories A repository that adds the ability to get AI generated imaged directly into Moodle, using OpenAI API. Yedidia Klein 21
Record Audio Repositories Allows audio recordings to be made and uploaded/inserted anywhere that files can be picked from repositories - including via the "Moodle Media" button in the WYSIWYG editor. Paul Nicholls 19
Pixabay Media Repositories A repository for popular free image site - pixabay.com Yedidia Klein 18
Open Source Physics Repositories This plugin lets you download any EJS application stored in the OSP-Compadre library (http://www.compadre.org/osp) directly from your Moodle. When used in combination with the EJSApp plugin, you will be able not only to access, search and download these applications but also to add them to your Moodle courses as activities automatically. Luis de la Torre 18
Nextcloud Repositories Enable users to upload files from their private storage directly into Moodle. Supports Nextcloud and ownCloud! Learnweb – University of Münster 17
ownCloud Repositories Enable users to upload files from their private storage directly into Moodle. Supports Nextcloud and ownCloud! Learnweb – University of Münster 16
GitHub Repositories The github repository allows zip archives for your git repositories to be downloaded through any tag and branch. Dan Poltawski 15
Amazon S3 bucket Repositories S3 folder (bucket) repository. Renaat Debleu 14
Evernote Repositories Repository to access the content of your notes from your Evernote account. Frédéric Massart ⭐ 13
Mediawiki Repositories A repository allowing multiple instances that can each connect to any mediawiki site. Aparup Banerjee 12
Geogebra materials Repositories Enables usage of filepicker to add links to GeoGebra Materials. Also used in GeoGebra question type and assignment for choosing the URL of the material. International GeoGebra Institute 11
Searchable filesystem Repositories A filesystem-based repository focused on searchable capabilities, ideal for directories with lots (thousands) of files at server side. Jordi Pujol-Ahulló 10
Microsoft OneNote Repositories This plugin allows the user to browse their OneNote Online content, such as notebooks, sections, and pages using the Moodle file picker UI. It also allows them to download the content of their OneNote page. Enovation Dev Team 9