Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Moodle welcome General plugins (Local) Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation Bas Brands 136
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 - 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 - Calendar format Course formats This course format displays a course in a calendar format. Nicolas Bretin 16
oohoo - TabTopics format Course formats This Moodle course format displays each section in a tab Nicolas Bretin 28
Music Theory Question types Question type supporting several exercises for music theory instruction. Eric Brisson 43
Dyslexic mod Blocks This block allow to change the default font of your Moodle site by a specific font for dyslexic people : OpenDyslexic (from http://opendyslexic.org/). Éric Bugnet 12
Statistics (Graph Stats) Blocks Little graph with visitors statistics Éric Bugnet 33
SWF-Activity-Module Activities The SWF Activity Module is a Moodle plugin for deploying multimedia Flash learning applications, also known as Flash templates, videos, and playlists. Matt Bury 11
Media Player Activities Plays audio, video, and playlist files Matt Bury 43
Presentation Activities Displays multimedia HTML5 presentations and slide shows in users' web browsers. A web friendly and more feature rich alternative to MS PowerPoint and PDF. However, presentations must be uploaded to moodledata via FTP and you'll need to learn some basic HTML to create presentations for it. Matt Bury 66
Crot Plagiarism Checker Plagiarism This FREE plugin is aimed at digital plagiarism detection: it uncovers assignments copied from peers at the same institution. The module is language independent. Maintainer: Sergey Butakov More information: crotsoftware.com Sergey Butakov 13
Leganto reading list Activities The Leganto reading list module enables a teacher to include a selection of citations from associated Leganto reading lists directly within the content of their course. Please note that this integration plugin depends on a paid subscription to the ExLibris Leganto reading lists service (see http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/Leganto for details). Tony Butler 3
Aspire resource list Activities The Aspire resource list module enables a teacher to include a selection of resources from associated Talis Aspire resource lists directly within the content of their course. Please note that this plugin depends on a paid subscription to the Talis Aspire reading lists service (http://campus.talisaspire.com/). Tony Butler 4
NLN Learning Object Activities An activity module that allows teachers to find and add NLN Learning Objects to their Moodle courses with a minimum of effort. Originally developed by Xtensis.co.uk as a Moodle 1.8 resource type, the "Noodle" plugin ceased to be maintained when the NLN Materials website changed hands in July 2011. This new development is a direct conversion of the original plugin into a Moodle 2.x activity module. Tony Butler 6
QuickScan Dyslexia Screening Blocks This is the Pico QuickScan Dyslexia Screening block for Moodle 2.3+. Tony Butler 7
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
Structured feedback Assignment feedbacks An assignment subplugin that enables teachers to provide individual feedback comments on any number of configurable criteria. Tony Butler 29
StrikePlagiarism.com Plagiarism Strikeplagiarism.com is a commercial plagiarism detection system which requires a paid subscription to use. To use this plugin you must purchase a subscription from www.strikeplagiarism.com Sebsoft BV 5
Moderated RSS Blocks The Sebsoft Moderated RSS Plugin offers you the possibility to load multiple feeds into a block, allowing for authorizing each and every item. Sebsoft BV 7
Anti-hammering / Login blocker Authentication The Sebsoft Anti Hammering Authentication Plugin offers you the possibility to prevent hammering your login system. This plugin can be configured to "smart detect" so called hammering on IP basis or for users in general. Sebsoft BV 21
User Restore Administration tool The Sebsoft User Restore Plugin offers you the possibility to restore user accounts that were deleted from moodle. Sebsoft BV 29
ClassicPay Enrolment The Sebsoft ClassicPay enrolment Plugin offers you the possibility to set up paid courses. It uses the PayNL payment gateway to provide payments supporting a wide variety of payment methods. Sebsoft BV 32
User Suspension Administration tool The Sebsoft User Suspension Plugin offers you the possibility to automate the process of suspending users and/or removing user accounts (using moodle's default methods to delete users). Sebsoft BV 57
Coupon Blocks The Sebsoft Coupon Plugin offers you the possibility to create coupons for various levels of course access. Using a coupon code, users will be enrolled into courses that are attached to the coupon. Sebsoft BV 105
Restriction by enrolment method Availability restriction Moodle availability plugin which lets users restrict resources, activities and sections based on enrolment methods Jorge C. 9
Timestat Blocks Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. Jorge C. 42
Multitopic format Course formats Shows multiple topics per page, with tabbed navigation between pages. Topics are collapsible, and can optionally be timed. If you like the Multitopic format, and use the latest version, please support the project by reporting any bugs you find. James Calder 95
Miro Translate Activities this plugin you can link this project a Miro Translate project in your Moodle courses Samuel Calegari 1
AWS Chat Block Blocks This plugin provides a chat block powered by AWS AI, with customizable AI personality Angelo Calò 1
Upload block settings Administration tool This plugin allows administrators to upload a CSV file containing block settings for courses. You can add or delete blocks, so the tool enables you to apply a default set of blocks for some or all courses on a site. You can also reset the set of course blocks to the default for that course format. Eoin Campbell 8
Microsoft Word File Import/Export General plugins (Local) This plugin is a shell plugin that has dependencies on all Microsoft Word File Import/Export set plugins. Installing this plugin forces installation of the set. Eoin Campbell 10
HTML Review Page Export (Question Format) Question formats HTML review table is a format suitable for quick review of questions (including metadata) in a question bank category. Eoin Campbell 10
Microsoft Word file Import/Export (Glossary) General plugins (Local) Import the contents of a Microsoft Word file (in '.docx' format) into a glossary, splitting it into terms based on the heading styles. The file can be from either Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. Also supports exporting glossaries to Word format, for round-trip editing. Eoin Campbell 13
Microsoft Word file Import/Export (Lesson) General plugins (Local) Import the contents of a Word file in '.docx' format file into a Lesson, splitting it into pages based on the "Heading 1" style. Also supports exporting lessons to Word format, for round-trip editing. Eoin Campbell 21
Upload enrolment methods Administration tool This plugin allows administrators add the "Course meta link" and "Cohort sync" enrolment methods to a range of courses from a CSV file, and specify the role for the methods participants. They can also delete, enable or disable existing enrolment methods in a course. Eoin Campbell 49
Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Book) Book tools Import the contents of a Microsoft Word file into a book, splitting it into chapters and (optionally) subchapters, based on the heading styles. The file can be saved from Microsoft Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice, as long as it has a '.docx' suffix. Also supports exporting books to Word format, for round-trip editing. Eoin Campbell 118
Microsoft Word File Import (Atto) Atto Import entire Microsoft Word 2010 (.docx) files, including tables, embedded images and Microsoft Equation Editor equations, cleanly. It also imports LibreOffice and Google Docs files saved to .docx format, but not nearly as well. Eoin Campbell 158
Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Question Format) Question formats Import questions (including images and equations) from structured tables in a Word file (.docx format) into a course question bank, and also export questions to a Word file, allowing for round-trip editing. Eoin Campbell 183
Good Habits Activity Activities The intention of this plugin is to help track habits over time. Within an e-learning context this may help cultivate behaviours that improve learning outcomes. Joe Cape 13
Login/Logout user redirection Authentication Allows sysadmin to force redirection to certain pages upon login or logout. Felipe Carasso 18
Email-based self-registration with admin confirmation Authentication Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. Felipe Carasso 124
sitenavigation Blocks A block to navigate through all categories and subcategories of Moodle sites merged with my own previous myCourses Block to navigate own courses. Rosario Carcò 1
Registration duration to the site General plugins (Local) This plugin allows you to set start and end dates of registration, via the user profile fields. A scheduled task runs every 10 minutes to suspend or activate relevant users. Camille Carlier 5
Course module access (section level participation) Reports Participation report tailored to sections as opposed to activities. Luke Carrier 1
Course module modification notification General plugins (Local) This simple plugin sends users daily digests of changed content within their enrolled courses. Luke Carrier 10
Power users generator Administration tool This generator uses the Marvel API to generate users from your favorite characters in your Moodle instance. David Carrillo 6
laura Themes Laura is a Modified Moodle Theme designed and tested for Moodle 2.2 by Fernando Casas Osorio from an original Moodle 1.9 theme (primary-school) designed by ThemZa.com http://www.themza.com Fernando Casas Osorio 4
UNEDTrivial (spaced quizzes) Activities UNEDTrivial is an activity module that allows the teacher to create tests based on learning concepts like testing effect and spaced education. In addition, UNEDTrivial uses resources related to gamification to increase student engagement. Juan David Castellón Fuentes 4
Credly Blocks A moodle block to integrate with the Credly Open Credit API Deds Castillo 8