Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Chunkupload General plugins (Local) This plugin offers a new form element for moodle forms. The form element is a file upload field, which uploads one file as multiple small chunks. While uploading the form element shows a progress bar to the user. Learnweb – University of Münster 5
Cincopa Atto Plugin Atto Cincopa Atto Editor plugin adds button to your text editor which allows you to insert Cincopa media gallery. It can be used on any post or page on your site. In order to use this plugin you will need to install Cincopa Media Filter plugin and register at https://cincopa.com Oren Shmulevich 5
Cincopa Rich Media Assignment Submission Assignment submissions Enhance moodle's standard assignment submission process to include streaming videos, image galleries, audio and large documents without adding any load to your server or being restricted by file size. This plugin allows students and teachers to easily upload and record from webcam/app different types of multimedia including videos, images, and audios. Teachers can view streaming video and listen to audio directly from the site and grade it without the need to download first. Cincopa Submissions plugin for Moodle is a great solution for teachers who want to interact with students through their educational portal. Teachers can create assignments for students and collect various multimedia materials from students and required to fulfill their work. Download Oren Shmulevich 15
Cincopa TinyMCE TinyMCE (legacy) Cincopa TinyMCE Editor plugin adds button to your text editor which allows you to insert Cincopa media gallery. It can be used on any post or page on your site. In order to use this plugin you will need to install Cincopa Media Filter plugin and register at https://cincopa.com Oren Shmulevich 2
Cincopa Video, Audio and Images Filter Filters Add HTML5 videos, photo galleries, music, podcasts and playlists to any section of your moodle site. Supported formats mp4, mp3, jpg, wmv and many others. Enjoy more than 100 designed templates for slideshows, video players, video portal, Lightbox and many more. Cincopa is fully hosted and seamlessly integrated with a CDN which makes sure it will work fast and smooth without any load on your moodle server. Oren Shmulevich 25
CLAMPMail Blocks CLAMPMail is a Moodle block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses. CLAMPMail is a fork maintained by the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project which sends attachments via email instead of providing a download link within Moodle. Charles Fulton 1
Classic Themes Theme classic is a simple theme based on the Boost theme. It uses the 3 column grid and the navigation block and settings block. Bas Brands 6
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
ClassLink OAuth2 Authentication The ClassLink OAuth2 plugin provides single-sign-on functionality with ClassLink LaunchPad using configurable identity providers and the scope of ClassLink OAuth2. Gopal Sharma 1
Classroom format Course formats This is a type of course format which you can use to manage classroom sessions inside the course. You can create different sessions inside a course which can have different locations in different classrooms. Locations and its Classroom can be created on site-level. eNyota Learning 3
Classroom Video On Demand Repositories The Moodle plugin provides a rich integration between Classroom Video on Demand and your Moodle courses. Users of Moodle will now be able to embed Classroom Video resources directly inside their courses, without having to leave the LMS. Full videos, video segments, custom content, and web channels are among the types of supported resources. Chris Plapp 1
Classroom Video On Demand Media Filter Filters Transforms Classroom Video on Demand content URLs generated by the Classroom Video repository plugin into the product's embedded media player. Supports full video, video segments, custom content, and web channels. Requires installation and use of the Classroom Video on Demand repository plugin. Chris Plapp 2
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
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
Clear Lessons Video Activities The ability to add videos from the Clear Lessons platform to a course. Josh Willcock 2
ClickView Integration (Local) General plugins (Local) The ClickView settings plugin for Moodle enables you to configure and setup ClickView in Moodle. Shale Kuzmanovsk 2
ClickView Video (Activity) Activities The ClickView activity plugin for Moodle enables you to quickly and safely browse through your entire ClickView library, the ClickView exchange and your own personal workspace from within Moodle. Shale Kuzmanovsk 3
Clipboard Blocks The Clipboard block enables you to duplicate activities and resources across your courses via the block. Tomonori Maruyama 14
Cloud Poodll Assignment Submission - audio and video assessments Assignment submissions Cloud Poodll Assignment Submission allows students to record audio or video as assignment submissions. It has no dependencies. The recordings are stored in the Poodll cloud and the teacher has a choice of audio and video recorders to use. Justin Hunt 5
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
Cloud Poodll for TinyMCE - audio and video recording TinyMCE (legacy) An audio and video recorder for Moodle. The recordings are stored in the cloud and can be automatically subtitled in English, French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese. Administrators can choose from recorder skins, and use Moodle capabilities to control the display of icons. Cloud Poodll for TinyMCE is not dependent on any other plugin. Justin Hunt 1
Cloud Poodll Question - audio and video assessments Question types The Cloud Poodll audio video recording question allows students to record audio or video directly into Moodle quizzes. It has no dependencies and recordings are stored in the Poodll cloud. The teacher has a choice of audio and video recorders to use. It supports time limits. Justin Hunt 5
Cloudfront URL Signer Filters This Moodle filter recognises cloudfront URLs from the URLs defined in the filter settings and replaces them with signed URLs. Owen Barritt 5
Cloudmetrics Administration tool Generic admin tool for defining various realtime metrics Catalyst IT 2
CloudxLab General plugins (Local) Provide cloud based lab with Machine Learning and Big Data technologies inside your LMS. Sandeep Akode 1
Cloudyday Themes Cloudy Day is a fixed width 2 column theme with tabbed navigation. Cloudy Day is designed to make content look clean and crisp making use of the new Moodle icons as well. It also adds top level navigation across the top with a 'My Courses' menu added as well. Course content can appear to be a 'Tabs' and when using 'One section per page' offer an extended set of navigation tabs. Jason Cleaver 2
CLOZE Editor Other tools An interface that integrates with Moodles existing HTML editor (HTMLArea in 1.9 and TinyMCE in 2.x) to support teachers in creating CLOZE (Embedded answers) questions in the GIFT syntax. It will also read and edit existing CLOZE items. Andreas Glombitza 7
Cloze Editor TinyMCE (legacy) An interface that integrates with Moodle 3.x, 4.0 and 4.1 TinyMCE (legacy) editor to support teachers in creating CLOZE (Embedded answers) questions in the GIFT syntax. It will also read and edit existing CLOZE items. THIS PLUGIN WILL NOT WORK IN MOODLE 4.2 ONWARDS. For Moodle 4.1, 4.2 and newer branches please see https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_cloze Andreas Glombitza 51
Cloze editor Atto An Atto editor plugin to help create embedded answer questions Daniel Thies 86
Cloze question editor TinyMCE Make it easy for users to create cloze question types via the TinyMCE editor. Stephan Robotta 12
CMM - Copy File to Moodle Repositories This plugin supports uploading documents into Moodle courses from the Course Materials Manager (CMM), a component of Ellucian’s Colleague Portal. Ellucian Inc 1
CMM - Link to Course Material Repositories This plugin supports linking to documents in the Course Materials Manager (CMM), a component of Ellucian’s Colleague Portal. Ellucian Inc 1
CoBRA Activities CoBRA helps French speaking learners to read texts in English and Dutch, getting contextualized information on all words and expression of the text and with the ability to collect words and expressions into a personal glossary. Jean-Roch Meurisse 3
Code Atto A plugin for atto to easily insert inline code tags. Astor Bizard 7
Code-checker General plugins (Local) A tool for developers that helps them follow Moodle's coding style. Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 60
Codebox PoodLL Widget / Generico This uses highlight.js ( https://highlightjs.org ) to display code snippets nicely. Poodll Guy 3
CodePen Filters A filter to embed Pens from their URL on codepen.io Arnaud Trouvé 7
Codeposty SMS Sender Notifications Codespoty sends SMS from moodle using the SMS services of www.codeposty.ir and it is based on the SMS platforms of Iran. Maktabe Majazi.com 2
CodeRunner Question types A question type that allows question authors to set programming questions in which the student answer is code in some programming language, which is graded by running it. More generally it can handle any question to which the answer is text that can be graded by a computer program written by the question author. Richard Lobb 127
Cohort auto roles management Administration tool This plugin is based on the core tool_cohortroles plugin and allows the selection of a role rather than an individual to assign a manager/mentor/parent to a user. If a user is assigned the selected role at any level - (site/course/category etc) they will be assigned as the mentor/manager/parent to all users within the cohorts selected they are also a member of. Dan Marsden 18
Cohort based additional html settings. Administration tool Allows additionalhtml settings to be applied based on the users site-level cohorts Catalyst IT 12
Cohort external database Administration tool This plugin creates site-level cohorts using a connection to an external database. (similar to enrol_database plugin but instead of creating enrolments it creates site-level cohorts.) Dan Marsden 24
Cohort greeting Enrolment This plugin is based on the core enrolment cohort. Within this plugin we add a course greeting to the plugin similar to the self enrol plugin. Benjamin Wolf 20
Cohort members to group Enrolment Cohort to group sync for users already enrolled via different method. David Mudrák 54
Cohort role synchronization General plugins (Local) Automatically synchronize cohort members into system roles. Paul Holden 47
Cohort synchronization Administration tool This plugin allows the synchronization of cohorts and members in cohorts from the command line. There are 2 scripts CLI to do the synchronization: cohortsync.php, cohortmembersync.php Issam Taboubi 11
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
COinS Filters The point of the filter is to automatically link from citations to the full-text of articles online, using the OpenURL mechanism. One of the easiest ways to get COinS data into a Moodle page is to drag and drop a citation from the Zotero citation management software into the Moodle html editor. As long as Zotero is configured to 'Copy as HTML' in the 'Quick Copy' setting, this will include a COinS and formatted reference when you drag and drop into an HTML editor. Daniel Villareal 2
Collabora - Collaborative document editing Activities This activity module provides a document editor for real-time collaboration. Changes to a document are immediately reflected for other users who are accessing the same document. Moodle users can collaborate on simple text files, word, spreadsheet and presentation documents or upload a document. The plugin requires a self-hosted Collabora Online Server (CODE) that is accessed using the so-called WOPI protocol. Learnweb – University of Münster 49
Collaborate Activities Moodle integration plugin for Collaborate. Use of this plugin requires a Collaborate license. Open LMS Development 32