Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Music Theory Question types Question type supporting several exercises for music theory instruction. Eric Brisson 43
Kprime(ETH) Question types A four option multiple true-false question type for moodle, as introduced by Krebs (1997). Kprime questions consist of an item stem and four corresponding statements or options. ETH Zürich 43
Regular expression short answer Question types This question type (for the Moodle quiz module) aims at a more advanced system of student's response analysis, through the use of regular expresssions. This question type is an extension of the SHORTANSWER type. It can be used on its own and can also be incorporated into the existing Cloze (embedded) question type. Joseph Rézeau 42
Poodll Recording Question types An audio/video recording question type for Moodle. It uses HTML5 audio and video recording on supported browsers, and falls back to flash and other technologies where required. It is also possible to provide responses to questions using the Poodll whiteboard feature. It requires the Poodll filter be installed. Recording from mobile devices is also supported. Justin Hunt 39
VPL Question Question types VPL Questions are questions that can fit within a Moodle quiz. They are intended to create small to medium coding exercises, based on the Virtual Programming Lab plugin. They are designed to offer a simple interface for students, while keeping the power and versatility of Virtual Programming Labs. Astor Bizard 39
Wiris Quizzes Commons question type Question types Wiris Quizzes Commons question type is the engine needed for each WIRIS question type to work properly. It is a necessary component for all Wiris Quizzes question types. WIRIS team 37
Correct writing Question types Correct Writing question type are focused on the learning grammar of the new language. It can found various mistakes in student's response and give mistake messages and hints. Oleg Sychev 36
Select missing words Question types This question type allows students to complete a paragraph of text by selecting the missing words using drop-down menus. Tim Hunt 33
OU multiple response Question types The main difference from the standard Moodle multiple choice question type is in the way that grading works. When creating the question, the teacher just indicates which choices are correct. If there are n correct choices, then the student scores 1/n for each correct choice. If they select too many choices, then incorrect choices outweigh correct ones. Tim Hunt 32
Concept Map Question Type Question types Question type that allows students to draw and submit a Concept Map as answer Jorge Villalon 29
ShortMath Question types A question type for writing beautiful mathematical expressions using MathQuill. This question type is an extension of the shortanswer question type. André Storhaug 29
Algebra Question types Question type where the student must answer by typing an algebra formula. Correctness can be checked by three different methods. Jean-Michel Védrine 28
MTF (ETH) Question types Multi True false in one stem (question). Brief: The MC question type as it exists in Moodle is not very ideal, since you can only configure questions which are not very well designed regarding best practices of MC questions. Teachers can have more than one true/false question in same stem. this saves creating new questions for each stem. especially when it comes to an essay followed by many questions. ETH Zürich 27
Variable numeric Question types A calculated numeric question type with variable and expression evaluation. Random values are generated for each student attempting the quiz. Tim Hunt 25
Drag and drop markers Question types The student can drag markers to indicate key features on an image. Tim Hunt 24
Wiris Quizzes Short-Answer question type Question types This is one of the seven question types of the Wiris Quizzes set. Please install Wiris Quizzes to obtain the entire plugin package with seven question types. WIRIS team 23
Wiris Quizzes Embedded answer (Cloze) question type Question types This is one of the seven question types of the Wiris Quizzes set. Please install Wiris Quizzes to obtain the entire plugin package with seven question types: WIRIS team 22
Wiris Quizzes Multi Choice question type Question types This is one of the seven question types of the Wiris Quizzes set. Please install Wiris Quizzes to obtain the entire plugin package with seven question types. WIRIS team 21
Wiris Quizzes Matching question type Question types This is one of the seven question types of the Wiris Quizzes set. Please install Wiris Quizzes to obtain the entire plugin package with seven question types. WIRIS team 19
Freehand Drawing Question types Freehand Drawing is a question type for Moodle which allows examinees to draw their solution in a quiz. Jacob Shapiro 19
ProFormA Programming Question Type Question types Quiz question type for automatically graded programming questions. Questions can be created in Moodle or imported as ProFormA tasks (https://github.com/ProFormA/proformaxml). Plugin requires the qbehaviour_adaptiveexternalgrading plugin and ProFormA Praktomat (https://github.com/elearning-ostfalia/Proforma-Praktomat). Karin Borm 19
Wiris Quizzes Essay question type Question types This is one of the seven question types of the Wiris Quizzes set. Please install Wiris Quizzes local plugin to obtain the entire plugin package with seven question types. WIRIS team 18
Set splitting question Question types The splitset question is alike a matrix question but with simpler model. Il allows layouting a serie of questions with a common set of possible answers (f.e. yes/no, allowed/not allowed, less/more/equal ...). Valery Fremaux 18
Variable numeric set Question types A calculated numeric question type with variable and expression evaluation. All values are precalculated although a question can have several variants with different variable values for each variant. Tim Hunt 17
Random select answers Question types A multiple-choice, multiple-response question type with particular scoring rules. Recommended if your question has many correct and incorrect answers from which "pool" a set number can be selected at runtime. Joseph Rézeau 17
Wiris Quizzes - True/False question type Question types This is one of the seven question types of the Wiris Quizzes set. Please install Wiris Quizzes to obtain the entire plugin package with seven question types. WIRIS team 16
Freehand drawing (ETH) Question types Free-Hand drawing question type. It is SVG based, and comes in two modes: simple mode and advanced mode. Teachers can annotate on student drawings by drawing over them. ETH Zürich 15
Variable numeric set with units Question types This question type can have randomly selected numbers, and the student's answer must include the correct unit. Unit grading is done using the pmatch algorithm. Tim Hunt 15
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
Multinumerical Question types This question type allows asking questions such as : Please enter X, Y, and Z, such as : X + Y + Z > 12 Nicolas Dunand 13
Pattern match with molecular editor Question types A question type where the user enters their response using the JavaScript Molecular Editor, and the response is then graded using the OU's pattern-match algorithm. Tim Hunt 13
Single choice (ETH) Question types Teachers can have more than one (single) true/false question in same stem. this saves creating new questions for each stem. especially when it comes to an essay followed by many questions. ETH Zürich 12
Concordance of reasoning Question types Question type subplugin for concordance of reasoning questions (also known as Script concordance test). Issam Taboubi 11
Formula with steps RÉCIT Question types This question type is derived from the Formulas question. It allows you to generate a problem containing random variables or a table of values. It allows students to easily upload a photo of their mathematical approach. Étienne Roy 11
Short Answer Similarity Question types A short answer similarity question type that allows a students written response answer to be automatically marked, using a multi-sentence similarity calculator. Yash Srivastava 10
Spreadsheet Question types An improvement of the short answer that integrates a spreadsheet interface with an answer helper to limit to minimum input errors. leo zav 10
Java Molecular Editor Question types Question type created by Dan Stowell. The student draw a molecule as a response to a question using the editor and that response is graded by comparing against various model answers. Old version of the JME question type were using a java applet, but this question type now uses a Javascript applet: JSME. JSME is a free and Open source molecule editor written in JavaScript. Jean-Michel Védrine 8
Drag and Drop Organic Chemistry Nomenclature Question types Students construct the names of organic molecules by dragging and dropping. Carl LeBlond 8
Crossword question type Question types A crossword question type for Moodle. Tim Hunt 8
Blocklymoodle Question types Blocklymoodle this is plugin for Moodle v3.2. Blocklymoodle — this integration in moodle, plugin Blockly create company Google Vlad Pototskiy 8
Molsimilarity Question types Moodle plugin allowing the teacher to ask a chemistry related question by drawing the expected answer. The student will answer by drawing the response. Louis Plyer 7
Opaque Question types This question type uses web services to connect to other question engines like OpenMark or ounit, so that their questions can be used in a Moodle quiz. Tim Hunt 7
Name to Structure or Reaction (MarvinJS) Question types Name to structure (or reaction) question type. You can ask students to draw chemical structures or reactions. This plugin requires MarvinJS from Chemaxon and openbabel. Carl LeBlond 7
Select Atoms or Molecules (MarvinJS) Question types Have students select atoms, molecules or reactions with this question type. Requires MarvinJS downloadable from www.chemaxon.com. Carl LeBlond 6
POAS abstract question Question types Abstract question type used in questions developed by POAS department of Volgograd State Technical University. Contains some generally useful question type code. Oleg Sychev 6
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression Question types A question that could check student's response against several regular expressions and could give next character and next word hints. If you do not know what regular expression is, it could also work like Moodle Shortanswer question with hints, just choose "Moodle shortanswer" as notation and you could enter answers just like in shortanswer question type. Oleg Sychev 6
LTI Question Type (External Tool) Question types External Question Type (based on LTI) ETH Zürich 6
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
Fischer Projections Question types Student must construct Fischer projections by drag and drop of groups onto a predefined template. You can ask questions like; Draw L-alanine? Convert the following structure into a Fischer projection? Carl LeBlond 5
Concordance of judgment Question types Question type subplugin for concordance of judgment questions, based on the main question type for concordance questions (https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_tcs). Issam Taboubi 5