Favourite plugins

List of plugins that have been marked as favourite by the Moodle community members.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Favourited
Programmed responses Question types Question type which gets the question answer through a set of editable and non-native PHP functions. Useful for maths or statistics exercices which requires complex operations to get the answer. Gerard Cuello Adell 5
javaunittest Question types Hallo Moodle Users. We have developed a new question-type called javaunittest and want to share it with the community. The plugin is a new version of the sojunit questtion type developed by Süreç Özcan for Moodle 1.8 (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102690). Gergely Bertalan 4
Lewis Structures Question types The Lewis structure question type allows teachers to design problems in which students must assign formal charges or add lone pair electrons/radicals to atoms in molecules. This question type requires Marvin Applets by Chemaxon. Carl LeBlond 4
Electron Pushing / Curved Arrow (MarvinJS) Question types Javascript Curved Arrow / Electron Pushing question based on MarvinJS. Can be used to test and strengthen students knowledge of reaction mechanism, resonance and curved arrow notation. This plugin requires MarvinJS from Chemaxon. Carl LeBlond 4
Music Key Signature Question types This question type deals with key signatures and may be useful for music theory instruction. The respondent is given a tonality and is prompted to enter the corresponding key signature. A question bank is included, including all major and minor keys in treble and bass clefs. Answers are entered in a graphical user interface. Jay Huber 4
Name to Structure or Reaction Question types Name to structure (or reaction) question type. You can ask studnts to draw chemical structures or reactions. This plugin requires Marvin Applets from Chemaxon. Carl LeBlond 3
Calculated Objects Question types This a Moodle question type which extends the built-in 'calculated' question type. Teachers can create questions like, How much is {apples} + {oranges} Nick Freear 3
External task Question types This plugin allows for external tasks to be included in a quiz, followed by manual grading. External tasks are anything that is done outside Moodle - e.g. edit a spreadsheet, compose an email, paint a wall... Brendon Hatcher 3
Newman Projections Question types Drag and drop question in which students build Newman projections. Tests students knowledge of drawing and interpreting Newman Projections. Carl LeBlond 3
JACK Question types The JACK question type allows the input of program code by the participant. The response can be submitted as a file upload or online text. The data entered is then retrieved in the background by JACK and an assessment is transferred back to Moodle. This assessment is therefore time-delayed. JACK is an automatic exercise and examination system developed by the University of Duisburg-Essen. David Bogner 2
vmatching Question types Vertical Matching Ravi Vare 2
Music Scale Question types This question type deals with musical scales and may be useful for music theory instruction. The respondent is given a key and tonic, and is prompted to enter a scale. A question bank is included, including all major and minor scales, with and without a key signature. Answers are entered in a graphical user interface. Jay Huber 2
Music Interval Question types This question type deals with music intervals. The respondent is given a note and is prompted to enter a second note at a given interval. Answers are entered in a graphical user interface. Jay Huber 1
Reacsimilarity Question types Moodle plugin allowing the teacher to ask a chemistry related question in which the expected answer is a chemical reaction. The student will answer by drawing the reaction. Louis Plyer 1
UB Hot Spots Question types The “Universitat de Barcelona” (University of Barcelona) through its “Programa de Mejora e Innovación Docente” (Programme of Educational Improvement and Innovation) offers the community a new question type for Moodle called UBhotspot. This new type of question allows the teacher to create multiple areas or spots within an image for self-evaluation. Yolanda Ordóñez Rufat 1
Structure match with editor Question types A question type that is answered by drawing a structure in the ChemDoodle Web Sketcher. The drawing is converted to InChI and compared to the given answer(s). The teacher can give multiple correct or semi-correct answers. Requires OpenBabel to be installed (in /usr/local/bin/obabel or else the code needs amending in question.php). Fredrik Wallner 1
Electron Pushing / Curved Arrow Question types Curved Arrow / Electron Pushing question can be used to test and strengthen students knowledge of reaction mechanism, resonance and curved arrow notation. This plugin requires Marvin Applets from Chemaxon. Carl LeBlond 1
Select Atoms or Molecules Question types Atoms, molecules and reaction selection question type. Requires Marvin Applets downloadable from www.chemaxon.com. Carl LeBlond 1
Sassessment Question types Speech Assessment question type. Students can make online voice recording with answers and speech to text at the same time. Question type compares texts and sets grades. Igor Nikulin 1
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
H5P content types Question formats This plugin imports various H5P content types into Moodle question types Daniel Thies 76
Gift with medias format Question formats Question import format similar to Gift and uses the same syntax, but instead of a text file it imports a zip file containing the gift text file and media files (images, sounds, ...); Jean-Michel Védrine 39
CSV format Question formats This plugin will be used to import and export multichoice( 4 choices ) questions having one or two answers from a CSV(Comma separated value) file into the question bank. Note: Only multichoice questions are supported as of now. Gopal Sharma 34
Moodle glossary entries Question formats A question format plugin to convert between quiz questions and glossary entries Daniel Thies 26
HotPot question import for Moodle 2.x Question formats Import HotPot files to Moodle 2.x question bank Gordon Bateson 24
Cross XML format Question formats This input format plugin is a handy utility that converts questions from one question type to another. Daniel Thies 18
Print out for review Question formats This plugin provides an additional export format for questions, which presents them in an easily readable, clear format, also suited for printout. stefan weber 18
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
Canvas Question formats Question import format to import questions saved as an XML file from the Canvas LMS into Moodle. Jean-Michel Védrine 9
QuestionTeX format Question formats QuestionTeX is a collection of LaTeX macros that enable authors to create multiple-choice tests. Leopold Talirz 8
Import all or nothing format Question formats Question import format that takes a Moodle XML file and import all multichoice questions as all or nothing multichoice questions. Companion of the qtype_multichoiceset plugin Jean-Michel Védrine 6
Simple CSV format Question formats A simple format for easy and fast creating multiple choice questions with one or more correct answers and no feedback using tables in any spreadsheet by saving it as plain/csv file. Paweł Suwiński 6
'ōhie format Question formats This plugin will be used to import questions (multichoice, multichoiceset, shortanswer, essay, truefalse and numerical) from a CSV(Comma separated value) file into the question bank. 'ōhie: means easy to do in tahitian Ronan Appriou 5
Questionmark QML Importer (Alpha) Question formats Import Questionmark QML files into the Moodle question bank Tom McCracken 4
Fronter Question formats Moodle question import format to import questions saved as an XML file from the Fronter LMS into Moodle Jean-Michel Védrine 2
ProFormA format Question formats converts ProFormA tasks into proforma programming quiz questions. This question format is needed by the question type ProFormA. Karin Borm 2
CSV format import Question formats Import and export multiple choice question with five answer options. Modified from plugin originally https://moodle.org/plugins/qformat_csv contributed by Gopal Sharma. Fikri N 1
STACK 2.0 format Question formats This format imports questions saved from STACK 2 servers. Christopher Sangwin 1
Random select answers format Question formats This import format plugin takes a Moodle XML file and imports all regular multichoice questions changing them into 'Random select answers' questions. Joseph Rézeau 1
Excel Format Question formats export & import question using MS Excel/xls format prashant galagali 1
Adaptive mode (multi-part questions) Question behaviour A question behaviour designed for use by qtype_stack. Tim Hunt 27
Deferred feedback with explanation Question behaviour This question behaviour is just like deferred feedback, but with an additional input box where students can give a reason why they gave the answer they did. Tim Hunt 22
Adaptive mode (all or nothing) Question behaviour This is a question behaviour for Moodle Quiz that forces all questions to be graded all or nothing using adaptive mode. It will work with a variety of question types that normally produce credit for partially correct responses i.e. cloze, matching, OU drag and drop types etc. Daniel Thies 21
Deferred feedback (all or nothing) Question behaviour This is a question behaviour for Moodle Quiz that forces all questions to be graded all or nothing using deferred feedback mode. It will work with a variety of question types that normally produce credit for partially correct responses Daniel Thies 21
Self-assessment Question behaviour A question behaviour for manually graded question types, to let students self-assess their own response. Tim Hunt 17
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
Adaptive adapted for coderunner Question behaviour A specialised version of the standard Moodle adaptive behaviour for use with the CodeRunner plugin (qtype_coderunner). Richard Lobb 12
RegExp Adaptive mode with Help Question behaviour This plugin is one of the 2 question behaviours to be used exclusively with the regexp question type. Those behaviours enable you to take advantage of the *Help* feature, which allows the student to "buy" a letter. Joseph Rézeau 12
RegExp Adaptive mode with Help (no penalties) Question behaviour This plugin is one of the 2 question behaviours to be used exclusively with the regexp question type. Those behaviours enable you to take advantage of the *Help* feature, which allows the student to "buy" a letter. This behaviour does not cost the student any penalty when "buying" a letter. Joseph Rézeau 11
DEPRECATED: StudentQuiz behaviour Question behaviour This WAS the accompanying question behaviour plugin for the Moodle Plugin StudentQuiz --> https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_studentquiz. From StudentQuiz Version >= 3.0.0 this Question is deprecated and no longer required to use StudentQuiz. Frank Koch 9