Reviewed plugins

List of plugins with a community review.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Reviews
Essential Themes Essential is a clean and customizable theme. Essential is tested and tried by thousands of users, and ranks number one by site usage for all available third party themes. Gareth J Barnard 1
Collapsed Topics Course formats An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. Gareth J Barnard 1
Reader Activities The Reader module for Moodle 2.x tracks the students' reading achievements. Gordon Bateson 1
Booking Activities The module is perfect for managing participants and subscription of online and offline courses and events. David Bogner 2
Scheduler Activities An appointment scheduler for planning face-to-face meetings between teachers and students. Teachers can set up time slots, and students can choose one of these on Moodle. Henning Bostelmann 1
User Information Block Blocks This block intends to give the user a few shortcuts in order to navigate quickly through every Moodle site. Besides it advices the user about unread messages and information about the last access to the LMS. It's already translated into spanish, english, portuguese and chinese. Federico Botti 1
Elegance Themes Elegance is a beautiful two column Moodle theme with robust functionality and lots of custom settings. Bas Brands 1
Banners Blocks Allow community upload of graphic banners for display into an animated carousel block Iain Checkland 1
Course Menu block Blocks The Course Menu block for Moodle provides navigation between course sections (topics/weeks) Alex Contis 1
Game Activities The game activity module makes use of questions, quizzes and glossaries to create offer a variety of interactive games. Vasilis Daloukas 1
Progress Bar Blocks A time management tool for you and your students Michael de Raadt 1
Unanswered Discussions Blocks Allows users to see forum discussions that have gone unanswered Michael de Raadt 1
Restriction by course completion Availability restriction Restrict module and section access based on course completion. Renaat Debleu 1
Microsoft 365 Integration General plugins (Local) This plugin provides libraries and services that power other Microsoft 365 plugins. Enovation Dev Team 1
OpenID Connect Authentication The OpenID Connect plugin provides single-sign-on functionality using configurable identity providers. Enovation Dev Team 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 1
Microsoft Block Blocks This block provides a user-facing menu to access various Microsoft 365 integration features, resources, and settings. Enovation Dev Team 1
OneNote submissions Assignment submissions This plugin allows students to work on an assignment in OneNote. This includes creating a OneNote page associated with an assignment submission, saving student's work from OneNote into Moodle as a zip package containing the HTML and any associated images contained in the submission, and recreating the OneNote page from the zip package saved in Moodle if necessary. Enovation Dev Team 1
OneNote Feedback Assignment feedbacks This plugin allows teachers to grade and providing feedback for OneNote assignment submissions. This includes viewing a student's submission in OneNote, creating a OneNote page associated with their feedback on the submission, saving that feedback from OneNote into Moodle as a zip package containing the HTML and any associated images contained in the submission, and recreating the OneNote page from the zip package saved in Moodle if necessary. Enovation Dev Team 1
ChessBlock Blocks Chess game. Ardit Dika 1
BigBlueButtonBN Activities Integrate BigBlueButton within Moodle - including record and playback of sessions. Fred Dixon 2
Group choice Activities This module allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course. The teacher can select which groups students can chose from and the maximum number of students allowed in each group. Nicolas Dunand 2
Accessibility Blocks PLEASE NOTE: No longer being actively maintained. Provides options for changing text size and colour scheme. Settings can be saved to persist between sessions. Also integrates ATbar from Southampton University ECS. Brickfield Education Labs 1
Attendance Register Activities This is an activity module for tracking time spent by Students (or other users) in a Course or in a related group of Courses. CINECA elearning SUPPORT 1
Custom Corners Themes Custom Corners is a three column Moodle 2.2 theme based on the original Moodle 1.9 Custom Corners theme by Use Hunkler Mary Evans 1
Completion Progress Blocks The Completion Progress block is a time-management tool for students. Jonathon Fowler 1
HTML (per role) Blocks Allows distinct roles to get differetn content within an HTML bloc at the same layout location. Valery Fremaux 1
AJAX Marking Block Blocks Shows a teacher all of the unmarked work which has been submitted by their students across all of the courses they teach in. It's most useful when placed on the front page, and it allows the work to be viewed and graded through a pop-up interface, which then updates the block once the work is marked. Matt Gibson 1
Flexible sections format Course formats Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed on the same page or on a separate page Marina Glancy 1
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 1
Stash Blocks Add an inventory of items to your course and let your students find items by exploring the activities. #game #gamification Adrian Greeve 1
Onetopic format Course formats Course format that allows showing each topic in a tab, keeping the current tab between calls to resources, in such a way that when it returns from a module as the blog or the glossary it returns to tab from where you started. This format is based on the Moodle standard format: “Topics”. David Herney 1
Sharing Cart Blocks **Sharing Cart 4.4, release 3 is from 5 February 2024. Requires Moodle 4.2 and PHP 8.0** Download here or go to github: https://github.com/donhinkelman/moodle-block_sharing_cart/. Sorry for any confusion: Sharing 4.2 and Sharing Cart 4.3 were skipped here on the Plugins Database. And Sharing 4.4 was an overly ambitious name--it is actually for Moodle 4.3, and requires PHP 8.0. The Sharing Cart is a block that enables sharing of Moodle content (resources, activities) between multiple courses on your site. Don Hinkelman 2
My Grades block Blocks The my_grades block provides a display of all enrolled courses, overall grades and links to grade reports from the My Home page. Karen Holland 1
Active quiz Activities Active quiz started originally as an update to the realtime quiz module, which has now grown into a separate module due to the very large functionality additions/changes. You will be able to offer in class quizzes on any device using a responsive theme, any question type from the question bank, use timed/not timed questions, grades reported back to the grade book, group quizzing (with a group attendance feature), view student responses in real time to offer in-class discussion about the results, and more! John Hoopes 1
Poodll Filter Filters Poodll is a toolbox of features for Moodle, including audio and video recording, media players for the classroom and widgets such as tabs and stopwatches. The Poodll filter is a pre-requisite plugin for the Classic Poodll plugins. Justin Hunt 1
Ad-hoc database queries Reports This report plugin allows Administrators to set up arbitrary database queries to act as ad-hoc reports. Reports can be of two types, either run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically. Other users with the right capability can go in and see a list of queries that they have access to. Results can be viewed on-screen or downloaded as CSV. Tim Hunt 2
Paste special Atto PasteSpecial button for Atto reduces clutter when pasting from non-Atto text editors. Joseph Inhofer 1
Quickfind List Blocks Quick Find List Block for Moodle This block allows quick searching of users from a block, and displays a configurable link for each search result Mark Johnson 1
Appointments Blocks This block provides a form for teachers to book 1 to 1 appointments with Students on a class. The student can be notified of the appointment, and it will be added to both users' calendars. Mark Johnson 1
Recycle bin General plugins (Local) This plugin adds a "recycle bin" for course modules to Moodle. Skylar Kelty 1
Pioneer Themes Pioneer strikes a balance between features and beautiful design. The Pioneer theme is focused on enhancing learning by using intuitive navigation, a simple layout, and amazing styling. You have learning content, Pioneer makes it beautiful. Chris Kenniburg 1
Aerie Themes Fluid-width three column theme with a settings page and six extra block positions. Miriam Laidlaw 1
Configurable Reports Blocks This block is a Moodle custom reports builder. You can create custom reports without SQL knowledge. It's a tool suitable for admins or teachers. Juan Leyva 1
LTI Provider General plugins (Local) This is a local plugin for making Moodle a LTI provider tool. It can be use to provide access to full courses or activities from remote systems (other Moodle installations, Sakai, any LMS LTI consumer compliant) Juan Leyva 1
Attendance Activities A plugin that allows an attendance log to be kept. - includes an optional block for easy access to relevant functions. Dan Marsden 1
Dialogue Activities Dialogue between two users Dan Marsden 1
OU blog Activities Alternative blog. Can be used as a course activity. sam marshall 1
Level Up XP - Gamification 🏅 Blocks 🔥 🤩 The easiest way to add gamification to your Moodle site! Engage your learners! Gamify their learning experience to increase participation and completion rates. #gamification #engagement Frédéric Massart ⭐ 1
oEmbed Filter Filters A filter that will swap hyperlinks pointing towards supported websites with an embedded version using code retrieved from the site using the oEmbed protocol. An option for "Lazy" loading of some sites is also available. James McQuillan 1