Reviewed plugins

List of plugins with a community review.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Reviews
Word count Atto Simple count words plugin for Atto. Damyon Wiese 1
Course Contacts Block Blocks The Course Contacts block displays a list of users on your course, various methods for communicating with them, and their current activity status. Mark Ward 1
Auto enrolment Enrolment This plugin allows for an enrolment into a course to occur automatically when a user views a course or course activity/resource. The plugin can also be configured to enrol a user upon login. Eugene Venter 1
Login as General plugins (Local) A local plugin that allows admin to add a list of loginas action links to the settings block. Itamar Tzadok 1
OpenMeetings Activities OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone and/or webcam, share documents on a white board, discuss in a chat, share your screen or record meetings. It is available as hosted service or you download and install a package on your own server. Maxim Solodovnik 1
Checklist Activities A checklist can be created by a teacher (or generated from the activities in a course) and then the students or teachers can check-off each item as they are completed. Davo Smith 3
Checklist Blocks This is a block which works with the checklist module and displays progress bars for a single checklist. Davo Smith 1
Lesson objectives Blocks Displays current lesson objectives in the side-bar Davo Smith 1
Drag and drop file upload Blocks Drag and drop one or more files directly from your desktop into a Moodle course - if you have Moodle 2.3 or above, this functionality is already present Davo Smith 1
Analytics graphs Blocks Block that generates graphs intendend to facilitate pedagogical decisions. The graphs have zoom capabilities and allow fast communication with students through email. Marcelo Schmitt 1
Quickmail Blocks A block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses. Developed by LSU. Robert Russo 1
Exabis E-Portfolio Blocks Unlock the Power of Digital Portfolios within Moodle #eportfolio #competencies #evidenceoflearning Andreas Riepl 1
Engagement analytics Blocks The Engagement Analytics block provides information about student progress against a range of indicators. As the name suggests the block provides feedback on the level of "engagement" of a student, in this plugin "engagement" refers to activities which have been identified by current research to have an impact on student success in an online course. Adam Olley 1
Quizventure Activities Quizventure is an activity module that loads quiz questions from the course it's added to. The possible answers come down as space ships and you have to shoot the correct one. John Okely 2
Certificate Activities This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. NOTE: This plugin is no longer receiving any new features. Only bug fixes are being applied. I have been working on a new plugin which can be located at https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_customcert which allows complete customisation of the PDF via the browser, whereas this plugin requires FTP and PHP knowledge. Both plugins can be installed on a site at once with no issues. Mark Nelson 2
Course contents Blocks Course contents block displays a list of all visible sections (such as topics or weeks) in the course. Clicking at a link scrolls to that section or displays just that particular section, depending on the course layout setting. David Mudrák 4
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
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
OU blog Activities Alternative blog. Can be used as a course activity. sam marshall 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
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
Aerie Themes Fluid-width three column theme with a settings page and six extra block positions. Miriam Laidlaw 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
Recycle bin General plugins (Local) This plugin adds a "recycle bin" for course modules to Moodle. Skylar Kelty 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
Paste special Atto PasteSpecial button for Atto reduces clutter when pasting from non-Atto text editors. Joseph Inhofer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
HTML (per role) Blocks Allows distinct roles to get differetn content within an HTML bloc at the same layout location. Valery Fremaux 1
Completion Progress Blocks The Completion Progress block is a time-management tool for students. Jonathon Fowler 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
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
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
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
BigBlueButtonBN Activities Integrate BigBlueButton within Moodle - including record and playback of sessions. Fred Dixon 2
ChessBlock Blocks Chess game. Ardit Dika 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