Reviewed plugins

List of plugins with a community review.
Name Plugin type Short description Lead maintainer Reviews
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
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
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
Aerie Themes Fluid-width three column theme with a settings page and six extra block positions. Miriam Laidlaw 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
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
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
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
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
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
Banners Blocks Allow community upload of graphic banners for display into an animated carousel block Iain Checkland 1
BigBlueButtonBN Activities Integrate BigBlueButton within Moodle - including record and playback of sessions. Fred Dixon 2
Booking Activities The module is perfect for managing participants and subscription of online and offline courses and events. David Bogner 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
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
ChessBlock Blocks Chess game. Ardit Dika 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
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
Completion Progress Blocks The Completion Progress block is a time-management tool for students. Jonathon Fowler 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
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
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
Course Menu block Blocks The Course Menu block for Moodle provides navigation between course sections (topics/weeks) Alex Contis 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
Dialogue Activities Dialogue between two users Dan Marsden 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
Elegance Themes Elegance is a beautiful two column Moodle theme with robust functionality and lots of custom settings. Bas Brands 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
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
Exabis E-Portfolio Blocks Unlock the Power of Digital Portfolios within Moodle #eportfolio #competencies #evidenceoflearning Andreas Riepl 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
Game Activities The game activity module makes use of questions, quizzes and glossaries to create offer a variety of interactive games. Vasilis Daloukas 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
HTML (per role) Blocks Allows distinct roles to get differetn content within an HTML bloc at the same layout location. Valery Fremaux 1
Lesson objectives Blocks Displays current lesson objectives in the side-bar Davo Smith 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
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
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
Microsoft 365 Integration General plugins (Local) This plugin provides libraries and services that power other Microsoft 365 plugins. 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
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
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
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
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
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
OpenID Connect Authentication The OpenID Connect plugin provides single-sign-on functionality using configurable identity providers. Enovation Dev Team 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
OU blog Activities Alternative blog. Can be used as a course activity. sam marshall 1