To design Moodle courses in an appealing way, a good design is required. This demands some knowledge in HTML. In contrast, most teachers lack knowledge in web technologies if they are involved in non-technical subjects. Also, less technical experienced teacher try to avoid the source code view of the editor and rather rely on the WYSIWYG mode.

In addition, even though having different courses, the look and feel should be very similar throughout Moodle and should follow the corporate design. This requires that the courses are styled in the same way.

This plugin allows the administrators of moodle to define some more sophisticated HTML blocks with inline styling. These so defined blocks can be easily inserted by a teacher without the need to modify the HTML itself.