Moodle Plugins directory: Music Theory: Comments

Monday, 2 February 2026, 5:31 PM - Rosy Boogaard

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:31:23 GMT

by Rosy Boogaard.

Thanks for the heads up Josh! Which functionalities break when using the plugin according to you?

Saturday, 31 January 2026, 7:12 AM - Josh Joubert

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:12:54 GMT

by Josh Joubert.

For anyone considering using this plugin on Moodle v4.5+, DO NOT. It unfortunately breaks some functionality of courses and course editing, even though the plugin itself seems to work fine. To uninstall it, you will need to manually delete it from your server's files at [MOODLE_INSTALLATION]/question/type.

Sunday, 10 November 2024, 4:30 PM - Amely Munz

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 08:30:12 GMT

by Amely Munz.

Dear Eric,
Thank you for developping this great plugin!
However, there are still a few hurdles that make it difficult or sometimes impossible to use in schools. It would be great if these hurdles could be removed!
- It would be nice if you didn't have to create a new test question for every note, interval, chord, etc., I would like to determine several notes / intervals or chords within a notation system in one Test question. For example, you could analyse a section of a song in this way.
- When determining chords, the teacher should have the choice of which chords are given as possible answers. My pupils are overwhelmed by the many unknown answer options.
Is there a way to improve these points?
Thank you very much
Amely

Friday, 6 January 2023, 6:20 PM - Rosy Boogaard

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:20:07 GMT

by Rosy Boogaard.

Dear Eric,

Thanks for this plugin!

I have a some questions:
1. At the questions type 'Choard quality writing', it's now possible to give a triads (3 tones) answer, you can place 3 symbols on the stave. What we would love, is that it's also possible to answer with 4 symbols on the stave.

2. At the questions type 'scale writing', it's now possible to pick de scale types 'major, natural major, harmonic minor and melodic minor'. We would love to have some extra options. (I would have my internal contact person for the exact options). Would this be possible?

Thanks!

Monday, 2 January 2023, 5:30 PM - Roy Huiskes

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:30:24 GMT

by Roy Huiskes.

Hey Eric,

Thanks for this plug-in; it's a daily driver at my school. I've made the dutch translations. I would like to get in touch over a possible expansion of this plugin; possibilities for solfege.

Thursday, 3 March 2022, 2:57 PM - Thorsten Butsch

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 06:57:03 GMT

by Thorsten Butsch.

Hi Eric,
thanks for this plugin... Will there be a Version for Moodle 4? Or ist it allready running with Moodle 4?

Thursday, 4 March 2021, 12:18 AM - Marta Rey

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:18:47 GMT

by Marta Rey.

Hi Eric,

First of all, I would like to thank you for your effort and for creating this fantastic plugin! It makes our work as teachers much easier! THANK YOU!

I am building a Moodle site for a Global Music Campus in East Africa, and we were wondering if it would be possible to add some more options to some of the Music Theory Plugin exercises. For example:

- Regarding Writing intervales, the plugin only contains 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Would it be possible to add 7 and 1?
- Regarding Writing cords: would it be possible to add 7 and the seventh chords as well. C7 Cm7 C∆ and Cø ( 7, m7, ∆ and ø)?
- Regarding Scale Writing: is it possible to add Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian?

Since I am not a developer, I do not know if I am asking for a lot of work, but if those options could be implemented, it would help us a lot!

Thanks in advance for your time and effort!

Monday, 15 June 2020, 4:15 PM - Rene KR

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 08:15:05 GMT

by Rene KR.

Hi Eric,
I'd have some questions to your music theory plugin. Would be happy if we could have a quick chat about pentatonic scales, rests,...
I have sent you a contact request.

Friday, 29 May 2020, 10:39 PM - Marco Renoldi

Fri, 29 May 2020 14:39:23 GMT

by Marco Renoldi.

Hi Eric
It's exactly my case... Fixed!
many thanks

Friday, 29 May 2020, 2:30 AM - Eric Brisson

Thu, 28 May 2020 18:30:58 GMT

by Eric Brisson.

Hi Marco,

I will try to help you with figuring out the issue. Looking at existing posts from other plugin users who had this error, the most frequent cause is that the course was imported before the Music Theory plugin was installed on your Moodle 3.8. Could this be the case for you? If it is, it looks like the easiest way to fix it would be to delete the imported course (if this is an option for you), install the music theory plugin (if it wasn't already installed), and re-import the course.

If this wasn't the problem, please feel free to let me know which Moodle version you used to backup to course and I will try to see if I could re-create the issue.

I hope this is helpful - thank you!
Eric

Thursday, 28 May 2020, 11:13 PM - Marco Renoldi

Thu, 28 May 2020 15:13:12 GMT

by Marco Renoldi.

... and going deeply into the error i get this message as well:
Eccezione - Class name must be a valid object or a string

Thursday, 28 May 2020, 11:02 PM - Marco Renoldi

Thu, 28 May 2020 15:02:48 GMT

by Marco Renoldi.

Hello Eric.
I've been using your plugin since 5 years or so and everything worked fine. I also contributed the italian translation. Now we have moved our Moodle to another hosting and installed 3.8
We have made a backup of the course and restored it to the new Moodle but now the plugin seems not working: I'm getting the following error:
Failed to load question options from the table qtype_musictheory for questionid 106
Any idea on how we can solve this?
Thanks

Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 2:36 AM - Fernando Gonçalves

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:36:21 GMT

by Fernando Gonçalves.

A few requests and suggestions:

1) Construction and identification of modes in different keys
2) Controlling which keys are used for random roman numeral analysis. I find it upsetting when it randomly generates problems in very difficult keys (ie, Eb minor) instead of the more usual keys I wanna my students to really master. Ideally, I wanna control also which parts of the random test are easier and which ones should be more difficult in regards to keys.

Tuesday, 21 January 2020, 9:52 PM - Eric Brisson

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:52:34 GMT

by Eric Brisson.

Hi Fernando,

Great to hear - again, many thanks for your translations!

Best,
Eric

Tuesday, 21 January 2020, 8:21 PM - Fernando Gonçalves

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:21:06 GMT

by Fernando Gonçalves.

Thanks Eric,

I have finished the pt-br translation, hope it gets approved soon! Thanks for your work on this plugin.

Best regards,
Fernando Rauber