Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Plugins
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Moodle Plugins
Moodle Plugins Live Server
| Plugin Name | Purpose/Utility | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| BigBlueButton Plugin | Web conferencing connection | Installed |
| Progress Bar Plugin | A time management tool for you and your students | Installed |
| Collapsed Topics | An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics. | Installed |
| RecordingsBN | Access and manage your BigBlueButton recordings | Installed |
| Journal | This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. | Installed |
| CourseFeedback | This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. | Installed |
| Grade Me | Shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. | Installed |
| Grid Format Layout | A modular and visual course format. Hides all topics and creates a grid of icons (one for each topic) with short titles. Clicking on an icon brings up the content from the corresponding topic. | Installed |
| One Topic Layout | Format to course 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”. It accepts edition by AJAX. | Installed |
| Flex Sections | Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed expanded or collapsed | Installed |
| Epubexport | Moodle plugin which adds EPUB v3 export functionality to the Book plugin. | Installed |
| Respondus 4.0 | The Moodle personality in Respondus 4.0 requires that the Moodle Module for Respondus be installed on the Moodle server. | Installed |
| Bootstrap Elements | Bootstrap Elements gives you the ability to add modal and toggles to your courses, helping to improve the layout of courses. | Installed |
Sandbox Server
| Plugin Name | Purpose/Utility | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Promoted For Consideration
| Plugin Name | Purpose/Utility | Comment |
|---|---|---|
OLProduction Server
| Plugin Name | Purpose/Utility | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Checklist Set (Block/Module) | creates interactive checklist | Installed |
| Course Checks Block | This block carries out a number of automated checks on a course, to encourage a minimum standard of course quality, avoid common mistakes and highlight possible areas for improvement. The block also allows for a course to be cleared of empty sections. | Installed |
| Journal | This module allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. | Installed |
| CourseFeedback | This Block intends to give the system administrators a tool for forced evaluation of a course (or other facts). System administrators can define a set of textual questions, which can be rated from students. | Installed |
| Collapsible regions | Easy way to create collapsible regions within descriptions and text for Moodle. | Installed |
| Ad-hoc database queries | 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. | Installed |
| GISMO | GISMO, a graphical interactive student monitoring and tracking system that extracts tracking data from an online course maintained with Moodle, and generates graphical representations that can be explored by course instructors. | Installed |
| Overview statistics | Produces various site and course report charts. The code has been designed in a way that makes adding more reports easy. | Installed |
| Timestat | Timestat block measures users real activity time. Time is increased only when Moodle tab is active in browser. | Installed |
| Enrolment Timer | Block to show the user their remaining time enrolled in a course with live countdown and lots of settings to customise the display of this timer. | Installed |
| Experience Points (XP) | The Experience Point (XP) set contains gamification-style plugins working with experience points given to the students. | Installed |
| Stamp Collection | The Stamp collection module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they collect these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. | Installed |
| Mahara Assignment Submission Plugin | Allows grading of Mahara portfolio pages & collections in Moodle. | Installed - not set up |
| Mass Actions block | This block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items. | Installed |
| Quickmail | A block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses. | Installed |
Identified Not Loaded
| Plugin Name | Purpose/Utility | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Connect | Provides an activity level integration between Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro | Not a product that is used. |
| Attendance Plugin | Part of Set called Attendance | Not a typical functional issue, will not be loaded at moment. |
| Certificate | This module allows for the dynamic generation of certificates based on predefined conditions set by the teacher. | Currently not available for 2.8 |
| Email-based Self-registration | Provides email-based self-registration with admin confirmation instead of user confirmation. | Currently not available for 2.8 |
| Face-to-face Plugin | To help manage sessions where registration is required/Event Management | Not typical course scenario, will not be loaded at moment. |
| Mobile Identity Verification Plugin | Custom plugin by Lambda solutions | Paid plugin. Not available on Moodle site |
| Moodle Welcome Plugin | Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation | Future interest??? |
| SAML Authentication Plugin | SAML Authentication plugin based on the simplesamlphp software. (Also install the SAML Enrolment plugin if you want auto-enrol based on SAML) | More an IT focused plugin, will not currently install |
| Subcourse Plugin | The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is took from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units. | Future use?? will not load. |
| Vericite Plugin | Plagarism detector, requires subscription | Future desire??? |
| Webinar Plugin | For use with Adobe Connect only | Currently not of interest, will not be loaded. |