Documentation:Learning Environment/Moodle Plugins

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

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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.