The Best Moodle Modules and Plugins Rafael Scapin, Ph.D.

Coordinator of Educational TechnologyOffice of Academic Development

Dawson College

May 27th, 2016

Moodle Plugins Pagehttps://moodle.org/plugins/

Big Blue Button

1 Big Blue ButtonFree, open source, webconference system

It allows you to deliver real time web conferencing sessions.

This allows you to share slides, audio, video, chat, desktops, and a virtual whiteboard. It also provides recordings of all sessions, so they can be watched again at a later date.

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_bigbluebuttonbn

Attendance

2 Attendance

It allows teachers to maintain a record of attendance, replacing or supplementing a paper-based attendance register The instructor can set the frequency of their classes (# of days per week & length of course) or create specific sessions.

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_attendance

Sharing Cart

3 Sharing Cart

The Sharing Cart is a block that enables sharing of Moodle content (resources, activities) between multiple courses on your site.

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_sharing_cart

Progress Bar

4 Progress Bar

• Shows progress in activities/resources of a courseColour coded to quickly see completed/viewed

• Teachers select which pre-existing activities/resources are to be included

• Order by times/deadlines or course orderOverview page for teachers showing progress of all students

• Identify and contact at-risk students

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_progress

Student Folder

5 Student Folder

With the module student folder students can upload documents which can be made visible by teachers. This facilitates publication of student's documents in a course and improves exchange of knowledge.

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_publication

Course Dedication

6 Course Dedication

This block allows to see the estimated dedication time to a Moodle course by the participants of the course.

How dedication time is estimated?Time is estimated based in the concepts of Session and Session duration applied to Moodle's log entries:• Click: every time that a user access to a page in

Moodle a log entry is stored.• Session: set of two or more consecutive clicks in

which the elapsed time between every pair of consecutive clicks does not overcome an established maximum time.

• Session duration: elapsed time between the first and the last click of the session.

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_dedication

Configurable Reports

7 Configurable Reports

You can create custom reports without SQL knowledge. It's a tool suitable for admins or teachers.

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_configurable_reports

Checklist

8 Checklist

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.

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_checklist

Collapsed Topics

9 Collapsed Topics

An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics

https://moodle.org/plugins/format_topcoll

Lesson Objectives

10 Lesson Objectives

It displays current lesson objectives in the side bar (to both teacher and students) and allows a teacher to check them off as they are completed.

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_objectives

Offline Quiz

11 Offline Quiz

Offline Quiz module adds paper-and-pencil multiple-choice quizzes to Moodle. In offline quizzes students mark answers to questions on a sheet of paper (the answer form). The students' answer forms are evaluated and graded automatically by the offline quiz module.

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_offlinequiz

Accessibility

12 Accessibility

Provides options for changing text size and colour scheme. Settings can be saved to persist between sessions.

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_accessibility

PoodLL Recording

13 PoodLL Recording

An audio/video recording question type for Moodle.

It uses a standalone mp3 recorder for audio and a cloud based recording server for video. It is also possible to "draw pictures" as responses to questions, using the PoodLL whiteboard feature. Recording from mobile devices is also supported.

https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_poodllrecording

Grid Format

14 Grid Format

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. It solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death'

https://moodle.org/plugins/format_grid

Level Up!

15 Level Up!

Gamifify your course!

Engage your students! Gamify your students' learning experience by allowing them to level up in their courses

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_xp

Question Creation Activity

16 Question Creation Activity

The Question Creation Activity is a graded activity where students must create questions in the Moodle question bank.

A teacher grades the questions. The students get a grade for the questions they create.

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_qcreate

Heatmap

17 Heatmap

The Heatmap block overlays a heatmap onto a course to highlight activities with more or less activity to help teachers improve their courses.

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_heatmap

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