The Best Moodle Modules and Plugins

1. May 27th, 2016 The Best Moodle Modules and Plugins Rafael Scapin, Ph.D. Coordinator of Educational Technology Office of Academic Development Dawson College

2. Moodle Plugins Page Moodle Plugins Page https://moodle.org/plugins/

3. Big Blue Button Big Blue Button 1 Big Blue Button Free, 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 sessions, so watched again at a later date. of all be they can https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_bigbluebuttonbn

4. Attendance Attendance 2 Attendance It maintain attendance, replacing or supplementing based attendance register The instructor can set the frequency of their classes (# of days per week & length of course) or create specific sessions. allows teachers record to of a a paper- https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_attendance

5. Sharing Cart 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

6. Progress Bar Progress Bar 4 Progress Bar • Shows progress in activities/resources of a course Colour coded to quickly see completed/viewed • Teachers select which pre-existing activities/resources are to be included • Order by times/deadlines or course order Overview page for teachers showing progress of all students • Identify and contact at-risk students https://moodle.org/plugins/block_progress

7. Student Folder 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

8. Course Dedication Course Dedication Course Dedication 6 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

9. Configurable Reports 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

10. Checklist 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

11. Collapsed Topics 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

12. Lesson Objectives 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

13. Offline Quiz 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

14. Accessibility 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

15. PoodLL Recording 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

16. Grid Format 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

17. Level Up! 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

18. Question Creation Activity 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

19. Heatmap 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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