University of London Computer Centre Moodle Plugin Matrix · Assignment Online Audio Audio recorder (Flash 10.1+) submission method. Records locally and uploads via HTTP POST, so

University of London Computer Centre Moodle Plugin Matrix

Note: Some clients may have features or customisations not currently in this

matrix. These will not be removed from your site(s) but will likely be

evaluated upon an upgrade request.

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Version: 1.7 Date: March 2015 Page 1

The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) Moodle Plugin Matrix identifies available plugins for each

ULCC installation including their support level. Regular updates will be made to the list of available plugins in

this matrix. Standard, contributed and third party plugins will be evaluated and added upon request.

Type Plugin Description Source Support 2.6 2.8

Activity Adobe Connect

This activity module allows for users to create Connect Pro meetings by adding an activity.

Third Party R

Activity

Adaptive Quiz Enables a teacher to create tests that efficiently measure the takers' abilities

Contributed R

Activity Attendance

Register

This is an activity module for tracking time spent by Students (or other users) in a Course or in a related group of Courses

Contributed R

Activity Booking

The module is perfect for managing participants and subscription of online and offline courses and events.

Contributed R

Activity Certificate

The Certificate module creates PDF certificates or diplomas for students of the course and is completely customisable.

Contributed R

Activity Equella Resource Upload documents from you Equella Repository

Third Party R

Activity Face to Face

Face-to-face activities are used to keep track of in-person (e.g. classroom) trainings which require advance booking.

Contributed R

Activity ForumNG Alternative forum with AJAX and management features

Contributed R

Activity Group Choice

Group Choice activities allow for a user to select a group for them to be put into, within a particular course.

Contributed R

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Activity Hotpot

The Hotpot activity module allows teachers to administer Hot Potatoes and TexToys quizzes via Moodle.

Contributed R

Activity HSU Forum

The HSU Forum activity module is a duplication of the core forum activity but includes the ability to have anonymous posting in forums (by a setting).

Contributed R 2.3

version

Activity Lightbox Gallery

The Lightbox Activity resource allows you to create 'Lightbox' enabled image galleries within your Moodle course.

Contributed R

Activity

NanoGong

voice activity

NanoGong can be used to record, playback and save a voice file, in a web page. The playback can be changed by the listener. The Listener's version of can be saved to the listener's hard disk. A NanoGong activity allows the student to submit their recording to the teacher.

Contributed R

Activity NLN Activity

Allows NLN Learning Objects to be added directly into a Moodle course with minimal effort.

Contributed

Activity OU Blog

The OU Blog is an alternative blog system for Moodle. It can be used in place of, or in addition to, the standard Moodle blog system.

Contributed R

Activity OU Wiki The OU Wiki provides a wiki based activity for users to work together in a group.

Contributed R

Activity Questionnaire

The Questionnaire module has been reintroduced to Moodle after an absence in Moodle 2. The module allows teachers to create surveys within the Course.

Contributed R










Activity Respondus

The Respondus module allows users to import files into Moodle from Respondus which have been saved in the IMS QTI format.

Third Party R

Activity Scheduler The Scheduler module helps you to schedule appointments with learners.

Contributed R

Activity Subpage

Subpage module allows you to add Moodle activities onto inner page within course * OU is discontiuning in 2.9

Contributed R

Activity Tab Display

The tab display module allows you to setup your information in a tabbed format. This helps to clean up your course by combining several resources into Tabs.

* not been updated since 3 April 2014

Contributed R

Activity Turnitin Basic

The Turnitin Basic module allows for assignments in Moodle with the basic suite of Turnitin features including similarity reports and grade marking.

Third Party R

Activity Turnitin Direct

The Turnitin direct module allows for assignments in Moodle with the full suite of Turnitin features including Grade Mark and similarity reports.

Third Party R

Activity Turnitin DirectV2

The Turnitin directV2 module allows for assignments in Moodle with the full suite of Turnitin features including Grade Mark and similarity reports.

Third Party R










Assignment Online Audio

Audio recorder (Flash 10.1+) submission method. Records locally and uploads via HTTP POST, so there's no need for a streaming server!

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Contributed R

Block Accessibility

The accessibility Block allows for users to customise Moodle to their visual needs. It supports changing of text sizes and colour schemes.

Contributed R Theme

Contraints

Block Course Contents

Course contents block produces a table of contents for the course - that is a list of all visible sections (topics or weeks) in the course. Clicking at one of these links will display that particular section.

Contributed R

Block Course Overview

on Campus

Moodle block which provides all functionality of block_course_overview, provides additional filters (course category, course term and course teachers) to be used on university campuses as well as the possibility to hide courses and course news from the course list.

Contributed R

Block Course Tree List

This block will display all courses a user is enrolled in, within the hierarchy course categories listing

Contributed R

Block Echo360

The Echo360 Block allows for displaying of Echo360 lecture capture within Moodle.

*Echo360 dropping support for the Block

Third Party R

Block Evasys The Evasys Block allows integration with the Evasys online surveys system.

Third Party R










Block Formal

Languages

Formal languages block centralizes code for scanning and parsing of different languages. For now it is used by Preg and CorrectWriting question types, but other plugins can use it as well.

Contributed R

Block ILP (Community)

The ILP Block allows the creation of individual learning plans to help provide learners with the opportunity to manage and track their own progress. It also includes the ability to integrate information from other systems.

Contributed (ULCC

maintained) R

Block ILP (Supported)

The supported ILP block offers ULCC support and guidance, integration, implementation and any development requests (at cost) on top of the community release. The supported release is usually two versions ahead of the community release and inclusive of new functionality developed.

ULCC Maintained

P

Block Mass Action

This block allows the mass deletion, indentation, hiding and showing of activities and resources within sections on a particular Moodle Course.

Contributed R

Block Moodletxt

The Moodletxt block allows teachers and administrators to SMS/text students from within Moodle.

Third Party R

Block MRBS

Based on the stand-alone MRBS project (http://mrbs.sourceforge.net), this allows users to book rooms and other resources from within Moodle.

Contributed R










Block Panopto

The Panopto block allows users to view live and recorded videos from Panopto, within a Moodle course. It also provides a single sign on between the two solutions.

Third Party R

Block Progress Bar

The Progress Bar is a time-management tool for students. It visually shows what activities/resources a student is supposed to interact with in a course.

Contributed R

Block Talis Aspire

This block integrates Talis Aspire with Moodle, where it will display resource list links from Talis Aspire for a given course.

Third Party R

Block Quickmail

Quickmail is a block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses.

Contributed R

Block QuickScan Dyslexia

Screening

The block provides a link to a page containing an explanation of the QuickScan Dyslexia Screening assessment, and a button which redirects the student to the Pico web service in a popup window to perform the assessment itself.

You would need to register with Pico to enable the QuickScan service for your organisation.

Third Party R










Block Reports

Dashboard

The aim of the reports dashboard is to provide a framework within which bespoke reports can be quickly constructed and presented within a standard "dashboard" which is in turn accessed via a block.

In addition to the main dashboard of reports, this block also allows access (given the correct capability) to a control panel which contains various setting which are used by one or more of the reports.

ULCC R

Block Sharing Cart

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

Contributed R

Block Side Bar Allows the functionality of the Site main menu block to work within courses.

Contributed R

Block Slideshow

A block that inserts a slideshow in the header of the front page or course page. Features include customizable background colours, transition types, speeds, and size.

*Removed from 2.8 build after evaluating code

Contributed R

Block ULCC

Administration

Provides a set of tools for Admins (course, category uploads & Statistics)

ULCC R

Course Format

Collapsed Topics

Topic based course format with an individual 'toggle' for each topic / week except the Summary.

Contributed R










Course Format

Collapsed Weeks

Week based course format with an individual 'toggle' for each week except the Summary. The current week is always shown.

Contributed R

Course Format

Flex Sections

Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed expanded or collapsed

Contributed R

Course Format

Grid

A course format which hides all topic areas and creates a grid of icons with titles. You can click on the icons to bring up content in a light box display.

Contributed R

Grading BTEC Grading

Form

This is a grading form module which allows for the BTEC marking scheme to be incorporated into assignments.

Contributed P

Integrations Auto Enrol

Adds functionality to automatically enrol users onto a course, either as they log into your Moodle site or as they access a course. This plugin is primarily intended for use on courses which you want all users to be able to access but can also be configured for more advanced purposes.

Contributed P

Integrations Database Extended

The external database extended integration, allows for management information system data to be used within Moodle including, course creations, category creations and enrolment synchronisations.

ULCC Maintained

P










Integrations Db userrel

This plugin allows you to configure automatic synchronisation of relationships between users from an external database. It is mainly used to assign Parent/Mentor rôle.

Contributed P

Integration ULCC Shared secret SSO

This plugin allows users to login to Moodle using a single sign on

Contributed P

Local Analytics

A local Moodle Module adding Analytics. This plugin currently supports 3 Analytics modes, Piwik, Google Universal Analytics and Google Legacy Analytics.

Contributed R

Local Anonymous posting in

forums

Local plugin for allowing anonymous posting in forums.

Contributed R

Local LEAP Local plugin which adds web services integration with Leap.

Contributed R

Local oMbiel

Webservices

Integration for customers that are using CampusM Mobile App

Third Party P

Local ULCC

Webservices

The ULCC web services are a collection of web services intended to extend the current functionality of Moodle’s core web services

ULCC Maintained

P

Plagiarism Ephorus

A Plagiarism integration where the Ephorus plagiarism similarity reports are embedded directly within the core Moodle assignment grading system.

*Dropped as merged with Turnitin

Third Party R

Plagiarism Turnitin V2 A plagiarism integration with Turnitin

Third Party R










Question Type

Drag and Drop onto Image

A question type which allows for text and or images to be placed on top of a given image and the position of each placed item can then be to be assessed.

Contributed R

Question Type

Drag and Drop Markers

A question type which allows for multiple markers to be placed on top of an image and the position of each placed marker to be assessed.

Contributed R

Question Type

Drag and Drop into Text

A question type which allows the responder to drag and drop given words into blank spaces within text.

Contributed R

Question Type

Ordering

The teacher provides at least three items in order and the students are presented with a shuffled list of items to order. By default, the items are displayed in a vertical list.

Contributed R

Question Type

Pattern Match

A question type which checks a short text based response against a specified response pattern. It is a more refined version of short answer.

Contributed R

Question Type

Select Missing Words

A question type which responders to complete paragraphs of text by selecting the missing words from drop down menus.

Contributed R

Question Type

Variable Numeric

A question type which allows the use of numbers within a question, which are chosen from predefined sets and can be calculated from mathematical expressions. The responder inputs a numeric answer to respond to the question.

Contributed R










Question Type

Variable Number Set

A question type which allows the use of numbers within a question, which are chosen from predefined sets and can be calculated from mathematical expressions. The responder inputs a numeric answer to respond to the question. On top of the standard variable numeric set question type, this also offers the ability to use units within the question.

Contributed R

Question Type

Variable Number Set with Units

A question type which allows the use of numbers within a question which are not limited to a small specified set of numerical values and can be calculated from mathematical expressions. The responder inputs a numeric answer to respond to the question.

Contributed R

Quiz Access Rule

Acknowledgment Statement

An access rule which adds an option in the Quiz Activity to set up a user acknowledgement statement before attempting answering the questions.

Contributed R

Repository

Copyright Licensing Agency

Limited (CLA) Data Collection

A Moodle repository plugin that allows the user to add copyright information for uploaded resources to allow the Copyright Licencing Authority to collect data for copyright surveys.

Contributed R

Repository Equella

A repository which allows users to access Equella content within Moodle and populate courses

* 2.8 requires certain upgrade of Equella Servers

Third Party S










Repository Evernote Repository to access the content of your notes from your Evernote account.

Contributed R

Repository Sky Drive

A repository which allows users to access Microsoft Sky Drive content within Moodle to populate courses or submit to activities.

Contributed

Repository Planet eStream

A repository which allows users to access their Planet eStream resources directly within Moodle (Contributed service).

Third Party R

Set Attendance

This set of plugins allows instructors to keep a log of the students enrolled on their course. The instructor setups up attendance days and time and marks students as present or absent, late or excluded.

Contributed R

Set Blackboard Collaborate

This set of plugins allows integration of Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing directly into Moodle through the use of an activity and a block.

Third Party R

Set Campus Pack This set of plugins allows Campus Pack activities to be used within Moodle Courses.

Third Party R

Set Checklist

The checklist activity allows teachers to create task lists for students to complete based upon either existing resources in Moodle or manually created items.

Contributed R

Set Course Awards

This set of plugins allows for students to rate their courses and the courses to be awarded medals based upon student course ratings.

Contributed R










Set Kaltura

This set of plugins allows access to the Kaltura Video platform from within a Moodle site. Through activities, repositories, local media and reports.

Third Party R

Set Mahara

This set of plugins allow for submitting Mahara pages to a Moodle assignment whilst also locking and unlocking the pages being assessed.

Contributed R

Set MediaCore

This set of plugins allows access to the MediaCore platform from within a Moodle site. Through being able to embed files from your MediaCore site directly within Moodle.

Third Party R

Set MyDay

Collabco

The MyDay plugins link a Moodle environment with SharePoint by providing single sign on and aggregated information on a SharePoint dashboard.

Third Party R Load

Impact

Load

Impact

Set Pearson Direct

The Pearson Direct plugins integrate a Moodle environment with the MyLab / Mastering and Course Connect products. This allows users in Moodle to directly access Pearson resources without having to log in again.

Third Party R

Theme Essential Essential is a clean and customizable theme for all supported Moodle versions.

Contributed R

Theme BCU BCU is a clean and customizable theme for all supported Moodle versions.

Contributed R


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University of London Computer Centre Moodle Plugin Matrix · Assignment Online Audio Audio recorder (Flash 10.1+) submission method. Records locally and uploads via HTTP POST, so