LMS — Let Me See These Plugins! October Moodle™ LMS Plugin Roundup

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The following plugins are compatible at least with Moodle 3.10.

Level up! by Fred Massart

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_xp

Add gamification to your Moodle™ site! Create a different and fun learning experience with course levels. With this plugin the teacher can automatically assign points to the students so they can level up. 

Snap Theme

https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_snap

Snap is a Moodle™ theme that makes virtual learning an enjoyable experience for students and teachers. With its eye-catching and easy-to-use design, Snap is meant for barriers to learning to be forgotten. 

With Snap, teachers can design their courses in a personalized way. They get to quickly learn how many users have avoided activities and report their grades.

Open Forum

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_hsuforum

The Open Forum plugin is designed to reduce complexity by working  much like messaging systems students use every day. The Open Forum improves the usability of the standard Moodle™ Forum activity.

With this Moodle™ plugin, teachers can see who participated in a discussion, the chronological order of posting and  the private replies students made, among other features. Anonymous posts are also available. 

Checklist

https://moodle.org/plugins/gradingform_checklist

An advanced grading method is an easy way for the teacher and user to base a grade on a list of criteria and their associated value. It is a simple way to assign criteria based grades for any Moodle™ activity that allows this type of grading. 

Live Poll

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_livepoll

Use Firebase for free to store data anonymously so you can know all your updates and components. With this Moodle™ plugin, the teacher can have a survey of an update in real time. 

All-or-Nothing Multiple Choice

https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_multichoiceset

This Moodle™ plugin, maintained by Eoin Campell, is a version of the main multiple-choice and multiple-answer question with modified grading available out of the box. Users can choose one or more answers in a quiz or activity. If the choices correspond exactly to the correct answer set, the test taker earns 100% of the grade; if,on the contrary, at least one answer is wrong, the grade is 0.

Collapsed Topics

https://moodle.org/plugins/format_topcoll

This Moodle™ plugin, maintained by Gareth J. Barnard, is an interchangeable theme that solves the problem found in several different themes. It allows to compress the list of topics and sub-topics for a course, to clean up the screen and make the interface less confusing. 

Completion Progress

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_completion_progress

Maintained by Jonathon Fowler, this Moodle™ plugin is a time management tool for students. The student will be able to organize their assignments and activities as well as follow their progress.

Sharing Cart

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_sharing_cart

This plugin, maintained by Don Hinkelman, is a block that allows you to share Moodle™ content between multiple courses on your site. This tool benefits teachers when designing, organizing and reusing content.  

Questionnaire

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_questionnaire

Maintained by Mike Churchward, it lets the user complete online forms and create Moodle™ questionnaires using a multitude of user input methods. This plugin also allows the user to create custom surveys.