Two trophies on each side of the words 'My top 10 Moodle plugins', on a yellow background.

My Top 10 Moodle third-party plugins

Whilst it’s relatively easy to find third-party Moodle plugins using the database on Moodle, I decided to compile my own list of favourites. 10. Online Audio Recorder The Online Audio Recorder is an assignment type that can be used to let your students record audio directly into their web browser. It uses Flash so it won’t work on iPhones or iPads (the iOS app allows students to record in other places)....

2012, March 25 · 6 min · Frederic Nevers
A file being dragged and dropped onto a Moodle course page, from a Mac desktop.

Easy file management for Moodle

Davo Smith came up with a simple and elegant solution, the drag’n’drop upload block. What it is It basically does what it says on the tin; you drag files from your desktop (or from any other folder for that matter) and you drop it onto Moodle. You can see it magically upload onto Moodle! Yes, you read right: file s, with an s. You can upload multiple files with this, and I’m yet to reach some sort of limit with this system....

2012, March 22 · 4 min · Frederic Nevers
A screenshot of the Moodle health center.

Is your Moodle installation healthy?

Moodle forums This should really be your first step. If you found my website using Google and have never used the moodle.org forums, please do yourself a favour and go there. If you have already visited the forums and have not found the answer you were looking for, maybe you’ll be lucky and find it here (make sure you check the comments at the bottom of the page). I cannot stress this enough – the Moodle community really is fantastic....

2011, November 14 · 3 min · Frederic Nevers