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Activities (308)
Learning activities in courses
Assignment (26)
Different types of assignments
Database (4)
Plugins for the database activity module
Workshop (3)
Workshop has a number of plugin types
Quiz (93)
Ways to extend quizzes
SCORM (1)
New reports for SCORM
Book (4)
The book activity that is in core. It can have sub-plugins.
LTI (0)
Integration with external tools via IMS Learning Tool Interoperability standard.
Blocks (300)
Useful tools to add to courses or home pages
Themes (127)
Change the look and feel of your site or course
Users (80)
Tools for managing users
Authentication (38)
Different methods of identifying users
Enrolment (31)
Customise how people get enrolled in courses
User profile fields (11)
Add new fields to user accounts
Course formats (27)
Change the structure/layout of course pages
Filters (59)
Filters can process and change text
Reports (30)
Report plugins for administrators, teachers and general users.
Admin reports (0)
See reports about site activity. Replaced by the generic Report plugin type in Moodle 2.3.
Course reports (0)
See reports about course activity
Gradebook (14)
There are several ways to extend the gradebook
Grade reports (7)
Interfaces to view and manipulate grades
Exports (4)
Export grades to files or other systems
Imports (0)
Import grades from files or other systems
Grading methods (3)
Advanced grading methods (also known as grading forms) provide new interfaces for grading items in Moodle.
Admin tools (31)
Provides utility scripts useful for admins to examine and modify a Moodle site (2.2+)
Log storage (3)
Located in admin/tool/log/store (subplugins of tool_log core admin tool)
General plugins (Local) (109)
General plugins go into the /local directory and do not fit into any particular category.
Allow to restrict an activity or section so that only certain users can access it.
Portfolios (2)
Export user content to other systems
Plagiarism (13)
Connect to different plagiarism services
Beyond REST, SOAP, AMF and XML-RPC ...
Calendars (3)
Various types of calendar systems
Search engines (0)
Search engine backends to index Moodle's contents.
Data formats (1)
Formats for data exporting and downloading
Antivirus (0)
Antivirus scanner plugins provide virus scanning functionality using third-party virus scanning tools.
MNet services (0)
Allows to implement remote services for the MNet environment.
Other (33)
Useful code that does conform to any standard plugin type
Utilities (1)
Various software that is not implemented as a Moodle plugin yet may provide useful functionality related to Moodle.
Experimental (6)
Moodle plugins that require specific environment, extra attention during the installation, or custom core patches applied to make them work.
Incubating (7)
Moodle plugins that do not yet meet all the different standards and criteria to be listed in the matching plugins category.
Recently added plugins 
block_resetcompletion
This block allows students to reset their module and completion status of a course by themselves, in case they want to be recertified after a certain period of time after initial completion, or they want to retake the course from scratch.
Latest release: Friday, 11 November 2016, 4:32 AM
enrol_grabber
An enrolment plugin that grabs enrolments from another method
Supports Moodle 3.0
Latest release: Thursday, 10 November 2016, 10:50 PM
auth_outage
A plugin to manage outage periods, such as scheduled maintenance, including CLI tools to embed in your scripting.
Latest release: Friday, 14 October 2016, 10:24 AM
block_via_permanent
The Via Permanent Block can only be used if you have the Via activity module.
This block creates shortcuts to the Via permanent activities* that have been shared within the course.
*Permanent activities have no begining or end date, you may control its' access with the waiting room. See the Via guide for reference.
Latest release: Thursday, 20 October 2016, 8:55 PM
tool_cohortautoroles
This plugin is based on the core tool_cohortroles plugin and allows the selection of a role rather than an individual to assign a manager/mentor/parent to a user.
If a user is assigned the selected role at any level - (site/course/category etc) they will be assigned as the mentor/manager/parent to all users within the cohorts selected they are also a member of.
Supports Moodle 3.1
Released: Wednesday, 12 October 2016, 6:28 AM
