What is the plugin matrix?
Blackboard Open LMS Plugin Matrix is an analytic tool that identifies and describes and plugins available to you. We've arranged the plugins into the following developer groups.
- Moodle™ Core Plugins: Plugins that are maintained by Moodle HQ as part of the Moodle core code.
- Blackboard Maintained Plugins: Plugins that are maintained by Blackboard.
- Community Plugins: Plugins that are maintained by Moodle community members individually or as part of an organization.
- Vendor Plugins: Plugins that are maintained by Vendors to support clients who want their product to work with Moodle.
You may have legacy features or customizations that may or may not be listed in this matrix. Please note these will not be removed from your current site, but legacy features are not available in new sites.
Moodle Core plugins
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| Plugin | Description | Support Level | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Activity Block | Use the Activity block to navigate between different activities available in a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Admin Block | The Admin block provides context-sensitive links to settings pages. | Moodle Core |
Turned on in system Users can see it |
| Admin Bookmarks | Administrators can use this block to save most visited areas of the administration block. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Assignment | Teachers can collect student work to review and give helpful feedback. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Atto® | Atto is the default JavaScript text editor in Moodle 2.7 and higher. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Blog Menu | The Blog menu has links to add new entries, view entries, preferences, and adding tags. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Blog Tags | A blog tag is a term added to an entry that describes it. This keyword-based description makes the blog entry easier to find later. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Book | Build complete book-like web sites inside of a course. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Calendar Month | Display site, course, user, and group events. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Calendar Upcoming | Display a list of upcoming events for a specified period of time. The default is 21 days. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| CAS | Authenticate against a CAS server. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Chat | Have real-time synchronous discussions with participants. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Choice | Ask a question that gets the learner to make a choice. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Comments | Add and view comments to any page. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Community Finder | Search community hubs, such as Moodle.net, for courses to download and enroll in. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Competency Based Framework | Moodle’s support for standards and competencies. Allows admins to create and import standards and competencies and assign them to courses and activities. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can't see it |
| Conditional Activities | Restrict access to activities by date, grade, and completing another activity.; | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Course Completion Status | View student progress towards completing the course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Course List | Links to courses the user is enrolled in. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Course/Site Summary | View the course or site description. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Database | Collaboratively build, display and search a bank of record entries. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Drag and Drop Markers | This question type allows students to drop markers onto an area on a background image. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can't see it |
| Drag and Drop onto Images | Teachers can create questions that allow students to drag and drop images or text on to defined drop zones on a background image. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can't see it |
| Drag and Drop into Text | This question type allows students to drag text into boxes in the question as answers to fill in the blanks. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can't see it |
| Email-Based Self Registration | Authentication method that allows users to create their own accounts with an associated e-mail address. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Embedded Files Repository | Re-use files embedded in a text area. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| External Tool | Link students from the course to services that are hosted on an external site. Publishers and online tool developers can create standardized, hosted, services without having to write specific plugins for systems like Moodle, or Blackboard, Sakai, or Desire2Learn. LTI is an up-graded version of the Basic LTI activity and supports the LTI 1.1 standard. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Feedback | Create and conduct surveys to collect feedback from participants. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Flat File | Enrollment method that allows a user to upload course enrollments using .CSV file. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Folder | Group related files together in one spot. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Forum | Exchange ideas by posting comments as part of a discussion thread. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Glossary | Create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Glossary Random | Display random entries from a glossary. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| HTML | Add text or images to a site or course page with HTML. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| IMAP | IMAP based authentication. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| IMS Content Package | A content package displayed as part of a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Label | A way to add text to the content area of your course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| LDAP | Authentication method using LDAP. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| LTI Provider | This is a local plugin for making Moodle a LTI provider tool. It can be used to provide access to full courses or activities from remote systems (other Moodle installations, Sakai, any LMS LTI-consumer-compliant). | Moodle Core |
Turned on in system Users can see it |
| Learning Paths | Association of multiple Competencies to a student as requiring that they be completed and in a specific path or order. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can't see it |
| Lesson | A series of interactive pages that require user interaction before advancing. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Login | Login with credentials from the front page of the site, rather than from a separate login page. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Manual Enroll | Enrollment method that allows teachers and administrators to manually enroll users in a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Mentees | Provides a user's mentor with quick access to user's profile page. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Messages | Displays a list of new messages received, with a link to the messages window. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Microsoft® OneDrive® Repository | The Microsoft OneDrive repository (formerly known as Skydrive) allows users with free Microsoft OneDrive accounts to access their Microsoft OneDrive documents within Moodle. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| MNet® | A network feature that allows a site administrator to establish a link with another Moodle-based site and share resources with the users of that site. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| News Items | An updated list of the latest news items. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| No Login | Authentication type that disables a user's ability to login without removing the account from the system. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Online Users | Shows a list of users who are currently logged into a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Page | HTML page resource to display HTML, images and video in a page. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Participants | A list of the instructors and users who make up a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Paypal® | Enrolment plugin that works with Paypal. Students can purchase access to a course.
This plugin requires a PayPal account for use, and may involve fees from PayPal. |
Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| POP3 | Authentication with a POP email server. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Profile | View and edit your personal profile. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Quiz | Design and implement quizzes. Use a large variety of question types. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Quiz Results | Displays the highest and/or lowest grades achieved on a quiz in a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Radius Authentication | Authentication plugin that allows a client to authenticate users against a RADIUS server. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Recent Activity | View recent course activity since last accessing the course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Recent Blog Entries | Shows recent blog entries in a course. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| File | Store and share files within a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| RSS Client | Web feed formats used to publish and keep users informed of frequently updated work. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Rubric Advanced Grading | Associate a points-based rubric with a grade or scale. The rubrics work with Assignments and Open forums. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| SCORM® | Sharable Content Object Reference Model is a collection of specifications that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of Web-based learning content. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Search | Search all activity modules. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Search Forums | Search course forums for a particular word or phrase. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Section Links | Navigate to a particular topic/week section. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Self Completion | Provide a link for students to click when they have completed the course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Single Activity Course Format | A course based on a single activity such as SCORM or LTI. Replaced the SCORM course format in Blackboard Open LMS 2.6. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Site Main Menu | Site administrators can add resources and activities to the main page of the site. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system |
| Social Activities | Links to different activities available in a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Social Course Format | Course format focused on displaying activities in a social way. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Survey | Provide standard, verified survey instruments that have proven useful in evaluating what users are doing and thinking in their courses. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Tags | Describe interests in a way that is easy for people with similar interests to find them. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Tags Flickr® | Display flickr photos with the same tag words that are related to the tags on a page. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Tags Youtube™ | Display YouTube videos with the same tag words that are related to the tags on a page. | Moodle Core | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
| Topics | Group activities and resources together by category, topic, or unit. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| Course Upload | Allows an administrator to upload a CSV file to create, update, delete and import content into a course. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| URL | Link to a URL from the course page. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
| My Private Files | View and manage personal files in the private file area. | Moodle Core |
Turned on in system Users can see it |
| User Tours | The User tours plugin allows administrators to create user tours of Moodle, which are visual and positional step by step guides. | Moodle Core |
Turned on in system Users can see it |
| Weeks | Group activities and resources together by week. | Moodle Core |
Turned on in system Users can see it |
| Wiki | A Web page that everyone in a course can create together without needing to know HTML. | Moodle Core |
Turned on in system Users can see it |
| Workshop | A peer assessment activity with many options. | Moodle Core | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Blackboard maintained plugins
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| Plugin | Description | Support Level | Status | Cost | Open-source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Forums | The Open forum has a more simplified view of forums. This saves users time in viewing and responding to posts. It also makes it easier to find the posts that are most relevant to the class.
Teachers can create anonymous interactions with students while still being able to grade. Teachers can also use advanced grading methods, such as adding rubrics. |
Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | Yes |
| Bb Partner Cloud | Access state-of-the-art, high quality educational content from the following vendors.
The Partner Cloud Building Block offers a single registration and activation process for content partner integration. With this plugin, system administrators have access to the full content inventory available through the Partner Cloud and can efficiently control and manage what commercial content is visible in their Blackboard Open LMS site. |
Full | Turned on in North America only
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee
Fees may be required for additional commercial content |
No |
| Bb Open Content | Blackboard Open Content (formerly xpLor) houses shareable, reusable content to be accessible to courses within several Learning Management System (LMS) platforms. Instructors and other content providers can create or upload content that can then be shared with other users and institutions as determined by specific parameters and sharing filters. Content can be searched according to grade level, subject matter, standards and other criteria. | Full | Turned off in the system
Users can't see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Blackboard Ally | Blackboard Ally is a tool to help make your course content more accessible. Download alternative accessible formats of your course files - choose from semantic HTML, audio, electronic braille and more. | Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Blackboard Ally license required | No |
| Blackboard SafeAssign | Blackboard SafeAssign compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works. | Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Blackboard SafeAssign license required | No |
| CampusVue™ | Integration with the CampusVue student information system. Transfer users, courses, and enrollments. Track online attendance and duplication of grades. Move between CampusVue and Blackboard Open LMS with logging in only once. | Channel Partner Support | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Included in platform fee | Hosted component |
| Checklist advanced grading | View a list of criteria and the associated grades. Assign points to a set of criteria for grading in any activity that uses advanced grading. | Full |
Turned on in system Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | Yes |
| Class List | A quick view of all of the course members. | Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Included in platform fee | No |
| Collaborate with the Ultra experience | Blackboard Collaborate is a real-time video conferencing tool that lets you add files, share applications, and use a virtual whiteboard to interact. Collaborate with the Ultra experience opens right in your browser, so you don't have to install any software to join a session. | Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Included in platform fee
Collaborate with the Ultra experience license required |
Yes |
| Collect | Gather data within a course based on the collectors and data points the site administrator has set to be collected. These data points are then displayed within Blackboard Open LMS reports. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| ConduitTM | Load critical information from an existing SIS, ERP, assessment or other learning database into Blackboard Open LMS. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Course Converters | Uploads course archive files (from other LMS's) to a staging area, converts them into Moodle archives and then restores them to the site. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Coursename Filter | Give Moodlers insight into future classes and a place to access their courses. Create a custom course program overview using the shortname and course summary. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Courses Available To You | Display a list of courses that a user is eligible to enroll in. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Custom Certificate | Generate dynamic PDF certificates with complete customization via the web browser. | Full |
Turned on in system Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Genius SIS Integration | Combines Blackboard Open LMS with Genius SIS to give institutions a more complete view of their students. | Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Included in platform fee
Genius for Blackboard required |
No |
| Grade Submission | Extract teacher submitted grades from Blackboard Open LMS. | Full | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| iAssign |
iAssign, exclusively developed for Blackboard Open LMS, allows instructors and learners to collaborate and accelerate document review via Google and Microsoft integrations. |
Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Included in platform fee | No |
| Intellicart | A complete eCommerce and reporting solution residing inside your Blackboard Open LMS instance. | Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Intellicart license required | Yes |
| Open Grader | Open Grader is an alternate grading option. View, grade, and navigate through submitted assignments in a simplified, adjustable, two-pane view. Currently, Open Grader only supports assignments and Open forums. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | Yes |
| Open Reports | View a greater range of user, activity and course data. View engagement trends and distributions. Data aggregates at the site, category and course level. Enable the Collect block in any course to collect the data. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| MaharaTM Integration | Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework.
Updated to work with Moodle Assignment submissions and feedback. Now includes support for page and collection submission. |
Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Included in platform fee | Yes |
| mPower Toolbox | Access nightly database backups. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Offsite Automatic Backups | Ship Moodle course backup files to data storage outside of the Blackboard Open LMS data centers. Currently only works with Amazon S3. Amazon S3 account required. | Full |
Turned off in system Users can't see it |
Included in platform fee
Amazon S3 account required |
No
Hosted component |
| Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) | Create automated workflows in a course to tailor learning progression to individual students. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Profile Redirect | Send specific learners to a specified course after logging in, skipping the front page. | Full | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | Included in platform fee | Yes |
| Screen Steps Filter | Display Screen Steps within any HTML area in Moodle. | Full | Turned off in system
Users can't see it |
Included in platform fee | Yes |
| Snap | Snap is a theme for Moodle designed to increase learning engagement and make Moodle easier to use. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | Yes |
| Streams and Alerts | The Activity stream is a live stream of course activity and an easy way to keep track of important course activities. Alerts are triggered by various course events, but are most likely important enough that you want to know about them without having to navigate to the My home/My Moodle page to view the stream. | Full | Turned on in system
Users can see it |
Included in platform fee | No |
| Bb Collaborate Web Conferencing | Provide Web conferencing and tools for collaborative, synchronous learning. Schedule and link course activities to Blackboard Collaborate sessions.
Formerly Elluminate |
Full | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Included in platform fee
Collaborate with the Original experience license required |
Yes |
Community plugins
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| Plugin | Description | Support Level | Status | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Quiz | Create tests that efficiently measure the takers' abilities. Adaptive tests are comprised of questions selected from the question bank that are tagged with a score for the difficulty. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| All-or-Nothing Multiple Choice | The all-or-nothing multiple choice question is a version of the core multi-answer multiple choice question with modified grading. In an all-or-nothing multiple choice question, a respondent can choose one or more answers. If the chosen answers correspond exactly to the correct choices defined in the question, the respondent gets 100%. If he/she chooses any incorrect choices or does not select all of the correct choices, the grade is 0%. | Community Plugin | Enabled by default for all sites | No |
| Attendance | Teachers can keep track of who is attending their course. Students can view their attendance records with this block while teachers take attendance, report on attendance, or change attendance settings. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Atto Chemistry Editor | Edit chemistry equations in Moodle 2.7, or later, using the mhchem extension to the MathJax or TeX filter. Useful for full and ionic equations, isotopes, equilibrium reactions, thermochemistry and reaction kinetics. Includes a periodic table of element symbols. | Community Plugin | Enabled by default for all sites | No |
| Atto File Drag & Drop | This plugin for Moodle's Atto WYSIWYG editor lets you drag any file into Atto so you can upload them into Moodle and add a link to the file within the Atto content.
If you are using Moodle's media filters, any supported multimedia files display inline using the filter once published. |
Community Plugin | Enabled by default for all sites | No |
| Atto Record RTC | Add audio and video annotations to text, anywhere an Atto text editor is present. This plugin adds buttons for recording audio or video (with audio) to the editor's toolbar. Using WebRTC technologies, all recording is done instantly in the browser. After recording, users can embed the annotation directly into the text they are currently editing. The recording will appear as an audio or video player in the published writing. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Atto Word count | Simple word count plugin for Atto. | Community Plugin | Enabled by default for all sites | No |
| BTEC Advanced grading | An advanced grading method where a teacher enters a comment per pre-defined criteria and indicates if the student has met the criteria or not. There is no concept of percentages, numbers or letters. Criteria are either met or not met. This method of marking is widely used in the UK. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Canvas question format | Import questions exported from the Canvas LMS as an XML file into Moodle. | Community Plugin | Enabled by default for all sites | No |
| Census Report Block | The Census Report block for Moodle 2 is used by an institution that needs to generate a report of student enrollment and completion status. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Certificate | Create PDF certificates/diplomas for students upon completion of a course or specified activity, with the ability to use both custom and default pictures in the certificates. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Checklist Activity Module | Teachers can create a checklist / to do list / task list for their students to work through. The teacher can monitor all the students' progress, as they tick off each of the items in the list. Items can be indented and marked as optional. Students are presented with a simple bar showing how far they have progressed through the required/optional items and can add their own, private, items to the list. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Checklist | This is a block which works with the checklist module and displays progress bars for a single checklist. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| ClickView | ClickView offers thousands of educational videos designed to support the curriculum and engage students. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Dialogue | Allows students or teachers to start a two-way dialogue with another person. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to enable | No |
| GoogleTM Apps Integration | Access Google Apps services through SSO from within the LMS (Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Gmail). | Community Plugin |
Must submit a support ticket to turn it on Google Apps required |
No |
| Group Choice | Allow students to enroll themselves into a group within a course. The teacher can select which groups students can choose from and the maximum number of students allowed in each group. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Collapsed topics Course format | The format is similar to the standard Topics course format except that all topics (except '0') can be 'toggled' on and off. This reduces clutter in courses that have a large number of topics, lots of content in the topics or a combination of the two. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Completion progress block | The Completion Progress block is a time-management tool for students. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Drag-and-Drop Matching | Question type that requires users to drag labels to a match. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Grade Me Block | This plugin shows a teacher all of the assignments and manual quiz questions (essays and file responses) that have been submitted, but not graded. The block is configured to work with groups that is, teachers will only see the assignments submitted by students if they are both members of the same group. Not recommended for use with the Snap theme. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to turn it on | Support & maintenance fee |
| Grid Course Format | A modular and visual course format. Hides all topics and creates a grid of icons (one for each topic) with short titles. Selecting an icon brings up the content from the corresponding topic. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| OAuth2 (Google) | This plugin adds the "Sign-in with Google / Facebook® / Github® / Linkedin® / Windows Live® / VK / Battle.net®" buttons on the login page. The first time a user logs in, a new Moodle account is created. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Hotpot | This plugin allows teachers to administer Hot Potatoes and TexToys quizzes via Moodle. These quizzes are created on the teacher's computer and then uploaded to the Moodle course. After students have attempted the quizzes, a number of reports are available which show how individual questions were answered and some statistical trends in the scores. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Import competency framework from CSV | This admin tool allows import/export of competency frameworks using a comma separated value file (CSV). This is useful to move competency frameworks between Moodle sites - or to import new competency frameworks - by first mapping all the fields to match the CSV format used by this plugin. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Import competency framework from RDF | This is an importer for XML/RDF formatted curriculum files from the achievement standards network. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Interactive Content - H5P | Create and add rich content inside your LMS for free. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Journal | This plugin allows a teacher to ask students to reflect on a particular topic. The students can edit and refine their answer over time. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Level Up! Block | Engage your students! Gamify your students' learning experience by allowing them to level up in their courses. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Lightbox Gallery | Apply various effects to image galleries created within a course. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Luminis® Message Broker (LMB) | This enrollment plugin can digest XML from the Luminis Message Broker, allowing real-time Banner to Moodle integration, as well as full XML extractions from Banner. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Mindmap | Create and save simple mindmaps from within Moodle. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Moodle Mobile | Local plugin for adding new features to the current Moodle Mobile app. This add-on provides new features and web services which are currently only available in the latest Moodle versions. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Music Interval question type | This question type deals with music intervals. The respondent is given a note and is prompted to enter a second note at a given interval. Answers are entered in a graphical user interface. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to turn it on | Support & maintenance fee |
| Music Key Signature question type | This question type deals with key signatures and may be useful for music theory instruction. The respondent is given a tonality and is prompted to enter the corresponding key signature. A question bank is included, including all major and minor keys in treble and bass clefs. Answers are entered in a graphical user interface. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to turn it on | Support & maintenance fee |
| Music Scale question type | This question type deals with musical scales and may be useful for music theory instruction. The respondent is given a key and tonic, and is prompted to enter a scale. A question bank is included, including all major and minor scales, with and without a key signature. Answers are entered in a graphical user interface. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to turn it on | Support & maintenance fee |
| NLN Learning Object | Allows a teacher to find and add NLN Learning Objects to their Moodle courses with a minimum of effort. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Offline attempts access rule | This plugin adds a new access rule to allow the quiz to be downloaded for offline usage in the Moodle Mobile app. It requires the "Moodle Mobile additional features" (local_mobile) plugin installed. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| OneTopic | The OneTopic course format displays each topic in a tab, keeping the current tab between calls to resources. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to turn it on | Support & maintenance fee |
| OU Blog | This is an alternative blog that you can install into standard Moodle. It does not replace the standard blog -- it operates alongside it. There are two modes of use:
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Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to turn it on | Support & maintenance fee |
| OU Edit Dates Report | This plugin allows teachers to edit all dates for all activities in a course in a single page as part of the Moodle reports. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to turn it on | Support & maintenance fee |
| OU Wiki | Alternative wiki. Simple wiki designed for teaching and learning. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Progress Bar | A time management tool for you and your students. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Questionnaire | Complete online feedback style forms and create questionnaires using a variety of user input methods. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Quickmail | A mail composition text area that allows instructors to select a specific subset of students to send a message to. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Quizventure | Quizventure is an activity module that loads quiz questions from the course it's added to. The possible answers come down as space ships and you have to shoot the correct one. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| SAML Authentication | Supports authentication with a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (IdP). This plugin can also be used to support integrations with Shibboleth and ADFS Identity Providers. | Community Plugin | Hosted component
Requires a one time configuration fee |
Identity Provider license required |
| SAML2 Single sign on | This plugin does authentication, user auto creation with field mapping. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Scheduler | An appointment scheduler for planning face-to-face meetings between teachers and students. Teachers can set up time slots, and students can choose one of these on Moodle. | Community Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to turn it on | Support & maintenance fee |
| Select missing words (gapselect) | This question type allows students to complete a paragraph of text by selecting the missing words using drop-down menus. You can make questions like this using the Cloze question type, but this question type is easier for teachers to get up, and presents the feedback in a more accessible way. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| Sharing Cart | The Sharing Cart is a block for duplicating course items into a personal library and an easy way to move those Moodle resources and activities between multiple courses on your site. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn on | No |
| Tin Can Launch Link | This plugin lets you launch xAPI activities from a Moodle course and then track them with any LRS. You don't need to upload the activities to Moodle - just host them anywhere on the internet. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
| xAPI Logstore | The plugin simply "emits events from the Moodle Logstore as xAPI or TinCan statements". For those that don't know, the Moodle Logstore is a log of activities in Moodle. When you view a course, complete a quiz, or grade a student a log of that activity is recorded in the Logstore. The plugin uses these logs to produce xAPI/TinCan statements and then sends (emits) them to an LRS (Learning Record Store) that you can configure. | Community Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to turn it on | No |
Vendor plugins
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| Adobe® Connect Pro | Allows self-hosted Adobe Connect Pro users to integrate synchronous sessions with Blackboard Open LMS. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Atlas System ARES | ARES provides library staff, course instructors, and students quick and easy access to course reserves information. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Aviso Coaching | The Aviso Moodle Plugin permits the Aviso Retention Software to integrate online course data from Moodle into Aviso for early alerting, predictive analytics, and other functionality. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Big Blue ButtonTM | Use Big Blue Button to integrate Big Blue Button with Blackboard Open LMS. This includes the recording plugin as well. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Biometric Signature-IDTM | BioSig-ID is a patented software only biometric signature gesture technology for identity verification. The BioSig-ID plugin ensures that the access to specific Moodle activities is conditional based on student identity proofing. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Campus Labs® | The Campus Labs-Blackboard Open LMS connection enables single-sign on for instructors to integrate assignments created in Moodle with the Campus Labs rubric tools for assessment and evaluation purposes. Campus Labs provides a platform of tools that enables institutions to unify information to provide valuable insights and better decision making. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Campus Pack Connector | This is a series of integrations with the Learning Objects product, allowing instructors to create Campus Pack blogs, podcasts, private journals and wikis. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| CAMs to Moodle | The CAMs to Moodle plugin adds web services that allow for data exchange with the Three Rivers CAMs product. | Vendor Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Course Merchant | Course Merchant is a fully-featured e-commerce application that seamlessly integrates with Moodle to provide automated student enrollment upon successful online payment and/or registration. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| DubLabsTM | The DubLabs mobile platform allows schools to integrate Blackboard Open LMS to their campus branded mobile app. Students can view course assignments, grades, discussions, announcements and receive Blackboard Open LMS based push notifications from their school app. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| EQUELLA™ | A digital repository that allows instructors to search for learning objects available to them with rating, tagging and federated search functionalities. They can also classify and search for learning objects by standards, ensuring alignment to outcomes and assessments. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| EvaluationKIT® | EvaluationKIT seamlessly integrates Moodle with an external instructor and course evaluation tool. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| ExLibris (campusM) | Allows the campusM app to act as a front end to Moodle and converts Moodle messages into campusM push Alerts. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Evaluations (eXplorance® BPI) | Blue® is a robust, centralized feedback collection tool that provides course evaluations, surveys, 360 reviews, and much more. Blue blocks provide access to flexible tailored reports, dynamic dashboards, forms, task lists, and management interfaces that improve the stickiness of the Moodle LMS. With deep integration with existing data sources, Blue enhances any institution's IT infrastructure. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| i>clicker® | The i>clicker plugin enables students to register their i>clicker remotes with Moodle and allows instructors to seamlessly download their course rosters and upload student results. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| ILP Integration (Ellucian®) | Combines Blackboard Open LMS with Ellucian's Colleague ERP system to give institutions a more complete view of their students. | Channel Partner Support | Hosted component paid add-on | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Kaltura® | Enables the use of video and rich-media in education. Also see Kaltura/Webcam. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Kaltura/ Webcam | Enables the use of video and rich-media in education. Supports uploading video from Blackboard Open LMS to Kaltura, video presentations, video resources and webcam recording in the HTML editor. Allows a student and teacher to create a visual conversation in grading and forums. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Kortext Bookshelf | Provides clients with access to the Kortext digital textbook platform from within Blackboard Open LMS. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Learning Curve | Provides access to Learning Curve Group’s e-Assessor, a flexible and configure online assessment portal. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| McGraw-Hill® AAIRS | McGraw-Hill Campus® is a groundbreaking service that puts world-class digital learning resources just a click away for all your faculty and students. All your faculty - whether or not they use a McGraw-Hill title - can instantly browse, search and access the entire library of McGraw-Hill instructional resources and services including eBooks, test banks, PowerPoint slides, animations and learning objects - from any Learning Management System (LMS), at no additional cost to your institution. The plugin integrates both the MH Campus and Tegrity platforms into Blackboard Open LMS and includes the ability to sync student scores from McGraw-Hill digital platforms (e.g. Connect, ALEKS, SimNet) to the Blackboard Open LMS grade center.
Formerly Tegrity |
Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| onQ | The onQ solution brings video to life, turning traditional static viewing into an energized, interactive group experience, supported by deep behavioral insights that facilitate dramatic improvements to content, communications, learning… and measurable outcomes. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| OneLogin | OneLogin's plugin offers single sign-on (SSO) functionality between Moodle and onelogin.com. Users sign-in once to their Moodle account where they can launch any configured web application by simply clicking the app icon in the plugin. They no longer have to remember and manage multiple URLs, usernames, and passwords, increasing productivity and security. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Panopto® | CourseCast module allows Moodle users to publish CourseCast Presentations. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Panopto Editor Buttons for TinyMCE & Atto | Panopto Button plugin for Atto rich text editor in Moodle, enabling the posting of embedded Panopto video. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Pearson Custom | Pearson provides Moodle integration, giving institutions, instructors, and students easy access to custom designed learning tools. Using the Pearson Custom block, our integration delivers streamlined access to customizable content, personalized study paths, responsive learning tools, and real-time evaluation and diagnostics in the Moodle environment. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Pearson MyLab and Mastering | Pearson provides Moodle integration, giving institutions, instructors, and students easy access to MyLab and Mastering. Using Pearson's MyLab and Mastering Block, our integration delivers streamlined access to customizable content, personalized study paths, responsive learning tools, and real-time evaluation and diagnostics in the Moodle environment. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Readspeaker® | Learners can have course content read and highlighted simultaneously with high quality text to speech. Users can customize the reading experience by controlling the reading speed and how the text is highlighted. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Respondus® 4.0 Web Services | Enables integration with a Respondus server. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Respondus Lockdown Browser® | Integration with Respondus Lockdown Browser to allow quizzes to be taken securely. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
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Respondus StudyMate® Campus |
The StudyMate Campus solution makes it easy for teachers and students to create flash cards, self-assessments, and learning games. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Respondus StudyMate® Class | StudyMate Class helps students "master the basics" of course material through learning activities, self-assessments, and games. A dozen activities -- such as flash cards, crosswords and quizzes -- engage students with course content in an individualized way. StudyMate activities are displayed in a format appropriate for the computer, smartphone or tablet being used. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Scantron Class Climate® | Class Climate makes it easy and cost-effective to deliver evaluations of courses, study programs, events, and departments without laborious data collection and reporting. Educational organizations gain measurable feedback regarding attendee interest levels and instructor performance. Moodle users can connect our integration block to display links to online course evaluation surveys for students' enrolled courses directly inside Moodle. Moodle clients experience the benefit of a robust, market-leading course evaluation system, while providing an easy, integrated experience for student access to surveys - a key tactic to supporting program goals for higher course evaluation response rates. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| ShareStream | The ShareStream Video Platform and ShareStream’s Streaming Media Block Plugin allows users to easily upload and transcode video and audio files, create clips, tag content with metadata, search across and browse instructional-media collections for the courses in which they are enrolled, and access media assets through streaming to desktop computers and mobile devices or (if permitted) through podcasts and RSS feeds. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be requires |
| SmartEvals | SmartEvals seamlessly integrates Moodle with an external instructor and course evaluation tool. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Soomo | The Soomo plugin integrates your Moodle LMS with Soomo's webtext platform, enriching the out-of-the box LTI single sign-on (SSO) experience with real-time grade synchronization. Flexible grading profiles allow instructors to seamlessly allot varied levels of credit for different assignment types in the courseware. Students can use the web as well as mobile apps for iOS and Android™ to complete coursework, with customizable reporting flowing into the Moodle gradebook. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Starfish rENSSO™ | Allows for integration with a Starfish Retention Solutions server. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Talis Aspire | The block will display available reading lists in Talis Aspire for the course. The block provides the following benefits: an easy integration of Talis Aspire reading lists into your Moodle installation, reading lists become more visible to your students, and it increases the usage of reading lists in Talis Aspire. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Turning Technologies® | Turning Technologies Moodle PlugIn is for institutions that want to use Moodle with the in-class student response system TurningPoint®. Combined with Moodle this plugin provides institutions a straightforward way to manage any Turning Technologies student response system adoption with ease. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Turnitin® Moodle Direct (V2) | A standalone activity that represents the full suite of Turnitin's features within the standard Moodle workflow. This is the preferred method of integration with Turnitin. Turnitin Moodle Direct V2 installs separately within Moodle so that it can be used in parallel with the current plugin. If you already use Turnitin Moodle Direct V1, you will not automatically be upgraded to Turnitin Moodle Direct V2; you must request it. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Turnitin Plagiarism | Integration between Moodle 2's plagiarism plugin type and iParadigms® grading and plagiarism scan products. This is different than the Turnitin Moodle Basic plugin. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Urkund Plagiarism Plugin | A commercial plagiarism prevention product owned by PrioInfo AB - you must have a paid subscription to be able to use this plugin. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| VeriCite® | VeriCite is a cloud-based service that identifies plagiarism by comparing submitted work against an ever-increasing database of sources. VeriCite is a commercial service and requires a valid subscription. 30-day trials are available at www.vericite.com. VeriCite is continuously monitored and status updates are available at status.vericite.com. News and system updates are available at updates.vericite.com. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| WebexTM | This module allows you to schedule, host, and attend WebEx meetings from within Moodle. You can manage and view recordings for the meetings from with Moodle as well. | Vendor Plugin | Requires Support & Maintenance Agreement to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| Webswami Personal Filter | A filter to display data about a logged in user anywhere in an HTML area in the system. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
| WIRIS math & science | Better math and science tools to improve your Moodle site. MathType is an advanced math and chemistry editor including a classic input method based on icons and tabs, LaTeX support available but also Handwriting recognition of math expressions. Wiris Quizzes is a bunch of new question types for Moodle for STEM users. Automated computer based grading of open math questions and truly randomized math questions. Include random parameters or graphics in your scientific questions. | Vendor Plugin | Must submit a support ticket to enable | Additional vendor fee or license may be required |
What do the support levels mean?
Below is the explanation for each support level.
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