Moodle Plugins directory: Plugin type: Administration tools | Moodle.org
Administration tools 
Admin tools are advanced plugins that are intended especially for site administrators; they are accessible via the admin site administration tree menu.
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Different methods of identifying users
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Search engine backends to index Moodle's contents.
User profile fields (23)
Add new fields to user accounts
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Calendars (5)
Various types of calendar systems
Data formats (2)
Formats for data exporting and downloading
Payment gateways (19)
Payment gateways allow Moodle components to implement support for financial interactions with users.
Antivirus (2)
Antivirus scanner plugins provide virus scanning functionality using third-party virus scanning tools.
tool_coursearchiver
Archive and remove past courses with this handy tool that can also be used to send notifications to course teachers, hide courses in bulk, and has the ability for course teachers to opt out of the archiving.
Latest release: 909 sites 487 downloads 94
tool_trigger
This plugin plugin allows site administrators to trigger external actions such as an http request or email when certain events happen in Moodle. Filters can be added to check if the event meets certain conditions and actions(email/http post) can include information contained within the Moodle event. Lookups can also be added to the workflow to allow information not contained within the Moodle event to be exposed to the external action.
Latest release: 737 sites 288 downloads 74
tool_opcache
Moodle plugin which adds a PHP Opcache management GUI to Moodle site administration, a CLI tool to reset PHP Opcache and a Nagios check for PHP Opcache.
Latest release: 2527 sites 780 downloads 68
tool_lifecycle
Course Life Cycle is a moodle plugin, which has the purpose to help you with the execution of reoccurring tasks on your moodle platform. Possible use cases are (not limited to):
Deleting courses at end of life (including asking teachers for permission).
Doing a rollover at the end of a semester.
Automatically setting an end date for courses.
Latest release: 309 sites 228 downloads 65
tool_inactive_user_cleanup
The inactive user cleanup is a useful solution that deletes an inactive user's account automatically. Additionally, the solution sends users emails informing them before deleting their account. Thus, if a learner logs in before the account is deleted, he or she will not be removed from the system.
Latest release: 338 sites 230 downloads 62
tool_usersuspension
The Sebsoft User Suspension Plugin offers you the possibility to automate the process
of suspending users and/or removing user accounts (using moodle's default methods to delete users).
Latest release: 601 sites 363 downloads 61
tool_uploadenrolmentmethods
This plugin allows administrators add the "Course meta link" and "Cohort sync" enrolment methods to a range of courses from a CSV file, and specify the role for the methods participants. They can also delete, enable or disable existing enrolment methods in a course.
Latest release: 811 sites 262 downloads 53
tool_supporter
Easily manage your users and courses within a single window without reloading whole pages. Look up users and courses, enrol students, change settings and much more.
Latest release: 354 sites 199 downloads 44
tool_editrolesbycap
A Moodle admin tool to edit the permissions for one capability in all roles on one screen.
Latest release: 607 sites 128 downloads 43
tool_coursefields
Moodle admin tool plugin which allows managers to set and overwrite custom course field values for all courses in a category, including subcategories.
Latest release: 316 sites 244 downloads 40
tool_mfa
This is a Moodle plugin which adds Multi-Factor authentication (MFA), also known as Two-factor authentication (2FA) on top of your existing chosen authentication plugins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication
Latest release: 979 sites 643 downloads 39
tool_policy
Allows to define various policy documents - site policy, privacy policy, intellectual property policy, late assignments policy and others as needed. It keeps the history of document revisions, tracks user agreements with them and forces
users to accept them prior to using the site.
Latest release: 9 sites 31 downloads 38
tool_webanalytics
A Moodle admin tool adding Web Analytics to your Moodle site. The plugin currently supports following analytics tools: Matomo (formerly Piwik), Google Universal Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Legacy Analytics (soon deprecated by Google)
Latest release: 624 sites 121 downloads 36
tool_lockstats
A lock statistics admin tool, specifically tailored to report on cron task timings.
This tool exposes which tasks are currently running and where, and also shows a detailed history of how long each task has taken in the past.
Latest release: 286 sites 15 downloads 35
tool_coursedates
This admin tool allows managers to set the start and end dates for all courses in a category, including subcategories.
Latest release: 483 sites 116 downloads 35
tool_syncgroups
With this plugin you can synchronize groups and groups members between two courses,
in a way that a course A will be a mirror of course B.
Only users that are already enrolled are added as group members.
Latest release: 277 sites 35 downloads 34
tool_hidecourses
This admin tool allows managers to set all courses in a category (including subcategories) to either hidden from, or visible to, students.
Latest release: 238 sites 86 downloads 32
tool_objectfs
A remote object storage file system for Moodle. Intended to provide a plug-in that can be installed and configured to work with any supported remote object storage solution.
Latest release: 1159 sites 677 downloads 31
BrCLI (Backup & Restore Command-Line Interface) is a plug-in integrated in Moodle that allows administrators to backup and restore courses via a command line interface.
Latest release: 1198 sites 95 downloads 31
tool_inspire
The Inspire plugin implements open source, transparent next-generation learning analytics using machine learning backends that go beyond simple descriptive analytics to provide predictions of learner success, and ultimately diagnosis and prescriptions (advisements) to learners and teachers. From Moodle HQ.
Latest release: 38 sites 2 downloads 31
Supports Moodle 3.3
tool_migratehvp2h5p
Moodle plugin allowing to migrate activities created with the mod_hvp plugin created by Joubel to the new mod_h5pactivity created by Moodle HQ since Moodle 3.9.
Latest release: 1598 sites 1k downloads 28
tool_cohortdatabase
This plugin creates site-level cohorts using a connection to an external database. (similar to enrol_database plugin but instead of creating enrolments it creates site-level cohorts.)
Latest release: 140 sites 39 downloads 28
tool_dataprivacy
Provides the workflow for users to submit subject access requests and for site administrators and privacy officers to process these requests.
Latest release: 8 sites 354 downloads 27
tool_moodlebox
A Moodle administration plugin providing a GUI to some settings and management of a MoodleBox, a Moodle server installed on a Raspberry Pi with some sort of Linux version installed (Raspberry Pi OS preferred).
Latest release: 132 sites 93 downloads 25
tool_deletecourses
This admin tool allows managers to delete all courses in a category (including subcategories if desired). The tool may optionally bypass the recycle bin for improved performance.
Latest release: 946 sites 547 downloads 25
tool_themetester
A Moodle Theme Testing tool, with a focus on Bootstrap 4 based themes.
Latest release: 66 sites 9 downloads 24
tool_clearbackupfiles
Course backups can be an expensive task at times. It could take loads of unnecessary space and memory on the server. Administrators can clear backup files on the server to free the server space.
Latest release: 873 sites 252 downloads 22
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.
Released: 20 sites 17 downloads 18
Supports Moodle 3.1
tool_datatables
Provides API to add DataTables features to Moodle HTML tables.
Latest release: 66 sites 26 downloads 17
tool_lpimportcsv
This admin tool allows import/export of competency frameworks using a
comma separated value file (CSV).
This imports and exports all data contained in the competency
framework including related competencies, and any configured
competency rules.
Released: 6 sites 23 downloads 17
Supports Moodle 3.1
tool_coursesearch
Course search plugin is replacement of existing course search with the more better performance & extra features.
Latest release: 10 sites 9 downloads 16
tool_heartbeat
A load balancer heartbeat / health checker url, and also a configurable nagios compliant cron health checker.
This should work out of the box with most load balancers, eg Amazon ELB, F5, HA proxy etc as most of these simply check the http status for 200 or non-200 response codes.
Latest release: 876 sites 875 downloads 15
tool_imageoptimize
Images compression/optimization on uploading or updating Moodle hooks
Latest release: 419 sites 12 downloads 15
tool_courseautoapprove
Moodle plugin allowing to automatically process the pending course requests.
Released: 47 sites 9 downloads 15
Supports Moodle 3.6
tool_cohortsync
This plugin allows the synchronization of cohorts and members in cohorts from the command line. There are 2 scripts CLI to do the synchronization: cohortsync.php, cohortmembersync.php
Latest release: 119 sites 38 downloads 14
tool_opencast
Moodle plugin which provides API functions as well as general settings for all Opencast plugins for Moodle and which is required by them.
Latest release: 291 sites 199 downloads 14
tool_deletemessage
Moodle never delete messages from message table. This plugin enables you to set a maximum time to messages stay in user box before auto delete them. It also enables the purge old messagens from database and erase messages of old conversations.
Latest release: 232 sites 100 downloads 14
tool_resetmymoodle
This tool allows reset all MyMoodle Users except main admin. Is for admins.
Latest release: 34 sites 23 downloads 14
tool_lpimportrdf
This is an importer for XML/RDF formatted curriculum files from the
achievement standards network.
Released: 30 sites 6 downloads 13
Supports Moodle 3.1
tool_directsso
Moodle admin tool which provides an entrypoint that can be used as persistent URL where external websites can redirect users directly to the Moodle SSO mechanisms without ever showing the login page to the user and especially without the need that the user clicks on a SSO button on the login page.
Latest release: 94 sites 210 downloads 12
tool_cohortheader
Allows additionalhtml settings to be applied based on the users site-level cohorts
Latest release: 7 sites 5 downloads 12
tool_navdb
Database Navigation (tool_navdb) is a database browsing plugin for Moodle. This plugin is designed especially for Moodle's DB structure and adds some practical tools. Some improvements are virtual foreign keys links, and contextual dropdown menus depending on the table, bookmarked table list and an interactive SQL filter editor.
Latest release: 124 sites 9 downloads 12
tool_rssfeeds
This admin tool allows managers to view all RSS feeds on a Moodle site. It shows who owns the feed, which courses have the feed exposed via an RSS block, and gives the manager the option to globally delete the feed.
Latest release: 67 sites 46 downloads 10
tool_translationmanager
The Content translation filter provided a way to quickly translate the content of Moodle courses into different languages. It has now been superseded by a new, improved plugin set.
Please now use the new plugin as it maintains translations when the original language content is updated and has many other improvements, but works largely the same way than this plugin did! it's coming soon to the Moodle plugins database, but available now on github: https://github.com/andrewhancox/moodle-filter_translations
Released: 45 sites 10
tool_genmobilecss
A plugin to help override the default colors for Moodle Mobile and manage other custom CSS. It walks you through picking out replacement colors and adding other custom CSS, then generates a file for you to set as your mobile CSS.
Latest release: 75 sites 4 downloads 9
tool_moodledt
This plugin is a set of tools to assist in developing plugins in Moodle.
Latest release: 3 sites 1 downloads 9
tool_uploadblocksettings
This plugin allows administrators to upload a CSV file containing block settings for courses. You can add or delete blocks, so the tool enables you to apply a default set of blocks for some or all courses on a site. You can also reset the set of course blocks to the default for that course format.
Latest release: 35 sites 74 downloads 8
tool_excimer
This is a Moodle admin plugin that provides developers with insights into not
only what pages in your site are slow, but why. It uses the the Excimer sampling
php profiler to so.
Latest release: 256 sites 305 downloads 8
tool_securityquestions
This plugin adds a framework for adding and enforcing security questions for users to perform a password reset. Currently it only operates on the Moodle Core 'Forgot Password' page, however it is easily extensible to other forms.
NOTE: This plugin only has native compatability with Moodle 3.8. For Moodle 3.7, MDL-66173 must be cherry-picked to allow the plugin to interact with Moodle. See Readme for more detailed instructions
Latest release: 77 sites 8 downloads 8
tool_redirects
A very simple plugin which allows admin to set redirects based on url. Redirects can be from existing Moodle pages like from one course to another, or they can be 'vanity' urls from non existing urls into a page inside Moodle.
Released: 306 sites 148 downloads 8
tool_powerusers
This generator uses the Marvel API to generate users from your favorite characters in your Moodle instance.
Latest release: 7 sites 9 downloads 7
tool_passwordvalidator
A tool for enforcing various security standards and guidelines for passwords for Moodle. This plugin aims for compliance with the Australian Information Security Manual (currently May 2019), and above that, the NIST standards from the document 800-63B. Many of the controls are optional and user configurable, with the most safe values set by default, but allow for great customization for any configuration, while enforcing safe, sensible guidelines for passwords.
This password checks also include securely testing for potentially compromised passwords using:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Latest release: 34 sites 77 downloads 7
tool_uploadexternalcontent
Provides a bulk upload tool to create Moodle Courses that consist of a single External Content Activity, the information is loaded from a Text Delimited File
Latest release: 11 sites 10 downloads 7
tool_lpcustomfields
This plugins allows to create custom fields for learning plan templates, just like what we have for courses.
Released: 8 sites 6 downloads 7
tool_mentordatabase
This plugin syncs parent/mentor relationships using an external database table
Latest release: 2 sites 6
Supports Moodle 3.7
tool_my_external_backup_restore_courses_admin
admin tool to manage scheduled task of block_my_external_backup_restore_courses plugin
my_external_backup_restore_courses_admin is admin tool plugin that enable to manage scheduled task of block_my_external_backup_restore_courses plugin
Released: 10 sites 3 downloads 6
Supports Moodle 3.0
tool_opensesame
The OpenSesame Connector (tool_opensesame) is a course integration tool providing the ability to automatically create and configure Opensesame courses within Moodle. It also contains all of the main settings required to integrate with OpenSesame content.
Latest release: 18 sites 17 downloads 5
tool_copy_courses
The plugin you're developing streamlines the process of duplicating courses in your platform, providing administrators with a faster way to replicate course structures and content without manual recreation.
Latest release: 34 sites 37 downloads 5
tool_environment
Replicates the Moodle environment check but for the command line. Useful for checking dependencies where you might not (yet) have web access.
Latest release: 5 sites 2 downloads 5
tool_mucertify
Certifications plugin is part of MuTMS suite, it is designed to simplify the certification process for your employees and serve as a seamless solution for your compliance training needs.
Latest release: 34 downloads 4
Supports Moodle 4.5
tool_muprog
Programs plugin is part of MuTMS suite. Programs, also known as learning pathways. This functionality enables educators, administrators, and organizations to create structured, sequential learning journeys tailored to meet diverse learning goals and requirements. The robust features of Programs provide enhanced flexibility and automation, making it an indispensable tool for managing complex educational or training offerings.
Latest release: 45 downloads 4
Supports Moodle 4.5
tool_mutrain
Training frameworks plugin plugin is part of MuTMS suite, it is designed to allow teachers to assign training values to courses and other entities via Training value custom fields.
Programs completion may be set up to depend on training points users obtain by completing courses and other activities.
Latest release: 21 downloads 4
Supports Moodle 4.5
tool_untoken_oauth2
The following plugin allows you to remove emails from linking accounts in moodle with oauth2 services, useful in cases where the linking message was never delivered and the entry is blocked with the user's account, allowing administrator this linking process to be performed again.
Latest release: 97 sites 67 downloads 4