Problem – As someone starting with Moodle, what are the “top 10” of modules, blocks and filters?

Solution
While this isn’t a top 10 list–not with such a popular product as Moodle!–here is a list of ones that caught my eye.

Top Moodle Modules
(a Youtube video on how to install modules)

1. Assignment Rubrics – Allows you to grade assignments using a rubric.
2. Book – Multi-page resource with a book-like format
3. DimDim – Dimdim is the friendly Open Source web meeting. With Dimdim you can show Presentations, Applications and Desktops to any other person over the internet. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting. All this is possible without the attendees installing anything.
4. Certificate – Prints student’s name, date, course name, activity or course grade, other text, a code number, the teacher(s) names. Can choose to add images such as seals, logos and watermarks. Can be delivered in the browser, via email, or downloaded. Email alerts can be sent to teachers or others when certificates are issued.
5. Exabis ePortfolio – This module enables both Professional and Student Moodles as a repository for users’ to store top projects and more importantly, to allow file-sharing to classmates/teacher for review, collaboration or comments. Check it out for broader use across courses. It allows for collection of files, notes, hyperlinks, etc. and exports to SCORM. Items can be shared to all site users, only those in a common course, or individuals.
6. Feedback – “The Feedback module allows you to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback from students. It is smaller in scope and easier to use than the Questionnaire module, and unlike the Survey module allows you to write your own questions, rather than choose from a list of pre-written survey instruments” (Source: Kineo).
7. Group Selection – allows students to select the group they want to be members of.
8. Learning Diary – This module is used to combine the many Reflections into one ongoing diary, a much more efficient and appealing approach for adults. There are so many individual activities in each section that the list appeared exhaustive. It’s a 3rd Party Mod not hosted on Moodle.org.
9. Lightbox Gallery – This resource allows you to create ‘Lightbox’ enabled image galleries within your Moodle course.
10. OU Blog – Provides user and course blogs with comments.
11. OU Wiki – Simple, easy to use alternative to standard Moodle wiki
12. Questionnaire – Allows you to create custom surveys with graphed results pages.
    

And another one that looks interesting but I have yet to try – OpenShare.

Top Moodle Blocks

1. Analog Clock – Displays an analog clock.
2. Birthday – Displays today’s birthdays for Moodle users.
3. Course Management – Block used to schedule backup and restores and delete multiple courses
4. Course Menu block – Adds the folder navigation hierarchy on left of the course ~ big advantage on courses with a lot of topics and/or scrolling.
5. Course Size Report – List of courses with disk usage
6. iTunes University – Access iTunesU podcasts from Moodle; Allows for direct links to podcasts stored in an iTunes University space to be accessed from Moodle in a block using a configured iTunesU login.
7. Login/Logout – Block to login and exit moodle.

Top Filters

1. MultiMovie Filter – This filter allows to display inline videos from youtube, google and teachertube using one easy wiki-like syntax inside every Moodle content (see README.txt for info about the syntax).
2. Topic Tabs – Displaying courses in tabular links, also grouping all blocks and administration into one tab,
3. VoiceThread Embedding for Moodle – This plugin provides a simple, clean way to embed VoiceThread content in Moodle resources, pages, etc. It has full supports for VoiceThread sub-sites (i.e. you school’s own site).

Finally, check out the Moodle Tip Roundup, Moodle Habitudes, and Moodle Mambo!

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