Tertiary education

The use of Moodle in Secondary education is often extended further at the tertiary/university level.

Moodle plugins by/for Universities

Many Universities have created custom Moodle plugins which were later shared in the Moodle plugins database, for example:

• The Open University has contributed many very well written and highly popular plugins besides the superb Moodle 2 quiz engine
• AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation has shared several really good plugins
• The Active quiz The original plugin (real-time quiz) was written by Davo Smith, to which the University of Wisconsin - Madison (funded by an educational innovation grant given to the Medical school) re-wrote the plugin, which is now named active quiz
• The Course dedication block was developed by CICEI at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University.
• The Accesibility block integrates the ATbar from Southampton University ECS.
• The PoodLL anywhere development was funded by the Birmingham City University
• Quickmail was developed at Louisiana State University
• The Course overview on campus block was made by the University of Ulm
• One of the authors of the Course description works for the Reutlingen University
• The Mahara assignment submission was made from code developed by the University of Portland, and Lancaster University
• The EJSApp is backed by the Spanish Open University (UNED) and other Spanish Universities, such as the Huelva, Complutense and Almeria Universities
• The Media Gallery plugin was written by Adam Olley for the University of New South Wales
• The Engagement analytics report was developed as part of a NetSpot Innovation Fund project by Monash University
• The QuestionTeX format enables the import of questions written in QuestionTeX directly into Moodle (as well as the export from Moodle to QuestionTeX) was written in the projects LEMUREN and nemesis at the department of mathematics of ETH Zurich.
• ... and many more

Discipline-specific plugins

There are many Moodle plugins available for teaching/assessing several disciplines at and beyond secondary education:

• Category:Discipline-specific_Moodling
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Language teaching
  • Mathematics
  • Music
  • Physics
  • Programming

Themes

There are Moodle themes made specifically by and for a University:

• BCU Birmingham City University. It's based on bootstrap and allows for extensive customisation and some unique features to help improve Moodle's usability.
• Klass This is very very modern theme suitable for your school / college / university and other online educational websites

Useful links for tertiary educators

• Using certainty-based marking

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• There are many good Moodle tutorials and books made by Universities available to everyone:

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