• Moodle

Learning Tools

For a better learning and teaching experience.

  • Basic free
  • Pro €169 / year

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For learners

Notes, bookmarks, scheduled learning reminders, a focus mode and quick course information — all in a floating action button on every course page. With Pro, learners resume exactly where they left off.

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For teachers

With Pro, teachers invite and enrol students by email in bulk, make learners complete a required activity before the rest of the course, send course-wide emails and style their course locally.

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Appearance

Choose which tools are shown, where and in which order, keep essential tools always visible and style them in your brand colors.

Learning Tools at a glance

Modern learning habits in Moodle

Each micro-tool solves a specific problem learners or educators face daily.

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Everything about Learning Tools

Overview

Micro-tools on every course page

Learning Tools offers a suite of micro-tools to enhance the learning and teaching experience. They are accessed via a floating action button at the bottom right of every course page, and each tool solves a specific problem that learners or educators face daily.

Whether it’s setting a reminder to learn later, taking contextual notes or resuming exactly where you left off — Learning Tools brings modern digital learning habits into Moodle.

Management summary

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  • Self-paced

    Learners organize themselves

    Notes, bookmarks and learning reminders support self-paced learning.

  • Onboarding

    Easy start for new learners

    Invitations and course information help learners get going.

  • Communication

    Streamlined communication

    Teachers reach the whole course by email.

Features & pricing

Feature Basic Pro
1 update in 1.3 Stay focused, take control, make progress.
Basic: 6 of 7 features Pro: every feature of the group
Guide learning and streamline workflows.
Basic: not included Pro: every feature of the group
How the Learning Tools menu looks.
Basic: every feature of the group Pro: every feature of the group
Extra features together with other plugins.
Basic: every feature of the group Pro: every feature of the group

All · every feature of the group 2 of 6 · some features — Not included

Release notes 1.3 ↗ All releases ↗

Use cases & screenshots

Self-paced

Supporting self-paced learning

Learners plan when to study, take notes anywhere and pick up where they left off.

  • Schedule learning
  • Notes
  • Resume course

Onboarding

Onboarding new learners

Invite and enrol learners by email in bulk and guide them through required activities.

  • Invitation
  • Force activity

Personalization

A personal learning journey

Learners review all their notes in one structured course view, ready to print.

  • Course interface
  • Bookmarks

Tech & compliance

Running it

Requirements

Moodle 5.0 to 5.2 (Learning Tools 1.3); for Moodle 4.5 use the previous release.

Installation & updates

Basic and Pro are installed as described in the Help Center.

Reviewing it

Data protection & hosting

Your data stays in your Moodle. Learning Tools runs entirely inside your Moodle site and stores its data in your Moodle database and file storage, on your own server. bdecent does not run a cloud service for it, and the plugin never contacts bdecent: no licence checks, no telemetry, no usage tracking. Access is controlled by Moodle roles and capabilities, so only the people you authorise can see or change it.

Accessibility & license

Learning Tools is built with Moodle's own templates and the components of Moodle's standard theme Boost, so it follows your theme's colours, fonts and accessibility settings. Spotted a barrier? Tell us and we fix it with priority. Open source under GPLv3, the same licence as Moodle.

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