Skip to main content

Activities

An activity is a general name for a group of features in a Moodle course. Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher.

In Moodle terminology, an Activity, such as Forums or Quizzes, properly means something students can contribute to directly, and is often contrasted to a Resource such as a File or Page, which is presented by the teacher to them. However, the term activity is sometimes for convenience also used to refer to both Activities and Resources as a group.

There are 15 different types of activities in the standard Moodle that can be found when the editing is turned on and the link 'Add an activity or resource' is clicked.

Assignments: Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line
BigBlueButton: Run live video conferencing sessions within Moodle
Chat: Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion
Choice: A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses
Database: Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries
Feedback: For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback.
Forum: Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions
Glossary: Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary
H5P activity: Enables H5P content created in the Content bank or on h5p.com or with the lumi App to be easily added to a course as an activity.
Lesson: For delivering content in flexible ways
LTI External tool activity:Allows participants to interact with LTI compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites.
Quiz: Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown
SCORM: Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content
Survey: For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching
Wiki: A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit
Workshop: Enables peer assessment

Additional plugins from the Moodle plugins directory may also be installed on your site.

See also​