Moodle Buddy

Moodle Buddy offers mass file download and notification functionality to the moodle learning management platform. Students see updates to their courses immediately and can download all learning materials with just one click.
What is Moodle Buddy?
"Moodle Buddy" is an innovative Firefox add-on designed to streamline and enhance the Moodle learning platform experience. It allows mass file downloads and offers instant notifications for course updates, making resource retrieval simple and efficient. Moodle Buddy scans Moodle courses for new resources or activities and lets students download all course materials with a single click. It prioritizes user privacy and does not collect any login data or resources.
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Add-on stats

Users: 708 ▲ 18
Rating: 4.95 (94)
Version: 1.55.1 (Last updated: 2024-09-08)
Creation date: 2019-12-25
Weekly download count: 25
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • downloads
  • storage
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 1.08M

Ranking

# 3726 ▲ 19
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Add-on summary

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You are a student/teacher and your university uses Moodle as their learning management platform? You frequently use Moodle to access course material? You are tired of missing updates and downloading every file one at a time?

This browser plugin will save you a lot of time! It will scan your Moodle courses for all available resources (PDF documents, etc.) and allow you to download them all at once.

Furthermore, Moodle Buddy scans your courses for any updates and shows them to you. You can immediately download new resources from your Moodle Dashboard via the plugin.

Feature requests or questions? Send me an email at [email protected]

How to use

  1. Log into your university's Moodle system
  2. Visit any of the following Moodle webpages:
    • Moodle Dashboard/Course Overview (URL ending on /my)
    • Any Moodle course page (URL includes /course)
    • Moodle video page (URL includes /videoservice)
  3. Click the Moodle Buddy icon in the extension bar of your browser
  4. Explore all the features Moodle Buddy has to offer
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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Saves a lot of time
  • Easy to set up
  • Works very well
  • Facilitates mass downloads
  • Useful sorting options
Cons
  • Cannot download all courses at once
  • Duplicates already downloaded files
  • Lack of RegEx support
Most mentioned
  • Works great
  • Time-saving
  • Super useful
Recent reviews
by lollo, 2024-11-05
So far, so good, edit the options for way more useful sorting that makes this way better than doing it manually. If you're concerned about 'all sites' control, disable it, go to the main moodle dashboard, right click extension, and allow it for that site only. :D
by wdgskanz, 2024-10-07
by Firefox user 14022851, 2024-10-05
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Moodle Buddy requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Moodle Buddy is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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