Moodle Integration

Integrate your edtech solution with Moodle using 6B’s secure, scalable integration services. We deliver robust API, plugin-based, and LTI-driven interoperability that connects your application to one of the world’s most widely used open-source learning management systems. Our integrations enhance learning delivery, streamline administrative workflows, and improve digital experiences for students, educators, and administrators across schools, colleges, universities, and training providers.

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6B is an experienced Moodle integration partner, supporting connectivity through Moodle Web Services APIs, LTI 1.3 / Advantage, custom plugin development, cron-based synchronisation, and integration with Moodle’s modular architecture. Whether your solution supports assessment, analytics, safeguarding, curriculum design, engagement tracking, or resource management, we deliver reliable and future-ready interoperability across diverse education environments.

As a dedicated digital engineering partner for education, we enable seamless, secure, and high-performance data exchange between your platform and Moodle to support modern digital learning ecosystems.

Understanding Moodle Integration

Moodle is a globally adopted, open-source learning management system used by schools, colleges, universities, and corporate training providers. It supports a wide range of teaching and learning workflows, including course management, enrolments, assignments, quizzes, grading, content delivery, communication, and collaboration. Because Moodle is modular and highly configurable, each institution may run a different version, theme, plugin set, or authentication framework.

Integration with Moodle is typically enabled through its Web Services API, which provides secure access to core LMS features such as users, courses, enrolment, activities, grades, and content. Many modern integrations use LTI 1.3 and LTI Advantage to launch external tools directly within Moodle while exchanging authentication, rostering, and grade-sync data. For more advanced or bespoke requirements, custom Moodle plugins or block modules can extend Moodle’s functionality and create deeper interoperability.

Moodle environments vary significantly depending on hosting (cloud, on-premise, or third-party providers), plugin choices, authentication via SSO or identity providers, and institutional data-governance frameworks. This means successful integration depends on understanding the specific Moodle configuration, version compatibility, and operational workflows of each institution.

Our Moodle Integration Process

We begin with a structured discovery phase to understand your product’s goals—whether this involves syncing assignments, grade passback, activity tracking, analytics, enrolment automation, content delivery, or workflow enhancement.

Our integration architects design a secure, scalable solution that identifies the correct integration methods (Web Services API, LTI 1.3, LTI Advantage, custom plugin development, or hybrid models). We define authentication flows, data mapping, error handling, compatibility requirements, and performance considerations.

Development is accelerated using 6B’s reusable Moodle integration components, including API wrappers, LTI launch modules, grade-sync pipelines, enrolment-sync engines, and plugin templates. These ensure consistent performance and faster delivery.

Testing is performed using institution-specific Moodle environments or Moodle sandbox sites, with representative user roles (admin, teacher, student). We validate accuracy, performance, permission alignment, and behaviour during peak activities such as assignment deadlines or enrolment periods.

Deployment is coordinated with institutional Moodle administrators, IT teams, and hosting providers. After go-live, 6B provides long-term monitoring, maintenance, and update support to keep your integration stable as Moodle versions evolve.

Benefits of Moodle Integration

Moodle integration supports richer digital learning experiences and more efficient academic workflows. Automated roster syncing, assignment workflows, and grade passback reduce manual tasks and ensure information is always consistent across systems.

Integrations can enhance assessment, analytics, content delivery, student engagement tracking, and communication. Institutions benefit from improved reporting, reduced administrative load, and more reliable student data.

For edtech vendors, Moodle interoperability increases adoption across global markets—including higher education, further education, K-12, and corporate training—ensuring your product fits into the open, modular ecosystems educators rely on.

Why Choose 6B for Moodle Integration?

We have hands-on experience integrating edtech solutions with Moodle via Web Services APIs, LTI 1.3/Advantage, and custom plugin development.

Our reusable components—API handlers, LTI modules, sync engines, and plugin templates—accelerate delivery and improve reliability.

We understand the complexity of Moodle variations (themes, plugins, versions, hosting providers), ensuring integrations work across diverse setups.

All integrations include secure authentication, encryption, permissions management, and compliance with UK GDPR, FERPA, and institutional governance.

We provide complete end-to-end services, from discovery and architecture through development, testing, deployment, optimisation, and long-term support.

Moodle Integration FAQs

Can Moodle integration work across different versions used by different institutions?

Yes. Moodle is highly version-dependent, so we design integrations that account for variations in APIs, plugins, and database schemas. We test against the specific version each institution uses to ensure full compatibility.

Does Moodle allow deep linking or in-platform tool launches?

Yes. Using LTI 1.3 and LTI Advantage, we can enable deep linking so your tool launches directly within Moodle, with automatic user authentication and context-aware routing.

Can the integration support Moodle’s quiz or activity modules?

Yes. Moodle’s Web Services API exposes quiz, assignment, forum, resource, and activity data. We can read or write to these modules depending on your product’s needs and institutional permissions.

How do you handle enrolment syncing when institutions have customised enrolment rules?

Many institutions use bespoke enrolment workflows or plugin-based logic. We build flexible mapping and sync pipelines that adapt to local enrolment structures, group types, and cohort rules.

Can Moodle integration support grade passback to multiple gradebook formats?

Yes. Through APIs or LTI Advantage Gradebook Services, we can sync grades, feedback, attempt data, and status updates into the institution’s Moodle gradebook—even when customised grading scales are used.

Does Moodle support event-driven or real-time updates?

Moodle primarily uses scheduled tasks (cron jobs), but we can implement near real-time syncing using API polling, webhook-style plugin extensions, or LTI Advantage callbacks depending on requirements.

Can you integrate Moodle with external systems like SIS/MIS platforms or analytics tools?

Absolutely. We regularly build multi-platform integrations linking Moodle with MIS systems, CRM tools, data warehouses, AI analytics, safeguarding platforms, and third-party learning tools.

How do you ensure Moodle plugin-based integrations remain stable during upgrades?

We build plugins using Moodle’s established guidelines, ensuring they remain compatible across minor updates. For major version upgrades, we provide patching, refactoring, and testing to maintain long-term stability.