moodle-mcp

Let an AI agent work in your Moodle courses as you, with your own login. Your students stay anonymous to the AI, and you decide what it can do.

📖 Documentation · 📖 Documentación en español

moodle-mcp is an MCP server that gives an AI agent such as Claude or Codex about 230 tools for Moodle: grade with your rubrics, build a quiz from your questions, answer the forum, see what's due this week. It works through a real browser on your computer, logged in as you, on any Moodle 4.5 or 5.x site.

✨ Why moodle-mcp

• 🔐 Your login, never your password. You log in yourself, in a browser window it opens, with single sign-on and two-factor if your site uses them.
• 🧩 Nothing to install in Moodle. No web service tokens, no administrator, no plugin: if you can log in, it works.
• 🕶️ Students stay anonymous to the AI. The agent sees other people as aliases such as A-7KQ2XM; only you can turn one back into a name, on your computer.
• 🎚️ You set the limits. Only a teacher's or a student's tools, read-only access, only course content, only the courses you give it: the agent can narrow them, never widen them.
• ✋ It asks before changing things. Every tool that changes Moodle says so, and the agent is told to confirm with you first; for what can't be undone, moodle-mcp asks you itself, in your app.
• 🌐 Several Moodle sites at once. Your school's and your university's, one active at a time, and course content copied between them.
• 🤖 Any MCP app. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, agents built on agent-kit and others, on Windows, macOS and Linux.

🚀 Quick start

You need Node.js 20 or later. Add moodle-mcp to your AI app:

# Claude Code
claude mcp add moodle -- npx -y @falkenslab/moodle-mcp

# Codex
codex mcp add moodle -- npx -y @falkenslab/moodle-mcp

Then ask "List my Moodle courses": the first time, the agent asks for your Moodle's address and a browser window opens for you to log in. To make it yours (your role, your courses, your students' names), see the setup guides.

In Settings → Developer → Edit Config, add it to claude_desktop_config.json and restart Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "moodle": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@falkenslab/moodle-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

💬 What you can ask

👩‍🏫 As a teacher

• "Which submissions to Task 3 still need grading? Propose a grade with the rubric, don't save anything yet."
• "Create a hidden quiz in section 2 with these GIFT questions, one per page."
• "Are there questions in the forum nobody has answered? Draft a short answer for each."
• "Who hasn't completed the unit 4 notes? Send them a friendly reminder."
• "Turn the unit 1 notes into a lesson, a question per page; a wrong answer goes back."
• "Which questions of the review quiz should I fix, judging by its statistics?"
• "Copy the unit 2 quiz from my school's Moodle to my university's."

🧑‍🎓 As a student

• "What do I have due in the next two weeks, across my courses?"
• "Make me a one-page study sheet from the unit 3 pages."
• "What did I get wrong in my last quiz? Explain the right answers."

📸 See it at work

A real session: Claude Code finds the submission to grade, reads it, proposes a grade with the assignment's rubric and saves it once you agree. The student is A-8FT4A1 to the AI, never a name.

More sessions with Claude Code and Codex, and what they changed in Moodle, are in the use cases.

🧰 What's inside

Area	For example
📚 Courses and content	Pages, files, folders, labels and links with your images; books, lessons, wikis, glossaries and databases with their entries, feedback questions; sections; restrictions and completion
📝 Assignments and grading	Submissions, rubrics and marking guides (read and defined), extensions, the marking workflow
❓ Quizzes and questions	Question banks and their categories, every question type, GIFT and Moodle XML import (GIFT checked first) and export, quiz statistics, quiz layout, results, manual grading
📊 Gradebook and reports	The grader report, grade items and categories, CSV import, scales and letters, course and activity completion, choice and survey results, activity and participation reports, logs
👥 Participants and groups	Enrolments, roles, groups and groupings, made automatically or from CSV
💬 Forums and messages	Discussions, replies, ratings, workshops from submission to grades, notifications and private messages
🏅 Badges	Create them, set what earns them, award them by hand
📅 Calendar and to-dos	Events, deadlines, what's pending and what changed
🧑‍🎓 As a student	Quizzes, assignments, lessons, surveys, choices, H5P and SCORM
🧩 Advanced, on request	Course blocks, the content bank, BigBlueButton, competencies, notes about participants and external tools, with MOODLE_MCP_ADVANCED=true
🔄 Course life cycle	Copies, backups and restores, whole or in part, backups read and anonymized, and imports, within a site or between sites

Every tool, with what it takes and what it gives, is in the tools reference.

📚 Documentation

• Getting started: requirements, and step by step for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex and agent-kit.
• Use cases: real sessions as a teacher and as a student, with screenshots.
• Students' privacy: aliases, and what the AI does and doesn't see.
• Limiting the agent: roles, read-only access, scopes, classrooms and confirming what can't be undone.
• Several sites and settings.

🛠️ Developing

See Developing moodle-mcp for building, tests in Docker and the Moodle sandbox, and .minispec/ for the design decisions.

Made with 💖 by Falken's Lab Team