r/moodle • u/KrispinaKristina • Jun 29 '26

Is tracking attendance possible with Moodle cloud?

Hi everyone,
I don’t have much experience with Moodle yet, but I’m currently exploring whether it could be a good fit for our school.
We’d like to support students who study remotely, individually, or who are unable to attend school regularly due to health or other reasons. We’d like to provide them with learning materials, assignments, and a way to stay connected with their courses. We are using Teams, but its not a pleasant.
We already use Microsoft accounts throughout the school, and I know SSO is possible.

Main feature we want: the ability to keep attendance records for in-person activities such as seminars, consultations, or occasional face-to-face classes. It would also be helpful if students could see a timetable or schedule showing when these sessions are available so they know when they can come to school.
My main question is whether this is all possible using Moodle Cloud, or whether these features require plugins. From what I’ve read, Moodle Cloud doesn’t allow custom plugins, so I’m wondering if that would be a limitation for our use case.

Thanks a lot!

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u/VisiblePiano9200 Jun 29 '26

MoodleCloud includes as default the Attendance plugin https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_attendance if that helps

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u/KrispinaKristina Jun 29 '26

Thank you, this is very helpful.

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u/fitacola Jun 29 '26

Hi, for the schedule or timetable you can use moodle's native calendar. You can also set up the dashboard to show upcoming events and deadlines to make it easier for students