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Content Designer

The mobile-first authoring tool for Moodle.

  • Basic free
  • Pro from €229 / year

Key feature 01 / 05

Robust content editor

Content is organized in chapters that contain elements such as headings, paragraphs or rich text. The chapter structure allows several people to edit content at the same time, and Moodle’s Global Search indexes all major element types.

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Interactive elements

Add interactive H5P content in every plan. With Pro, include questions from the question bank, polls, ratings, images and Video Time elements. H5P, questions, polls, ratings and Video Time can be made mandatory.

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Appearance

Each element comes with options for appearance, animations and responsiveness. Elements can be styled globally by type to match your branding guidelines, keeping content, layout and style separate.

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Tracking and completion requirements

Mandatory elements, progress bars and completion conditions keep learners on the intended path. With Pro, question and H5P grades go to the gradebook, and activity reports show progress and time spent.

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Adaptive paths and evaluation

With Pro, responses to ratings or polls unlock activities or sections — for a specific answer, any answer or none. Ratings linked to variables such as skills or satisfaction are evaluated across courses in report builder.

Content Designer at a glance

Faster authoring, consistent design

Content Designer simplifies mobile-first content authoring, supports collaborative workflows and saves cost for separate authoring tools.

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Everything about Content Designer

Overview

Authoring directly in your Moodle course

Content Designer is developed for instructional designers and collaborative content creation. Its architecture follows their workflow: start with a high-level concept, break it down into individual elements, then add content for each part. Chapters allow simultaneous collaborative editing.

Each element comes with options for appearance, animations and responsiveness and can be styled globally by type. The separation of content, layout and style makes authoring faster and suits quality management and corporate design compliance. Special elements add H5P, questions from the question bank, polls and Video Time, each with mandatory options.

Management summary

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  • Mobile first

    Simplify content authoring

    Structure and design are optimized for small learning modules on any device.

  • Productivity

    Collaborative workflows

    Several authors work on chapters at the same time.

  • Cost

    Save on authoring tools

    Create interactive content directly in Moodle and speed up development.

Features & pricing

Feature Basic Pro
1 update in 1.6 Built for instructional designers.
Basic: every feature of the group Pro: every feature of the group
1 update in 1.6 Building blocks for the content.
Basic: 2 of 7 features Pro: every feature of the group
How learners move through chapters.
Basic: 1 of 2 features Pro: every feature of the group
Progress for learners and teachers.
Basic: 2 of 3 features Pro: every feature of the group
Look and feel of the content.
Basic: every feature of the group Pro: every feature of the group
Grading and availability based on responses.
Basic: not included Pro: every feature of the group
Progress and feedback, evaluated.
Basic: not included Pro: every feature of the group
Extra features together with other plugins.
Basic: every feature of the group Pro: every feature of the group

All · every feature of the group 2 of 6 · some features — Not included

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Use cases & screenshots

Mobile first

Micro learning on any device

Short chapters with text, images, videos and H5P, optimized for small learning modules and different devices.

  • Chapters and elements
  • Responsive settings

Productivity

Authoring as a team

Several authors work on different chapters at the same time, with global styles keeping the look consistent.

  • Collaborative editing
  • Global styling

Evaluation

Feedback inside the content

Collect ratings within the activity and compare results over time and across courses.

  • Rating
  • Rating evaluations

Tech & compliance

Running it

Requirements

Moodle 4.4 and 4.5 (Content Designer 1.6, per the Moodle plugins directory).

Installation & updates

Installed like any Moodle activity plugin; no setup steps required for administrators. Published in the Moodle plugins directory.

Reviewing it

Data protection & hosting

Your data stays in your Moodle. Content Designer runs entirely inside your Moodle site and stores its data in your Moodle database and file storage, on your own server. bdecent does not run a cloud service for it, and the plugin never contacts bdecent: no licence checks, no telemetry, no usage tracking. Access is controlled by Moodle roles and capabilities, so only the people you authorise can see or change it. Content Designer implements Moodle's Privacy API, so its data is included when you export or delete a user's data for GDPR requests.

Accessibility & license

Content Designer is built with Moodle's own template system and the Bootstrap components of Moodle's standard theme Boost, so it follows your theme's colours and fonts. Image elements use their caption as alternative text. We have not published a formal WCAG audit yet — if something gets in your way, tell us and we will fix it. Released under GPLv3, like Moodle itself.

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Try Content Designer yourself A ready-made Content Designer sandbox: log in as teacher or student, change settings or build your own course. It resets regularly. Try it yourself · upcoming