• Moodle

Avatar

Create learner identity, motivation, and progress — visually.

  • Basic free
  • Pro from €199 / year

Key feature 01 / 05

Avatar creation

Create characters with up to 10 progression states, give them a name and description, and enrich them with hidden surprises. A preview gallery lets users explore avatars before they pick one.

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Avatar management

Show, hide or archive avatars without losing user history, and back them up as reusable files. With Pro, control availability and assign avatars automatically based on user profile fields.

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Avatar course activity

Embed avatars directly into courses as a configurable activity with its own appearance and completion conditions. With Pro, pre-select avatars by tags and add activity-specific availability.

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Avatar presence

Learners manage their collection in 'My Avatars', and avatars can be used as profile images. With Pro, avatars also appear in the top navigation.

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Tracking and reporting

Completion conditions connect the avatar activity with course progress. With Pro, teachers track avatar usage and assign or upgrade avatars manually, and platform-wide reports show avatar collections per user and overall use.

Avatar at a glance

Identity, motivation and achievement

Avatars become more than characters — they represent identity, motivation and achievement across the entire platform.

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Everything about Avatar

Overview

Learner identity in Moodle

The Avatar plugin brings a new dimension of personalization and learner engagement to Moodle. Admins design customizable avatars with several progression states, embed them into course activities, and visually track learner development over time.

With rich configuration options, platform-wide visibility settings and automated assignment tools, avatars become more than just characters — they represent identity, motivation and achievement across the entire platform.

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  • Identity

    Learners shape who they are

    Evolving avatar profiles and secret content create learner identities.

  • Gamification

    Progress you can see

    Avatar stages unlock over time and make progression visible.

  • Community

    Visible across the platform

    Avatars as profile images or on dashboards strengthen community and branding.

Features & pricing

Feature Basic Pro
Characters that grow with the learner.
Basic: every feature of the group Pro: every feature of the group
Organize and distribute avatars.
Basic: 3 of 5 features Pro: every feature of the group
Avatars embedded directly in courses.
Basic: 2 of 4 features Pro: every feature of the group
Avatar interactions linked to course progress.
Basic: 1 of 2 features Pro: every feature of the group
Avatars as part of the platform.
Basic: 2 of 3 features Pro: every feature of the group
How avatars are used across the platform.
Basic: not included 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

Gamification

Avatar stages that unlock over time

Avatars grow through up to 10 progression states as learners move through the course — teachers can also upgrade them manually.

  • Avatar progression
  • Activity report

Identity

Learner identities with secret content

Learners pick an avatar, collect it in My Avatars and discover hidden surprises along the way.

  • Character identity
  • My Avatars

Course design

Avatars that match the course

Pre-select avatars by tags and limit their availability so each course offers its own characters.

  • Pre-select avatars
  • Activity-specific availability

Tech & compliance

Running it

Requirements

Moodle 4.5 to 5.3 (Avatar 1.1).

Installation & updates

Basic and Pro are installed like any Moodle activity plugin.

Reviewing it

Data protection & hosting

Your data stays in your Moodle. Avatar 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. Avatar implements Moodle's Privacy API, so its data is included when you export or delete a user's data for GDPR requests.

Accessibility & license

Avatar 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. Avatar images carry the avatar's name 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 Avatar yourself A ready-made Avatar sandbox: log in as teacher or student, change settings or build your own course. It resets regularly. Try it yourself · upcoming