Moodle LMS is the most popular open source Learning Management System with more than 400 million users around the world. Moodle Plugins provide an easier way to extend the Moodle LMS functionality to meet learning requirements. In this post we will see the Datalynx plugin which is a powerful data management tool.
The Datalynx Moodle plugin allows you to create digital workflows for data management. By using this Datalynx plugin you can easily create Application workflow, Conference registration process etc.
The Datalynx is a professional tool which has got enormous potential as it can be used to create forms and collecting user data. It is an enhancement of Dataform plugin which was pretty popular Moodle plugin.
You can different types of fields to the form and then configure which fields will be visible to which users. You can download the Datalynx plugin from the official plugins repository here. Here are some features of the Dataform plugin:
- More then 20 different data types for structured data (from text to date to team members)
- Create views visible to certain roles
- Filter data with powerful filtering and search methods including a custom filter and an advanced filter
- Create renderers in order to display your data the way you want it
- Define notifications to be sent to certain roles triggered by events like “comment added”
- Export your data to CSV, PDF
- Import data via CSV
- Create templates
- Create views for administration, export, overview, etc..
- Create field behaviours like required fields
- Create renderers for fields
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