# Moodle

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/moodle/  
**Website:** https://moodle.org  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Moodle is the world's open source learning platform, used by educators and organizations to deliver online courses and learning experiences. The Moodle developer platform exposes a broad set of internal APIs for plugin and core development, plus a Web Services API that enables external systems to integrate with Moodle for users, courses, enrollments, grading, and more.

## Kin Score — 22.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 38.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 18.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (12)

- **Moodle Web Services API** — Exposes Moodle functionality as web services so external programs can integrate with a Moodle site for users, courses, enrollments, grading, and other operations. Supports REST,...
- **Moodle External Functions API** — Allows developers to expose parametrized functions to external systems, forming the basis of Moodle's web services and powering integrations consumed via REST, SOAP, and XML-RPC.
- **Moodle Access API** — Provides functions to determine what the current user is allowed to do, checking roles, capabilities, and permissions across system, course, and activity contexts.
- **Moodle Roles API** — An extension of the Access API that defines the set of actions a user is allowed to perform on certain system levels through assignable roles and capabilities.
- **Moodle Data Manipulation API (DML)** — Enables safe, consistent database read and write operations across Moodle, abstracting the underlying database driver and providing helpers for common query patterns.
- **Moodle File API** — Manages file storage across plugins, providing a unified interface for uploading, retrieving, and serving files associated with users, courses, and activities.
- **Moodle Form API** — Defines and processes user data submitted through web forms, including validation, rendering, and persistence.
- **Moodle Events API** — Defines event handlers for inter-plugin communication and logging, enabling decoupled, observer-style integrations across Moodle.
- **Moodle Hooks API** — Enables indirect communication between core and plugins through well-defined extension points, allowing plugins to react to and modify core behavior.
- **Moodle Privacy API** — Describes stored personal data and supports discovery, export, and deletion of user data across plugins for GDPR and similar privacy compliance.
- **Moodle Task API** — Executes background jobs on a schedule or as one-off operations, allowing plugins to defer long-running work to cron processing.
- **Moodle Payment API** — Manages payment processing in Moodle, providing pluggable payment gateways for paid enrollments and other monetized features.

## Security (1)

- **Moodle Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Moodle Plans Pricing**

## Tags

E-Learning, EdTech, LMS, Moodle, Open-Source, Web Services

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/moodle/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.