Sustainable tools. Smarter insights. Stronger outcomes.
If you manage a self-hosted Moodle, you already know how much potential it holds and how much time it can take to keep everything running smoothly. That’s where the Catalyst Educators’ Pack comes in.
Developed by our expert team at Catalyst IT, a Moodle Premium Certified Partner for more than 20 years, the Educators’ Pack brings together a suite of Moodle tools, plugins, and enhancements designed to help educators, learning technologists, and administrators unlock the full power of self-hosted Moodle with less effort and greater impact.
Smarter Insights for Self-Hosted Moodle
When you self-host Moodle, flexibility is your greatest strength, but it can also mean more responsibility for optimisation, updates, and user experience.
The Catalyst Educators’ Pack simplifies that process by combining proven tools, meaningful analytics, and expert guidance into one easy pack. It’s built for teams who want a Moodle that performs as brilliantly behind the scenes as it does for learners on screen.
Think:
- Sustainable tools that evolve with your platform, not against it.
- Smarter insights that reveal what’s working and where to improve.
- Enhanced assessment tools that make grading faster and fairer.
- Security and scalability backed by Catalyst’s world-leading managed hosting expertise.
Why we created the Educators’ Pack
Across our work with universities and training providers throughout Europe, one theme stood out: institutions love Moodle’s flexibility but often need clearer, more efficient ways to make the most of it. Our goal was to make self-hosting simpler, more strategic, and more sustainable.
The Educators’ Pack was created to:
- Bring together the most valuable open source tools and Catalyst innovations.
- Provide everything educators need to modernise their Moodle platform – tools that save time, reduce complexity, and create meaningful learning experiences.
- Align platforms with best practices in assessment, analytics, accessibility, and reporting.
In short, it packages the most frequently requested Moodle enhancements into one sustainable bundle that helps institutions focus on learning outcomes, not system upkeep.
What’s inside the Educators’ Pack
The Educators’ Pack combines open source and Catalyst-developed plugins with exclusive services and insights.
Each tool in the pack solves a real-world challenge faced by teaching teams, learning technologists, and platform administrators. Together, they transform a self-hosted Moodle into a modern, sustainable, and insight-driven learning environment, without compromising openness or control.
In it you’ll find tools to support your site’s:
- Look and feel
- Assessment strategies
- Course and site administration
- Analytics and insights
Enhanced User Experience and Design Tools for Self-Hosted Moodle
CatAwesome Theme
What it is: A highly configurable, Catalyst-authored theme exclusive to Catalyst IT partners. It lets institutions align Moodle with their brand through easy-to-use settings for logos, colours, fonts, and imagery. You can configure it yourself or book consultancy hours with our Design Manager for tailored design support.
Why educators value it: It modernises the learner experience and ensures brand consistency across departments while maintaining full accessibility compliance.
Hero Course Format
What it is: A Catalyst-developed course format that displays teaching and learning activities in a clean, structured layout, reducing cognitive load and presenting completion progress at a glance.
Why educators value it: It makes navigation smoother and more intuitive for students, enhancing focus and engagement without requiring a full course redesign.
Assessment and Grading Tools That Reduce Manual Administration
Ranged Rubric
What it is: An advanced rubric that allows scoring within defined ranges, offering precision and flexibility in marking.
Why educators value it: It supports fair, consistent assessment, helps capture nuanced performance differences, and integrates seamlessly with Moodle’s grading interface.
Advanced Grading Report
What it is: A report that consolidates grades and comments across rubrics or marking guides, displaying all feedback in one easy-to-read view.
Why educators value it: It simplifies moderation, supports quality assurance, and saves staff time on grade review and reporting.
Assessment Frequency Report
What it is: A data visualisation tool that maps assessment activity across courses and time, providing heatmaps and dashboards for at-a-glance insights.
Why educators value it: It helps teams spread workload, reduce peak stress points, and improve planning for staff and students alike.
Re-engagement Plugin
What it is: An automation tool for sending reminders and unlocking activities based on learner progress or inactivity.
Why educators value it: It supports engagement and retention by prompting learners to rejoin their studies or access new content at the right time.
Assessment Services
STACK (STEM Assessment)
What it is: STACK is s robust computer algebra-based question engine for STEM disciplines, powered by the GoMaxima back-end service included in the Educators’ Pack.
Why educators value it: It enables automatic, accurate grading for complex mathematical problems while providing instant feedback for students, improving both efficiency and learning outcomes.
Requires the GoeMaxima back-end service to run
CodeRunner (Programming Assessment)
What it is: A secure plugin for running and grading code written by students directly within Moodle, supported by Catalyst’s Jobe back-end service.
Why educators value it: It enables authentic assessment of coding skills at scale and supports multiple programming languages without additional infrastructure.
Requires the Jobe back-end service to run
Reporting, Analytics and Automation for Data-Driven Decisions in Moodle
Dataflows
What it is: A plugin that automates data exchange between Moodle and external systems, such as HR or CRM platforms.
Why educators value it: It simplifies integrations, reduces duplication, and ensures data consistency across the institution.
Configurable Reports
What it is: A flexible reporting tool that allows educators to generate custom dashboards without SQL knowledge, featuring a bank of pre-written Catalyst reports.
Why educators value it: It enables data-informed decisions, supporting evidence-based teaching and administrative improvement.
Strategic Guidance, Insights and Support to Future-Proof Your Platform
Cloud Course Backups
What it is: A secure, automated course backup service integrated with AWS S3, managed by Catalyst’s DevOps team.
Why educators value it: It removes manual backup processes, reduces storage issues, and guarantees resilience through easy cloud restoration.
Matomo Analytics
What it is: A privacy-first analytics solution hosted by Catalyst, providing insight into usage and engagement without third-party tracking.
Why educators value it: It ensures GDPR compliance and full data ownership while delivering actionable insights into learner behaviour.
Security Notices
What it is: Early access to Catalyst’s Premium Moodle Partner security updates and patches.
Why educators value it: It gives IT teams confidence that their Moodle remains secure and compliant with the latest standards.
Moodle Maturity Framework
What it is: The Moodle Maturity Framework is a structured framework for assessing and improving how your institution uses Moodle in teaching, assessment, and analytics.
Why educators value it: It provides a clear roadmap for digital learning maturity, aligning pedagogical and technical goals.
Consultancy & Training
What it is: Each subscription includes one day of expert consultancy and access to Catalyst’s annual community events.
Why educators value it: It provides expert guidance, continuous improvement, and a trusted partnership that extends beyond technical support.
Future Roadmap: Evolving Together
In subscribing to the Catalyst Educators’ Pack, you gain more than a collection of tools; you become part of a growing ecosystem.
Subscribers have access not only to the current suite of features and services but also to ongoing developments that enhance them over time.
Each update brings refinements, new capabilities, and emerging innovations shaped by the needs of our community. As part of your subscription, you’ll also have the opportunity to share feedback and input into the future roadmap, helping us prioritise developments that deliver the greatest impact for educators and learners.
With Catalyst, your Moodle evolves alongside you, continuously improving, sustainably supported, and guided by collaboration.
Designed for educators, built for innovation
Every feature in the pack reflects our belief in open source as a force for progress.
By choosing the Educators’ Pack, you join a community that shares knowledge, invests in collaboration, and continually advances Moodle for everyone.
Whether you’re streamlining assessment, strengthening analytics, or improving learner engagement, the Educators’ Pack helps you focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional learning experiences.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs):
Do I need to host my Moodle with Catalyst to use the Educators’ Pack?
No, the Educators’ Pack was developed for institutions that manage their own Moodle. You keep full control of your hosting, infrastructure, and data. The pack simply adds the tools and features that make self-hosting easier to manage and evolve.
Can we choose individual tools instead of the whole pack?
The Educators’ Pack is offered as a bundle because the tools are designed to work together and reduce the complexity of managing multiple plugins. However, you can choose which feature you would like to use and turn them on/off.
Do we need to host Moodle with Catalyst to use the Educators’ Pack?
No. The Educators’ Pack can be used with any self-hosted Moodle platform. Hosting with Catalyst is optional, though many customers choose to migrate later for performance, security and uptime guarantees.
How much does the Educators’ Pack cost?
The Educators’ Pack is offered as a subscription of £8,000 per year. This includes ongoing updates, testing, support, and access to new enhancements as they are released.
What kind of support is included?
You receive consultancy time as part of the subscription, access to Catalyst experts for onboarding, and priority access to roadmap discussions for future developments.
Ready to see it in action?
See how the Educators’ Pack can help your team modernise Moodle with less effort.
Our consultants will walk you through the tools in action and explore how they can support your institution’s digital learning goals.
Book a demo to discover how the Educators’ Pack can simplify your Moodle and strengthen learning outcomes.
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