The Best Moodle Answer Tools in 2026 (Compared)
There are more Moodle answer tools than ever, and they are not created equal. This is an honest comparison of the main ones — judged on accuracy, speed, question-type coverage, safety, and how much hassle they are to actually use.
Search "best Moodle answer tools" and you get a wall of extensions, sidebars, answer-banks, and GitHub scripts — all promising to handle your Moodle quizzes. They are genuinely not the same kind of thing, and most "best of" lists won't tell you that. Some read the question and answer it for you. Some just look up answers a previous student already submitted. Some are a ChatGPT window you have to set up and feed your own API key into. The right pick depends on what your Moodle course actually throws at you.
This guide compares the main Moodle answer tools on the things that decide whether one is worth installing: accuracy, speed, how many question types it covers, its safety and footprint, and how much setup it takes. We lead with DodoSolve because it's our pick, then give a straight rundown of the real competitors — including where they beat us and where they don't fit.
What makes a good Moodle answer tool
Before the list, here's the rubric. A Moodle answer tool earns its place on five things:
- Accuracy — does it give the right answer, not a plausible-sounding wrong one? This is where the underlying model (or the quality of an answer-bank) matters most.
- Speed — how fast you go from question to answer. An on-page answer beats a copy-paste-into-a-chat workflow every time.
- Question-type coverage — Moodle has a lot of formats: multiple choice, true/false, matching, short answer, numerical, cloze. A good tool handles the objective ones, not just basic multiple choice.
- Safety and footprint — where does it run, what does it leave behind, and does it phone home? A tool that runs locally on your machine has a smaller footprint than one routing everything through a third-party server.
- Ease of use — install and go, or a setup project with API keys and credit top-ups?
One thing worth saying up front: none of this applies inside a locked-down exam. If your school forces you into Safe Exam Browser or Respondus LockDown Browser, no Chrome extension can run there — those are standalone locked browsers that block extensions entirely. Everything below is for normal, non-proctored Moodle — weekly quizzes, homework, practice questions, unit assignments — which is the overwhelming majority of Moodle coursework. (More on what Moodle can and can't see in can Moodle detect cheating.)
DodoSolve — the top pick
The pick. DodoSolve answers questions right on the Moodle page, reads the objective question types Moodle uses, and runs entirely on your own device — sandboxed, with no trace left inside the platform. There's no copy-paste dance and no answer-bank lottery: you open the quiz, the answer surfaces on the question itself, and you keep moving.
What lands it at the top:
- On-page answers. The answer appears on the question you're looking at. You never tab away to a chat window, which is also the cleanest thing you can do for your quiz timing.
- Local and low-footprint. DodoSolve runs in your browser's sandbox, reads the question through the page rather than Moodle's network layer, and never contacts Moodle's servers — so it leaves no log entry, cookie, or fingerprint inside Moodle.
- Broad question-type coverage. It handles the objective Moodle question types — multiple choice, true/false, matching, numerical, short answer — not just the easy multiple-choice case.
- No setup tax. Install it and it works on normal Moodle quizzes. No API key to paste, no credits to buy, no waiting for someone else to have taken the quiz first.
The honest limit: DodoSolve is for normal, non-proctored Moodle. It cannot run inside Safe Exam Browser or Respondus LockDown Browser — no extension can. If your exam forces one of those, this isn't your tool, and we'd rather tell you that now.
The competitors, reviewed honestly
SyncShare
The most-installed tool in this space by a wide margin — well into six figures of installs across the Chrome Web Store and Firefox. It's a crowdsourced answer-bank: it surfaces answers that previous test-takers submitted, on a freemium model.
The catch is structural. An answer-bank only has your answers if someone took your exact quiz before you and contributed them. For a popular, long-running course that can work well; for a fresh quiz, a reworded question set, or a small class, the bank may simply not have your questions. It also skews heavily to non-US (Russian/Ukrainian) audiences, so US course coverage can be thinner than the install count suggests. Strong when the bank has your quiz, hit-or-miss when it doesn't.
Crowdly
The indie-developer Crowdly (not the Boston company of the same name) is a genuine competitor: roughly 10k installs across Chrome and Firefox at 4.4 stars, pitched as working on "any Moodle university site." It pairs an AI autosolver with a peer-verified answer database, so it's less dependent on a prior taker than a pure answer-bank — the AI can take a swing when the database comes up empty.
It's a reasonable all-rounder. The trade-off is that the peer-verified database is only as good as its contributors for your specific course, and like the others it has a non-US lean. If you're weighing it directly against us, we wrote a full breakdown on the Crowdly alternative page.
MoodleGPT
Really two projects under one name. The original MoodleGPT (open-source, ~84 stars on GitHub) and MoodleGPT 3 (a separate developer, built on Gemini, with stealth and auto-answer features) both drop ChatGPT-style answering into the quiz — but they're bring-your-own-API-key tools.
That's the whole story on fit. If you're comfortable creating an API key, pasting it into an extension's settings, and managing your own usage, MoodleGPT gives you direct model output inside the quiz. If you just want something that works after you install it, the setup overhead — and the fact that you're paying the model provider directly — makes this a tinkerer's option rather than a grab-and-go one.
Moodle Agent
Found at moodlea.com, with around 931 installs at a strong 4.9-star rating. It combines a community answer database with AI, and it also covers Testportal, not just Moodle.
The high rating is real and worth noting. As with the other database-backed tools, the community DB helps most when your course is well-represented in it; for a new or niche quiz you're leaning on the AI half. Smaller install base than SyncShare or Crowdly, but the reviews it does have are positive.
Quiz Solver for Moodle
Available on both Chrome and Firefox, but new and small — only around 18 installs at the time of writing — and it runs on a credit system, so you're metering each answer against a balance you top up.
It's hard to recommend something this new and unverified over the established options. The credit model also means cost scales with how much you use it, which is a different value shape from an install-and-go extension. One to watch rather than one to rely on right now.
Worth a brief mention
A couple of others show up in searches. TestPortal GPT (+Moodle) is another bring-your-own-OpenAI-key tool, primarily aimed at Testportal but extended to Moodle; notably it advertises disabling Testportal's "Honest Respondent" feature, which is a different scope than a plain Moodle helper. Moodle Cheater markets itself as an "undetectable" own-brand extension, but its reach is unverified — it appears sideloaded or new — so we can't vouch for what's behind the marketing. Treat both as use-at-your-own-research.
The verdict
If you want the simplest accurate answer with the smallest footprint and zero setup, DodoSolve is the pick — on-page answers, runs locally, broad objective-question coverage, install and go. If your course is huge and long-running and you mostly need lookups, an answer-bank like SyncShare can shine when the bank happens to have your quiz. Crowdly and Moodle Agent are the credible hybrid (AI + database) middle, with the caveat that their databases lean non-US. MoodleGPT and TestPortal GPT are for people happy to manage their own API key. And Quiz Solver for Moodle plus Moodle Cheater are too new or unverified to lead with today.
The common thread: tools that depend on a prior taker (answer-banks) or on your own setup (BYO-key) come with conditions attached. A tool that reads the question itself, on your device, on the page, doesn't.
Skip the answer-bank lottery.
DodoSolve reads the Moodle question and surfaces the answer right where you're working — runs locally, no setup, no waiting on a previous taker. Built for normal, non-proctored Moodle quizzes and assignments.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best Moodle answer tool in 2026?
For most students, DodoSolve. It answers questions directly on the Moodle page, covers the objective question types Moodle uses, runs locally on your own device with no trace inside the platform, and works without any setup. Answer-bank tools like SyncShare can be better when your exact quiz has been taken and contributed before, but that's a conditional win.
What's the difference between an answer-bank and a Moodle quiz solver?
An answer-bank (like SyncShare) surfaces answers that previous test-takers submitted, so it only works if someone took your exact quiz first. A solver like DodoSolve reads your actual question and produces the answer itself, so it doesn't depend on a prior taker or a reworded question set matching the database.
Do any of these Moodle answer tools work inside Safe Exam Browser or Respondus?
No. Safe Exam Browser and Respondus LockDown Browser are standalone locked-down browsers that block Chrome extensions entirely, so no extension — DodoSolve or any competitor — can run inside them. These tools are for normal, non-proctored Moodle quizzes and assignments.
Which Moodle answers extension is easiest to set up?
DodoSolve — you install it and it works on normal Moodle quizzes, with no API key and no credits to buy. BYO-key tools like MoodleGPT and TestPortal GPT require you to create and paste your own API key, and credit-based tools like Quiz Solver for Moodle make you top up a balance.
Is a Moodle quiz solver safe to use?
Footprint varies by tool. DodoSolve runs sandboxed in your browser, reads the question through the page, and never contacts Moodle's servers — so it leaves no log entry inside the platform. Tools that route your activity through a third-party server or a shared answer-bank have a larger footprint. Either way, on a standard Moodle quiz the platform can't see your installed extensions; the thing that ever looks unusual is timing, so pace yourself naturally.