🎓 Moodle MCP Server

Model Context Protocol integration for Moodle LMS

Features • Installation • Usage • Documentation • Contributing

📖 Overview

A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that seamlessly integrates AI assistants with Moodle Learning Management System. Enable your AI assistant to access courses, retrieve educational content, download resources, and search through your learning materials.

🔌 Compatible with: Claude Desktop, and any MCP-compatible AI assistant

Related MCP server: mcpUPB

✨ Features

• 🔐 Secure Authentication - Token-based auth using Moodle Web Services

• 📚 Course Management - List and access all enrolled courses

• 📄 Content Retrieval - Get sections, modules, and resources from courses

• 💾 Document Access - Download files and documents with proper authentication

• 🔍 Smart Search - Find resources by name across all enrolled courses

• 🛡️ Error Handling - Comprehensive error handling with automatic token refresh

• 🚀 TypeScript - Fully typed for better developer experience

🎯 Use Cases

• Study Assistant: Let AI help you navigate course materials

• Content Organization: Search and organize learning resources

• Course Overview: Get quick summaries of course structures

• Resource Discovery: Find specific documents across multiple courses

• Learning Analytics: Analyze course content and structure

📋 Prerequisites

• Node.js 18 or higher

• Moodle Instance with Web Services enabled

• Valid Credentials with API access to your Moodle instance

🚀 Installation

Quick Start

# Clone the repository
git clone <repository-url>
cd moodle-mcp

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

Configuration

1. Create environment file

cp .env.example .env

2. Configure your credentials

MOODLE_URL=https://your-moodle-instance.com
MOODLE_USERNAME=your_username
MOODLE_PASSWORD=your_password
MOODLE_SERVICE=moodle_mobile_app  # Optional

Moodle Web Services Setup

Your Moodle instance must have Web Services enabled. If you're a Moodle administrator:

1. Navigate to Site administration → Server → Web services → Overview

2. Follow the setup wizard to enable web services

3. Create or use the built-in moodle_mobile_app service

4. Ensure these functions are enabled:

   • core_webservice_get_site_info

   • core_enrol_get_users_courses

   • core_course_get_courses

   • core_course_get_contents

🎮 Usage

Running the Server

# Production
node dist/index.js

# Development with auto-reload
npm run dev

Integration with Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "moodle": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/moodle-mcp/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "MOODLE_URL": "https://your-moodle-instance.com",
        "MOODLE_USERNAME": "your_username",
        "MOODLE_PASSWORD": "your_password"
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

📚 Detailed documentation: See USAGE.md for comprehensive tool documentation

🧪 Testing

Quick Test

# Run the complete test suite
npm test

Testing Options

📘 Full testing guide: See TESTING.md

🏗️ Development

Project Structure

moodle-mcp/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts          # MCP server implementation
│   ├── moodle-client.ts  # Moodle API client
│   ├── types.ts          # TypeScript type definitions
│   └── test.ts           # Standalone test script
├── dist/                 # Compiled JavaScript
├── .env.example          # Environment template
├── README.md             # This file
├── USAGE.md              # Tool usage guide
└── TESTING.md            # Testing guide

Commands

# Build the project
npm run build

# Watch mode (auto-rebuild)
npm run watch

# Run tests
npm test

# Development mode
npm run dev

🔧 API Architecture

Authentication Flow

1. Token Generation → POST /login/token.php
2. API Calls        → GET/POST /webservice/rest/server.php?wstoken={token}
3. File Downloads   → GET /pluginfile.php/...?token={token}

Moodle Web Services

• core_webservice_get_site_info - User and site information

• core_enrol_get_users_courses - Enrolled courses list

• core_course_get_courses - All available courses

• core_course_get_contents - Course structure and resources

📚 Documentation

• USAGE.md - Comprehensive guide to all available tools

• TESTING.md - Testing instructions and methods

• MCP Documentation - Learn more about MCP

🐛 Troubleshooting

• ✅ Verify credentials are correct in .env

• ✅ Ensure Web Services are enabled in Moodle

• ✅ Check service name matches your Moodle configuration

• ✅ Verify user has appropriate API access permissions

• ✅ Verify user has appropriate role permissions in Moodle

• ✅ Some resources may be restricted based on enrollment

• ✅ Check course visibility settings

• ✅ Verify Moodle URL is correct and accessible

• ✅ Check network connection and firewall settings

• ✅ Ensure Moodle instance accepts API requests

• ✅ Try accessing Moodle URL directly in browser

🔒 Security

• 🔐 Store credentials securely using environment variables

• 🌐 Use HTTPS for Moodle connections in production

• 🔄 Regularly rotate passwords and tokens

• 📋 Follow your organization's security policies

• ⚠️ Never commit .env file to version control

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Here's how you can help:

1. 🍴 Fork the repository

2. 🔨 Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)

3. 💾 Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')

4. 📤 Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)

5. 🎉 Open a Pull Request

Please ensure your PR:

• ✅ Includes tests for new features

• ✅ Updates documentation as needed

• ✅ Follows existing code style

• ✅ Passes all tests

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built with Model Context Protocol SDK

• Powered by Moodle LMS

• TypeScript & Node.js ecosystem

📞 Support

• 📖 Documentation

• 🐛 Issue Tracker

• 💬 Discussions

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