Automate data exchange between Moodle and external systems.
Dataflows empowers teams to build and maintain connections that previously required developer expertise, making your platform more adaptable and reducing manual processes across the organisation. It simplifies integrations, reduces manual effort, and keeps data consistent across systems, helping teams work more efficiently and with greater confidence.
Stop wasting time on repetitive admin tasks in your Moodle LMS!
Managing a Moodle platform means juggling a million moving parts — syncing data, moving files, connecting to external systems, responding to events. And right now? You’re probably doing a lot of that by hand, or paying someone to write custom code every single time.
There’s a better way. Meet Dataflows.
No code integration required
Configure data connections directly via the Moodle interface, making it adaptable and reducing reliance on developer expertise.
Makes complex simple
Automates data flow between Moodle and external platforms, enhancing consistency.
Reduced maintenace
Simplifies upgrades by replacing fragile, custom-written scripts with a standardised tool.
Many use cases
Ideal for syncing user data, course enrolments or grades with external databases or APIs.
Your Moodle platform finally on autopilot.
Dataflows is a visual automation engine built right into Moodle. Think of it like LEGO bricks for your workflows — you snap together actions and let the system do the heavy lifting, automatically.
Real problems that Dataflows solves for our Moodle clients:
Bulk user updates from HR
Your HR team sends a CSV spreadsheet every Monday morning with updated staff details. Today, someone manually imports it. With Dataflows? It watches for the file to arrive, reads every row, updates each user’s Moodle profile automatically, then sends a confirmation email — all while you’re having your coffee.
Instant notifications when something happens
A student completes a course. A new user enrols. A quiz is submitted. Dataflows can watch for any of these events and instantly fire off a notification to your student management system, CRM, or any web service — no delays, no missed records.
Automated reporting to external systems
Need to push today’s completion data to a government reporting portal every night at midnight? Dataflows queries your Moodle database, formats the results, and sends them via a secure web call — every single night, without anyone lifting a finger.
Secure file exchange with Partners
Pulling enrolment files from a partner organisation’s SFTP server? Dataflows can check the server on a schedule, download new files, decrypt them (GPG supported!), process every record, then archive the files — automatically and securely.
Cloud storage sync
Automatically push generated reports or exported data up to Amazon S3 or Azure Data Lake for long-term storage or downstream processing by your data team.
Built in reliability
A dataflow automatically retries if API’s are temporarily not available. Dataflows uses the Moodle Check API so it can be monitored along side all your other monitoring.
Smart conditional logic
Only want to process records that meet certain criteria? Dataflows has built-in filtering and branching — like an “if/else” for your data. Send VIP students down one path and everyone else down another.
Why administrators love it
- CSV reports run while you sleep
- Full run history and logs
- Validates before it runs
- Exportable, shareable, lockable
- No coding required
| Without Dataflows | With Dataflows |
|---|---|
| Manual CSV imports every Monday | Automated — runs while you sleep |
| Custom code for every integration | Visual, configurable, no coding |
| No visibility into what ran | Full run history and logs |
| One mistake breaks everything | Validates before it runs |
| Workflows live in someone’s head | Exportable, shareable, lockable, self documenting |
Trusted by Monash University and the NSW Department of Education
If it’s reliable enough for government-scale education systems, it’s reliable enough for you.
Stop duct-taping your processes together. Start flowing.