Solin Early Warning
Solin Early Warning is a Moodle™-native product line for institutions that want a triaged list of students who may need attention this week. It is built around the only free, GPL, actively maintained Moodle plugin designed specifically for this job.
The product line consists of three parts:
No machine-learning model to train. No separate student-success portal for teachers to check. The free block makes no outbound calls.
Compatible with Moodle 4.5 LTS, 5.1, and 5.2. Moodle Workplace is not officially supported in v1.
Why this exists
A student usually starts disengaging before the final grade makes it obvious. They stop logging in, miss expected completion dates, or their course-total trend drops.
Moodle™ already collects this evidence. The problem is making it visible without asking teachers to manually cross-reference activity logs and gradebooks across multiple courses every week.
Solin Early Warning does one specific job: it shows Moodle teachers which students may need attention this week, right inside the platform where action can be taken.
Transparent heuristics
Solin Early Warning ranks students using five transparent heuristics over data Moodle™ already collects:
Each flag carries its reason. Teachers do not have to trust an opaque score; they see exactly why a student appeared in the list.
Fewer false positives
Moodle course data is uneven. A threshold that works for a 14-week cohort-paced course can produce noisy flags in a self-paced compliance module.
Solin Early Warning is built to handle this reality:
For institutions that want a careful rollout, the Readiness Scan identifies where the block will work well, where it needs adjusted settings, and where early-warning signals should be treated with caution.
The result is better-targeted flags and fewer avoidable false positives, with clearer warnings when a course shape makes a particular signal less reliable. That is the operational argument behind the product: teacher attention where it is most likely to matter, not more dashboard noise.
No outbound calls
The free block runs entirely inside Moodle and makes no outbound calls.
Paid Dashboard features require a license heartbeat and can optionally send institution-level aggregate metrics for benchmarking. Student names, IDs, and risk lists are never sent to Solin services. Slack and Teams notifications, when enabled, are sent directly from your Moodle to the webhook your administrator configures; Solin services are not in the notification path.
Teachers do not need to adopt an external SaaS dashboard. The triage list lives where they already work. For privacy-sensitive institutions, that distinction matters.
Site-wide flagging
The free block gives teachers the course-level view. The Dashboard plugin adds the operational layer for administrators and L&D managers.
Depending on the tier (Small, Pro, Institutional), the Dashboard includes:
The free block continues working if a Dashboard license lapses.
Configured for your needs
A fixed-price setup service for new deployments. We scan your course catalog, typically via a customer-run readiness export or temporary read-only access, to identify where the block will and will not work well (for example, courses missing completion dates).
We recommend and apply a defensible initial configuration so teachers do not face a first month of noisy alerts.
Available after the block has been running for at least 12 weeks. We analyze your local dismissal logs and outcome data to identify which signals were associated with non-completion or failed outcomes in your specific environment, then apply empirically grounded threshold adjustments.
Included once per year with the Institutional Dashboard tier.
How we compare
We do not try to be a cross-LMS business intelligence suite. If you need intervention case management workflows or a standalone student-success SaaS platform, a broader analytics vendor is a better fit.
If you need a Moodle™-native way for teachers to see who may be quietly disengaging this week, Solin Early Warning is built for that.
| Tool | Approach | Where teachers see it | Hosting | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solin Early Warning | Five explainable signals | Inside Moodle™ course view | Self-hosted | Free block; Dashboard from $1,950/year (inc. 1y support) |
| Moodle™ core analytics | Machine-learning model | Site-wide analytics reports | Self-hosted | Bundled with Moodle™ |
| Completion Progress block | Completion progress view | Inside Moodle™ course view | Self-hosted | Free |
| IntelliBoard | Broad analytics suite | External dashboard | Vendor-hosted | Subscription; third-party references cite around $3,000/year, depending on feature set |
| LearnerScript | Configurable Moodle™ reporting | Site-wide reporting page | Self-hosted | $2,450 perpetual (inc. 1y support) |
| Zoola Analytics | Custom Moodle™ reporting | External dashboard | Vendor-hosted | Subscription, contact sales |
| AspirEDU | Multi-LMS at-risk identification | External dashboard | Vendor-hosted | Subscription, contact sales |
Most analytics vendors in this segment use “contact sales” pricing. The numbers we publish (Solin Early Warning, LearnerScript) are the exception, not the norm.
Public pricing for analytics vendors is often limited. Figures marked as third-party references are based on public reseller, review, or procurement references found during our May 2026 research and may vary by institution, feature set, and contract.
About Solin
Solin is a Dutch Moodle and Totara development company. We have over 20 years of experience with custom plugins, complex integrations, and long-term Moodle maintenance. We build for institutions that need practical tools, strict data boundaries, and support from someone who understands Moodle technically.
If you are evaluating early-warning tooling for Moodle, we prefer a direct technical conversation. Tell us how your courses work and what your privacy constraints are. We will tell you honestly whether Solin Early Warning is a good fit.
