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PROS

Moodle offers a vast array of features including the ability to shuffle exam questions, enhancing security and variety for students during assessments.
Moodle's open-source nature allows for extensive customization and integration with numerous third-party plugins, expanding its functionality.
Moodle provides a thorough backup system enabling users to save and transfer data, ensuring flexibility and data portability.
Moodle facilitates online learning by integrating advanced tools like BigBlueButton, supporting various teaching methods and technology use.
Moodle allows for easy assignment creation, organization, and grading with robust data analysis, providing valuable insights into student performance.

CONS

Moodle needs a better way to illustrate competencies so learners can demonstrate subject matter proficiency.
A subscription-based system for course enrollment and payment would benefit Moodle.
Moodle's setup for groups and privacy settings is overly complex.
Moodle Mobile is not available on all devices, and visual content is limited.
Modifying grades in Moodle's grade center requires technical support, which is problematic.
 

Moodle Pros review quotes

PC
Web Developer at Focus PPC
Mar 22, 2022
The most valuable feature of Moodle is the exam question shuffle. Students in the classroom will all have different question list numbers. For example, one student's question one will be another student's question ten.
SK
Developer, Tech Lead at iT corner
Mar 22, 2022
Cost-effective and intuitive.
KC
Technical Client Manager at LinkedIn
Mar 22, 2022
One of my biggest pet peeves is that many LMSs do not offer a course or site-level backup that is an industry-standard file. So, if you decide you don't like Moodle or some other LMS, you should be able to back up all your data and take it and go somewhere else. Moodle does offer that. There are several others that do that as well, but there are some LMSs that don't, which isn't a very good business practice because they hold their clients hostage. That's one of the things I really like about Moodle.
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Francisco Ñato - PeerSpot reviewer
E-Learning Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 31, 2022
Since it's an open-source product, you can integrate it with many other things.
Sunil Kumar Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Technology at Al Falah University
Apr 5, 2022
Moodle integrates with many third party plugins, which has enabled us to make use of the latest technology. During the Covid 19 period, we used a plugin called BigBlueButton to facilitate online learning which was quick and easy to do.
Ertan Aslan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Educational Technology and Innovation Department Experience at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Oct 6, 2023
What I liked most about Moodle was that I could create nice online quizzes. It takes very little time to do. You don't have to even read the paper, it automatically evaluates the quizzes. It gives the student grades and provides a lot of useful statistics. For example, it indicates which question was the hardest, easiest, and where students made the most mistakes. Everything is available to you. You couldn't do this in regular paper test hard copies. This was my first use case.
Usha Sista - PeerSpot reviewer
Service designer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Apr 5, 2022
It doesn't take long to learn how to use it and to set up basic courses and things like that.
reviewer1829949 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and co-founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Apr 6, 2022
The fact that it's modular means you can easily expand with thousands of plugins that you can freely download from Moodle headquarters, and adding or removing functionality is easy.
reviewer1832961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Education at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 11, 2022
This is a scalable solution. We have had 30,000 students using the solution. During COVID, we were able to accommodate a 500% increase in traffic.
Saranya Kanagaraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Moodle Administrator and Developer at Enphase Energy
Apr 25, 2022
Almost all the activity modules are available inside the courses, so that makes our training easier and more comfortable.
 

Moodle Cons review quotes

PC
Web Developer at Focus PPC
Mar 22, 2022
Moodle should improve the interface. You can download plugins, such as templates, and use them in Moodle, but they're limited. The interface component in Moodle can improve for students because we always have to train every student on how to use some of each feature. The solution overall could be more user-friendly.
SK
Developer, Tech Lead at iT corner
Mar 22, 2022
The solution architecture could be improved.
KC
Technical Client Manager at LinkedIn
Mar 22, 2022
Where Moodle could definitely improve is the user interface. You have a lot of themes and you can customize themes, but if you are going to use Moodle off the shelf, even with a hosting company, a lot of training is involved. Training is available, but if your faculty or your development team isn't highly technical, it's going to be a challenge, whereas there are other interfaces that are much easier, but they don't do as much. So, there is a give and take there. If Moodle could find a way to make the user interface for the instructional designers and the learners more intuitive, it probably would be a huge improvement. The manager area and the admin area are fine, but when it comes to the people who are using the system but might not be highly technical, it needs improvement.
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Francisco Ñato - PeerSpot reviewer
E-Learning Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 31, 2022
They need to have a better way to illustrate competencies so that, when people go through the programs, they can actually show they are competent in the subject matter.
Sunil Kumar Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Technology at Al Falah University
Apr 5, 2022
The solution could be improved if support was an integral part of the whole solution. There are a few challenges in terms of performance due to Moodle being a free-to-use platform but these can be overcome with the use of their support team.
Ertan Aslan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Educational Technology and Innovation Department Experience at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Oct 6, 2023
It would be a benefit if there was an easy single sign-on with social media services for Moodle. There are some plugins that I tried, but they didn't work seamlessly. it is a work in progress. Having the single sign-on with social media services would be appreciated because in my school we are using Google suite and the main reason why we use Google Classroom is that it is integrated seamlessly with the suite.
Usha Sista - PeerSpot reviewer
Service designer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Apr 5, 2022
Setting up groups and allocating privacy settings to different groups is quite complicated.
reviewer1829949 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and co-founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Apr 6, 2022
Moodle's weakest point is the user interface.
reviewer1832961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Education at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 11, 2022
The UI and interface of Moodle could be greatly improved. There has been some improvement in recent releases by Moodle but there is still a lot to be improved upon. It is challenging to get buy-in from different stakeholders when they see what it looks like.
Saranya Kanagaraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Moodle Administrator and Developer at Enphase Energy
Apr 25, 2022
For a first time user, especially someone who is non-technical, Moodle is difficult for them to understand and they often need assistance.