Moodle Reviews

It is a server deployed on the ground for campus use. We run two versions of it. One is specifically for online classes, which is supported by the Moodle tech support people directly, and then we have the one for on-campus classes, which is supported by the on-campus IT department.

I've used it with both groups for support, and I've deployed it for fully autonomous online standalone learning systems, as well as for the live-lecture type of learning systems.

It is relatively easy to use to build processes for establishing and conducting work within the templates that are used. It is not that hard to follow along or use, and it is pretty simple to pick it up and run with it. 

It does have some problems that are hard to work around, but they can be worked around once you figure out how to make it function or how to work with specific components. 

The ability to input modified, individual, independent grades in a grade center component is not just hard. It almost always requires you to get tech involved. When you're dealing with a learning system where you have people in an open enrollment with all different levels of learning modes or methodologies, and as well as a worldwide student body, you end up with situations where you have to absolutely exempt somebody from a grade or an assignment and enter a new, different kind of assignment because of their skillset or lack thereof. You can't do that in Moodle. It is virtually impossible to do that in Moodle without having a tech do it for you, and when you have to have that level of tech support, it becomes problematic. They need to fix the grade book center. It is the part where you do evaluations. They need to fix it so that the individual professors can make changes directly without having to get a hold of tech support to do it for them.

We initially looked at Moodle back in 2010 but decided we would go with Blackboard instead because Moodle was not as up to speed back then as Blackboard was. That was before Blackboard was bought out. After that, I picked up Moodle full-time in 2017. So, it has been five years.

It is stable. Being open-source, it is easy to get patches and fixes to it.

I have no idea. It is a small campus, and I don't know how much it can handle.

I am not aware of our plans to increase its usage. Enrollments are down across the country. My guess is that it is going to keep getting used, but I have no idea whether or not it is going to grow or by what level.

The tech support people are usually pretty good at getting things done, but when you call them up and you need help with something unique—such as exempting grades or revising overall course calculations because somebody started class two weeks late, or you had to cut something out because they were hospitalized—the system doesn't handle it. The system can't adapt that for the individual. It can only do it on a class size basis. So, it is problematic from that perspective. In that particular school, we use Okta as our secure login process to be able to get access to the Moodle login and to be able to access everything else. I don't know why they did that with the Moodle classes other than that there was some sort of vulnerability that had to be resolved.

I jumped into the one that was fully developed already. However, I did watch them split it out from the on-campus to a totally virtual course setup, and they still have problems with the virtual course processing and keeping it separate and different from the campus Moodle. It has some issues because you have to go back to the Moodle techs for help.

I am not aware of how many people are required for its maintenance, but I know the campus can't afford 24/7 IT support for it.

On an apocryphal level, I would say that it is possible they're seeing a return on investment. Otherwise, they would not have used it for a totally virtual campus.

This particular organization is a relatively small academic institution. It is a single campus, not very big, with 4,500 to 5,000 total students. It is not a big faculty. There are no hard sciences other than undergraduate-level hard sciences. So, Moodle is functional, and it is relatively simple because it is open-source software. It has sub advantages, and it is inexpensive. Small schools with small enrollment numbers just can't afford the more expensive ones.

It is a good starter system, but if you can afford Canvas, go for the better system.

I would rate Moodle about a seven out of ten. It is about the same as Blackboard but without all of the technical problems. However, it is also a more limited LMS.

I have used Moodle as a learning management system to complete my mandatory courses, such as POSH.

The most valuable features of Moodle are the ability to create assignments, divide them into teams, and the course delivery. In Cornerstone, I need to reach out to the team, and it is not as simple, a little more involved. Additionally, the solutions is easy to manage.

Moodle could improve by being more user-friendly. Sometimes it worked and other times it didn't. If you get stuck, then you don't have a point of contact. Additionally, a VPN is required to make sure the connection is secured.

Moodle always has connectivity issues, such as the server being down or at times it hangs. Whenever you are using it, you should have the right connection and you should have permission to use it if any additional permission is required.

I have used Moodle within the last 12 months.

The stability of Moodle is good.

Our IT department is available to answer our problems. I have not contacted Moodle support.

I have used other human resource software, such as Ascender and Alt Learning.

Moodle is a free solution.

We evaluated other options and decided to use Moodle because it is free.

Moodle was not user-friendly, we wanted to use Cornerstone.

Moodle has policies in place which was a benefit. It's good to use, but you can't rely on it at times when you want to fetch reports and the server is down or you are not able to get connected. If they could resolve this it would be great.

I rate Moodle a five out of ten.

We use Moodle for the product-based application which provides us with our own e-learning product. Moodle allows us to provide a learning service to our customers including plugin development and customized content. 

I have worked with the development, user support, administration support, course development, plugin development and upgrades within Moodle from version 2.6 to 4.0.

The most valuable feature is the community. Moodle is a completely open source application and provides a lot of development knowledge. The other features we find valuable are the LTI tools, integrations and BigBlueButton. 

Moodle is an LMS that could be used for any kind of educational sector including schools and corporates for both internal or external environments. This is one of its biggest advantages. 

The multi-tenancy system within Moodle could be improved. IOMAD is what makes the multi-tenancy possible but this comes with many issues. 

I have used this solution since 2015. 

This is a stable solution. We were advised by the Moodle team to upgrade the system every three to six months to maintain stability, performance and to have access to new features. The UI of the latest release has changed a lot and includes interactive learning and the H5P plugin. 

We have 40 to 50 users on Moodle and the basic configuration is sufficient to support that. To increase the capacity, we would need to do some load balancing.

We handle most of the support for this solution ourselves. I would rate the Moodle customer service team a two and a half out of five. 

The initial setup is straightforward. The installation is particularly efficient with the latest 4.0 version. 

Moodle is completely open source and does not require individual licenses. Moodle has its own commercial software. The first one is Totara which is the multi-tenancy setup. The second one is Workplace which is the commercial LMS. We had to contact Moodle or a Moodle partner to get Workplace as an LMS. 

For our clients looking for a LMS, we install the Moodle on their server and add branding as per their requirements, including logos and colors. We take the out-of-box offering and customize Moodle based on their specific requirements.

I would rate Moodle an eight out of ten. 

We are a solar manufacturing company. In our organization, we provide training to employees and have a few courses that we have developed for installers. We also have trainers who train installers on the system. We have installers all over the world, so we use Moodle to train them and provide certification based on their training.

I'm into the development of Moodle plugins and data and team developments. We customize a few things on Moodle based on our requirements. My company doesn't want to use what is out of box of Moodle, so we have to develop a few other plugins because our requirements are beyond that, but Moodle supports that pretty well.

There are currently more than 5,000 users in our organization.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

I like the activity modules. Almost all the activity modules are available inside the courses, so that makes our training easier and more comfortable.

The security is good. You aren't able to access Moodle without logging in. Then, it creates a session. After some time, you will be logged out of the session, and it keeps a log of everything. We can check all the data and maintain it.

It has to be more user friendly. I have been using Moodle since version 1.9. For a first time user, especially someone who is non-technical, Moodle is difficult for them to understand and they often need assistance.

I would like to see multi-tenancy support in the sense that courses can be created and handle more than one organization. If I want to manage multiple organizations within Moodle, I am able to do that, but Moodle has a third party called Iomad that provides this multi-tenancy. But they have totally changed the Moodle course to support the multi-tenancy system. If we upgrade Moodle and we're going to use multi-tenancy, we have to wait for Iomad to release the latest version.

We can add a new major course level, but it is not available at category level. It's only able to show the course level and not the category level. 

For roles and capabilities, it has to be more strict. For example, if I'm a teacher and a student, and I am switching my role to a student, I'll have the capability of a teacher also. But when I switch a role to student, I should only be a student.

I have been using Moodle for more than 10 years.

The current version is stable. Even though Moodle is being upgraded, there are a few minor bugs each time. I cannot say that it's 100% stable, but it's fine.

Setup is very easy.

It is a one-time registration with the Moodle site. There isn't a yearly or monthly fee.

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.

Moodle has many other features apart from the courses and activity models. There are various plugins, block plugins, and gamification, which has been introduced recently in Moodle.

The solution is used for corporate and education purposes for sure. In corporate, in human resources, it can be used in order to train all the employees in different topics like soft skills or even regulations such as safety compliance and stuff like that. In educational situations, it can be used for classes. 

We have 80% educational usage of Moodle. It's used a lot in university institutions and colleges. The other 20% is for corporate. 

For corporate, one of the benefits is they can deploy all their courses around the world. They can do synchronous training. They can upload a lot of materials and they can track who saw the content, who did not, how many attended sessions, et cetera. The customer can do the test and have reports about various aspects of the program.

They integrate with Zoom and maybe with Teams. In Moodle, they make forums and assessments such as the evaluation of tests. 

Since it's an open-source product, you can integrate it with many other things. There are no limits. If you know the product, you can use many features, and make some solutions. We like Moodle due to the fact that all the features, actually, are really common in different LMS. You can make a lot of deploy developments over Moodle.

They need to offer insights, such as, for example, identifying which question was the most difficult. Maybe they are not training well or maybe there is a hard topic and they have to make more training about it. If they had more insights into who had trouble where it would give them more insights into how to further develop topics and pieces of training.

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. Other platforms like Canvas or Blackboard do a better job in this regard. 

The reporting could be a bit better, a bit more in-depth.

We've been using the solution for 12 years. It's been well over a decade at this point. 

The stability is good. It's pretty reliable in general. 

The solution does offer scalability, however, it is something you need to work at. It's not something you just download. You have to work at it and implement it correctly.

We have a number of different customers that use the solution. We have a customer base and implement Moodle for them and manage it, administer it for them.

We have 50 plus customers. Then, each customer has thousands of users. For example, the smallest one will have 1,000 users and the biggest one will have 15,000. The largest client has users that I believe are around 60,000.

We don't need technical support from Moodle as we have our own team. 

While I know how to do implementations, I do not actually handle them directly.

We take it as an open-source product. We downloaded it from the Moodle dashboard and then we sell it.

We are not in partnership with Moodle. 

New customers have to understand that even though it is open-source, they will have to spend money. They'll need to rebrand it, however, they need to work with people who understand the product. If you just install it as it is, the user experience will be a disaster if you don't understand what to do. It's not refined. It's not user-friendly for new users. If you have a really good team helping you, you can design some really good classes and programs. 

Overall, I'd rate the product at an eight out of ten.

Our clients use Moodle for learning and managing all the phases of learning for schools or companies. They also use the tool for enrollment, training on the job, forums, certification, events, and meeting management, including real-time meetings.

Moodle is useful for several things, and you can customize it. The solution has a rich and vibrant community where you will always find someone who has tried what you are doing and is willing to help. Moodle is the most used LMS in the world, by the way.

The solution should continue to allow and foster the ability to integrate with cloud services. It will be helpful because we can easily integrate the tool with other services like Microsoft Office 365 and the Google environment. The more the tool is open, the more it can be integrated with something more complex.

I have been using Moodle for more than 10 to 15 years.

We haven’t faced any issues with the solution’s stability.

I rate the solution’s stability ten out of ten.

The solution itself is able to scale provided that you implement it during the deployment. You can do it, but you must learn how to do it. We have massive Moodle installations. The most known example is the Open University site. If you are a good system designer, you can scale the solution. We have plenty of examples of major installations of the solution.Most of my customers for Moodle are medium-sized and enterprise businesses.

I rate the solution a nine or ten out of ten for scalability.

Moodle has a user community. If you are willing to buy technical support, you can use a Moodle partner, and the quality of the Moodle partner is pretty good.

Positive

The solution's initial setup is pretty straightforward, provided you make some key choices, such as following the normal requests. Normally, people implement the solution on a Linux system. The problem comes from the fact that the Microsoft ecosystem continues to evolve and change. As Moodle is the effort of a community, the effort goes more to places with more usage.

The solution's deployment time depends on your skill. Someone who has done their homework can deploy the tool within minutes. The process is pretty straightforward, where you can automatically create templates.

I am currently switching to containers. Earlier, we fetched the latest version directly from the code repository using the buildup inside. We also installed different plugins that a particular installation requires.

Moodle is an open-source solution that is free of cost.

Normally, users use the latest version of the solution, which is 4.1. The last implementation I made for a customer was 3.7. It takes a while, but people normally update the solution. Users have the ability to use all the solution's features or build a new feature themselves through plug-ins. Moodle is a kind of kit tool that you can personalize for your use.

Moodle has made a lot of improvements to its user interface. The solution is now incorporating AI and integrating different Moodle sites in a single place or a single Moodle net.

The solution is perfect for someone doing normal LMS work, wanting to experiment, or willing to use their time to allow your feature to create content. The tool allows you to build and try your ideas, ask somebody if you need it, and share the result. If you go to the level that you need to write plug-ins, you will also be able to create a small business regarding plug-ins on this.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

This solution has been used by a learning institution as their learning platform to manage their class roster. It was used for the online training experience for the online educational program. They used it to manage all of their courseware, forums, interactive activities and instructor student conversations and feedback.

They have made it really easy for you to see the flow on the forums. The information is well organized and the UI is fairly easy to navigate. 

What I like the best about Moodle is that it is open source software and is fairly robust. You can always improve the learner experience by improving how the information is disseminated. 

Everything is very text heavy. There are no videos or moving images. For a visual learner, there's not a lot of visual content so Moodle is not suitable for all types of learners. For audio learners, it seems very one dimensional in how it can be used. These limitations could be a result of how we decided to use the solution. 

I have used this solution for two years. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution but only caters for a limited number of learning styles. 

From an administrative perspective, I would make sure that there are resources on the back end that would speak to more than one kind of learner. I would rate Moodle a six out of seven. 

We use it for corporate training online. We have 65 schools around the world and we use Moodle to educate our teachers on soft skills and and other competencies. We have 7,000 users. We ran a poll on how users feel about using Moodle and the feedback was magnificent. 

The best thing about Moodle is that it is open source and has many useful plugins. It is a great solution for an organization that needs modifications and customization. You can also create your own plugins as a developer and modify some of the existing plugins. 

The fact that an administrator can mark an activity complete by going to the administration site is useful. Previously, we were obliged to complete the activity in the database.

We have needed to complete many customizations for Moodle to use it in all of our relevant organizations. We have found many issues with the competencies as we cannot assign sub competencies to competencies. Once linked to one another, you cannot unlink them. Once the competency is acquired and needs to be added to another course, it will not be updated automatically. I have to update it manually for those students. This has been a challenge for us. 

We have used Moodle for seven years.

We experienced some issues using the older versions of Moodle but this has been resolved and it is very stable. 

This is a scalable solution. 

I've been able to solve many issues using the forum and the intervention of many other contributors but have not contacted the support team directly. 

The initial setup is easy from a developer perspective. The deployment is easy as there are many instructions for Moodle on how to install and deploy it. From an end users perspective, there are many other platforms that are maybe easier to use. 

If a company is looking for a simple solution to host courses and enrol students, I would recommend another platform. I would recommend Moodle for an organization that is growing and looking for competencies and customized courses. We have over 50 different plugins installed with Moodle and this level of customization has not been possible with other solutions we have considered. 

I would advise those using Moodle to take advantage of all the plugins but to not modify the core code. It is much easier to upgrade to newer versions without making these changes. In a future release, it would be useful to have a tracking report for a score file to see each user and what answers they have selected.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.