Moodle Reviews

I utilize Moodle for training purposes, particularly for our internal clients, aiding them in transitioning to remote learning and online education, especially amid the pandemic. I assist internal clients, particularly those in the ICE and Monitoring branches, with their online learning initiatives. Additionally, we regularly host seminars on the Moodle platform, covering a range of topics from basic to advanced radar and satellite training.

Moodle has proven to be highly effective for training and professional development within our organization. It has replaced the traditional practice of sending individuals on courses across the country, offering coast-to-coast accessibility. We've also begun utilizing badges for internal certification, streamlining the process of recognizing achievement. As its usage has expanded, we started with native Moodle on our section and have since extended it to other groups.

The integration of third-party plugins or tools has influenced our utilization of Moodle. While we haven't implemented as many filters as we potentially could have, one individual has managed administration duties and the integration of these tools. This individual has also been involved in other areas, dedicating significant time to programming within Moodle for a specific program for one group. This process has spanned several years, demonstrating the commitment required to bring these enhancements to fruition.

The customization features of Moodle significantly enhance the learning experience for our users. Previously, we aimed to incorporate end-line filters to make our courses bilingual, allowing learners to switch between French and English, even during exams. It was advantageous as it simplified course management, consolidating content into a single stream rather than separate English and French streams.

The initial setup was somewhat complex. One aspect that I found a bit confusing was the dual editing system, where you could edit the layout of the course separately from editing the content. I often found myself unsure of which mode I should be in. In hindsight, I think having clearer distinctions between these editing modes would be helpful.

I have been working with it for approximately nine years.

It offers excellent stability capabilities. I would rate it ten out of ten. Occasionally, there have been instances where features didn't function as expected. However, overall, I find the system to be satisfactory.

We haven't encountered any scalability issues with Moodle. We've been moving in the direction of enhancing interactivity and dynamism in our courses, which naturally requires more time and effort. I would rate it nine out of ten. Upon joining, many individuals undergo training on Moodle, with the possibility of accessing it later depending on their role. The total user count exceeds a thousand, and we offer a foundational course introducing newcomers to the ECCC environment.

Technical support was primarily managed by one individual, with occasional assistance from another over the past two years. Initially, we had our own team for this purpose, but it was eventually disbanded due to resource constraints.

In terms of features, Brightspace is relatively comparable to Moodle, but it lacks a language filter or equivalent. Personally, I prefer sticking with Moodle because of its flexibility, particularly regarding language support. Given our bilingual requirements, having both languages within one course in Moodle is advantageous compared to managing separate courses in Brightspace. Currently, we have separate development and production sites for Moodle, but this process will shift to Brightspace in the future, although Brightspace currently lacks a development site. While Brightspace may be simpler to use, its simplicity comes at the cost of reduced functionality compared to Moodle.

I would rate the initial setup process around a seven out of ten.

One of our trainers was tasked with handling the deployment and maintenance of Moodle. Additionally, we had a few technicians working on it. We had initially set up a separate Moodle instance specifically for technician training. Another technician, who has since moved out of the training section, experimented with Moodle by downloading a Moodle package and deploying it independently on personal equipment to explore its capabilities further.

In terms of cost, it is available at no charge.

Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.

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.

We use Moodle at the entire university where I work. We have some universal common units offered online. Lecturers make videos, create questions, and so on. All students need to do is log into the platform and use it for learning, even for self-study. They can take quizzes and later do examinations.

We use Moodle as a learning management system (LMS) through SaaS, and they support our students well on campus with all the applications we have.

We have customized it with other in-house solutions.

We have features for monitoring performance. We had a partnership with some researchers from Japan. They provided a way to monitor student performance and follow up on their progress from day one. We have another add-on for what students are doing and what they are expected to do.

The features we have customized allow us to see whether students visited the platform and watched the provided videos. We can monitor and see if they actually spend time watching the videos or studying the materials posted by the instructors. The monitoring aspect is important for students.

An improvement would be to have it support physically challenged students, who we think should be able to participate in some of our courses. If the learning management system could support blind students or students with learning disabilities, it would expand the reach of education by providing tools that support challenged learners.

In future releases, I'd like to see more features that support challenged students, as I just mentioned above. This is because of the university's goal to make education accessible to all groups without discrimination. If we can have more tools that support students who are challenged, that would be very good.

If AI could help, that would be nice. We want to support learners who are remote and provide learning to disadvantaged learners or certain groups of people. AI would come in very handy if Moodle had such capabilities.

I have been using it for 20 years. 

It is stable enough because our provider is called KENET for Internet. KENET is a Kenyan network that supports all learning institutions, so the internet is quite stable. They understand that the university is always running, so they have to make sure that the internet is stable and that the servers being used are stable. 

We have technical people who always support and provide the resources. It is quite stable because we have a dedicated network.

It is flexible enough. It is flexible in terms of not only supporting our student community, but also supporting other government applications, or government needs. We sometimes carry out training for special groups like health workers. We have their training onboarded and support them in training in the field, where they can access their material wherever they are.

Generally, the support is okay.

It was easy to install. It was straightforward.

The challenge isn't the installation itself but rather onboarding the resource platforms to use it. The technical staff didn't need much time or training to learn it. 

The most time is spent getting the resources on the platform, understanding the modules and functionalities, and training the users of the system.

Learning curve:

If you are training technical people with an IT or computer science background, it's usually easy for them. But when onboarding other users from different fields, like biological sciences or healthcare, it takes a bit more time. The learning curve is higher for them. But eventually, we get there because they have to use the system. So, maybe if the tech staff takes two training sessions, it could take five or six for other users, almost double the time.

Customized configuration: 

We customized Moodle because we have many resources for students who work on a schedule, as we train computer science students. So, we don't just use it as it is, but customize it to align with our own compass.

We have dedicated people employed to take care of it and maintain it. They always have to make sure it's up and running and everything is working.

We have a whole team which manages all our online programs. We have about five or six staff members who take care of the system and the entire management of online learning programs.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. It's a good tool. It would reach ten if it could help us reach out to these groups and have AI capabilities, I would give it a ten.

Why I would recommend this tool:

It is good because it helps people learn wherever they are. It provides flexibility in terms of having our students continue with their work and at the same time study. We are able to reach out to students who are part-time and can schedule their time. Sometimes, they are at work, and sometimes, they are studying, so it is a good thing that they don't have to come to study on campus. 

Students can study from wherever they are. We have had students from as far as other countries in the East Africa region, and also students who have their undergraduate in the university and maybe they have relocated to another country abroad. They can still continue with master's courses if they like our programs, because of the learning management system that we have. So, in terms of flexibility, it's good.

In terms of reaching out to areas where they could have resource constraints for the lectures, Moodle is good. We can have a class that is unlimited, so we can reach out to more people. 

And the self-paced learning Moodle provides is also good. It's more scalable. Students can refine and repeat assignments many times, which is a good thing.

A really nice thing about Moodle is that it is very robust and flexible, and one of the big advantages of Moodle is that it is open source. It also has a lot of free documentation. 

The other big advantage is that it has numerous third-party solution providers who are constantly working on cool plugins.

Moodle Mobile is a really good area for improvement. All of 4.0 hasn't been released yet, and Moodle Mobile is not yet available for all different devices. 

Some of the activities can be deprecated. These activities are not very useful, and there are so many other ways to accomplish the same thing. Even after ten years, they have them, but they aren't updating them.

I have been using it for over ten years.

It is very stable.

It is extremely scalable. It can be as small a solution or as large and complex as you want.

If you download Moodle 4.0 and install it on-prem, the support would be through Moodle docs through the website and their videos. The support is also available through different libraries of books, but there is not going to be a staff supporting you. However, if you go to a Moodle partner and you use their solution, there can be staff for support. It just depends on the kind of package you get.

It depends on your level. If you are an administrator, there is a steep learning curve. It is not going to be all that easy to set up, but if you're familiar with it, it is pretty easy after you've done it once or twice. 

If you are an instructor or an instructional designer and you're getting started and just setting up the entire curriculum with an organization, you definitely need to do some training. I would recommend getting a book to help and not just go by Moodle docs. That's because you need to understand how to storyboard and plan in order to achieve your learning goals because it can be pretty easy to make a big mess of things.

If you are working with a provider and they've created templates and you like them, it is easy, but if you're starting from ground zero and you don't have any instructional design background and no learning management system background, it would be complicated. You need to purchase a book. Coincidentally, I have a book that has just come out last week. There are many different books. Packt Publishers have a number of books that are available.

It can be deployed in the cloud and on-premises. Moodle Cloud, moodlecloud.com, is a hosted service, and it is owned or associated with Moodle. It is free at first, and individuals can open up their own accounts. It is public, and you can even use some of the plugins to integrate it with PayPal or credit cards. It can also be on-premise, which can be completely private, and it can also be through a private solution. It just depends on how public you want to make it. Usually, you'd have to authenticate through your organization.

It is open source, and it has a lot of free documentation. It can be by far the least expensive option, but it depends on how one decides to use it.

It can be free if you download it and host it on-prem, and you don't count your time as being worth anything. So, it can be almost free, or it can be very expensive just depending on if you get a package with a provider and if it is a huge solution. It depends on how big the organization is and its deployment model in terms of:

• Whether you want to install it on-prem and have individuals on staff to administer it or have an IT department.
• Whether you want to use one of the Moodle solution providers. There are a lot of them.

My experience has been very positive. Before the last available release 4.0, which is a major update and release, I was getting a little bit bored with Moodle. Moodle was getting a little bit outdated, and I was thinking Canvas was a better solution, but now with 4.0, I'm very excited about it again.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. Moodle 4.0 is not completely out. So, I can't really give it a full ten.

I am working with Moodle just a little bit currently. It's not the main focus of my position, but I have been working with it since 2009. I've been doing some side work, and I also spoke at Moodle conferences all the time before COVID. I've done a lot of solution architecture and project management around custom add-ons and configuration with Moodle.

Its use cases really depend on an organization. When I work with an organization, I look at their technical requirements and their business needs and try to find the best LMS that fits their infrastructure and their business and training needs within their budget. Moodle does fit most companies as an option. So, when it is a good fit, I recommend it to the company or organization.

It is a cloud solution, and the cloud provider depends on the client's needs, but normally, it's sitting on AWS.

All organizations should have training for their users, and all LMSs should address all different learning styles because nobody learns in the exact same way. Some people are visual, and some people are auditory. Some people read, and some people are tactile, kinetic, or hands-on learners. Usually, everyone has a little bit of all of these traits, but one of them is a stronger trait. Therefore, it is very important to have the ability to:

• Create quizzes and engagement within a course to address all learning types
• Offer an option to do hybrid training
• Track the grades for the items that are not handled on the LMS 

Moodle handles all these very well.

We worked with a foreign military group that needed to add a way for helicopter trainers to assess the pilots. There was a specific way in which they wanted it graded. They had a specific assessment. So, we built that onto the grade book and a separate module for the flight instructors to be able to grade exactly the way they wanted it. Moodle is modular, and you can do something like that very cost-effectively, which is important.

Another project I worked on was with a Silicon Valley company. Their education foundation had a grant, and they funded a study to see if you created a hybrid learning program, could you have at-risk students pass algebra 30% better. The project was successful. We built an analytic engine on a publisher server with LTI, and Moodle was the consumer. We were able to pinpoint down to the question, like a quadratic equation, the exact problem that the students were struggling with and serve up additional training, such as videos and additional information, specifically on that area. The project was successful. Being able to use LTI, build a custom analytical engine, and easily build the add-ons to pull Khan Academy, HippoCampus, and other online sources to help students with algebra were the main reasons why we picked Moodle for that project.

It is very flexible. It is like a salad bar. You can put anything that you want into Moodle and top it off with whatever you want.

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.

I like the flexibility of the globally collaborative community that creates plugins to solve various problems. It works with LTI very well, and it integrates with H5P, which makes it very easy and cost-effective for organizations to create their own content and do the customization for 508 compliance for the visually impaired. You can set up themes for visually impaired people or for other disabilities to help streamline the user experience. It is very easy.

Every LMS has room for improvement. There isn't a perfect one out there, and with all the projects I've worked on since 2009, there isn't one LMS that fits a company's 100% requirements and needs. A lot of them come close, but in my experience, there has never been one that fits 100%. Moodle is one of those solutions that come closest, but it's overwhelming if people don't understand it. You have to shut things down. 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.

In terms of additional features, I'd like to see whether you could take and do a 3D virtual world on-the-job site training within Moodle.

I have been working with Moodle since 2009. 

It depends on who installed it and set it up and whether it was set up correctly. If it was set up correctly, it's incredibly stable. I've seen Moodle being used in a university where they have 40,000 concurrent users online every day, and it's stable. It's all about knowing the infrastructure and scaling it for the number of users that you're going to have tasking the system. Just like any LMS, if you go and use it and you don't have enough memory or storage, or your bandwidth is horrible, it would not be a good user experience. So, it is very stable as long as somebody knows what they're doing.

Its scalability is really impressive. The United Nations was using it. The army is using it. It is very scalable, but you've got to make sure whoever is managing the infrastructure knows what they're doing.

I have not interacted with them in the last few years, but I worked very closely with them previously. Our experience depended on the area. Different people managed different parts of Moodle. So, the grade book was managed by somebody, and then the other pieces were managed by somebody else. I would put in a lot of bugs for the clients I was working with, and 80% of their support people were really good, but all of them were over-tasked. That's probably a standard in most LMS companies. I would rate them a four out of five because there is always a person in there that gets one.

On my LinkedIn profile, there is a recording of a presentation that I was doing globally before COVID hit. It is about how to find the right LMS. I worked with this company, and we started with 86 LMSs and got it down to 14 for which we sent out RFP requests. Six of those got to be on-site to demo, but the whole process—the details, the ranking, and how we looked at it—comes down to what your company needs. I've worked with Adobe Prime, Cornerstone, SuccessFactors, Docebo, Absorb, Blackboard, WebCT, and ANGEL. 

I have also heard about Google Classroom. There is something going good for it, but most of the time, people go away from it. Google Classroom is K-12 centric. Some LMSs are education-centric, and some are higher-education-centric. Some are corporate. It comes down to what are your needs and what fits the best.

I have been a part of its implementation many times. Its implementation is complex. It is always complex to bring an LMS into a new company and get them on board to buy into a constant training program. It requires a lot. You can't just bring in an LMS and say that here are the classes and use it. You have to market it, and you have to incentivize it. Otherwise, you're paying for something that nobody will use. There is a holistic approach to bringing in a training system or a new LMS. It doesn't matter if it's Moodle or anything else. It's a very complicated project that touches every single department within the organization. With Moodle or any other LMS, you've got to get full company buy-in for it to be an effective and successful project.

All LMS solutions—such as Moodle, Adobe Captivate Prime, or Cornerstone—have a learning curve, but the learning curve is really getting the mindset of the company to actually use it and understand that training should be part of their everyday life. That's the biggest challenge when you bring in a new LMS to a company and help them set it up. There are technical pieces in terms of getting people logged in, importing users, setting up single sign-on, etc. These tasks are standard, no matter which LMS you're using.

When a company selects Moodle, I always recommend working with a Moodle expert because it's overwhelming with everything that it can do. We look at what that specific organization is looking for and we turn off everything else, so the system is streamlined for what they need.

I don't recommend companies installing Moodle and setting it up on their own. You can go to so many different hosting companies where you can get Moodle with about 5,000 licenses for under $10,000. It might even be extremely under $10,000, but you can't hire somebody to install and manage it and manage the AWS or Azure infrastructure at that price. Companies that think that they're saving themselves money are really causing themselves a lot of anguish and money. If you can go and get Moodle on a hosted system that has an uptime of 98% or more for $10,000 or less, why would you try to find someone who can configure this for $50,000, $80,000, or more a year?

In terms of maintenance, just like every LMS, you need an administrator. Its administrator is a database person. A lot of times, the IT team thinks that they can manage it, but it really needs a database administrator. It requires an understanding of the ed-tech space of e-learning, but it's really the skillset of a database manager.

It varies depending on the partner you're going with. It depends on whether they are a certified partner or not. It also varies depending on the demand. Usually, with Moodle and other LMSs, there is concurrent licensing. It's hard to figure out the best way to do it at the company that is selling the LMS. Moodle is usually one of the most cost-effective LMSs you can get.

I would highly recommend going with a hosting partner that is a certified or real hosting partner to Moodle, not the one that is not part of the Moodle official network. You would get better support from them. For $10,000, you can't install it and run it yourself. You can just start from there. If you outgrow the host, you can install it on-prem or on the cloud and run it yourself, but start with a hosting company because they usually also give you a lot of training.

I would rate it an eight out of ten because there is always room for improvement.

We use Moodle to manage course information, create assignments and set user levels.

The product's most valuable feature is the ability to import and export documents for courses, assessments, and questionnaires in any format. It also integrates with tools, including scripts and Python programs, for generating questionnaires.

Sometimes, the gradebook can get broken if an incorrect formula is entered during creation. It might require administrator assistance or a course rollback to resolve. The students and I can also upload the documents in a folder, but teachers cannot leave feedback. These particular areas need improvement.

We have been using Moodle for three or four years.

I rate the platform's stability a nine out of ten.

We have 600-800 Moodle users in our university.

The technical support services are good. We can find information about various issues on their forum as well.

Positive

The deployment time depends on the user's prior experience working with the product. It takes approximately two hours to complete for new users. I rate the process a six out of ten.

We considered several options before choosing Moodle, including Google Classroom and Canvas. We decided to work with Moodle for the availability of plugins or modules and alignment with the functionality to help us disseminate course materials. In comparison, Google Classroom could have been more suitable for our university.

I rate Moodle a nine out of ten. They provide thorough documentation on the forum.

I was using a Linux computer searching on the internet for educational tools back in 2007 and I came across Moodle. I was trying to find out if Moodle is an open-source system. I downloaded the Linux version and I installed it. I was impressed with what I saw, it is a wonderful system, free of charge, and it has everything you need.

I did some research and found out Moodle is a cloud-based system. I was able to host it and install it myself.

Initially, I was creating a classroom, similar to Google Classroom and I was putting all of my material on the platform and designing courses.

I used to be an English teacher. I was teaching English as a second language(EAL) in different language schools. I was originally keeping my materials in folders, in hard copies on storage devices which was difficult. 

I decided that I would create a Moodle classroom, and I put all my material in the Moodle classroom. I organized my courses chapter by chapter. I put all of my lesson plans, lessons, classwork, assignments, and everything else I needed on the platform. 

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.

I moved to Poland and that is where I am currently. At the school where I started working, they were organizing something similar to a nationwide math contest. Students are supposed to go to a center where they could take the test. There were hard copies of the test being sent around Poland to all of the schools. Teachers arranged when students were taking the test and it was done by writing on an answer sheet and they were sending it to us. We were evaluating, and getting back to them with the results. It was a lot of work, and many people had to be involved. It was a costly event.

I mentioned that I can do the whole contest in Moodle and it won't cost us anything. All we need to do was have a strong server because there will be many students taking the exam at the same time. The server will be our only cost.

I installed the Moodle on the server, and I created quiz classrooms for each year group, such as grades seven, eight, and nine. I created the test and assigned the starting time and duration. All the teachers needed to do was take the students to the IC lab and help them start the test. As soon as they submit the test, we had the results whole country-wide.

A large problem we had previously was if you were asking 20 or 50 math questions, and because it was similar to an Olympiad, you needed to have rankings, such as first, second, and third place. Sometimes it happens that several students are answering the same number of questions correctly. We did not know how we were going to decide who was going to be on the rankings list. The ranking was going to be a problem because you don't have any other way, but with Moodle, we were telling the students the ranking will be based on first, the points you receive, the number of questions you answer correctly, and a second criterion is the time. The time it took them to answer the questions. If the number of right answers is the same, the second criterion was the duration.

I could organize a nationwide exam, and nearly 10,000 students took part in it. This is a substantial accomplishment. Normally in order to organize what I did 10 years ago when these online solutions were not very common it was difficult. 

I'm working for an international school and we have an admission period. During this time all those students come to enroll. We do a placement test before, usually math and English. They were the traditional way, we were taking them into a classroom, we were assigned a teacher, and the students would do the test. We had to read the test and get back to the parents with the result, which was taking a lot of time. 

In 2015, I created a placement test in Moodle. No matter how many students came, or what time they came, we only needed to take them to the computer lab. They could start their own test, have their own duration, and as soon as they submit the test, we had the results.

Normally for every student, you had to arrange a teacher, because they come at different times.

I am stopped using Linux and I am on the Mac ecosystem. There's no point in using the software version of Moodle because it is best when it is on the cloud and it's accessible from everywhere by all of the students. If you want to only use it for yourself, for example, I want to have a system where I can put all of my material, you can use a software version of it. It will be private and only limited to you. One of the largest advantages of Moodle is that it has different user types, such as teachers and students with different roles.

I have tried different cloud services and different systems. There was one when I first came to the school here where I worked, they were using a local system. I used SiteGround and used another solution before. When I first started using Moodle, we had our own Linux server, which we were keeping internally.

The use of Moodle has benefited our organization by limiting the time needed to conduct tests and quizzes for students.

Moodle has plenty of features. They are always updating the solution to a newer version.

When you create a course, you can add activities or material. In the activities section, the module that I use most often is the assignment module. The second one is the quiz module. There are many modules, such as labels, pages, and PDFs. These are the modules that I use most often. The quiz module is a strong one because you can use many types of questions. For example, on some platforms, such as Google Classroom, you can create a quiz using Google Form. In Google Form, you have a multiple choice checkbox. In Moodle, you have more power. One very valuable feature is the randomization of questions. Additionally, you can randomize the answers, which is important. Imagine you want to give a test to your students on a particular topic and they sit in the ICT suite where the computers are very close, which means they are sitting next to each other. If they are on the same page, it's very likely that the exam is not very safe, they could cheat. What the randomized question does is while one student is doing the first question, the next student is actually doing the 15th question. The answers are randomized giving another layer of cheat prevention.

I save a lot of time using quizzes in Moodle. For example, you have a class of 20 students, and you want to do a test in English. Evaluating the answers and grading them takes a lot of time for a teacher.  I spend half of the time then if I was to do it on a hard copy when I create the quiz. I am quicker now than when I started since I have more experience. I spend no time reading the test because Moodle automatically gives me the results. I can take a look at each of the questions that a student had difficulties with. I can visit those questions quickly and give more feedback. I can see every kind of mistake students make in each question, the statistics are very useful.

Since I have created a test already in a particular topic, next year, all I need to do is, double-check it. I don't have to do anything at all. I can use the test for the next year all ready to go.

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.

If I have the same seamless integration with Google suite with Moodle, I would use Moodle more often. I'm using it for myself, but school-wise, it's limited because of the ease of access.

Google Classroom is very simple, and straightforward for teachers. It has many features with most being basic. It's easy for everyone to learn. Moodle has a lot of advanced features which can scare people who are not advanced users. If Moodle could improve user-friendliness or more people would use it. This includes the user interface and the overall user experience could improve. When comparing it to Google, it's a bit more difficult. For example, with Google Classroom, as long as you have a Google account any teacher can go there and create a classroom. However, with Moodle, it's a bit difficult. You need to have a system first. It has to be installed, and then you need to know how to create a classroom. You need to know how to use those tools. It requires some getting used to and some training.

I have been using Moodle for approximately 15 years. I've been using Moodle all the time, even when I am not using it in my organization. Similar to, Google Classroom, I always have Moodle installed on my own server. My material is always on Moodle and I create courses on the platform. Moodle is a very precious asset for any educator.

Moodle is reliable. As a teacher, for example, I have some courses, such as a placement test. I created them seven or eight years ago. They are still available to me when I used to teach English. People were wanting to know their level of English. I created a simple placement test online, starting from very basic questions, all the way up to advanced levels. It was a half an hour test, but mostly multiple-choice, it doesn't cover everything. It doesn't test speaking or writing. There was a reading section that was not very comprehensive. However, it gave an idea about the user's grammatical competence and vocabulary.

I created the placement test a long time ago. Anyone who's curious about his or her English level, I gave them a username and password, and they could take the test, and it helped. No matter when you install it, as long as you are regularly updated, you won't have any problem. If you are using Moodle 2.2. You installed it 10 years ago, and there was a regular update; for example, 2.3, 2.5, and 2.8. They are nearly on version 4.0 and if you upgraded from 2.4 to 3.8, you would have a problem. However, as long as you're regularly upgraded, you will not have any problem. It will be stable there are no problems. 

I never had a problem but I do not know the experience of using it in a university. However, I know that there are millions of users of Moodle and a lot of higher educational institutions are using it. It is very popular in universities.

We decided to use Google Classroom, and only have some individuals who are interested are using Moodle. When I organized the nationwide contest, there were 12,000 people in the system and approximately 1,000 teachers from all around Poland. I did the mathematic test for them and they were all in the system.

I use Moodle often personally. The company I work for makes the decisions whether we use Moodle or not and we do not have plans to use it. 

Moodle has a large open-source community behind it, everyone is helping each other.

Moodle is an open-source system that has the Moodle community. There are forums, but there is no company behind Moodle. You don't have direct contact to ask anyone. All you can do is go to the forum and find the answers to your problems. The problems that people face are very common. There are a lot of places where you can find answers to your questions. There is no customer support, as far as I know. You have to find the information yourself to receive answers.

The company I'm working for is a new company. We are using Google Classroom right now. We previously used to use Office 365. However, we switched to the Google suite, because we enjoy the Google suite much better.

I am using Google Classroom in parallel with Moodle.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, most schools were using Google Classroom because it's much easier for everyone to use. I still continue to use Moodle because it has a lot more functions and I do some online teachings. It gives me a lot of flexibility and a lot of options. It has a lot more sources and modules to create activities, create quizzes, and question types.

When doing the initial setup of Moodle the deployment process is simple. Most of the hosting services make it very easy. For example, if you use SiteGround or any other large services for hosting, these systems are available there. It is similar to WordPress, if you want to install WordPress, you only need to click on it and it automatically installs, Moodle is the same. If I want Moodle, I only need to have hosting and then a URL sub-domain name. 

If my company has a certain domain and before it, I put LMS, such as a learning management system. That's the company's web address. I need to define the subdomain. Then it takes only two to three minutes of work to install Moodle in regular hosting. Once you install it, you have an administrator username and password, that you set up. You then can log in, create your classrooms, and share them with the co-teacher that whom you want to share the classroom. Lastly, you need to import your students.

The good thing about importing students is that you can do it in bulk. You can put the students' emails and names in a Google Sheet or CSV file. When you import them they will be automatically in the system. You only need to create your course design, of how you want to see it. For example, you can decide if you want to make it on a weekly or topic basis. If I want to create a Moodle, it will not take me very long. Registering a host and creating a class, will not take me more than one hour. I can register the hosting, install it quickly, and create the classroom. It's a very quick process to deploy Moodle.

The number of people involved in the deployment will depend on the capability of the person or people involved and the resources they have. Since I have access to all of the resources and because of my position, I can register the hosting myself. I'm a Moodle specialist, I can install and create. As a teacher, I can create a classroom. Somebody in a company has to purchase the hosting. This could be the accounting department if you work in a company. An ICT administrator has to install the system and whoever wants to use the system, you need to give them access to the system as an administrator, to allow them access to create their users, classes, and invite their students as users.

It can also depend on how large a scale you want to branch out with Moodle. For example, if it's going to be a system that a lot of people will be using, then you might want to have a big server, such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud. It depends on concurrent users, and at the same time, how many users will be using the system. If you don't have a strong server, it can crash. It depends on the use case and how many people have to be enrolled. If it is installed and only teachers use it, all the processes are simple but you need to know how to do it.

I was able to implement the whole solution myself.

Moodle typically does not need a lot of maintenance. However, it depends on where Moodle is hosted. If it is hosted in large companies, they always release updates. When you regularly update the system it doesn't require any maintenance. Moodle itself has new releases, and the plugins you install also have releases for the new version of Moodle. There is not a lot of maintenance required. Thre are times I do not use Moodle for one or two years, and I suddenly need it. I go back to it and only need to update the plugins. I am prompted on the screen and I click the update buttons. It updates in a couple of minutes and it's ready to use.

The solution is free, it has been very useful. We are able to limit the number of people involved when doing tests and quizzes which has saved a lot of money and time.

Moodle is a free open-sourced solution. This is one of the best aspects of Moodle.

I have evaluated other options.

I'm a Moodle specialist and I wrote my graduation paper on it.

I would advise others that they should invest their time in using Moodle because Moodle is very good. It's not made for profit, it is made for education and educators, and I'm enjoying it. I would suggest that it should be always there and available for any institution. Although school-wide, we use Google Classroom, I always make Moodle available for our organization even though it's not being actively used. I know when I can use it, and what I can do with it. If it's up to me and had my own organization, school, or education center, I would use Moodle more actively.

I rate Moodle a nine out of ten.

The reason I did not give a rating of ten for Moodle is that it is not a private company's solution. When you have a private solution, you pay attention to user experience. You can make it easier for teachers to use it, but Moodle with all of its functions, if you know how to use them, you will enjoy them.

There are new systems that make life a lot easier for teachers, step by step. For example, creating the first activity, next activity, et cetera. You are guided when you design your course, but with Moodle, you have to design everything, how you want your student to proceed. You have to create all the content by yourself. That's what the teachers don't like. They don't want to put in the time to design the course and put everything together. It's a bit time-consuming compared to new products available. However, Moodle is free and available to anyone at any time to install. It would be unfair to rate Moodle an eight.

There are various use cases and the choice depends on the module you want to employ and explore. It can provide good machine-learning capabilities if that is the need.

One of the most valuable aspects is the ability to input data into the model. After feeding the data, the model becomes a tool that can be leveraged to retrieve and analyze information, allowing for various functionalities such as data access and manipulation.

Sometimes, discrepancies arise when the information is not updated or lacks precision, potentially leading to the model producing misleading or incorrect outputs based on its training. To ensure improvement, there should be a concerted effort to feed the model with more accurate information for better results. While the existing functionality is serving its intended purpose, there's a need for ongoing enhancements to elevate the product.

I have been working with it for approximately two years.

I would rate its stability capabilities eight out of ten.

It provides excellent scalability. I would rate it ten out of ten.

I would rate its technical support services eight out of ten.

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I would rate the initial setup eight out of ten.

There isn't a fixed or standard timeframe for deployment; it depends on the specific circumstances and requirements of the situation.

The licensing cost is quite high and it operates on an annual basis. The pricing starts at a minimum of eight hundred dollars and can go even higher. Considering the economic context, particularly in this part of the world, it might be perceived as a significant expense.

Overall, I would rate it ten out of ten.

We use it for course management, reading exercises, sharing information, and face-to-face learning with our students. 

Some of my colleagues use Moodle in a passive way, just to post learning material. Some others use it more actively, to have an almost live interaction with students.

The ability to insert a variety of tools, create and organize course content, and share large volumes of materials, written, audio, or visual, is very valuable. You can integrate videos, and add music, or what might be needed for a certain class. I believe it's perfect for language acquisition because it enables one to develop all the skills.

If you use it for any form of assessment, you need to integrate some kind of control which is hard to implement with this platform. It would be good to have a feature that would ensure that students are the ones performing the given assessment.

Here at the university where I work, we have been using Moodle for over sixteen years.

It is very stable. There were occasional crashes during lockdown when everybody used it during exam season, but it was solved quite easily and quickly. 

Moodle is a free online learning platform, but it also offers a paid version.

I would suggest attending some sort of course related to the solution before working with it. There are online guides available that are useful and can provide bits of advice on how to integrate other activities and maximize the use of the platform. I would rate it seven 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.