Litmos vs Moodle comparison

Litmos and Moodle are both solutions in the Learning Management Systems (LMS) category. Litmos is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0, while Moodle is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6. Litmos holds a 2.5% mindshare in LMS, compared to Moodle’s 15.5% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of Litmos users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Moodle users who would recommend it.

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Moodle and Litmos offer competitive learning management solutions, each excelling in its domain. Reviews suggest that Litmos may have an edge in features and performance.

Features: Moodle provides comprehensive customization with support for multiple content types, wide-ranging plugins, and the ability to adapt to diverse educational needs. Litmos stands out with seamless integration capabilities, an extensive library of pre-built courses, and simplicity in course delivery and tracking.

Room for Improvement: Moodle users point out its complexity during setup, significant maintenance effort with updates, and a steep initial learning curve. Litmos users mention areas such as limited reporting tools, restricted customization, and the need for more advanced analytics for tracking learner progress.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Moodle offers flexible deployment options like on-premise and cloud hosting, although guidance may be lacking without community support. Litmos is cloud-based for rapid implementation and easy scaling, with responsive customer support and helpful resources.

Pricing and ROI: Moodle is more cost-effective due to its open-source nature, though setup and development costs can add up. Litmos is perceived as pricier but provides value through its convenience, time-saving features, and strong ROI with efficient deployment and reduced administrative burden.

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Litmos vs. Moodle

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Categories and Ranking

Litmos

Ranking in Learning Management Systems (LMS)

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtual Training (6th), eLearning (6th)

Moodle

Ranking in Learning Management Systems (LMS)

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Learning Management Systems (LMS) category, the mindshare of Litmos is 2.5%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Moodle is 15.5%, down from 16.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Featured Reviews

Nupur Deshmukh

Senior Consultant at CapGemini

Comes with many advanced functionalities, and makes the users interested in the training with its amazing UI/UX

They can really improve in the reporting area. While doing sessions, there are various types of reports, such as the attendance report or assessment report. We can export the Excel dump of the report, but it is not that neat and clean. You have to change it a lot. You can customize the Excel dump as per your requirement, but it is not that user-friendly in terms of the admin part. They can do much better. They have room for improvement in the reporting area. Litmos has its own limitations in terms of migration. They do not allow you to use your own designed automation for migration. They have some limitations there. If you are not migrating your content and you are starting something from scratch, then it is amazing, and it is a perfect platform, but if you are migrating from one platform to Litmos, it can get a bit complicated.

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James Phelps

Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University

Inexpensive and pretty easy to use, but not easily adaptable for an individual

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.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Content Author removes the need for a third-party solution for content creation."

"It's very easy to design content and create training models within the app, so you don't always have to use a third-party tool to develop your e-learning."

"From a learning management system admin perspective, it has a user-friendly interface, but the functionality is deep. So, you can automate people in and out of courses. It lowers the general admin of an LMS admin so that I can focus more on value-adding things for the organization I'm working with."

"Litmos has an excellent user interface. It's well designed and intuitive. It also has a great content engine. I'm one of the admins, so I create content in the system and use that to produce courses. We make our own training content and credit records. They recently added a new feature called the Course Content Creator, and I'm a big fan. I also like that Litmos lets you record online and face-to-face training so you can create what they call Instructor-led Training Events (ILT)."

"Its user interface is quite good. The platform is quite user-friendly. The UI/UX of the platform is very advanced, which helps in getting the users interested in the training."

"This complete product is highly scalable. Licensing is not based on number of total users on the system but rather only on active users. Litmos only charge for the number of users engaged in training. This is what makes this solution ideal for scale."

"This is a very scalable solution. We had over 10,000 students in our instance and their billing model makes scaling affordable to do."

"Its pricing is good, and its performance is good when it works."

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"One of the most valuable aspects is the ability to input data into the model."

"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to import and export documents for courses, assessments, and questionnaires in any format."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 valuable features of Moodle include its open-source nature, which makes it free to use, and the supportive community that assists with any issues."

"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."

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Cons

"The dashboards for this solution could be improved as they are not of the same standard and detail as those seen in Power BI. The graphics for the reporting could also be improved."

"The rules are not very flexible in terms of administration. They have a predefined system with three standard rules that cannot be customized, modified, added, or removed."

"Lacks a variety of language options."

"The reporting could be improved. When we first subscribed to Litmos, it had a great reporting engine, but SAP altered it. Some of the changes have reduced the ability to extract reports from it. It's excellent for live data, but it can be tricky when I want to get a report."

"The solution lags in defined security parameters with only three predefined roles available."

"The reporting function of SAP Litmos needs major improvements. The reports are not at par with other solutions on the market. It's not user-friendly or effective reporting which we can retrieve from other places."

"The reporting in Litmos could be improved. It is difficult to pull accurate reporting based on how the solution is set up and parameters are selected."

"One feature that a few of my clients have been requesting is CPD. We should be able to capture CPD points for users within the system to be able to report on those."

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"The customization of the interface could be improved."

"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 many sub competencies to competencies."

"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."

"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."

"Sometimes, the gradebook can get broken if an incorrect formula is entered during creation."

"Setting up groups and allocating privacy settings to different groups is quite complicated."

"For a first time user, especially someone who is non-technical, Moodle is difficult for them to understand and they often need assistance."

"The solution should continue to allow and foster the ability to integrate with cloud services."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is priced per user which can get expensive."

"If I have a domain and I want to link my custom domain to SAP Litmos, and if I want to remove the branding of the SAP Litmos, then they charge a large amount for it. It's not included in your subscription plan which we have purchased from them. In the last two to three years, we have never bought the custom domain. We have never linked our custom domain to SAP Litmos. The barrier for us is the high pricing. It is not a reasonable price."

"I do not have any idea about the licensing, but I know that it is quite expensive."

"When we first purchased our subscription, we underestimated how many people we would have within a billing period. We had to adjust that in the first six months. I can't remember the exact numbers, but they charge a per user rate for a certain number, and you get a discount as the number of users goes up. It scales, which is a fairly reasonable way to build a pricing model."

"This solution comes at a high price point. We also paid $4500 for a migration specialist from Litmos to assist in moving our content over. You are billed every month based on the number of users who have logged in and completed training."

"There are three different pricing models. One is only to use the platform and to add your own learning material. The second plan includes the learning management system plus 2000 plus pre built courses on different areas including leadership, software skills, HR and IT related training. The third package allows you to integrate the system with tools such Salesforce or other CRMs."

"I don't know what the pricing model is at this point in time. I'm a consultant. The organizations that have purchased Litmos engage me to help them implement it, or Litmos engage me to be their external learning management system administrator. So, I don't see the rates, but based on the general comments that I've heard, it seems cost-effective and competitive with its competitors."

"It is priced per user license."

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"Moodle is a free solution."

"It is a free-of-cost solution."

"This solution offers a free-to-use version which can be deployed only on-premises and is what we are using. Moodle also offer support based and cloud based subscriptions. Organizations can select the appropriate package based on their needs. Moodle offer reasonable pricing for the use of their solution."

"The licensing cost is quite high and it operates on an annual basis."

"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."

"Moodle offer a 14 day free trial and then requires payment."

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

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Non Profit

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

15%

Comms Service Provider

13%

University

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Is SAP Litmos expensive for eLearning?

I have used this for eLearning before, and considering how useful it was, the price was fair. Of course, you have to think of what you will need for your own training and how much you want to pay ...

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Is it better to use your own courses or SAP Litmos’ native ones?

Obviously this highly depends on what you want to provide to your learners. If you seek to give them very specific eLearning, like if your company wants to educate employees or partners on your new...

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How does SAP Litmos make eLearning more effective?

I think SAP Litmos makes eLearning effective because it's specifically created to closely follow the learning process and the progress of students, all the while giving you many tools and helpful ...

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What do you like most about Moodle?

The customization features of Moodle significantly enhance the learning experience for our users.

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What needs improvement with Moodle?

The customization of the interface could be improved. Although we can load and change themes, it still always looks like Moodle. We have not found a way to significantly alter its appearance.

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What is your primary use case for Moodle?

We use Moodle to manage our students' information, the classes, and the course catalog, which are mainly related to education. It serves as a learning management system for teaching in class.

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Overview

Litmos is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) that offers a comprehensive solution for training and development needs. Its user-friendly interface and robust features enable organizations to deliver engaging and effective learning experiences to their employees, partners, and customers. The platform allows for easy creation and management of courses, assessments, and certifications, with the ability to track learner progress and performance. SA Litmos also provides various content options, including video-based learning, virtual classrooms, and gamification, to enhance learner engagement. Additionally, it offers robust reporting and analytics capabilities, allowing organizations to gain insights into learner behavior and training effectiveness. With its mobile app and responsive design, Litmos ensures learners can access training materials anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Litmos is a comprehensive and flexible LMS that empowers organizations to deliver impactful training and drive continuous learning and development.

Moodle is a comprehensive learning management system offering various features to facilitate online education. With its user-friendly interface, Moodle allows educators to create and manage courses, deliver engaging content, and assess student progress. The platform supports various multimedia formats, allowing users to integrate videos, audio, and interactive activities. Additionally, Moodle provides communication tools, such as forums and messaging, fostering collaboration and interaction among students and instructors. The system also includes assessment tools that enable teachers to create quizzes, assignments, and surveys to evaluate student performance.

Moodle's customizable and flexible environment lets institutions tailor the platform to their needs and branding. With its mobile app, Moodle ensures accessibility and convenience for learners on the go.

Moodle is a powerful and versatile learning management system that empowers educators to deliver effective and engaging online courses.

Sample Customers

YouTube, Samsung, Coca Cola, Nowegian.com, Xero, Zumba, Sears, Build.com, UFC

Acacia University, Alliant International University, American University of Health Sciences, Anaheim University Online, Aspen University, Cal State University San Bernardino, California State University Los Angeles, Chattanooga Fire Training, City of Humble Fire Department, George Washington University, Georgia Institute of Emergency Medical Services, Michigan Online Classroom, Virginia Beach Sheriffs Office, Washington Post

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