Moodle Reviews

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.

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.

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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.

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.

My first experience with Moodle was as a classroom teacher, where I used it to host asynchronous learning activities for my students, made use of a grade book, and provided students with 24 hour access to learning activities. I wanted to allow them to do some self-guided work too. I also used Moodle as a way to communicate with my students in a centralized space. 

The UI and interface of Moodle could be greatly improved. There has been some improvement in recent releases by Moodle but there is still a lot to be improved upon. It is challenging to get buy-in from different stakeholders when they see what it looks like. 

Secondly, the whole onboarding experience for teachers could be improved. Moodle has lots of features which can be overwhelming for teachers using it for the first time.

Moodle don't have a multi-tenant architecture. This is a problem for institutions with different entities, or different schools all housed together under the same institution. We had 16 different schools, all grouped together, which meant that we actually had to clone 16 different versions of Moodle, have 16 different databases, and we had to set another database up to synchronize all those data.

A feature I would like to see in the future would be an out of the box self sign up and self-guided course. It would be great to have an easy to use, intuitive interface for a course builder/teacher. 

This is a stable solution. We have had almost no downtime and errors and bugs have been infrequent.

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.

We have never needed to contact Moodle for customer service directly.

The initial setup of Moodle was straightforward. It was migrated from another LMS and that part was quite complex. The change in LMS required a lot of change management and getting users used to the system. 

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

We previously used Blackboard.

If a business has advanced users who are comfortable with technology, they would be able to customise the interface and make the most of the advanced functionalities and great plugins. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Moodle is a learning management platform and we have integrated it with our ERP system. Whenever students register, all of their information including their courses is pushed onto Moodle. Moodle automatically creates the complete classrooms with allotted doctors in place. We use Moodle to host all of our courses and give students access to their course material that is uploaded by the faculty. Students also use this platform for uploading their assignments and projects. We make use of plugins to ensure that no plagiarism is entertained for work that is submitted. 

Moodle is an open source platform and keeps improving. It is free to use for all the education institutes and has become an industry standard. 

Many universities make use of this solution as it has all of the features that learning management systems require. It integrates with many third party plugins, which has enabled us to make use of the latest technology. During the Covid 19 period, we used a plugin called BigBlueButton to facilitate online learning which was quick and easy to do. 

The solution could be improved if support was an integral part of the whole solution. There are a few challenges in terms of performance due to Moodle being a free-to-use platform but these can be overcome with the use of their support team. 

I have used this solution for six years. 

This is a stable solution.

This is a scalable solution. We have 1500 users making use of Moodle. 

We have not made much use of the support team as we have a highly qualified team in our organization who are capable of managing the technical issues. When we have raised support tickets, the Moodle team have been fast to resolve our issues. 

The initial setup was straightforward and is not challenging for an IT team. It can be deployed on Windows and on Linux. Moodle also makes it possible for users to access the solution even if servers are down. 

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 suitability of Moodle for other organisations depends on their use case. For beginners, the installation is straightforward. It is important to map out and understand how the many integrations with Moodle can be used to get the most out of its use. From a features and functionality point of view, this solution is one of the best.

I would rate this solution an eight 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 organizational governance and training.

The number of permissions that are available and different ways to report and get the information out are the most valuable features. We have been able to get precise bits of information out, and we have also been able to delegate a lot.

The biggest area for improvement is the UI. They should also make the navigation simpler to understand. They've recently introduced a new way of having navigation work in Moodle, but they all look very similar.

Its updates should be stable, and the support and documentation should also be improved.

I use it every day, and I have done that for the past seven years.

Moodle at a period of time is very stable, but each upgrade is quite unstable because of the sporadic changes that are made and the sheer number of releases they do.

It is very scalable. It is used throughout the organization by content creators, site administrators, and standard learners. We have a team of about six people who do content creation, and we have another team of six people for site administration, and then we have a couple of thousand learners. Its usage would not be more than what is currently being used, but as we grow, it continues to grow. We're not planning to take on much more.

The support is pretty bad. There isn't really any support for Moodle unless you pay an astronomical amount. It seems to be their intention to keep adding complexity to things and not providing sufficient documentation unless you go through a Moodle-certified partner. Unless you go down that route, you are in the dark quite a lot, and you have to work things out.

We've used Moodle since we needed this kind of tool.

We have a copy of it on GitHub that is deployed through AWS's tooling to the servers. We have a variable spot in AWS for the database and things like that by using infrastructure in code to scale that out throughout the organization. So, we have a central team that manages it and uploads the users, managers, and people like that, and then we have another team that looks after the content, which is then just used throughout the organization for onboarding and training.

Its deployment probably took about two to three months.

Our in-house development team looks after it, and we have about eight people who work with this solution. Two of them have a first-line technical support background. Two of them have a developer background, and the rest of them are learning and development people.

Moodle is free. It should probably stay free. There isn't really any support for Moodle unless you pay an astronomical amount, which is weird.

I'd recommend using what you need and not trying to use everything because Moodle is incredibly wide in what it can do. It's like a Swiss Army knife. If you try to use everything, you get lost and confused, and it gets messy. So, just keep things simple.

I would rate it an eight out of ten.