Moodle Reviews

We use Moodle to schedule exams for students. A group of students will come into a classroom, login, and we will schedule exams for them. Students have their resources there, such as PDFs.

Moodle has really improved our education system. Students don't need to come to campus to get their textbooks. We used to print textbooks and other documents for students, but we stopped printing textbooks. We host all our educational resources on Moodle and students only need to connect and download them to use them.

The most valuable feature of Moodle is the exam question shuffle. Students in the classroom will all have different question list numbers. For example, one student's question one will be another student's question ten.

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 has a security feature which is good, but it's frustrating for some students. In the mobile operation, your login and password have a limitation, you cannot remain logged in. They always have to log in over and over, they have to always remember their login and password. It's a good security feature but it's an eligibility problem for some students.

I have been using Moodle for three to four years.

The stability and performance of Moodle have been very good.

If we have a problem, it is from our network, not from the Moodle application.

We have a small school and we have not scaled the solution. However, I know large institutions that are using Moodle, it is scalable.

We have 500 to 800 students using Moodle. We have students who are doing two months and three months courses. Additionally, we have students who are doing one to two-year courses. The number of users can change quite frequently. At one time, we can have more than 600 students using Moodle.

When I was deploying the Moodle server it was easy. However, the current updates of Moodle are limited on how you can deploy them and it is a little complex. The complexity could be because I am used to the older deployment methods. The whole deployment of the solution took me approximately four hours.

I am the Moodle administrator and I do the maintenance of the solution. This includes updates, patches, and fixes.

We are not using all the features of Moodle, as a small school, we are using it efficiently.

My advice to those wanting to implement Moodle is for them to read the documentation.

I rate Moodle a nine out of ten.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They need to have a better way to illustrate competencies so that, when people go through the programs, they can actually show they are competent in the subject matter. Other platforms like Canvas or Blackboard do a better job in this regard. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are not in partnership with Moodle. 

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

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

Moodle is an end-to-end solution that provides offline support. We mostly use it because it gives permission for content creation and self-enrollment into courses and access to content. In the educational environment, teachers can provide assessments and grading. We are customers of Moodle and I'm a tech lead. We provide the LMS solution to many organizations; educational, medical, etc. I'm a consultant and customize the solution for our customers. 

This is open-source software, so it's very accessible to anyone even if you don't have a lot of knowledge. You can create codes, assign features, assign the student and give access to all the systems. 

This is a very cost-effective solution that is intuitive. It doesn't require much training and is easily accessible. 

As a developer, I think the UI could be improved. I also think Moodle lacks sufficiently good architecture to handle a lot of users simultaneously. I'd like to see the provision of multi-tenancy as an integral part of the solution because it's costly for users to add that.  

I've been using this solution for seven years. 

The solution is generally stable but there can be some stability issues depending on your server setup. The key is to set it up correctly and then you won't have any problems. 

This is a scalable solution, anywhere from 10 to 5,000 users. 

Moodle has its own forum if you have any issues with their software 

The initial setup is very straightforward and not overly technical. You install your software, get a username and password and you can then use the software. For cloud deployment, I would suggest help from a developer to access the server on the cloud-hosting company. I can deploy the product in an hour but I've had a lot of experience with Moodle. 

If you're looking for a quick implementation of your LMS, Moodle is a great solution. It's open-source and has a limit of 1,000 users.

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

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

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

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

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

I have used Moodle within the last 12 months.

The stability of Moodle is good.

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

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

Moodle is a free solution.

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

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

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

I rate Moodle a five out of ten.

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

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

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

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

We have used Moodle for seven years.

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

This is a scalable solution. 

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

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

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

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

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

The system is primarily used to host online learning products and to track completion as well as reporting.

Its basic usability is very good. Usability and accessibility are very, very good in Moodle and it's got all the basic features required to host a learning solution.

The interface is good. 

It doesn't take long to learn how to use it and to set up basic courses and things like that. 

Setting up groups and allocating privacy settings to different groups is quite complicated. Sometimes we need the help of administrators and sometimes backend supporters to set those things up. If that could be made more accessible, that'll be very useful.

I used it for two years until as recently as January this year.

The solution is completely stable. It's a rock-solid solution. There aren't issues with bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

The simpler versions can scale. The cloud versions may be scalable. However, with on-prem versions and with the more custom settings you have, the more difficult it is to scale it.

We had over 20,000 end-users. It was used for a countrywide organization, for pharmacists. There were a fair bit of people. Internally, we had about 20 of us touching it on a regular basis.

An increase in usage is dependent on how many more members we would have in the organization. Every member had to use Moodle. If they had to complete their required certifications as pharmacists, for example, the solution was deployed on Moodle, so pretty much everyone used it. A large number of people would use it daily.

We needed to reach out to support previously. Technical support is good if you can find someone, however, getting someone on an ad hoc basis is difficult. When we have an LMS person who is actually conversant with the Moodle backend and the tech behind it, then it's okay, otherwise, it's a challenge.

I don't know what they had before Moodle, however, my understanding was that it was legacy-based. It might have been some SharePoint LMS kind of a thing. I don't know if they had a specific LMS as a lot of the training and others were developed and deployed in face-to-face settings. When the world started changing towards a more digital learning platform, that's when the company got Moodle.

I don't remember how they implemented Moodle. That was before my time. I only started using it as a learning designer.

The initial setup was at least a three-month process from what I understand.

It does require maintenance and we had a backend administrator who looked after that. Initially, when the external provider set Moodle up, they were there for a while until this administrator got his comfort level up. After that, he was on his own.

We did see an ROI while using this product.

The enterprise pricing range is very good. I'd recommended Moodle at one point as it's open-source. The base features are available regardless. It's not like you pay for anything. It's the enterprise solution and tech support that you really pay for. Therefore, it's reasonably priced for what you get with it.

The only additional were setting up deployment, offering initial tech support, and customizing it. Out-of-the-box it is regular pricing, however, if you want it customized, then you will be paying something additional for that. Also, integrating it with the CRM, which is Salesforce, had an integration cost component.

I was just a customer.

I'd advise potential new users to play around with the free version first.

Test it prior and get the blueprint right. Whenever the deployment happens, what people do, is they go for what looks like the easiest possible way to deploy it for a bandaid solution. That's what most frequently happens. They don't consider scalability, for example. They don't consider potential future states and so they build a blueprint. They don't consider potential future integrations with CRMs and other software. So plan. Plan it properly. Have your blueprint ready, follow a scenario. A lot of forward scenario planning is good.

Otherwise, it's a lot of cost overhead if you want to change the blueprint since you have data. Imagine if we had to change the organization's blueprint now with 20,000 people's ongoing certification data, and their compliance requirements with the government and other medical bodies. Therefore, depending on what the organization is, there's a lot to lose if you don't blueprint it properly. Get the functional specs right.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

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.

Moodle is free and open source, which reduces a significant portion of the Total Cost of Ownership. It is supported by the community, making it easy to find solutions to any issues. The plugins are also very flexible, allowing for additional features.

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. Additionally, the plugins are very flexible, and you can develop your own to add features. The anti-plagiarism plugin is one that we use most frequently.

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.

We have been using Moodle for roughly a year now. I also used it around 15 years ago.

Moodle is fairly stable with no significant issues.

Moodle meets our scalability needs to a satisfactory extent. We have not faced any issues with scalability.

We don't get technical support directly from Moodle, so I can't provide a rating for their customer service.

I have not personally used any other solutions similar to Moodle for the same use case.

The initial setup of Moodle is straightforward for someone with decent knowledge in Linux.

Assuming the infrastructure is ready, one person can handle the installation. However, it still requires maintenance from time to time. That said, it is minimal and nothing to worry too much about.

Moodle is a free tool and open source, so there are no direct costs for using it.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

Moodle is used to supply learning management systems to companies, both big and small organizations. Normally, people load learning materials that are compulsory for their business environment and use Moodle to do all the activation.

Moodle allows a lot of flexibility - you can load and create the environment exactly as you like. 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.

Moodle's weakest point is the user interface (although this is being addressed in upcoming releases). The reporting in the corporate version could also be improved. In addition, if you like to customize the platform with many plugins, you may need to spend a lot of time double-checking your plugins and code when upgrading to a new version.

I've been using Moodle for eight years.

If your implementation strategy is good, then Moodle will run smoothly. It updates on a six-month cycle and doesn't need much maintenance outside of that.

I haven't encountered any issues with scalability. Moodle is used by some of the world's leading educators (including the Open University and Sapienza University), which have thousands of connected users with no problems.

For most users, Moodle offers support through its community instead of a technical support team. Its community is the best I have found, better than other major shared software like WordPress. The big advantage is that the support is provided by competent people and not just by an organization. Normally, you just have to wait a couple of hours for help.

The initial setup is reasonably straightforward, but you require a bit of tech skill. You have to know what a database is, how to set up a PHP version, and so on. There is plenty of information available online to help with this, and with it, you should be able to build a Moodle version in a few hours.

In the case of Moodle Workplace, you can pay for direct support.

For those wanting to start using Moodle, I would advise clearly defining your objectives and how you want the content to be displayed. I would also recommend trying the free version you can connect to on MoodleNet to see directly how it functions before installing. In addition, since Moodle is a large and complex software, I would say it's best to start slowly and learn as you need in order to avoid being overwhelmed. I would give Moodle a rating of nine out of ten.