Moodle Reviews

I use the solution to manage module demonstrations for the customers.

The solution facilitates students with an efficient learning platform.

The solution's most valuable features are LTI and integration with various platforms.

The solution's navigation features need improvement. Its interface design could be more user-friendly.

I have been using the solution for ten years.

The solution is stable.

The solution's technical support could be better. I have to access the manual in case of queries.

The solution is good in terms of investment.

The solution is free of cost.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it a nine out of ten.

The course management feature, and the community plug-in that comes with it, is most helpful.

The product allows the organization to have a cost effective solution to track the training progress of 2000 staff members. At the same time, it allows a collaborative environment between trainee and trainer.

I've used it for one year and four months.

The use of Moodle with Bitnami’s LAMP stack has been very smooth, and it has easy support and maintenance.

We chose to deploy after a couple of minor releases, thus we were careful in our version choice, and that has resulted in a very stable product.

We can easily search for any issues and resolutions from the web, in particular the Moodle website, to resolve all our technical issues. I would say that a very effective self service environment exists to support Moodle.

We were using a commercial product, a SaaS model. However, the need to quickly deploy a solution to five global service centers in three different regions was too costly, and too time consuming, for the initial deployment assessment.

Using Bitnami’s LAMP stack with Moodle helped simplify the deployment, and made it very simple and straightforward

Because of the readily available information, and knowledge from the Moodle website, about the deployment architecture design, we were able to deploy the solution fully in house within a very tight time line . We were able to a very small, and compact team of five members.

We see, and estimated, a 60% productivity improvement in managing trainee learning progress. In addition, with the low cost of setup and ownership, the organization is able to save on capital expenditure.

The original hardware cost is about US$10,000 for setting up the virtualized environment. The implementation cost was about 100 man days for the five global centers. Day to day running costs are pretty negligible as the platform has been stable, and has run with no major incidents since deployment.

We evaluated the options of going with the group solution (SaaS model), or to develop in house. Neither option was chosen, either because the cost was high or the time taken to deploy it would be too long.

Be open minded about open source solutions. Be clear about the requirements, and needs of your organization. Last, but not least, start small but be aggressive on the time-line, and preferably take an agile project approach.

The solution should have more student-centric details in the modules.

We have been using the solution for six months and are currently using the latest version.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable, and over 100 users are utilizing it in our organization.

The initial setup is straightforward.

Implementation was done in-house.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten. I advise new users considering the solution to try the free version first because they have free trials available, so they can test drive the solution before adopting it.

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.