Moodle Reviews

We are an IT services company that provide design and development services for e-learning using an open source solution model. We also provide learning course design and development services. 

The learning management systems which we implement are for corporates who want to train workforces spread across the globe as well as for universities, schools and colleges. We also assist professional training service companies. 

Moodle has a vast array of features which are really useful for the work our company does. Moodle hosts the courses through online systems and also offers quizzes and badges which our customers frequently use.

Moodle is missing a subscription-based system where learners can subscribe to available courses and make the payment for those courses. 

In a future release, we would like be to able to customize the front end because it is not very attractive. Customers will generally ask us to design the front end as per their specific requirements.

We have been using Moodle since 2013. 

This is a stable solution. 

Moodle does have limitations in terms of the scalability. We are working for a customer and have hit a roadblock when trying to build a custom solution at scale. Most of our customers are small to midsize. 

There is in-depth documentation available from Moodle. The larger organizations would pay for support from Moodle. Others may use a freelancing company or small agency for support. We are comparatively cost effective compared to Moodle support. 

The initial setup is straightforward. 

Most of our customers will opt for the VPS in the beginning stage of their launch because they're not very big at that point of time. We do also deploy Moodle on AWS and Google Cloud. This all depends on the requirements of the customer. Typically deployments takes between two and a half months to about four to five months. This is for a design and development cycle. 

Moodle requires maintenance and we typically enter into maintenance contracts with our customers. This includes helping them complete any regular maintenance like database and application backups and maintaining features and enhancements.

Organizations that focus on the importance of training and using Moodle, have good ROI.

Moodle have a very robust licensing system that is user friendly. It's not very expensive.

I would advise companies similar to ours to always ensure that they get an extensive list of requirements from their customers before implementing Moodle. This allows the implementation to run smoothly. High level outlines of a customer's requirements are not sufficient and can lead to misalignment on expectations. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

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.