We performed a comparison between Cornerstone Learning and Moodle based on our users' reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cornerstone Learning boasts seamless integration, a broad selection of training modules, playlist capabilities, and compliance with GDPR. Moodle is praised for being highly adaptable and customizable. Users like the solution's affordability and collaborative community fostered by its open-source foundation. Cornerstone Learning could use more self-service capabilities and faster support responses. Some users complain that the interface is too complex, while others have said curriculum creation is too rigid. Moodle users also want a more user-friendly interface and better reporting. They say that Moodle's mobile functionality and social media integration could be improved.
Service and Support: Some customers like Cornerstone Learning's structured support system and find the online forums helpful, while others complain that the support quality is inconsistent. Experiences with Moodle support also vary, with some users finding it satisfactory and others believing it has room for improvement.
Ease of Deployment: Setting up Cornerstone Learning takes six to nine months, whereas Moodle's deployment process ranges from one hour to several months. Cornerstone Learning is perceived as complicated due to the customization options, while Moodle is generally seen as simple.
Pricing: Cornerstone Learning is generally considered fairly and competitively priced, but customers must pay for custom engineering and integration with third-party platforms. Moodle offers multiple pricing tiers for business customers and charges for customization, deployment, and integration.
ROI: Cornerstone Learning users have said that the platform's return on investment is difficult to assess and relies mainly on anecdotal evidence. It requires a minimum of two years to observe any enhancements. Moodle users say the platform has demonstrated its value in the form of cost and time savings.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Cornerstone Learning over Moodle. Users appreciate Cornerstone Learning's integration features, extensive library of training modules, customizability, and single sign-on features. They also value the regular releases, bug fixes, strong support team, and user-friendly interface. While Moodle is praised for its cost-effectiveness and intuitive interface, users feel it could improve interface design, mobile functionality, reporting features, and customer support. Cornerstone Learning stands out for its comprehensive features and user-friendly experience.
"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are how they organized the management of the different content types is good. They are done in different ways which is a benefit. Additionally, the reporting 2.0 and playlist functionality are very good."
"Combining everything together, our on-time completions have gone from the mid-sixty percentile to over 99% on-time completion."
"The most valuable feature of Cornerstone Learning is the reporting and learner transcripts."
"Stability and scalability are good. They have four releases every year of which learning is a big portion of that. They're constantly refining and defining and they're embedding a lot of new technology into it all the time."
"It's better than the previous learning solutions we had. We liked that it was global. We liked that you don't have to be logged into the company network to be able to use it. Those were really big benefits for us."
"The reporting feature is fantastic, and I also like the dynamic learning assignment feature. It is interactive and user-friendly. It is also highly stable, automated, and customizable."
"What I like the most about Cornerstone is that it is agile. It has good built-in processes and the implementation is rapid."
"Its user-friendly interface is most valuable. You can configure your welcome page and design it the way you want on your own."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"It doesn't take long to learn how to use it and to set up basic courses and things like that."
"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."
"Cost-effective and intuitive."
"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 recruitment module needs to be improved in Cornerstone Learning."
"Cornerstone Learning can improve reporting. If they had a harmonization of the administration UIs it would be great."
"There are some configuration elements that require Cornerstone engineering resources. It would be nice if we could self-serve. I would like the ability to manage the user interface or the navigation and layout of the pages that are displayed to end-users."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the dashboards and reporting."
"The user interface is in need of improvement."
"There is a need for quite a bit of improvement. The reporting side of things definitely needs a lot of improvement. At the moment, it gives you a data dump. You have to open it up in Excel and filter out the bits that you don't want and need."
"Even though the system has a number of features, design wise the user interface is a little bit complicated. It is hard for the user to navigate properly. Because the system has so many features, it has a lot of tabs and links. Sometimes, people get confused as to where to go and search."
"In the next release, I would like to see a Hybrid architecture and to be able to customize the look and feel."
"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 is missing a subscription-based system where learners can subscribe to available courses and make the payment for those courses."
"It would be a benefit if there was an easy single sign-on with social media services for Moodle. There are some plugins that I tried, but they didn't work seamlessly. it is a work in progress. Having the single sign-on with social media services would be appreciated because in my school we are using Google suite and the main reason why we use Google Classroom is that it is integrated seamlessly with the suite."
"Where Moodle could definitely improve is the user interface. You have a lot of themes and you can customize themes, but if you are going to use Moodle off the shelf, even with a hosting company, a lot of training is involved. Training is available, but if your faculty or your development team isn't highly technical, it's going to be a challenge, whereas there are other interfaces that are much easier, but they don't do as much. So, there is a give and take there. If Moodle could find a way to make the user interface for the instructional designers and the learners more intuitive, it probably would be a huge improvement. The manager area and the admin area are fine, but when it comes to the people who are using the system but might not be highly technical, it needs improvement."
"It would be good to have a feature that would ensure that students are the ones performing the given assessment."
"The solution should have more student-centric details in the modules."
"Sometimes, discrepancies arise when the information is not updated or lacks precision, potentially leading to the model producing misleading or incorrect outputs based on its training."
"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."
Cornerstone Learning is ranked 5th in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 28 reviews while Moodle is ranked 2nd in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 26 reviews. Cornerstone Learning is rated 8.2, while Moodle is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cornerstone Learning writes "Scalable LMS that keeps up with industry trends with continuous new releases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Moodle writes "Inexpensive and pretty easy to use, but not easily adaptable for an individual". Cornerstone Learning is most compared with Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM Cloud, LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft Viva Insights, whereas Moodle is most compared with Google Classroom, SAP SuccessFactors Learning, CYPHER Learning, Chamilo LMS and TalentLMS. See our Cornerstone Learning vs. Moodle report.
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