Moodle Reviews

We use Moodle to manage course information, create assignments and set user levels.

The product's most valuable feature is the ability to import and export documents for courses, assessments, and questionnaires in any format. It also integrates with tools, including scripts and Python programs, for generating questionnaires.

Sometimes, the gradebook can get broken if an incorrect formula is entered during creation. It might require administrator assistance or a course rollback to resolve. The students and I can also upload the documents in a folder, but teachers cannot leave feedback. These particular areas need improvement.

We have been using Moodle for three or four years.

I rate the platform's stability a nine out of ten.

We have 600-800 Moodle users in our university.

The technical support services are good. We can find information about various issues on their forum as well.

Positive

The deployment time depends on the user's prior experience working with the product. It takes approximately two hours to complete for new users. I rate the process a six out of ten.

We considered several options before choosing Moodle, including Google Classroom and Canvas. We decided to work with Moodle for the availability of plugins or modules and alignment with the functionality to help us disseminate course materials. In comparison, Google Classroom could have been more suitable for our university.

I rate Moodle a nine out of ten. They provide thorough documentation on the forum.

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.

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.

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. 

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 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.

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.

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.