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What is Moodle?

Moodle is an open source learning management system with hundreds of millions of users around the globe and translated into over 100 languages, used by organizations to support their education and training needs.

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Comprehensive and powerful tool, needs UX improvements

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 17, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
As a teaching assistant at the university, I found Moodle to be an invaluable tool for facilitating communication with students, distributing and collecting class materials, a...
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Pierre Tassel
Engineer - Other
Phd, Researcher
Universität Klagenfurt
Moodle4 years of experience
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Moodle More Than Gets the Job Done

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 11, 2024
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I have used Moodle in my work over the last 15 years at a variety of organizations. In one case, we had a local instance on our own server, which worked fine. It just requires...
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Director
Moodle12 years of experience

Review from a GTA

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 10, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I use Moodle as a Graduate teaching assistant to share materials with students, as well as other activities, submission links for assignments, reading lists, a wide range of m...
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Employee
Moodle5 years of experience

A simple and useful online method for distant learning

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 4, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I've been using Moodle for more than two years, and I'm happy of it. Its continual development and capacity to provide a paid rollout demonstrate how much this learning manage...
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Mehmet Kanat
Engineer - Information Technology
CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)
MuÄźla BĂĽyĂĽkĹźehir Belediyesi
Moodle2 years of experience

Moodle in a Mid-Sized Company - Great Value

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 25, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Moodle was put in place to augment our existing training systems, which are two different LMS systems for two very different divisions of the company. Moodle was the software ...
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Joe Foran
Director - Information Technology
Director Of Information Technology and HIPAA Privacy Officer
Continuum of Care
Moodle3 years of experience
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What is Moodle?

Moodle is an open source learning management system with hundreds of millions of users around the globe and translated into over 100 languages, used by organizations to support their education and training needs.

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Product Demos

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Features

Learning Management

Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.

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Product Details

What is Moodle?

Moodle is an open source learning management system that integrates with other platforms and can be customised for any teaching or training method. Moodle has solutions suitable for K-12, higher education, vocational training, corporates, as well as enterprise learning. The solution aims to improve teaching and student outcomes, as well as streamline training, onboarding, and compliance management, helping users to build more active and engaging online learning spaces.


Moodle users can get support from community forums, access Moodle's certified integrations, and explore over 1900 open source plugins. Or, for expert advice and end-to-end support and service, users can reach Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers.

Moodle Features

Learning Management Features

  • Supported: Course authoring
  • Supported: Course catalog or library
  • Supported: Player/Portal
  • Supported: Learning content
  • Supported: Mobile friendly
  • Supported: Progress tracking & certifications
  • Supported: Assignments
  • Supported: Compliance management
  • Supported: Learning administration
  • Supported: Learning reporting & analytics
  • Supported: eLearning
  • Supported: Assessments
  • Supported: Live online learning
  • Supported: In-person learning
  • Supported: Micro-learning
  • Supported: Video learning
  • Supported: eCommerce
  • Supported: AICC-compliant
  • Supported: SCORM-compliant
  • Supported: Tin Can (xAPI) compliant
  • Supported: Social learning
  • Supported: Gamification
  • Supported: GDPR Compliant Learning
  • Supported: Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning

Moodle Screenshots

Screenshot of Moodle offers activities and resources to create courses.Screenshot of The course dashboard shows the courses which an student is enrolled in.Screenshot of Inside a course view shows the course complete index of activities and resources. The course view can be customised to be cleaner allowing the student to focus on learning.Screenshot of Moodle Workplace includes all features in Moodle LMS and other exclusive features like multi-tenancy, dynamic rules, and report builder.Screenshot of Programs help users stay up-to-date with compliance, and help with designing learning paths for a teams so that they can develop the right competencies. Certificates can also be issued to validate learning and compliance.Screenshot of Dynamic Rules help to avoid the tedious tasks and create and manage automated rules for several groups of users. Learning experiences based on location, department, position, roles and other criteria are available.

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Moodle Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesAll languages

Frequently Asked Questions

Moodle is an open source learning management system with hundreds of millions of users around the globe and translated into over 100 languages, used by organizations to support their education and training needs.

Totara LMS, Canvas, and Docebo Learning Platform are common alternatives for Moodle.

Reviewers rate Compliance management and Learning reporting & analytics highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Moodle are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Moodle for everyone

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 01, 2021
HP
H. P. Molloy
Instructor
Plum Hill Productions (E-Learning, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Moodle
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Moodle is the sole learning management system used at our organization and has been compared with most of the other popular systems. The only near rival is Google Classroom, and it is not particularly close. Moodle is flexible enough to suit most needs except for synchronous audio or video interaction.
Pros
  • Frequent updating (through Git)
  • Free
  • Customizable and flexible
  • Takes up relatively little disk space
Cons
  • The flexibility of the system can be a drawback, as beginners designing courses have too many options
  • Test analysis is lacking
  • Test results and responses can be bothersome to export
Likelihood to Recommend
As a complete system for learning management, it works well. But it can be overkill for many traditional instructors, such as those hundreds who have suddenly had to use some kind of remote learning software over the last year. Moodle also has a relatively long history and an active user base, so it is unlikely to go under soon.
Moodle Feature Ratings
Learning Management (11)
66.36363636363637%
6.6
Course authoring
80%
8.0
Course catalog or library
60%
6.0
Player/Portal
N/A
N/A
Learning content
100%
10.0
Mobile friendly
60%
6.0
Progress tracking & certifications
70%
7.0
Assignments
80%
8.0
Compliance management
70%
7.0
Learning administration
90%
9.0
Learning reporting & analytics
50%
5.0
Social learning
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • Considerable savings in printing and proctoring costs
  • Server costs may be a new expense for many organizations
  • Learners must have Internet access
Alternatives Considered
None of the other products have nearly the flexibility or cost saving that Moodle does.
Other Software Used
Products Replaced
Yes
Google Classroom (for control of access to courses)
Manaba (inflexible)
Coursepower (inflexible)
Schoology (too expensive)
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I would not investigate anything besides Google Classroom.

Moodle at McNeese

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 30, 2015
HW
Helen Ware
Director of Electronic Learning
McNeese State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Moodle
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Moodle is being used across our university by all of our instructors. They are geared toward putting their syllabus up in each of their courses. We have approximately 2500 courses that run in the summer and in the fall. We also use it exclusively for our web courses for our adult learning programs. We do have the business problem of the budget that it addressed. It is an open-source management system which is basically free for our university to use. We were paying nearly $60,000 for the prior learning management system.
Pros
  • Moodle provides a vast variety of using technology in ways that the instructor or student with little experience with technology is able to use it. All of our instructors received beginning training in how to use Moodle before we switched over to it, so that they felt comfortable with the switch. They could come to the training more than one time if they chose to.
  • I give all of our instructors more advanced training when they choose to teach the fully online courses, and they also receive training in additional software. They also receive a webcam and they can also receive a document camera if they are a math or an accounting instructor.
  • They have also received Camtasia and Snagit which work well with Moodle. They may basically use any software and are able to upload their own videos, videos from the Internet, any sort of PowerPoints that they create with their own voice or video, extra technology, notes, etc. for the students.
  • The instructors use a variety of modules within Moodle. We have available for their use BigBlueButton, which is a webinar. It provides guests appearances and provides office hours for our instructors who have strictly web based courses. They also have Turnitin, which is the plagiarism tool, Turning Tech that is the linked in tool that provides a quiz taking that links to Moodle and to the gradebook. We also use Tegrity that delivers the instructors and the students with an additional tool that permits them to do a video, or a PowerPoint or allow the instructor to link to anything on the computer and to upload it into Moodle. We also have the Attendance module, which allows the instructors who take attendance in the classroom to give the students "points" for attendance. We are adding the Ebsco reading list for the library this summer, which lets individual instructors to add certain reading lists from the library for their individual classrooms.
Cons
  • Right now, our Moodle is not working with our Banner product in being able to bring our grades in from Banner directly into Moodle. This isn't a problem with Moodle, it is a problem with the integration with the product.
  • There are issues with the gradebook being difficult for the instructor to use because there are so many different ways to use it, however Moodle is working on a new gradebook component.
  • We make extensive use of MNet and there are many ways to use it, but again Moodle is in the process of improving it.
Likelihood to Recommend
If they are able to self-host the Moodle product, I do recommend it. If they do not self-host it, I would not recommend having it hosted by someone else, because then it is no longer an open source.
Return on Investment
  • Moodle has had a positive impact on our business objectives because we went from using another service that cost us $60,000 per year to Moodle, which is open source, which we self-host and it is basically free.
  • We are able to upgrade from 2.0 which we started on, to each of the upgrades relatively quickly. We have recently upgraded to 2.7 and we test it out on our Moodletest site first and then we upgrade to our actual site.
  • We definitely have increased our instructor efficiency. The only issues that we had this semester were with the quiz settings, and we taught several lessons in this to clear up the miscommunication among the instructors. I also have a "Moodle for Instructors" course that I put all of these instructions and many more for the faculty members such as how to make the courses visible for their students, how to transfer a block of students from one course to another, if they wish to combine two courses, how to import materials from last semester's course into a new semester's course. They may refer to these at any time. It saves me tons of email time!
Alternatives Considered
We had used Blackboard since 1999, and had officially signed up for it in 2001. We started having less than great service with Blackboard because they had grown so large. However, more than that, they were just too expensive for our individual budget. With all of the budget cuts that were occurring in Louisiana in higher education, several other schools had already moved over to Moodle. We had already tried out Moodle and found that because they were open source and several of the features we could "fix" on our own with just writing in a code whenever we needed. It was really a great idea! All of the schools in our ULS system moved over to Moodle and we found that this worked well. It was especially great when our Moodle server administrator figured out that we could use MNet to configure all four of the schools together that were in our Nursing Consortium. The users would no longer have to be given new user ids for each of the schools! They could use their individual school ids and still be able to login to each of the individual schools. It was truly a miracle that we were all using Moodle.
Users and Roles
We now have been under the use of Moodle for two full years now. Our faculty have really grown to love the use of Moodle. We are now under the use of Moodle 2.7.1+ and we upgrade at the end of every semester to the next version. We are self-hosted and we love using Moodle. Our administration always asks me to set up a new "group" to have each new area set up in for curriculum, or various administrative areas. It is wonderful how many people actually use it now.
Support Headcount Required
I support Moodle every day for the faculty and occasionally for the student who has an out of the ordinary something that happens to them. The other person runs our server all of the time, and keeps up with all of our upgrades. He and I talk every day. He occasionally helps me out with the faculty as well. Most of our faculty ask very few questions at this point.

Of the other two people, one guy will help out occasionally if we need a code written in to help us out with something needed in Moodle. We also have the other person who puts in our courses into Moodle at the beginning of each semester.
Business Processes Supported
  • The use of Moodle for courses in everyday courses and the syllabus for each course
  • The use of Moodle for the administration
  • The use of Moodle for the student groups
Innovative Uses
  • The administrative group that has used it to come up with ways to use it for the other administrators to come up with ideas for the QEP
  • Our curriculum committee has scanned in all of our documents into the administrative group for the committee to review
Future Planned Uses
  • The review committee is thinking of having the faculty put in their ideas for the future of the President of the university's 5 year plan
Likelihood to Renew
10
We definitely are renewing Moodle. We love it! I am the system administrator and most of our faculty have become accustomed to it. Our server administrator also loves it and I asked him a couple questions about the items that he found "wrong" with the system. We definitely would not change over from this system as long as we are able to self-host this system. I do not think that anything could be better. We have had very few problems and with any new modules that come out that are open source, we will eventually add them into the system to replace some of the ones that are not open source. Even though we have a small staff, we have accomplished a great deal with a relatively small staff and our instructors and our students appreciate it.
Products Replaced
Yes
We replaced Blackboard. It was costly to our university, which was under budget cuts at the time. The entire higher education system had major budget cuts and Blackboard was costing us nearly $60,000 dollars and we just could not afford it. We needed something that we could self-host. We did look at some other products and decided to go with Moodle.
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
  • Analyst Reports
  • Third-party Reviews
Price, which was basically free, except for the cost of the server. We had to invest in the additional cost of a server, so therefore we did so. The product features, which Moodle offers several features, that we are able to add as they come out. We were able to wait until 2.0, which was very beneficial. Knowing the vendor reputation, this was also beneficial. We had actually met the owner of Moodle at a Moodle Moot before in Austin, Texas. He is a very personable guy. He had started the Moodle company and he makes as many of the Moodle Moots as possible. We have now met with him in the New Orleans one as well. Martin is really a down-to-earth person! I think that having met him has made a very good impression on a great many people. We had done a presentation on MNet which stands for the type of Networking that we use for our Nursing consortium. He was impressed that we are using this (which is part of Moodle). He actually took a picture of our final presentation which showed a few items that still need to be "fixed" with the MNet pics!
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I really don't think that we would change anything in the way that we have handled it. We had wanted to change over to Moodle a couple of years before we did, but it really has worked out well. If we had changed before we did, we would have had to change over to 1.9 which may have been more difficult and our faculty would have been more difficult to make the change. I think that it just all worked out well when we made the change. I took almost a year long in training our faculty, and we gradually made the change over from Blackboard to Moodle over two semesters. It really just worked out well. It has been two years, and I really feel as though our faculty ask us very few questions, now.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Change Management Lessons
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
We regarded change management and the implementation with first of all teaching our instructors how to use Moodle. I walked all of our instructors through lessons in how to use Moodle in and year and a half before we started using Moodle. Each of our instructors could come into the "lessons" more than one time, if needed. At the time, we had over 300 full-time instructors and I also taught a few of our grad assistants, which only took about 30 minutes compared to the two hours that it took for the instructors. They were much younger and quicker at learning; which is why I had them scheduled separately. It worked well. Also, our System Administrator for the server sees that we update the server every semester to the newest version of Moodle. We are currently on 2.8+. Our instructors now have very few questions concerning Moodle. However, when they do we take care of it by answering their questions immediately. If it is something that is an issue, we research it, we do the latest updates, and it usually resolves the issue.
Scalability
10
Moodle is the easiest software to find out issues that occur. Although we have very few problems, it is simple for our Server Administrator to find out any that I cannot figure out that are the simple issues that our new instructors may have. He is able to search within the server where I cannot and is able to search within the server logs that I cannot see. Most of these problems are resolved within 24 hours or less.
Reliability and Availability
10
Yes, Moodle is always available. We are self-hosted and Moodle is always up and available. The only time that it is not available is when we are upgrading it each semester. It is then down for just a few planned hours. That is in-between semesters and we let the faculty and students know. We do it on a Friday evening and it is back up within a few hours.
Performance
10
Moodle is an excellent LMS in relationship to any other one that I have seen or used. The pages load quickly and the reports complete in a reasonable time frame. Moodle has taken on Respondus, StudyMate, BigBlueButton, Turning Tech, Turnitin2, Certificates, Attendance, Tegrity, Questionnaire, Virtual Programming Lab, and Badges. All of these programs work right in with Moodle and do not cause any issues. Instructors may also use Camtasia and Snagit software as well as using webcams, downloading videos from the Internet, adding into books, or any of the many other areas within Moodle. Our instructors use the grade books without many problems and really don't ask questions much anymore. We upgrade Moodle every semester and are currently on 2.9+. Our instructors have basically learned to use most of the resources and activities.

Moodle 2.8 Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 15, 2015
TB
Ted Burke
Director of the Library
Dean College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Moodle
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Every course at the college receives a Moodle shell. Moodle is used extensively by 85%-90% of our faculty, and minimally by the rest. 100% of our student body uses Moodle for their courses. All new hires attend a workshop on using Moodle and the expectations of the college that everyone be at least a minimal user.
Pros
  • The new grade book is well received by our faculty. The new version is easy to set up and the improvements of viewing the grade book i.e names moving across the grade columns is a welcome improvement.
  • The attendance feature with the ability for teachers to comment on the reasons why a student is late, absent or sleeping is a bonus. The visibility of these things as part of the student grades view has reduced the number of "discussions" between teacher and student over attendance grades.
  • Our online faculty love the ease of use of the forums.
  • Our HR Dept uses Moodle for compliance training and makes use of the certificate module for proof of participation.
  • Faculty teaching cross-listed courses are able to link the multiple courses into one course for the ease of posting content.
Cons
  • The lesson module, while easier to use than previous versions, still causes our faculty to shy away from it.
Likelihood to Recommend
The questions to ask when adopting Moodle lie more with the service provider than with Moodle itself. Questions around cloud based storage, ownership of content, data security (including student data) should be asked when vetting a hosting company. Our use of Moodle does not utilize all of the existing functionality, so Moodle is usually adequate to meet all of our LMS needs.
Return on Investment
  • We left our previous LMS due to high costs and poor technical support. Moodle is less expensive, more reliable, more user-friendly, and our service provider is more responsive than our former LMS.
  • We have experienced increased use of the LMS by our faculty since switching to Moodle and more interest in trying new features.
  • We have a great support team at our service provider who are very responsive and thorough in their attention to our needs.
Alternatives Considered
We find Moodle easier to use than Blackboard, less expensive, more versatile and we like the ability to select among numerous service providers for support and price.
Users and Roles
2500
The users represent all phases of life across campus. Academics, IT, HR, Student Life, etc....
Support Headcount Required
5
We have end-user support, network infrastructure support, SIS support and SIS-Moodle integration
Business Processes Supported
  • Academic courses
  • HR Training
  • Faculty Professional Development
  • Student Organizations
Innovative Uses
  • Prior to contracting with an outside vendor, we used the questionnaire module to run our end of semester course evaluations
  • We have created a site for HR trainings
Future Planned Uses
  • We are exploring Moodle for placement tests in Math and English for incoming Freshmen
Likelihood to Renew
10
Our faculty and students are both happy and comfortable with Moodle
Products Replaced
Yes
We replaced Blackboard due to its high annual cost and its poor tech support
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Third-party Reviews
The driving force was lack of support from Blackboard. We formed a faculty work team to specify must-have features and our IT department to specify product support needs.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
No changes. Our process worked well for us
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Professional services company
OculusIT was the implementation partner
Implementation Phases
Yes
Our current version was backed up from our previous version, implemented in test, and then rolled into production
Change Management Lessons
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
Our biggest lesson was to be sure to test rigorously and to have both power users and minimal users as part of the test team.
Implementation Issues
  • We realized that we left out items in the scope of work and did not realize this until our service provider had performed the required tasks. We then had to issue a change order to amend the upgrade.
Implementation Rating
10
Find a partner who will work with you during the implementation process. Be sure to provide ample training for veteran users on the changes and for newbies on the overall product.
Support Rating
10
We have never had an issue go unresolved and we have never had to escalate any problem. The Tech Service team does all of that on their end.
Bug Resolution
No
Exceptional Examples of Moodle Support
We had a professor delete a course and we could not find where it went. This happened 2 days before the opening of the semester. Our support team worked through the night to re-create the shell and populate it with students so that the course content could be reloaded before classes began...all at no additional charge.
Easy Tasks
  • Loading files is easy. doc ppt xls pdf mp3 all load without problems
  • Linking to external sites is quick and easy
  • Embedding video clips is easy
Difficult Tasks
  • The lesson is difficult to construct
  • The quiz creation is time consuming and importing course cartridges is not always straightforward
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
Yes, but I don't use it
Usability
10
We have had not major issues with the functionality of Moodle and have been able to integrate other products with our version
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