Moodle Pricing

“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... … 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.”

“Suppose you had 200 courses per semester, each with an average of 15 students, and 50 pages worth of documents, and documents cost $0.05 per page.”

“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. … Moodle is less expensive, more reliable, more user-friendly, and our service provider is more responsive than our former LMS.”

“You will be able to customize it to meet your needs, for a very modest cost (as the software itself is free).

If you are a smaller institution without 24x7 IT support, you may need to consider... … Budget appropriately, and plan to engage external consultants if you don't have the resources in-house.”

“There is a cost to do this and when I did not have students using the program, I didn't like paying the monthly fee for this. … We did purchase the Lambda Theme and had some help to customize this theme to make it look better, but the basic themes that come free are still much better looking now than they were 5 years ago.”

“The only cost you might have is the cost of someone managing the administrative side and possibly add-ons that you purchase to enhance the experience of the end user.”

“Benefit of low cost can be eclipsed by cost of maintenance in the long run. … In an organization with a very tight budget, an expensive LMS was not an option.”

“Aside from the monthly hosting fees (less than $200 a year), and the time it took to do the initial install and setup, Moodle is free.”

“An LMS can easily cost $50,000 or more.”

“Even hosting on our servers and using our personnel to manage it, we felt it was a better value than the more costly pay LMS's available.”

“Moodle is better in terms of its price point (free) and its management learning curve.”