Impressive & Powerful open-source LMS - Moodle!
Updated September 24, 2020

Impressive & Powerful open-source LMS - Moodle!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Moodle

The entire organization uses Moodle. Moodle is one of the best open-source education-based LMS applications. Moodle supports meeting both education and corporate clients' learning requirements. The best features of Moodle are open-source, Cohort, extensive customization, and the course administration features. It addresses the business problems of the organization like no-licensing cost, can accommodate a large number of concurrent users, create all types of training, ready-to-use plugins, more than 12 types of question types, social collaboration features, etc.

Pros

  • Course administration - we can create many course types within Moodle including ILT.
  • Cohorts Management - particularly works well for the education industry for batch promotions.

Cons

  • No default advanced reporting features.
  • Open source, so need to get approval on security aspects from Compliance team.
  • Reduced investment - no license cost, only the implementation cost.
  • Advanced courses and assessments administration.
Moodle is well-suited for all types of industries, including Education, Retail, Manufacturing, Insurance, Media, etc. It offers a wide range of Learning features, including Social & Micro-Learning, Web-based & Instructor-Led training. Cohorts Management, Assessment Management - accommodates more than 12 types of question types, advanced features plug-ins such as Analytics and Reporting, Social Collaboration, Community Management, responsive themes integration, mobile learning, etc. Since this is an open-source application, it takes the cost advantage, and the client has to invest only for implementation and maintenance. Hence Moodle is preferred than any other good corporate LMS application.
The rating given is for the excellent features of Moodle.

- Course and User Management.
- Cohorts Management.
- Collaborative tools such as Chat, Forum, and Discussions.
- Open-source.
- Easy integration with 3rd party applications, and with custom plugins.
- Assessment Management - Moodle can accommodate more than 12 types of assessment types.
- Easy hosting options - on-premise / on cloud.

Do you think Moodle delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Moodle's feature set?

Yes

Did Moodle live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Moodle go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Moodle again?

Yes

Moodle is well-suited for Educational Institutions and also for corporate where there are no compliance requirements. If there are compliance requirements (GxP, etc.), the client has to submit the application for code review with the respective teams and get it approved. Since the corporate has other options, such as opting for LMS with compliance, many times, Moodle may not be their preferred LMS. It has excellent features like Course Administration, Cohorts Management, ready-made plugins, Question Administration, etc. This is an open-source application; hence, there is no licensing cost or recurring cost.

Moodle Feature Ratings

Learning Management
8.4
Course authoring
9
Course catalog or library
9
Player/Portal
9
Learning content
9
Mobile friendly
8
Progress tracking & certifications
9
Assignments
9
Compliance management
6
Learning administration
9
Learning reporting & analytics
7
Social learning
8

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