Moodle
About Moodle
Moodle is an open source, feature-rich, secure and scalable learning management system that integrates seamlessly with other platforms and can be customised for any teaching or training method you choose.
With fresh and intuitive interfaces, Moodle has solutions suitable for K-12, higher education, vocational training, corporates, and all types of enterprise learning. From improving your teaching and student outcomes to streamlining training, onboarding, and compliance management, you'll build more active and engaging online learning spaces with Moodle.
When you choose Moodle, you benefit from Moodle's 20+ years of expertise in educational technology and you become part of a global community of people who love our online learning platform and our values. You can get support from our active community forums, access Moodle's certified integrations, and explore over 2000 open source plugins. Or, for expert advice, end-to-end support, and services, including site setup and hosting, customisations, and training, unlock unparalleled expertise and dedicated 24/7 support through our global network of Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers.
Key benefits of Moodle
Moodle gives educators and learners powerful, flexible software tools for online learning and collaboration.
- Have control and ownership of your data and how and where it’s used and stored.
Integrate Moodle with a wide variety of software and build an ecosystem that supports your organisation as a whole
- Create rich learning experiences with Moodle’s wide array of resources and activities that meet all your eLearning needs, from fully remote learning to blended learning
- Extend the functionality with thousands of plugins such as add-ons for gamification and collaboration, content libraries or assessment tools.
- Streamline your workflow, from managing enrollments to creating learning plans and grading work
- Get customised support: collaborate and get help from thousands of Moodle users in the Moodle Community or get support from a Moodle Certified Service Provider.
Committed to safeguarding data security and user privacy, security controls are constantly being updated and implemented in Moodle development processes and software to protect against unauthorised access, data loss and misuse. Moodle can be easily deployed on a private secure cloud or server for complete control.
Access extensive Moodle documentation and user forums in multiple languages, free content and courses shared by Moodle users across the world, as well as hundreds of plugins and add-ons contributed by a large global community.
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- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Perfect for Remote Learning Scenarios
Reviewed on 9/02/2021
As my University shifted from face-to-face classes I became much more reliant on Moodle and I have...
As my University shifted from face-to-face classes I became much more reliant on Moodle and I have now been using their integrations with blackboard collaborate to stream and host video lecturers. This is a must have platform for distance learning despite letdowns with the gradebook.
Pros
Moodle allows me to have a centralized repository of information for my course. I have now placed code, grades, course materials, powerpoints and even video lectures on my course container. My students have no excuses as they know to check Moodle for any course updates.
Cons
The gradebook is hard to use and I am a Computer Science Lecturer. It is difficult to configure and I really wished it were friendlier to non-techies.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Easy to made learning platform
Reviewed on 6/10/2020
My overall experience with Moodle is really worthy. me and my team are creating new class, courses...
My overall experience with Moodle is really worthy. me and my team are creating new class, courses and tests on Moodle and it takes very small amount of time. Course management is really nice and User interface of Moodle is really understandable to students.
Pros
1. Free and effective open source learning.
2. Create easy assignments and learning management as per subject and as per class.
Cons
1. Bulky and heavy User interface.
2. No end to end security provided.
3. No option to signup user accounts automatically.
Reasons for Choosing Moodle
Google Classroom, another useful tool from Google. I switched to Moodle because Moodle is open source and interface is understandable to students.Switched From
Google ClassroomReasons for Switching to Moodle
I choose Moodle over these alternative because, Moodle is open source and highly customizable as per requirement.- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Customizable learning platform with a variety of options for collaboration through a virtual...
Reviewed on 1/08/2024
Positive experience as both a student/used and also as a teacher using it. Allows for amazing...
Positive experience as both a student/used and also as a teacher using it. Allows for amazing collaboration opportunities through distance education.
Pros
How easy it is to navigate and also flexibility customizability to create any type of learning platform with a variety of features.
Cons
It isn't as easy to navigate to make aesthetically pleasing learning platforms. Have found less customizability with this piece but functionality is great.
Response from Moodle
Hi Rachael,
We wanted to say a huge thank you for sharing your thoughts on Moodle. We're thrilled to hear that you have wonderful experience using Moodle both as a student and a teacher. We want you to know that our team is working tirelessly to make sure that Moodle is always evolving and meeting your needs.
If you require support regarding LMS customisation, expansion, or improvement, we recommend getting in touch with our Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers who offer 24/7 assistance. You can learn more about how they can assist you by visiting https://moodle.com/solutions/certified-service-providers/.
Warm regards,
The Moodle Team
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Moodle E-Learning Software Overall Review
Reviewed on 25/10/2019
So far, my colleague developers and I are excited about Moodle. We're currently customizing it...
So far, my colleague developers and I are excited about Moodle. We're currently customizing it (creating courses, students, faculty members, enrolling students in their courses, branding, carrying out training for both faculty and students) to suit our University's standard as we will deploy it for our students this academic year 2019/2020.
Pros
- It's built with the common language PHP and MySQL which makes it easy to customize (by Developers)
- It has so many detailed features built-in, such as setting the date a course will begin and end, methods for learners to enroll in a course, the timezone of the learner, and more features.
- Many plugins (such as video LiveStreaming, quiz modules, assignment modules) are present which provides even more features to the software.
- It has detailed documentation for Developers and General users on how to carry out functions on the software.
- Moodle is so far one of the best e-learning software which fosters the distant learning culture and is so helpful to learners for example in areas with a socio-political crisis.
Cons
- A fee is required for any least additional functionality the client wants to be added on Moodle.
- The codebase is so hard to understand especially for non-Moodle Developers hence making it difficult to customize Moodle by yourself or team developers if they are not an expert.
- Moodle is strictly course-based, making it hard to integrate and synchronize with say, a platform already built and used by a school, in this case, our University.
- Email sent by the Moodle system to users always land in their spam/junk folder or doesn't even get sent at all.
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Google ClassroomReasons for Switching to Moodle
- With Moodle, there is full control of data as the information (files and user data) is found on our website / VPS Hosting account, compared to Google Classroom whereby all information is stored in Google's servers. - Hence with Moodle, there's more data privacy.
- Industry: Military
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
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Reviewed on 26/06/2024
It’s an innovative way to do work that needs to complete in time. And a great way to keep track of...
It’s an innovative way to do work that needs to complete in time. And a great way to keep track of your progress
Pros
I enjoy Moodle by the way they keep everything organized to make it easier to follow up on any type of unfinished work.
Cons
It is somewhat of a challenge to communicate directly, especially as a college student trying to meet the deadline, it’s mainly connected through email so you have to message that way
Response from Moodle
Hi Tim,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on using Moodle!
We're delighted to hear that you find Moodle's organisation helpful in keeping track of your work.
We're continuously looking for ways to improve communication tools within Moodle. You might find the Moodle Messaging feature helpful, which allows for instant messaging between users within the platform. Additionally, forums and chat activities can facilitate more direct interaction.
For more information on using messaging and other communication tools within Moodle, you can visit the Moodle.org. If you require support regarding LMS customisation, expansion, or improvement, we recommend getting in touch with our Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers who offer 24/7 assistance. You can learn more about how they can assist you by visiting https://moodle.com/solutions/certified-service-providers/.
Best regards,
The Moodle Team
Moodle FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Moodle.Q. What type of pricing plans does Moodle offer?
Moodle offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Available
Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software, under the GNU General Public License. Anyone can adapt, extend or modify Moodle for both commercial and non-commercial projects without any licensing fees and benefit from the cost-efficiencies, flexibility and other advantages of using Moodle.
Q. Who are the typical users of Moodle?
Moodle has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Moodle support?
Moodle supports the following languages:
Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Q. Does Moodle support mobile devices?
Moodle supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Moodle integrate with?
Moodle integrates with the following applications:
BigBlueButton, Google Workspace, H5P, Meta for Business, Microsoft 365
Q. What level of support does Moodle offer?
Moodle offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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