Moodle Review

What do you like best about Moodle?

Moodle é estável, aspecto fundamental para manter e gerenciar cursos a longo prazo. É flexível, com uma quantidade enorme de Addons disponíveis que me permitiu sempre adaptá-lo a diferentes necessidades que tive. Além disso, aspecto ainda mais fundamental, como é software livre, pude adaptar plugins e adequá-los de forma precisa às necessidades que encontrei. Uma, por exemplo, modificamos o plugin de emissão de certificados de forma a permitir várias assinatura digitais automatizadas em um mesmo certificado.

Precioso, também, é o suporte da comunidade, sempre parceira e com soluções interessantes.

Uma qualidade que frequentemente é apontado como fragilidade (entendo como qualidade) é que o uso do Moodle implica em trazer para dentro da instituição competência para seu gerenciamento e manutenção. Frase já comum, não é de graça, é livre, tem um custo significativo para ser mantido, mas tem-se domínio completo do sistema. Troca-se a frase "o sistema não faz isso" dos LMS proprietários por "ainda não sei como se faz isso", que revela de quem é a responsabilidade pelos recursos do LMS em uso.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Não posso apresentar o ponto que trago aqui como uma crítica, na medida que não vejo como poderia ser melhorado, mas vale ser mencionado. O tratamento e adequação das tabelas é muito complexo, se possível fosse, pensaria em uma interface que simplificasse o tratamento e busca de dados nas tabelas. Gerar relatórios de uso que não os que já vinham por padrão foi sempre muito trabalhoso e complexo.

Dois outros temas trouxeram dificuldades quando era responsável pelo gerenciamento do LMS:

1) atualização para a versão 3 (já lá se vai algum tempo) quando foi necessário refazer grande parte da estrutura dos cursos (vi isso resolvido na migração de 3 para 4) e

2) Tempo necessário para fazer backup de cursos completos. Como eu trabalhava com cursos com muitas imagens, o tempo de cópia e backup de cursos, internamente no moodle foi sempre muito longo, com frequência maior do que o tempo que o servidor mantinha a conexão, obrigando, por vezes a reiniciar o processo.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Viabilizou implementação ágil dos cursos que tinha sob minha responsabildade, todos eles perfeitamente adequados às exigências dos clientes que atendíamos.

What do you like best about Moodle?

It's open source and easy to develop, friendly user interface, compressive learning tools, multi-language, Analytics and reporting and integration capability with platforms. It's really very good learning Management platforms for educational Institution and University with good features. And the beauty of the product is Rapidly implement in your organizations and scalable.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Need more graphical interface, mobile app limitation, plugin, lack of build in advance features and performance issue with some security features .

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's solve student and faculty communication and we are useing it as campus ERP and Learing Management System. Very Cost effactive, scalability, data ownership, branding and coustomization and easy communication.

What do you like best about Moodle?

Moodle provides the flexibility that you are looking for in an LMS. It allows you to manage your content effectively, organise it in a meaningful way, assess your students through a variety of activities and provide feedback. What makes Moodle flexible is the number of integrations available for other learning and teaching software. Moodle also integrates with other systems, such Turnitin Similarity/Feedback Studio, Zoom, Panopto, Blackboard Ally and more, which allows for a more consistent experience. Moodle works as a central hub and is connected to every other service that a organisation might be using alongside it.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Moodle can be quite complicated sometimes and its ways to achieve things are quite long-winded. You need to spent a lot of time to figure out why learners can't submit an assessment or why they can't the feedback you have provided in assignments. Some standard activities (such as Moodle Lesson) are best to be avoided and replaced by third-party software (such as H5P).

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

One system to organise learning content and run assessment for our learner. There is a seamless integration with our Student Record System, Zoom and Panopto (our VCMS).

What do you like best about Moodle?

The option to add functions at will with variuous plugins to extend it operability

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Nothing. Moodle is a super tool for all learnig management and delivery of learning content.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ease of conducting analysis on training delivered. Delivering training at the convenience of the learners to meet their busy schedules. Ease of management of the required competencies.

What do you like best about Moodle?

Moodle reduce work force in marking script of students especially the lower level classes that counts in thousabs

What do you dislike about Moodle?

It enhences teaching and learning by using Digital contents

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

we use Moodle to offer elearning as well as conducting CBT Examination to Undergraduate Students

What do you like best about Moodle?

Moodle has a lot of useful features. It is evident that the platform is the result of many years of experience with e-Learning delivery.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

One cannot expect to start administering Moodle out-of-the box without any prior experience. Hence, both training and trying things out is necessary.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our organisation is based in Slovakia but we cannot always organise classroom based training for our clients who are located all over Europe. Hence, Moodle is the perfect solution to organise virtual courses.

What do you like best about Moodle?

Easy to use LMS

Good features

Access across various types of devices

Easy to implement

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Pricing can be made more affordable atleast for smaller orgs

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Courses are made available using the platform

Good track your own progress

Easy to use

What do you like best about Moodle?

The factis open source and free for everyone to setup and use.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Sometimes, it provides too many update for plugins, this can be a bit frustrating.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is easy to house training materials on the platform for trainees.

What do you like best about Moodle?

You can put your courses online without needing to spend a fortune.

You can self host.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

It can be difficult if you're not that technical when it comes to self-hosting. Having said that there is a great deal of experience out there when you need help.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm hosting it for a couple of clients. It is stable and I don't need to spend much time on maintenance.

What do you like best about Moodle?

Our Association is only just starting to move into the online learning space by developing our small short courses for our industry.

I knew of Moodle through hearing about other people's experience in the online learning space but I looked at a few different options to make sure I was getting the best system . I decided to sign up to Moodle Cloud as I thought this would be the best option as I did not want to spend too much money while I was teaching myself how to create an online course.

I am happy to say that Moodle had a comprehensive learning database and short courses which made it easy to learn how to use their system.

In the six months that I have been using Moodle I have successfully created two small short courses and rolled them out to members of our Association. Our Association has 37 people enrolled across the two courses which is encouraging. Of those, only two participants experienced difficulties in completing the course or navigating the online LMS.

I have had good support from Moodle when I have needed to contact them after not being able to work out a solution to a problem I kept encounting.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

With many tools it is hard to know when to use the right one.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our Association has had to pivot to online learning as traditional, face to face, onsite learning/teaching opportunities is limited for our industry.

With Moodle we are able to reach more of our members who are spread over a large geographical area.

What do you like best about Moodle?

The flexibility of the platform is catering for different organisational needs. We are a development organisation with several programmes, some of which do not even fit the learning part, such as workshop facilitation or dicussion focurms, and with the features and the ability to integrate with other platforms, we are still able to support learning, coollaboration, etc. It is also easy to use by our beneficiaries and internal teams, and with the support of an expert service provider, Open Learning Technologies, it was easy to drive our programmes and thus implement withtout many challenges.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

WIthout internal technical expdertise, it requires dependency of a service provider and this may be costly, even if it is open access.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have digitised our education development prorgamme for teachers in rural areas with the intention of easy scaling to cover more schools.

What do you like best about Moodle?

Customizable, scalable, lots of integration options

What do you dislike about Moodle?

UX/UI needs work, more complex than many educators can handle, default settings send way too many emails, requires a lot of assistance for instructors to set up classes

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Moodle has customizable options that other LMS don't, all in one platform, "free" (costs time)

What do you like best about Moodle?

Its open source, there are lots of plug ins, its easy to use, you can do a lot to customise it.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

You really need a couple of developers to make the most of it.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing learning to our members and customers

What do you like best about Moodle?

Firstly, possibiity to create many different courses very quickly

Secondly , creating courses in different languages

Thirdly, flexible filtration of an access to different groups

Fourthly, internal chat

Fifhly, app Moodle for smartphone

What do you dislike about Moodle?

It is not ese to use all features quickly, it nessesary to ask professionals.

It takes time to learn some features, for example it is not easy to find out the algorithm of adding a new sudent to the group.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

The shortages of time seems to be lower, Moodle helps to organize the list of courses for a long period of time.

I do not think about the shedule and believe everry test will be opened in time

What do you like best about Moodle?

I use Moodle almost every day and I find it user friendly. When I click on the site home page, it has all the courses listed which makes it to clicks the course that I want to go to.

I like the fact that each group that I assess is seperated so when I click on submissions and needs grading, it filters everything for me instead of me searching for a learner.

It also shows me follow ups , if a learner re-submitted a specfic assessment , it states re-submission so that I know this is not a new submission,

What do you dislike about Moodle?

There are system problems that was faced recently with modules not showing that suppose to be showing under specific learners or myself which lead to a delay is assessments.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

The fact that I can assess learners all over South Africa without having to courier assessments each time and feedback is immediate.

What do you like best about Moodle?

The ability to customzie the content is very helpful

What do you dislike about Moodle?

There are challenges in the data and reporting.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Access to electronic workbook

What do you like best about Moodle?

Super user friendly - users new to the platform can easily navigate and learn how to use the LMS. It's very easy to set up and find what you're looking for, learning is streamline.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

It's not exciting. There's limited features that can add value to the platform. I wish there was a more community focued aspect to the platform that builds connections and engages learners.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting/accessing learning content

What do you like best about Moodle?

The flexibilities and expansion of the System

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Process of adding new plugins, especially for live system.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

To deliver teaching and learning online, and assist with test and exams

What do you like best about Moodle?

Moodle is a flexible and quite customizable, open-source learning management system it provides users with a friendly interface for education management functionalities. It assists in collaborative learning through coursework assignments, quiz setups, interactive video lectures and many other curriculum features, it also gives strong reporting and analytics on student progress. Integration of Moodle with different educational tools and systems extends its functionality, centralizes learning activity, and strengthens data management.

These features make Moodle cost-effective and powerful for any educational institution.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

While customizable and flexible, Moodle is still quite complex for new users to use, and requires a learning curve. The default interface may look a bit outdated, and large-scale deployments may experience performance issues. Without additional plugins, feature availability could be less. The official support options are rare compared to what one would get from a commercial provider.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides full course management, collaborative learning tools, and robust analytics to meet the demand for a flexible and easily customizable learning management system. The users benefit from it by having educational activities centralized, rich student engagement, and gaining profound insight into the process of learning. Because it is open source, this allows for its cost-effective implementation and extensive customization to meet specific institutional requirements.

What do you like best about Moodle?

I love how easy the program is to use, but I also love how easily accessible help is when I need it.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

If there is one, I have yet to find one!

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping to have a place to teach users about our products and our internal security trainings.

What do you like best about Moodle?

It's easy to use. It's user friendly.The support team is amazing and that is very helpful.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

There are some features found in canva that professors with they had access to.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's resolving our leanring plateform issue.

What do you like best about Moodle?

It has a very high degree of customization, both at the graphic level and in extending its functionalities, using graphic "themes," its open-source code that allows it to be modified in a standardized way without fear of future updates, and the use of third-party plugins.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Sometimes its robustness of features works against it, in the perception of non-technical administrators, as they may perceive it as an LMS with too many features and more complex to configure.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped us to offer a very affordable LMS tool for any type of organization.

What do you like best about Moodle?

Easy to set up and implement system, user friendly, great for repository of information; easy to train faculty and students; can add institutional branding, can use for variety of things such as courses, program review, student workspaces, faculty workspaces, curriculum management, etc.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Does not have all of the functionality of more robust LMS systems, doesn't offer many customization tools, layout is a bit archaic; importing and exporting courses take several steps and the process is very clunky. Customer Support is lacking and takes a great deal of time to get answers for issues.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Moodle primarily to offer courses to students; we also use Moodle to house our program review and curriculum management processes. Moodle helps us organize information and have a centralized place to direct students, faculty, and admin to work through key processes. Because Moodle is so easy to use it has been a breeze to train all users on using the system.

What do you like best about Moodle?

The amount of customization that you can do to your site and courses is a huge benefit. Being able to add plugins and other integrations makes each course a great landing site for our students.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Along with all the plugins available, many listed on their official plugin page are no longer working or able to be used. This can cause some isses when non admi nusers find the plugins via searches and request ones that will not work in our environment.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Moodle is our primary LMS for higher education. This has allowed us to grwo our on campus programs as well as offering fully online programs. Having a reliable LMS helps to show that our programs are consitent and professional.

What do you like best about Moodle?

Moodle is one of the best LMS for any institute, It has everything that an institute needs to run smooth online classes. It is very easy to integrate and friendly to use. I have been using it for quite a long time and have found it most useful. I can easily manage all my classroom activities such as online student attendance, exams, results published, etc. Very easy to implement with any website and can be operated with any basic laptop.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Just one recommendation, templates are very less.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used it for some of my clients and found that managing classes, designing courses and modules, tracking students' attendance and allocating the assignments all these become so easy here. You can easily track the course progress and student progress. Even you can upload the assignments and conduct exams as well.

What do you like best about Moodle?

After the pandemic virtual learning debacle, it became obvious to adopt tools specialized in delivering blended and virtual learning. Moodle gets it all right, flexible and powerful; superb features for any style of learning, and a huge plug-in ecosystem.

With API access it is not difficult to pull resources in from other sources (or share resources from moodle).

I'd be remiss if I didnt mention H5P, interactive asessment that links into moodles gradebook. All really good stuff.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Anything relating the customizing themes is a pain in the ass. I use default theme boost. There are some really good themes you can buy - not that expensive. But if you want to customize a theme, blech.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

Delivering content is more than just watching youtube videos. There has to be meaningful assessment and engagement or it's just another resource dump. Being able to offer blended or virtual learning is a huge value-add for me and my students. Moreover, if a student wants to extend their learning I can simply enrol them in one of my courses.

What do you like best about Moodle?

I appreciate the 4.1 version's easy-to-use interface and abundance of customization tools and options, which, when combined with the reporting tools, offer teachers a great deal of control and flexibility in terms of designing their courses and overseeing their content. Also, its scalability for large organizations when working with a Moodle workspace is quite powerful.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Lots of customization options and tools also imply a steep learning curve for managers. Not too simple self-setup and integrations might require some external services to support your team if the approach gets a little complicated. In any case, there are some very interesting, not too expensive, options to explore.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

We train staff and constituents on the same platform. We connect it with other custom systems that we own to manage training and exams related to them.

What do you like best about Moodle?

The migration to Moodle Workplace provided us with a powerful training and implementation team that laid the foundation for our LMS today. Of course, most LMS companies help with migration, but this was different. I had managed other LMS providers in my career and the experience, answers, and dedicated time - but my experience with Moodle US was beyond anything that I had experienced. Our LMS went from no courses to over 200 as of today. We are in the administration side of Moodle Workplace every day the office is open as we support students and seek to enhance their experience.

As an educational non-profit, the following details are what is the best from our experience:

- Flexibility - The coding in Moodle allows us to even change the names of buttons, items, etc. This went beyond adding our logo or even brand colors. This allowed us to have each student experience be unique to our vocabulary and "look and feel".

- Programs - We leverage Moodle Workplace which allows us to create programs. These are bundled courses or a series of courses that can be packaged together and allow for a seamless experience for our students. This provides so much power with bundles, certificates, and other course groupings. From a student experience - it is all seamlessly connected. This past year, we looked to move from Moodle Workplace to Moodle. Moodle didn't have this functionality so we stayed with Moodle Workplace.

- Branching Scenarios - Moodle allows us to create branching scenarios that provide a student experience in line with a Choose Your Own Adventure. This allows scenario training, feedback, and the opportunity to make new choices. This has been very powerful for us!

- Price - We've looked at a lot of LMS providers and the scaleable and affordable price point of Moodle has us sold. As a non-profit, finances are critical, and having access to a robust system at a solid price point is brilliant!

- Support - I've worked with support tickets before. But the Moodle Support Team is out of this world. Super fast response, research, and help in addressing questions, fixing issues, and walking us through upgrades. Every interaction has been stellar - truly.

- Plug Ins - Want to go farther? Moodle has so many plug ins. We tend to use very few and keep it to the Moodle Core, but the options are there and we review them from time to time. Everyone has a unique situation and that plug in might just make the difference to someone.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

With flexibility comes complexity. Moodle serves a worldwide community. It takes an investment in time to really understand the multitude of settings (most of which we haven't even needed to change or use), but they are there and when we are troubleshooting things - there is a bit of research. (Support has been so helpful, but there is a big ownership piece taking on Moodle - more so than some other LMS providers.)

We all use things differently and with upgrades to address enhancements and changes made to things from the look and feel to how the interface works. Once you get to the point of customizing things it can be challenging when options are taken away. For example, the recent upgrade took away the next button on the screens and moved navigation to a left-hand menu. It seems clunky. An enhancement request has been made by a group looking to return that function. That said, we can use a plug-in to put that back into the functionality. In the end, it would be great to have had the ability to turn it on or off - not just take it away. Once you get used to customizing things - it can be hard when you can't.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a problem of being relevant in the 21st Century. As a non-profit organization that started in 1912 - it happens. Moodle allowed us to jump into the current century (and beyond)! Before that our content was open and it was easy to "take". Now, we have reminders, workflows, and student engagement with videos, articles, case studies, scenarios, assessments, content, and more. This benefits us greatly because we can talk about the experience with our company as a positive one and that the learning experience is one we can fully and honestly recommend. At a time when more and more organizations are doing more with less or even disappearing. We are thriving and growing. We had three employees and even with all the new technology and options - we didn't replace an employee when they left and two of us handle it all. This is a huge benefit to us, the students, and the community.

What do you like best about Moodle?

Moodle is a reach featured open source LMS irrespative of size and nature of the educational institution. It can be easily integrated with many third party applications with the pulgins.

What do you dislike about Moodle?

Its tough students and teachers UI decorages the users.

What problems is Moodle solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. We are a k-12 School. We use this LMS to make Blanded learning concept possible.

2. We are a group of 132 institutions in the far area of northern india. To teach the students with the help of electronics equipments we use LMS for content delivery.

3. We are also using this LMS for online leaning and teaching of few courses.

4. Automated online assessment and assigment reduced the teacher's load dresticly.

5. Integration with big blyue button it removed the interfarance of outsiders/unathical intruders during the online classes.

6. We use the moodle for psychometric,career counselling test of the students

It is a big list of benifits.