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25 reviewers had the following to say about Moodle's features:
- Efficient management of various courses - Creating learning modules, quizzes, courseware - Customizing on top to add more functionality to features
Pros
- Alot to do, right from managing courses to creating quizzes and what not.
Cons
- A bit old school - More options with design could help - The user role management should be more elaborate
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Good tool for testing elearning courses.
Pros
It also has every possible feature that can be found in learning management systems.
Cons
The interface is highly customizable, but it can (at least to my opinion) work out of the box.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
In addition to offering the management system for courses specific to an educational institution, it also offers Moodle.net where you can create and search for free courses for your users.
Cons
Disadvantages of Moodle itself may be that it expanded in such a way that the teacher has more freedom to select certain contents for particular students, since nowadays the classes and resources are presented to all students equally.
Rating breakdown
Frequency of use: Daily
Being able to access my courses from mobile, easy to use intuitive course technology.
Pros
Being able to upload files to it and take my courses and quizzes directly within the app.
Cons
Few tech issues here and there that gave anxiety about reaching a deadline or two, but overall got the job done.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
We could integrate it with our academic management system.
Cons
I find it a little bit confusing for teachers to manage their course page, but once you get used to it, the job is done.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Offline teaching and learning
Pros
free (open source), flexible Course Management System, great community support, robust and easy to use
Cons
Not in my language, yet, so many users of the application would strongly resend it. Also a down-side, you have to learn how to use each (of many) tool most appropriately to get the best results
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
The amount of organization, planning, and time management that Moodle offers makes my life so much easier than ever before.
Pros
Moodle allows you to create your own courses, evaluations, forums, and classes with ease.
Cons
Although Moodle is typically easy to access and use, if you are attempting to create minor course details or smaller classes, the minute customization tools can be difficult to access.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It got the very basic job of a learning management system done.
Cons
It's not very intuitive or user friendly. Typically the platform that delivers great content should go relatively unnoticed. In other words, it shouldn't cause distraction by being too flashy or too clunky that it's hard to navigate. Moodle was the latter.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Moodle
Functionality is key. Design is important but if the functionality isn't there, nobody will notice.
Pros
The program has proved helpful for course management and the students also find it easy to use.
Cons
Sometimes the email system is very slow. Other than that, it does all the things I need.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Moodle
Online examinations are very convenient. I was suspicious that it would prove cumbersome to manage online exams but it has proved, with one or two hiccups, pretty straightforward.
One of them most well known Learning Platforms / course management system (CMS) Running for years, it do what you need, but the look and feel is not the best.
I found it easy to learn on my own, build a course, and interact with students through Moodle.
Pros
I used this software to teach a fully online course for a couple of years.
Cons
The most challenging part for me was to follow the various threads in the discussion forums, although I believe the students did not have the same problem (they were likely more tech savvy than me).
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
You can work with your school on this. And if you don't like this platform you can try others.
Pros
I like that you can transfer your material to other learning management systems.
Cons
And I don't get the zip file to export easily.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It allows to publish resources to so many courses the teacher has open.
Cons
Each educational institution that uses it must have a good server for the platform so that it meets technical storage requirements. The management of so many user accounts falls on each institution and that is why it must be careful to have good personnel for these required services.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Virtual LMS that is free and easy to use.
Pros
There are also features for backing up you class page which personally I find useful so when I build a new course I can import things I have previously done.
Cons
Also, Moodle is a little dated and lacks some of the slick advancements in user interface some of its paid competitors have.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Because it is free, my Institution (public University in Brazil) could afford to implement it to improve the quality of undergrad courses.
Pros
Although it is mainly developed for education, it can be tailored to be used as other kind of content management system, such as general websites and a plataform for team-based activities online.
Cons
Finally, upgrades (notably major ones) must be carefully planned and executed to avoid data loss.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
In addition, Universities can put their local Moodle and thus be able to create their platforms for specific courses at the same university, the courses can be opened to students who are anywhere on the planet.
Cons
Some activities can be a bit mechanical, depending a lot on the instructional design.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
I highly recommend this Open Source Initiative (OSI) software platform built for teachers by teachers.
Try to maintain a university course at a distance, but it brings more problems than it solved, I do not recommend it
Pros
Moodle platform is a simple and practical way, so that Teachers and Students who are in remote areas could share their experiences and stay relatively in communication.
Cons
To access it, it is recommended to carry out a course for its management and compression, In addition to having support staff that can attend, which, in my opinion, It is a lot of "logistics" to keep teachers informed with their students, Many other platforms simulate the experience better and without so much protocol.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
It has helped me to manage courses easily, and to have a good communication with my employees at the time of training them.
Pros
Moodle gives good communication between students and teachers during class time and outside as well.
Cons
It has updates without prior notice that affect the student sometimes.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Pros
Also like that it is very customizable.
Cons
There are so many clicks involved when making quizzes and exams. Having to go back and forth between the same pages is really not ideal.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Pros
The best thing about this platform is mainly that it is translated in multiple languages and the Attendance plugin is excellent for courses where you should keep a record of the attendance so be an online course.
Cons
the limitations are given depending on the server, bandwidth where it is installed since it has happened that the platform becomes slow when a large number of users connect at the same time
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
I don't use Moodle anymore, as the current university where I teach uses a different system. There were aspects of Moodle that I preferred, but overall for ease of use, I prefer my current university's system.
Pros
There is so much ability to do things with Moodle that you cannot do with other similar classroom management programs.
Cons
They offered free online courses for teaching users about Moodle.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
Salem City Schools is using the Moodle LMS to deliver credit courses during the summer to students who wish to get ahead or even catch up in their studies.
Have at hand an educational application that allows me to prepare courses and complete classes for work groups or students, where I can evaluate them and keep track of each class or team, knowing what are the strengths and weaknesses to improve the group every day.
Pros
Every professional of the instruction that has knowledge of the technologies of learning to used moodle, is par excellence one of the favorites to the hour of teaching, be it at university or professional level, this application is very flexible and complete, it allows you to create courses, evaluations, create forums, classes, upload videos and more, much more, when you need to prepare new staff or improve the resources you already have, you can always count on moodle for this task, plus it's free, but, you will need a development team to customize to suit your company.
Cons
Maybe the wide application can hinder the development for a specific task, or if you want a simple course, it can take a long time to customize for a small session where example you just need a course or evaluate something, maybe in these cases is better another option.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Interface with students and messaging was easy.
Pros
Reports were generated and the statistics features were nice for both teaching staff and students
Cons
For one class, the grades that were counted were therefore stored on a different software (we informed students that moodle had raw scores only)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
