Moodle Software

Pros

It's the most known platform on my country so a lot of learners are familiar with the use of moodle platforms, so it's easy for they to access to it.

Cons

It's a little to plain on features for you to customize the applications you need for an specific kind of instructional design.

Pros

It allows different formats of course content to be uploaded on the system whether it is a classroom based or a web based to the cloud.

Cons

System should be always connected to the internet, if the connectivity is lost then the date cannot be uploaded for offline to online storage.

Pros

This system accepts different formats of content. they provide both classroom based and web based courses.

Cons

It acts troublesome when it is accessed just for the purpose of quiz or a test, as the website occassionally closes automatically.

Cons

Not user-friendly. you cannot integrate the publisher's website/materials. Gradebook is a nightmare. You are better off with pen & paper than using Moodle.

Pros

Free core product
Easy to install
No need to payment
Easily expandable with knowledge of PHP and MySQL
Open Community for getting help
Cheap but good developers from India and China
Very lightweight

Cons

Old front-end
Not many useful features out of the box (In order to seriously being used such as SIS integration, etc.)
UX is not as clean as user-friendly as Canvas and other alternatives
Old front-end will not let front-end developers to bring modern front-end technologies to the scene

Pros

Easy to use, both for tutors and students
Flexibility, it allow you to configurate diferents virtual classrooms tailored to students needs, It's like a Lego!!
It offers a lot of resources to support training and evaluation.

Cons

Too much software updates
The authoring tool it is not very complete, but it is useful.
Possibilites of grafic image are very poor

There is not really any cons about Moodle. It is a highly satisfying product that is worth a try.

Pros

First: It is free!

As a student: it has easy navigation, provides a dashboard with all the related courses currently enrolled, it has a calendar on the right highlighting all the upcoming submission dates. It also notifies us about the upcoming events the lecture has set. All the information are arranged in a neat format. It shows the online users. It has portfolio option, makes it easy to keep track of all our works. It also has email facilities so we can email other users.

As an administrator: There is so many features incorporated in Moodle! The teacher has the power to design the moodle course in however way they want: It integrates SCORM packages, documents, videos, links, quiz, different grading systems (average/individual) and the grade history of the students on the platform. The teacher also has the flexibility to program when to make one lesson visible (by presetting the time and date), when to close assignment submission past deadline automatically, or to create specific forums and events. One can use moodle to run a class or to act as a learning repertoire. There is also the option to add a chat room for a particular lesson. What I also appreciate is the feature to monitor course participation and activity log report of students. By including keys to the lessons, we can control who we give access to the contents on the forum. Thus it can either be open contents or private. The power lies in the hands of the administrator.

Cons

The chat feature should be an in-built feature rather than a pop-out screen available only when the administrator adds it as part of a lesson.

I would not recommend Moodle, unless it is given to you by your educational institution.

Pros

Uploads and calendar of activities are good, but all needs to be uploaded and very little copy and paste features.

Cons

Grading is very confusing. Weighted averages are not allowed, or at least I have not found a way to do it yet. Loading assignments is difficult and sometime has to be repeated. I am not a fan of the tracking ability because of the issues with grading. Also, if you are working with international students, you have to enter their American names every time.

Generally its an interactive and friendly tool which is easy to use and support all forms of learning...

Pros

It is one of the best free (open source) LMS available in the market i.e. if you have an experienced IT team. It requires coding & customization, so if you have a great IT team then Moodle can do wonders for you.

Cons

You would need an IT team to make even small changes in your operations. A lot of companies do not look out for LMS that would require another team to manage & maintain the functionalities which includes feature updates, bug fixes, server maintenance, storage & security, to name a few.

need local customer service

Pros

Moodle LMS help me a lot with my task, it had so many option that i can choose to suitable with my work needs

Cons

There is no legitimate local customer service for moodle in my country that can help me to understand more the use of moodle LMS

I'm very grateful with the Moodle contributors, because they have shown the World that open source and quality software can be made, and Moodle is one of them.

I began with an overall customer satisfaction of about 95% and nowadays I have reached 98%. To get there I have develop new content, better content and use the facilities and plugins that Moodle provides accompanied by an excellent support to my students. I'm working to reach a better percentage in the next months.

Moodle was my choice ten years ago and I expect to keep working with Moodle the years to come.

Pros

Freedom to teach and express the knowledge
Versatile
A lot of useful plugins
Constantly updated
Not expensive hosting
Good documentation

Pros

The price is right. This actually seems like it should be for all school software vendors. Is it right to charge the education system so much?

Cons

Integration is the main problem.

Pros

I used moodle as a student in middle/high school and as a student and TA in college. It is easy to navigate for the teacher and student. It also has class participants, grades, and various types of forums to post such as quizzes, anonymous feedback, readings, and more.

Cons

It was useful for basic info in grade school such as submitting and grading assignments. But in university it is not the easiest for online classes and grading. It’s difficult to assign specific percents to assignments instead of by larger sections. It is very basic, with posts & replies. It would be helpful to be able to link easier or mention a person/other other post to notify them because it doesn’t have that right now. Also, the overall look is outdated.

I used moodle for my college coursework. I preferred when professors used google docs instead.

Pros

Moodle is helpful for getting course info and submitting assignments. You also have coursework organized into classes and years, which is nice!

Cons

Slow/difficult to upload grades. I have had many grades deleted when uploading them for a class. I also found it hard to see the name of the student when I scrolled right to upload grades.

Pros

Free License, OpenSource, many universities are using this software. You have your own trial up & running in a couple of hours and you do not need to install anything, there is cloud free licenses.

Cons

Look & feel. UX is not innovative, other commercial platforms are much more better at this, you get lost in so many features sometimes.

At my university, Moodle was considered a step up from the previous LMS software that had been used. Nevertheless, the general consensus about Moodle was lukewarm at best due to the software's lack of intuitiveness and its navigational issues. With some improvements in those areas, I think it could be a great, rather than a good, LMS option.

Pros

Pleasant and clean interface, allows for user customization up to a certain point, has many of the features and capabilities that you'd expect of an LMS software at the university level.

Cons

Moodle is definitely not the most intuitive software (although, I'm not sure that I could really say that about any of the LMS softwares I've used). The navigation menus in particular could be improved, as I often found it difficult to arrive at the page that I wanted to and consequently had to memorize the appropriate routes through the software's menus.

Do your research to see if this will work for you.

Pros

So the great thing about moodle is that it's fully customizable, it's open source so you can do anything you need to do with it. Out of the box it's ready to rock provided that you have content to add as it doesn't have any of it's own. But the greatest thing about moodle is that if you have a team of developers or even one really good instructional designer you don't have to spend any additional funds in order to get this going.

Cons

Because it's open source the support lacks, so unless you have an IT guy or a developer you may struggle with getting this off the ground but it's a great solution if you have issues with financials.

The customer service is worse than a cable company.

Pros

There is very little to like about this product. The only thing I can think of is that it makes grades easily available online.

Cons

The site is constantly crashing. The users are virtually unable to accomplish anything because of the frequency of failure within the website. I attend a large university that uses it and every single professor absolutely hates the site because of its difficulty to operate, constant crashing, it is hard to grade from, and for students it is a confusing mess of useless features and lack of organization. The website is incredibly slow for mobile usage. This is easily the worst product available. DO NOT BUY!

Like most LMS products, Moodle tends to assume that the course will be calendar driven rather than skills driven. So while it is possible to create a course that is unit-based rather than tied to specific dates, the progression is still implied as linear. It takes a lot of work to create a skills driven course with the opportunity for cyclical expansion of skills that build on each other.

Pros

Moodle is modular and flexible, meaning that it can be used for a wide variety of different types of learning. It integrates well into joomla, allowing for customization of look and feel and organizational branding. With the joomdle extension it also provides for seamless connection of payment information and membership profiles. Basic features work "out of the box" - specific tools may require some programming knowledge to have them work exactly the way you want, but since it's open source, extending and adjusting functionality is unlimited.

Cons

The "out of the box" version of moodle is not very attractive to look at - it could benefit a lot with a few less traditional themes.
Support is from the developer community at large, so for "weird" problems, you may not get a lot of useful help.

nice platform

Pros

easy to use and learn; no experience needed; different sections are available to add to the course; size limit is good

Cons

the user interface for learner looks not very friendly, not customized.
restriction setup is nice while if there are many topics, it looks busy on the page; if when they click they can get the warning message, may be also ok.
During test, the course is not available to student while only LMS administrator can change the role to student to view the course, not very convenient.