Name: Moodle
Rating: 4.2 (108 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Moodle?

Moodle is a software designed for creating and managing online learning environments, supporting course development, content management, assessments, and collaboration between educators and learners. The software offers customizable tools for organizing lessons, quizzes, assignments, and forums, enabling institutions to deliver educational resources remotely. Moodle facilitates tracking of learner progress, communication between participants, and integration with a variety of third-party applications. It addresses the business problem of delivering scalable and flexible learning management systems for schools, universities, and organizations seeking to provide structured digital education experiences.

Overall experience with Moodle

IT MANAGER

<50M USD, Construction

FAVORABLE

“Open Source Learning Platform, enhanced by Plugins ”

5.0

Oct 13, 2025

Very powerful learning platform and a highly customizable environment.

Teacher at Junior School

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education

CRITICAL

“Moodle's LMS Flexibility Enhances Adaptability in Higher Education”

3.0

Jan 15, 2025

Moodle presents a strong and flexible LMS for higher education. Moodle's features and plugins could be made less cluttered in order to improve usability and improve the effectiveness of Moodle in the classroom.

About Company

Company Description

Moodle is an open-source, secure, and scalable learning management system that integrates seamlessly with other platforms and can be customised for any teaching or training method. With intuitive interfaces, Moodle offers solutions for K-12, higher education, vocational training, corporates, and enterprise learning. It supports improving teaching and student outcomes, as well as streamlining training, onboarding, and compliance management, helping you create more engaging online learning spaces. You can get support from active community forums, access certified integrations, and explore over 2000 open source plugins. For expert advice, end-to-end support, and services including site setup and hosting, customisations, and training, you can access dedicated up to 24/7 support through our global network of Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2001

Head office location

West Perth, Australia

Number of employees

51 - 200

Website

https://moodle.com/

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Moodle Likes & Dislikes

It's an open source software (for me it's a plus), with constant and frequent updates. The platform is customizable and can be enhanced by a lot of plugins that help both teachers, students and even administrators. Support for SSO services such as Microsoft SSO and LDAP.

Moodle is highly flexible and has a very large plugins repository which makes it easy to adapt the platform to our learning and teaching requirements. This way I can engage students in interactive quizzes or discussion forums depending on the type of course they are in.

I can easily customize everything as per my need such as course structure and grading method and it also supports multiple learning formats and it is secure and very reliable it can handle large traffic easily.

Some admin pages or menus not very intuitive. Custom reports (standard feature) does not allow detailed filters (multiple conditions, logical operations), and you need to use third-party plugins.

Selecting a plugin from the large plugin library and checking compatibility with our current system can be a rather cumbersome process. It also makes it almost impossible to search for the features that can really help improve our courses.

What I dislike is that even for simple tasks I have to do many clicks such as posting any assignment and after updates plugins don't work fine which can cause issues.

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<50M USD

Construction

Review Source

Open Source Learning Platform, enhanced by Plugins

Director of Human Resources

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Strong Community and Customization Options Make Learning Tool Stand Out

4.0

May 13, 2025

It's a great tool for learning with the strong community which is available 24/7 and ready to help. I can easily track the progress and the activity logs.

Professor

Enhancing Student Engagement with Moodle's Diverse Learning Activities

Jan 30, 2025

As an LMS, Moodle delivers all the tools needed to run academic courses in higher education. Students and teachers would learn better when the mobile app offers more features and works without problems.

Exploring Moodle: A Comprehensive Platform for Effective Online Education

Jan 24, 2025

Moodle is a very capable system that has a large number of features. Some improvements in the interface with a particular emphasis on the ease of use for both teachers and learners are really necessary.

Technician

LMS Tool Moodle: A Comprehensive Tool for Diverse Learners

Jan 22, 2025

Moodle is a useful LMS and offers students a rich content within which they can create online courses. A cleaner front end or better course construction wizards would make Moodle more intuitive and let teachers get on with teaching.