Moodle Reviews & Product Details - Page 27

I've used a Moodle-based LMS at two different schools now and am overall happy with the functionality and features it offers me as a user. Managing course content is for the most part intuitive and easy. User experience and options are dependent on how Moodle is configured by the institution's IT or learning technology team/department, and the implementation I've seen has varied. Some deficiencies I noticed at one school were not present at the other and I discovered it was a result of how Moodle was managed on the back end. For example, one college did not enable the very simple text formatting in input windows, and the other college had not enabled the attendance logging features. So, if there are features you are looking for, I recommend reading the documentation on the Moodle site to find out if they are available.

Strengths: online help, customizability, ease of use (creating and managing content), assignment and grade management, transferring/importing files and learning modules across semesters, assignment/submission management, adaptability, interactivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As mentioned, Moodle is a solid LMS solution in my experience as a user, but I cannot speak to the back end enterprise software management side. Two issues I encounter that have more to do with efficiency than "problems," etc.

* Moving Course Content within a Page: The issue I find most problematic as a user is navigating long Moodle pages for courses with heavy online content for the purposes of moving content modules between weeks. Pages can become very long and while the drag and drop feature is great, it is difficult to do when attempting to drag a module from let's say week 3 to week 9 - the scrolling down the page is sluggish, stutters, and inefficient.

* Menus/Access to Editing Modules: The process for editing week sections, labels, assignments, etc., is less than convenient and intuitive. It seems there would be an "edit" icon next to each entry on a Moodle page to allow users to click and immediately go to the edit interface - often it is an icon that looks like a pencil and paper. Instead, users must click a settings icon that displays a pop-up menu with options that includes editing.

* Search Capabilities: There is currently not much in the way of search capabilities within Moodle pages and user-created content.

* Intuitive/Ease of Use: Moodle is less than intuitive in some areas, and while Moodle training (as with any software package/solution) requires some level of training, there are some features that could be more intuitive. Your mileage varies when it comes to training large groups of users and so making some features more intuitive would be helpful, especially for users who are not as computer/web/tech savvy as others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best feature about Moodle is how easy it is to set up a grade book and to email students simultaneously. It's easy to communicate final grades with the Registrar's Office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Beyond the features that I have mentioned that I like, Moodle is clunky and not user-friendly. It's slow. If you try to set up an online question bank for quizzes, it takes about 2 minutes to upload a single question, meaning that writing exams takes a full weekend of working. Sometimes, grades go missing. Sometimes it changes the weights of assignments without informing people, leading to panicked students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moodle is a great platform for completing online coursework. It provides a way to access course materials, send messages to the professor, interact with other students, and upload assignments. I also like that you can go back and view past courses as well, which is great for tracking down previous assignments/projects quickly and easily. The site is organized nicely, and everything is pretty easy to find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Every so often, the site glitches (just like most do at some point). When it glitches, it can take longer for things to post, or to receive communication for the course. Many improvements have been made, however, and this has gotten much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy and fast to set up and to be production ready with small to medium installations . Intuitive usage experience that leads to an easy acceptance from the users . It also has very good contextual guides that allow you to obtain a decent user experinece with a really small effort . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performances are a N I G H T M A R E . . . As it is always the case with php , it's good for small to medium use case but does not fit " bigger " cases. Also community only support certain db forget it if you use oracle for example . The setup uses huge amount of R A M and is really hard to scale properly . Needs a lot of bare metal. sys admin ar e not happy about it . Really poor S . C . O . R . N . support . It is really hard to import data from other courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Was really helpful for keeping coursework organized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes professors weren't well-versed enough with the software and made submitting things difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the flexibility and ease of use. Training is very difficult to fit into a work day, and often exhausting. Allowing employees to train at their own pace when they have the time is a great solution. Moodle allows this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do wish that Moodle would insure that it works the same across browsers and platforms - it can get a bit glitchy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like that Moodle is easy to use for both students and instructors. Most of the use is intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are two areas that need improvement: There needs to be a way to add extra credit questions to exams, and there needs to be a way to make a private comment to a student in the forum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moodle has a great template for putting up the core material for class, whether it be middle school, high school, or college level. Also, The configuration is very flexible. Many of my colleagues have courses structured in a variety of ways. I typically use a weekly approach, with subcategories (divided by labels). I've also used a topic-approach for courses with a non-linear structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like being able to post grades online, but the Gradebook is a bit clunky at times. I can't always see the entire page: if there are several columns and rows it is hard to move around on the page because the scroll bars do not remain on the screen view.

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Students are easily able to access the materials and interact using the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the processing time between functions is clunky and erratic. Could be a computer issue, but other CMS products don't seem to have that kind of lag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If instructors of courses are good at organizing their info, moodle works great! You can create posts, assignments, upload readings, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you have multiple professors, you have to remember how each one organizes things because it can get confusing easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.