Moodle Reviews 2026: Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

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Pros
  • Customization & Flexibility Moodle’s open-source nature allows tailoring courses, roles, and settings to diverse educational needs. Reviewers praise its adaptability and extensive configuration options.
  • Feature Set & Functionality Users appreciate the robust learning tools, such as quizzes, assignments, forums, grading, content management, and integrations.
  • Community & Support Many mention Moodle’s active community, documentation, and resources as helpful. Some also highlight responsive support.
  • Value for Money Being open-source, many see it as cost-effective and a great alternative to proprietary LMSs.
  • Ease of Use (once familiar)  A smaller segment of users finds Moodle manageable and straightforward after initial learning, especially for organizing courses and assignments.
Cons
  • Complexity & Learning Curve The most frequent complaint: Moodle has a steep learning curve, especially for new users. Navigating the interface and using advanced features is challenging.
  • User Interface / UX Issues Many reviewers describe the interface as outdated, cluttered, or visually unappealing. Course creation and grading tools can feel cumbersome.
  • Performance / Workflow Challenges Users report that tasks like uploading content, setting quizzes, or grading require multiple steps and can be frustrating.
  • Technical Customization Barriers While customizable, some users struggle to achieve a polished look or specific workflows without technical skills.
  • Initial Setup / Onboarding Some reviewers note that initial configuration or setup is difficult for non-technical users.
Performance Overview
Overall Rating 77%
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Moodle is a flexible and widely used open-source LMS

Jun 9, 2026

Overall Rating 83%
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What do you like best? What I like most about Moodle is its flexibility and customization. It provides a wide range of features for managing courses, tracking learning progress, and supporting both learners and administrators, while remaining open-source and cost-effective
What do you dislike? What I like the least about Moodle is that its user interface can feel less modern and intuitive compared to some newer LMS platforms. Customization and advanced features may also require additional technical knowledge and administration effort
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Industry : Mining & Metals | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Senior | Focus : Information Technology | Experience using the software : Less than 6 months as User, Administrator, Member of the deployment/customization team, Member of the procurement team

Moodle is a versatile and user-friendly learning management system that facilitates online education

Apr 16, 2024

Overall Rating 75%
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What do you like best? What stands out about Moodle is its versatility and adaptability, catering to diverse educational needs with customizable features, robust learning management tools, and extensive community support. Its open-source nature fosters innovation and collaboration, empowering educators worldwide to create engaging and effective learning experiences for their students.
What do you dislike? One aspect I find challenging with Moodle is its initial learning curve, particularly for new users. Navigating the interface and understanding its various features can be overwhelming. Additionally, customizing the platform to specific educational needs may require technical expertise, which can pose a barrier for some educators.
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KMS IT B.

Industry : Apparel & Fashion | Company size : 1-10 | Level : Manager | Focus : Business Development | Experience using the software : Less than 6 months as User

Terrible and outdated not user friendly and made me tear up.

Oct 21, 2023

Overall Rating 40%
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What do you like best? Nothing. It’s was shockingly outdated. This is my 4th trial platform in 30 days. This one made me cry. It made the other 3 look like gold. They were terrible and this was the worst experience of them all.
What do you dislike? I honestly cannot decide what I like the least. Every aspect of the experience was bad. It’s hard to believe this was created by people with IT experience. I am learning IT at 52 years and my designs are better than this and I’m learning from YouTube videos.
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Industry : Elearning | Company size : 1-10 | Level : Owner | Focus : Administrative | Experience using the software : Free Trial as Administrator

User unfriendly, sloppy, outdated, looks terrible.

Oct 18, 2023

Overall Rating 37%
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What do you like best? It gives a lot of testing options, and some customization is available... And really I don't have much more good things to say about it
What do you dislike? Grading system settings are too complicated, and it is hard to make the course look nice. It has an inconvenient navigation system. Too many windows need to be passed before I can upload anything. Uploading pre-made tests is a nightmare as well as making them from scratch in Moodle. Picture uploading is poorly done too. The user interface is garbage.
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Industry : Education - Higher | Company size : 1,001-5,000 | Level : Manager | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : More than 1 year as User, Administrator

The user interface looks awful and is difficult to use. It is extremely disorganized.

Oct 3, 2023

Overall Rating 47%
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What do you like best? It serves its purpose as a platform to access course documents and assignments. Calendar is functional.
What do you dislike? The user interface is horrible to use, everything is disorganized and it is extremely hard to find things. There are a lot of unnecessary steps to certain things, and trying to find information can be a hassle.
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Industry : Education - Higher | Company size : 1,001-5,000 | Level : Partner | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : Less than 6 months as User

it is customizable, requires some practice to set up the way you want

Jun 12, 2023

Overall Rating 88%
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What do you like best? Support is very responsive They offer lots of webinars and Q&A opportunities It is customizable I can set up various roles and permissions
What do you dislike? not always intuitive, though we are moving to a new version next week - 4.1 - from what I have seen so far, I think I will like the improvements
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Paula C.

Industry : Education - Higher | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Manager | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : More than 1 year as User, Administrator, Member of the deployment/customization team

Is a open source, with a good support and very flexible and a lot of resources for the e-learning.

May 16, 2023

Overall Rating 89%
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What do you like best? flexibility, the support team, the easy documentation a lot of resources and activities and also is easy to use.
What do you dislike? I still can't say there's anything I don't like, what I lack is time to explore all the features it provides and take full advantage of the facilities it offers.
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Industry : Education - Higher | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Manager | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : More than 1 year as User, Administrator

It has it all from a pedagogical perspective, but the UX is NOT desirable

Jun 13, 2022

Overall Rating 62%
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What do you like best? The endless pedagogical possibilities regarding both knowledge, skills and competencies. It is truly designed with learning/teaching affordances in mind!
What do you dislike? Try making a new user, both designer and learner, navigate in Moodle. It is NOT intuitive as we all expect today and for the future.
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Industry : Elearning | Company size : 11-50 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Information Technology | Experience using the software : More than 1 year as User, Administrator

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Moodle — Jun 27, 2022

Thank you for your review. We appreciate your feedback. At Moodle, we are constantly working on new ways to improve our solutions to deliver the best learning outcomes. Discover Moodle 4.0's fresh and intuitive user experience. https://bit.ly/3bgVsDC Regards.

Moodle is not as intuitive or clear as it could be

Jun 11, 2022

Overall Rating 37%
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What do you like best? I do like some of the 'activities' tools that you can implement, although it could be much easier to implement them if it were more straightforward.
What do you dislike? The number of steps it takes to complete almost any task. Some are not readily evident. Testing is very difficult, and the Gradebook is hard to get through, organize, and/or view.
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Industry : Higher Education | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Director | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : 6-12 months as User, Administrator

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Moodle — Jun 27, 2022

Thank you for your review. We appreciate your feedback. At Moodle, we are constantly working on new ways to improve our solutions to deliver the best learning outcomes. Discover Moodle 4.0's fresh and intuitive user experience. https://bit.ly/3bgVsDC Regards.

Moderately useful LMS that is pretty outdated in the current environment

Jun 10, 2022

Overall Rating 50%
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What do you like best? The option for multitenancy is great to have. The ability to customise colour and apply different themes is a nice feature.
What do you dislike? The amount of plug-ins to give you the functionality yuou need is a pain. Just been looking at multi-factor authentication. It looks as though some of the functionality is buggy. Why do I want to bother with this when I can buy a platform that already has it all?
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Industry : Information Technology and Services | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Manager | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : More than 1 year as Administrator

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Moodle — Jun 27, 2022

Thank you for your review. We appreciate your feedback. At Moodle, we are constantly working on new ways to improve our solutions to deliver the best learning outcomes. Discover Moodle 4.0's fresh and intuitive user experience. https://bit.ly/3bgVsDC Regards.

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