Moodle’s advantages
- Lower total cost for ownership
- Higher levels of security
- Peer review
- Greater flexibility
- Ability to customize by modifying code
- Audit ability and code availability
- Technical support
- Well-tested updates and plug-ins
- Variety of capabilities and tools
Moodle’s disadvantages
- The ability to integrate with human resource systems
- The ability to integrate well between student administration systems and Moodle student information
- The ability to support specific and complex business-process models
- The ability to use a distributed administration model to support multiple “schools” and “departments”
- The polished look of proprietary software, (it has a flat structure for organizing and navigating learning materials)
- Sophisticated assessment and grading capabilities
- Efficient use of space, e.g., a fixed block at the top that wastes valuable screen “real estate”
