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Need help with LMS decision....is Moodle that great?
Greetings fantastic elearning Heroes and Heroes in training! I need to pick your wealth of experience as related to LMS options. Right now all of the buzz with Open source is Moodle. I've never h...
Moodle is great. Our institution recently went through the evaluation process and looked at all of the major contenders in the market to assess the best platform which would meet our needs and expectations. We are a non-profit education system focusing mostly on graduate studies (psychology, law, nursing). We decided to migrate to Canvas by Instructure (http://instructure.com).
We just finished migrating the majority of our affiliates from eCollege to Canvas, and are now working on the conversion process to migrate one of our affiliates from moodle. Canvas seems to have all the benefits of moodle, including open APIs, while being hosted on Instructure servers. For small institutions like ours, it is cheaper to have Instructure host the LMS rather than maintain an open source platform locally.
The functionality of Canvas is fantastic as well. It is ahead of the game in terms of mobile accessibility, integration (LTI), and functionality. I'm not trying to sell the product for them, but these were just our conclusions based on our assessment of the LMS landscape. D2L is also a fantastic product that you might consider.
