Open LMS Reviews & Product Details

Blackboard Open has a great feature called the personal learning designer which allows you to automate several actions within Moodle based on events that occur in the course. This tool has been useful for delivering timely messages to students and faculty term after term, and unlocking course activities based on grade received, it has very useful features we've used regularly since first adopting them as a provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've been with Open LMS since 2011 when they were originally Moodlerooms. Over that time, the support from the company degraded significantly. Frequently, issues we were having with the LMS are pushed back to us as something we were doing wrong when we clearly provided evidence otherwise. Cases will frequently go unanswered for multiple days at a time and require me to escalate them to the next level by involving our customer success manager. Blackboard's recent sale of their platform to LTG leaves us hoping that more will be invested in the case of support but that remains to be seen. The final drawback we've had with open LMS is their locked down, hashed system that is shared by multiple users. If you're looking for open access to your data, find another moodle host or expect to pay exorbitant fees to custom code a solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It meets the requirements of today's students, it's very user friendly. It's based on Moodle so there is active development on the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can't use all of the available plugins that are made available by the Moodle community, only plugins that are approved by Blackboard. That list is very limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to see assignments pop up and to upload your own work to send to a teacher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be somewhat bland looking and at times confusing to operate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is the better way of making a present online teaching and learning practice. Also, I like that its perfect for both of sides. The learners and educators can use it on every device from phone to desktop with no having to set up an app. It is great that I have the ability to different training options to contain various learning manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Don't worry I don't want to say something bad about that product as I like it very much. But I have problems with upload big size documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm glad that it also highly secure and allow high step of productivity. It is great to create a content and edit our courses. The great way of using teaching and learning tools. I like the way to navigate and carry out common tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a small issue with uploading big folders. All of the rest of this program works well. Actually, it is the good and fast learning program. I like everything that this platform gives to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a great way for people to collaborate with each other. It is also a great way for Teachers to teach a classroom of students online. We can give polls to the students, split them into groups for collaboration, and chat with them in a chat box. There are also many features the students can use with the teachers, such as raising their digital hand to ask a question. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features are difficult to find on it, such as the "away" sign and the hand signals. I also wish the polling on the Moodlerooms was easier to send out to students. I wish there was also an option to prevent students from unmuting themselves without permission. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As for me, it is great learning system. I like that everything is totally organized.I can easily share all information and nice way of working side. I can easily work on development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I rather like it than dislike.I like the way how it works. Doesn't take it to long to understand.I mean very easy to use. Perfect that I can have everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The instructions are pretty easy to follow for designing a course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not easily compatible with an iPad and the Moodle App has not been useful for students as it is hard to use with assignments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How fast it behaves, in comparison to a plain moodle deployment. You can have a full working environment in a few days -most of them are taken by bureaucracy- without the need of deploying your own Moodle in your bare-metal servers.. Keep it simple and deploy fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some options that are unavailable and have to wait for the next major update (each 6 months), like any sort of custom development outside of the system connection boundaries (LTI, websockets, etc). Anyway, this is the direction all major LMS are heading to: SaaS deployment and external applications without any connection to the LMS core, against the old inner plugin approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that the classes are online and you can take them at your leisure! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing that I can think of, except having the option to pause, save, and resume at a later time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how Moodlerooms allows me to connect with students, teachers, and parents with live simulation and controlling progress of student interactions and at-risk behaviors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like how Moodlerooms conflicts with our use of Infinite Campus portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moodle theoretically works great but I struggled when I used it. There were quite a few technical challenges and a lot of times I needed to replicate information and recreate what had been done sometimes several times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had to recreate a number of modules and had issues with information disappearing or not showing up correctly. Many times students would need access to information and could not see it. Additionally students would not be able to see information I had posted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There was not any characteristic that I liked. It was very difficult and well see comments under dislike. I in my defense did not use the program often or for a very extended period of time. Probably would have hopefully gotten more easy with use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well it would be easier to say what I like about it. Nothing. Its complicated confusing. Pointless. There are lots of programs out there that are so much easier to use. Userfriendly. This is not one of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moodlerooms has enough support and is intuitive enough that a novice should not have trouble using it, while at the same time providing enough features that most users will be satisfied with their experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only problems I have ever encountered with Moodlerooms occurred when professors would attempt to schedule modules in advance and occasionally the modules would be missing. 9 times out of 10 this was user error, rather than the program. Anything else that went wrong, the support was easily able to resolve in a timely manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That every semester I’m teaching I can import all my projects and information from the last class I taught. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be tedious trying to upload class projects and grades to moodle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, no internal technical support needed, 24x7 support by knowledgeable engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Inability to access and manage all the Moodle install folders.

Need to pay for third-party plugin QC testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was easy to use and useful for a teacher. Once I learned how to use it, I enjoyed trying it in different ways. My university students enjoyed the interactive experience that I was able to give them. I like the ability to give quizzes and get student work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve was a little tough. I wanted to know how to do what I wanted to do immediately and this took time. I didn't feel that it was intuitive. I don't like having to go to trainings and listen to someone explain how to use it. Then I have to play with it for awhile before it is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The bold wording and the navigation is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The color of the Website is not very appealing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ability to create and organize different modules. It's easy to have everything organized into different weekly units for an online class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think that the platform could be more user friendly. When you click on external links it should open in a new tab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that we can post lesson plans and refer back to plans for the quarter! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like I have to click several options before I get to the screen to upload my lesson plan files. Less clicks and mire direct access would save me time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to provide quick feedback and grading to students. In addition to creating quizzes and homework assignments. Great way to build in technology to teaching. Students can access homework online and upload assignments. Similar to programs used in college level classes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finding a balance and accessibility restricted to only when I had access to computers. Probably more beneficial to teachers teaching grades 4-12. Not as user friendly for younger children. Time it takes to create assignments is an adjustment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was nice being able to communicate with others easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is confusing at times to navigate through any PD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't much I do like about this program. It is extremely slow and hard on any computer. There have been times when my computer has over heated while in this program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow, not user friendly, does not flow well. There are so many tedious steps to get to where you want to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moodle is a really nice learning management system for our online learning. We also use moodle for supplemental material in our face to face classes. The grade book is one of my favorite things about moodle. It allows me to create quizzes and homework assignments and easy grade them and quickly gets grades back to the students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only issues I have is with uploading large files to my course, but I believe its because we don't have a lot of space and my video files are too big. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I personally do not use Moodlerooms but out entire campus (faculty) uses this product and there seems to be a ton of buzz about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing - I believe that there is so much positive feedback that it would be impossible to give negatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.