We performed a comparison between Cornerstone Learning and Moodle based on our users' reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cornerstone Learning boasts seamless integration, a broad selection of training modules, playlist capabilities, and compliance with GDPR. Moodle is praised for being highly adaptable and customizable. Users like the solution's affordability and collaborative community fostered by its open-source foundation. Cornerstone Learning could use more self-service capabilities and faster support responses. Some users complain that the interface is too complex, while others have said curriculum creation is too rigid. Moodle users also want a more user-friendly interface and better reporting. They say that Moodle's mobile functionality and social media integration could be improved.
Service and Support: Some customers like Cornerstone Learning's structured support system and find the online forums helpful, while others complain that the support quality is inconsistent. Experiences with Moodle support also vary, with some users finding it satisfactory and others believing it has room for improvement.
Ease of Deployment: Setting up Cornerstone Learning takes six to nine months, whereas Moodle's deployment process ranges from one hour to several months. Cornerstone Learning is perceived as complicated due to the customization options, while Moodle is generally seen as simple.
Pricing: Cornerstone Learning is generally considered fairly and competitively priced, but customers must pay for custom engineering and integration with third-party platforms. Moodle offers multiple pricing tiers for business customers and charges for customization, deployment, and integration.
ROI: Cornerstone Learning users have said that the platform's return on investment is difficult to assess and relies mainly on anecdotal evidence. It requires a minimum of two years to observe any enhancements. Moodle users say the platform has demonstrated its value in the form of cost and time savings.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Cornerstone Learning over Moodle. Users appreciate Cornerstone Learning's integration features, extensive library of training modules, customizability, and single sign-on features. They also value the regular releases, bug fixes, strong support team, and user-friendly interface. While Moodle is praised for its cost-effectiveness and intuitive interface, users feel it could improve interface design, mobile functionality, reporting features, and customer support. Cornerstone Learning stands out for its comprehensive features and user-friendly experience.
"The Meeting feature is similar to a conference call facility that can be used for virtual meetings."
"There are new releases every three months that keep up with industry standards and meet the needs of the customer."
"It is a one-stop shop solution, where you can actually log in using your Windows username and password, and the single sign-on can be configured with this LMS."
"Combining everything together, our on-time completions have gone from the mid-sixty percentile to over 99% on-time completion."
"The reporting feature is fantastic, and I also like the dynamic learning assignment feature. It is interactive and user-friendly. It is also highly stable, automated, and customizable."
"The most valuable feature of Cornerstone Learning is the reporting and learner transcripts."
"Cornerstone Learning's most valuable features are the keyword search, filters, and add-to-favorites option."
"The most valuable feature is how easy it is to learn and use. It's built off the Microsoft Word format, so if you can use Word, you'll be able to figure this out."
"One of my biggest pet peeves is that many LMSs do not offer a course or site-level backup that is an industry-standard file. So, if you decide you don't like Moodle or some other LMS, you should be able to back up all your data and take it and go somewhere else. Moodle does offer that. There are several others that do that as well, but there are some LMSs that don't, which isn't a very good business practice because they hold their clients hostage. That's one of the things I really like about Moodle."
"The most valuable features of Moodle are the ability to create assignments, divide them into teams, and the course delivery. In Cornerstone, I need to reach out to the team, and it is not as simple, a little more involved. Additionally, the solutions is easy to manage."
"The fact that it's modular means you can easily expand with thousands of plugins that you can freely download from Moodle headquarters, and adding or removing functionality is easy."
"The most valuable feature of Moodle is the exam question shuffle. Students in the classroom will all have different question list numbers. For example, one student's question one will be another student's question ten."
"The solution is stable."
"The ability to insert a variety of tools, create and organize course content, and share large volumes of materials, written, audio, or visual, is very valuable."
"This is a scalable solution. We have had 30,000 students using the solution. During COVID, we were able to accommodate a 500% increase in traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the community. Moodle is a completely open source application and provides a lot of development knowledge. The other features we find valuable are the LTI tools, integrations and BigBlueButton."
"The existing test functionality is really old-fashioned, basic, and limited."
"Cornerstone Learning's initial setup was complex, but I don't see that as a downside. It was complex because there is a lot of customizing and a lot of settings that can be done in the setup."
"In general, some of the portal pages have an outdated look and feel."
"The automated ticketing system for technical support often has a response time that is quite long, which is something that should be improved."
"The user interface is in need of improvement."
"Could use more robust reporting or more flexibility and scalability around the reporting side."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the dashboards and reporting."
"There is a need for quite a bit of improvement. The reporting side of things definitely needs a lot of improvement. At the moment, it gives you a data dump. You have to open it up in Excel and filter out the bits that you don't want and need."
"Moodle Mobile is a really good area for improvement. All of 4.0 hasn't been released yet, and Moodle Mobile is not yet available for all different devices."
"Its interface design could be more user-friendly."
"The solution should have more student-centric details in the modules."
"The biggest area for improvement is the UI. They should also make the navigation simpler to understand. They've recently introduced a new way of having navigation work in Moodle, but they all look very similar."
"Sometimes, discrepancies arise when the information is not updated or lacks precision, potentially leading to the model producing misleading or incorrect outputs based on its training."
"One aspect that I found a bit confusing was the dual editing system, where you could edit the layout of the course separately from editing the content."
"The UI and interface of Moodle could be greatly improved. There has been some improvement in recent releases by Moodle but there is still a lot to be improved upon. It is challenging to get buy-in from different stakeholders when they see what it looks like."
"It would be a benefit if there was an easy single sign-on with social media services for Moodle. There are some plugins that I tried, but they didn't work seamlessly. it is a work in progress. Having the single sign-on with social media services would be appreciated because in my school we are using Google suite and the main reason why we use Google Classroom is that it is integrated seamlessly with the suite."
Cornerstone Learning is ranked 6th in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 28 reviews while Moodle is ranked 2nd in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 26 reviews. Cornerstone Learning is rated 8.2, while Moodle is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cornerstone Learning writes "Scalable LMS that keeps up with industry trends with continuous new releases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Moodle writes "Inexpensive and pretty easy to use, but not easily adaptable for an individual". Cornerstone Learning is most compared with Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM Cloud, LinkedIn Learning and Litmos, whereas Moodle is most compared with Google Classroom, SAP SuccessFactors Learning, CYPHER Learning, Chamilo LMS and SumTotal Learn. See our Cornerstone Learning vs. Moodle report.
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