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."
"Combining everything together, our on-time completions have gone from the mid-sixty percentile to over 99% on-time completion."
"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are how extensive the configurable the solution is."
"It's better than the previous learning solutions we had. We liked that it was global. We liked that you don't have to be logged into the company network to be able to use it. Those were really big benefits for us."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are how they organized the management of the different content types is good. They are done in different ways which is a benefit. Additionally, the reporting 2.0 and playlist functionality are very good."
"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are the welcome page and the learner's home. It is user-friendly and graphically appealing."
"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."
"Since it's an open-source product, you can integrate it with many other things."
"It doesn't take long to learn how to use it and to set up basic courses and things like that."
"It is relatively easy to use to build processes for establishing and conducting work within the templates that are used. It is not that hard to follow along or use, and it is pretty simple to pick it up and run with it."
"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."
"A really nice thing about Moodle is that it is very robust and flexible, and one of the big advantages of Moodle is that it is open source. It also has a lot of free documentation."
"One of the most valuable aspects is the ability to input data into the model."
"The customization features of Moodle significantly enhance the learning experience for our users."
"In general, some of the portal pages have an outdated look and feel."
"Could use more robust reporting or more flexibility and scalability around the reporting side."
"The existing test functionality is really old-fashioned, basic, and limited."
"The user interface is in need of improvement."
"The automated ticketing system for technical support often has a response time that is quite long, which is something that should be improved."
"Its dashboard and analytics must be improved. Currently, we get the data, but we don't get anything from the insightfulness perspective. Analytics is where it requires a lot of work. We definitely expect some good dashboard features, which are currently lacking in this solution. From a technical perspective, they need to open access to all HTML tags. It currently doesn't support many HTML tags, which makes it challenging to create HTML pages."
"There are some configuration elements that require Cornerstone engineering resources. It would be nice if we could self-serve. I would like the ability to manage the user interface or the navigation and layout of the pages that are displayed to end-users."
"Cornerstone Learning could be improved with more e-learning content."
"The solution architecture could be improved."
"Sometimes, the gradebook can get broken if an incorrect formula is entered during creation."
"For a first time user, especially someone who is non-technical, Moodle is difficult for them to understand and they often need assistance."
"Moodle's weakest point is the user interface."
"Everything is very text heavy. There are no videos or moving images. For a visual learner, there's not a lot of visual content so Moodle is not suitable for all types of learners."
"Its interface design could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"They need to have a better way to illustrate competencies so that, when people go through the programs, they can actually show they are competent in the subject matter."
Cornerstone Learning is ranked 5th 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 WalkMe, whereas Moodle is most compared with Google Classroom, SAP SuccessFactors Learning, CYPHER Learning, Chamilo LMS and Canvas LMS. See our Cornerstone Learning vs. Moodle report.
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