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 most valuable features are the Playlists, Learning Assignment Tool, Earner Experience Platform, Machine Learning, and Reporting 2.0."
"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are how extensive the configurable the solution is."
"There are new releases every three months that keep up with industry standards and meet the needs of the customer."
"Cornerstone Learning's most valuable features are the keyword search, filters, and add-to-favorites option."
"The most valuable feature of Cornerstone Learning is the reporting and learner transcripts."
"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."
"Its user-friendly interface is most valuable. You can configure your welcome page and design it the way you want on your own."
"The most valuable features of Cornerstone Learning are the welcome page and the learner's home. It is user-friendly and graphically appealing."
"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 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."
"It doesn't take long to learn how to use it and to set up basic courses and things like that."
"The best thing about Moodle is that it is open source and has many useful plugins. It is a great solution for an organization that needs modifications and customization."
"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."
"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."
"What I liked most about Moodle was that I could create nice online quizzes. It takes very little time to do. You don't have to even read the paper, it automatically evaluates the quizzes. It gives the student grades and provides a lot of useful statistics. For example, it indicates which question was the hardest, easiest, and where students made the most mistakes. Everything is available to you. You couldn't do this in regular paper test hard copies. This was my first use case."
"One of the most valuable aspects is the ability to input data into the model."
"Its integration with Microsoft Teams for virtual sessions could be better"
"The recruitment module needs to be improved in Cornerstone Learning."
"The user interface is in need of improvement."
"In general, some of the portal pages have an outdated look and feel."
"Cornerstone Learning could be improved with more e-learning content."
"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 improve the curriculum function by giving it more flexibility. I'm managing the solution and I adding content to the system, and overall, the backend of the system looks a bit dated. Cornerstone Learning has focused a lot on the user experience and less on the backend operational administrative experience. This could be improved overall."
"The existing test functionality is really old-fashioned, basic, and limited."
"The solution could be improved if support was an integral part of the whole solution. There are a few challenges in terms of performance due to Moodle being a free-to-use platform but these can be overcome with the use of their support team."
"Setting up groups and allocating privacy settings to different groups is quite complicated."
"The ability to input modified, individual, independent grades in a grade center component is not just hard. It almost always requires you to get tech involved. When you're dealing with a learning system where you have people in an open enrollment with all different levels of learning modes or methodologies, and as well as a worldwide student body, you end up with situations where you have to absolutely exempt somebody from a grade or an assignment and enter a new, different kind of assignment because of their skillset or lack thereof. You can't do that in Moodle. It is virtually impossible to do that in Moodle without having a tech do it for you, and when you have to have that level of tech support, it becomes problematic. They need to fix the grade book center. It is the part where you do evaluations. They need to fix it so that the individual professors can make changes directly without having to get a hold of tech support to do it for them."
"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."
"Moodle is missing a subscription-based system where learners can subscribe to available courses and make the payment for those courses."
"The solution architecture could be improved."
"Where Moodle could definitely improve is the user interface. You have a lot of themes and you can customize themes, but if you are going to use Moodle off the shelf, even with a hosting company, a lot of training is involved. Training is available, but if your faculty or your development team isn't highly technical, it's going to be a challenge, whereas there are other interfaces that are much easier, but they don't do as much. So, there is a give and take there. If Moodle could find a way to make the user interface for the instructional designers and the learners more intuitive, it probably would be a huge improvement. The manager area and the admin area are fine, but when it comes to the people who are using the system but might not be highly technical, it needs improvement."
"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."
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 Microsoft Viva Insights, whereas Moodle is most compared with Google Classroom, SAP SuccessFactors Learning, CYPHER Learning, Chamilo LMS and TalentLMS. See our Cornerstone Learning vs. Moodle report.
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