We performed a comparison between Moodle and SAP SuccessFactors based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Moodle offers flexibility, customization options, course backups, and integration with Zoom and Teams. SAP Litmos has been praised for its user-friendly interface, customizable dashboard, robust course library, and powerful scheduling system. Users say that Moodle could enhance its interface, mobile app, reporting, and social media integration. SAP Litmos needs more flexibility to create custom rules and improvements to its dashboards and reporting.
Service and Support: Some users found Moodle support helpful, while others believe there is room for improvement. SAP Litmos likewise received mixed feedback regarding its support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Moodle can be complex and may require technical skills and knowledge of databases and PHP. SAP Litmos has a user-friendly and straightforward setup that is suitable for mid-sized organizations. Although customization may require technical knowledge, the platform is generally easy to navigate and does not require much maintenance.
Pricing: Moodle's cost may vary depending on the partner and certification status. It's an open-source product without any recurring fees, but customers may need to spend additional money on customization and integration. SAP Litmos offers various pricing plans with additional charges for specific features.
ROI: Moodle saves time and money by reducing the need for multiple individuals in tests and quizzes. SAP Litmos improves onboarding speed through self-registration and completion of induction beforehand, but SAP Litmos users found it difficult to quantify an ROI.
Comparison Results: Our users generally prefer Moodle over SAP Litmos. It offers greater flexibility and customization options, allowing users to create various activities and materials. Moodle has a wide range of features, including course backups and integration with other tools like Zoom and Teams. Users find Moodle to be user-friendly and accessible. Its modular design makes it easy to expand with plugins. While SAP Litmos is also praised for its ease of use, Moodle's extensive features and adaptability make it the preferred choice.
"This is a very scalable solution. We had over 10,000 students in our instance and their billing model makes scaling affordable to do."
"Content Author removes the need for a third-party solution for content creation."
"The plug-and-play format can be deployed immediately which is unlike its competitors that take three to four months."
"This complete product is highly scalable. Licensing is not based on number of total users on the system but rather only on active users. Litmos only charge for the number of users engaged in training. This is what makes this solution ideal for scale."
"From a learning management system admin perspective, it has a user-friendly interface, but the functionality is deep. So, you can automate people in and out of courses. It lowers the general admin of an LMS admin so that I can focus more on value-adding things for the organization I'm working with."
"Its user interface is quite good. The platform is quite user-friendly. The UI/UX of the platform is very advanced, which helps in getting the users interested in the training."
"There is a couple of good features available, you can customize the dashboard, CSA, and home page. You can customize the solution to your business standards. SAP Litmos offers a library of 2,500 plus courses to premium members. They have a good library of pre-built courses. It's a variety of soft skill courses including management, and marketing. You can offer these courses to your students, which is excellent."
"Litmos has an excellent user interface. It's well designed and intuitive. It also has a great content engine. I'm one of the admins, so I create content in the system and use that to produce courses. We make our own training content and credit records. They recently added a new feature called the Course Content Creator, and I'm a big fan. I also like that Litmos lets you record online and face-to-face training so you can create what they call Instructor-led Training Events (ILT)."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It doesn't take long to learn how to use it and to set up basic courses and things like that."
"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."
"Cost-effective and intuitive."
"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."
"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."
"Moodle integrates with many third party plugins, which has enabled us to make use of the latest technology. During the Covid 19 period, we used a plugin called BigBlueButton to facilitate online learning which was quick and easy to do."
"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 reporting could be improved. When we first subscribed to Litmos, it had a great reporting engine, but SAP altered it. Some of the changes have reduced the ability to extract reports from it. It's excellent for live data, but it can be tricky when I want to get a report."
"The reporting function of SAP Litmos needs major improvements. The reports are not at par with other solutions on the market. It's not user-friendly or effective reporting which we can retrieve from other places."
"The auto-assign feature that auto assigns courses to learners and puts them into a different learning path has had a bug for the last year and a half. My team has spent numerous hours trying to troubleshoot and fix that, but it's still broken. Until they fix that, it's going to be a higher admin burden for people to manage."
"They can really improve in the reporting area. While doing sessions, there are various types of reports, such as the attendance report or assessment report. We can export the Excel dump of the report, but it is not that neat and clean. You have to change it a lot. You can customize the Excel dump as per your requirement, but it is not that user-friendly in terms of the admin part. They can do much better. They have room for improvement in the reporting area."
"Lacks a variety of language options."
"One feature that a few of my clients have been requesting is CPD. We should be able to capture CPD points for users within the system to be able to report on those."
"You cannot make a course optional, so if I assign a course to someone, the system assumes that they have to complete it."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved as they are not of the same standard and detail as those seen in Power BI. The graphics for the reporting could also be improved."
"We have needed to complete many customizations for Moodle to use it in all of our relevant organizations. We have found many issues with the competencies as we cannot assign many sub competencies to competencies."
"The solution should have more student-centric details in the modules."
"The multi-tenancy system within Moodle could be improved. IOMAD is what makes the multi-tenancy possible but this comes with many issues."
"The solution architecture could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Moodle's weakest point is the user interface."
"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."
Litmos is ranked 7th in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 11 reviews while Moodle is ranked 2nd in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 26 reviews. Litmos is rated 7.8, while Moodle is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Litmos writes "Comes with many advanced functionalities, and makes the users interested in the training with its amazing UI/UX". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Moodle writes "Inexpensive and pretty easy to use, but not easily adaptable for an individual". Litmos is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors Learning, Cornerstone Learning and ConvergePoint Employee Training Software, whereas Moodle is most compared with Google Classroom, SAP SuccessFactors Learning, CYPHER Learning and Chamilo LMS. See our Litmos vs. Moodle report.
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