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.
"The plug-and-play format can be deployed immediately which is unlike its competitors that take three to four months."
"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 pricing is good, and its performance is good when it works."
"This is a very scalable solution. We had over 10,000 students in our instance and their billing model makes scaling affordable to do."
"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."
"Content Author removes the need for a third-party solution for content creation."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 initial setup is straightforward."
"The customization features of Moodle significantly enhance the learning experience for our users."
"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."
"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."
"You cannot make a course optional, so if I assign a course to someone, the system assumes that they have to complete it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Lacks a variety of language options."
"The rules are not very flexible in terms of administration. They have a predefined system with three standard rules that cannot be customized, modified, added, or removed."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Moodle could improve by being more user-friendly. Sometimes it worked and other times it didn't. If you get stuck, then you don't have a point of contact. Additionally, a VPN is required to make sure the connection is secured."
"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."
"Moodle is missing a subscription-based system where learners can subscribe to available courses and make the payment for those courses."
"The solution should have more student-centric details in the modules."
Litmos is ranked 6th 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, Chamilo LMS and Cornerstone Learning. See our Litmos vs. Moodle report.
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