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 solution is very stable."
"Stability and scalability are good. They have four releases every year of which learning is a big portion of that. They're constantly refining and defining and they're embedding a lot of new technology into it all the time."
"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 features are the Playlists, Learning Assignment Tool, Earner Experience Platform, Machine Learning, and Reporting 2.0."
"It is a complete suite of solutions and features. Compared to other solutions which are more niche solutions, which may be as good as Cornerstone or even better in certain parts of it, like discerning user experience. You will not find another solution that has the same completeness of features in all different areas of learning."
"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."
"There are new releases every three months that keep up with industry standards and meet the needs of the customer."
"Their integration features with other platforms are valuable. It is also relatively easy to use. Their library of training modules is fairly robust as well."
"The customization features of Moodle significantly enhance the learning experience for our users."
"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."
"Moodle has a vast array of features which are really useful for the work our company does. Moodle hosts the courses through online systems and also offers quizzes and badges which our customers frequently use."
"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 product's most valuable feature is the ability to import and export documents for courses, assessments, and questionnaires in any format."
"It doesn't take long to learn how to use it and to set up basic courses and things like that."
"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 number of permissions that are available and different ways to report and get the information out are the most valuable features. We have been able to get precise bits of information out, and we have also been able to delegate a lot."
"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."
"Could use more robust reporting or more flexibility and scalability around the reporting side."
"The recruitment module needs to be improved in Cornerstone Learning."
"Even though the system has a number of features, design wise the user interface is a little bit complicated. It is hard for the user to navigate properly. Because the system has so many features, it has a lot of tabs and links. Sometimes, people get confused as to where to go and search."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the dashboards and reporting."
"The existing test functionality is really old-fashioned, basic, and limited."
"The automated ticketing system for technical support often has a response time that is quite long, which is something that should be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Setting up groups and allocating privacy settings to different groups is quite complicated."
"Sometimes, the gradebook can get broken if an incorrect formula is entered during creation."
"The multi-tenancy system within Moodle could be improved. IOMAD is what makes the multi-tenancy possible but this comes with many issues."
"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 should have more student-centric details in the modules."
"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."
"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."
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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