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.
"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)."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's very easy to design content and create training models within the app, so you don't always have to use a third-party tool to develop your e-learning."
"This is a very scalable solution. We had over 10,000 students in our instance and their billing model makes scaling affordable to do."
"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 customization features of Moodle significantly enhance the learning experience for our users."
"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."
"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."
"Almost all the activity modules are available inside the courses, so that makes our training easier and more comfortable."
"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."
"They have made it really easy for you to see the flow on the forums. The information is well organized and the UI is fairly easy to navigate."
"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 in Litmos could be improved. It is difficult to pull accurate reporting based on how the solution is set up and parameters are selected."
"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."
"The solution lags in defined security parameters with only three predefined roles available."
"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."
"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."
"Lacks a variety of language options."
"The solution should have more student-centric details in the modules."
"Its interface design could be more user-friendly."
"It would be good to have a feature that would ensure that students are the ones performing the given assessment."
"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."
"Setting up groups and allocating privacy settings to different groups is quite complicated."
"For a first time user, especially someone who is non-technical, Moodle is difficult for them to understand and they often need assistance."
"Moodle is missing a subscription-based system where learners can subscribe to available courses and make the payment for those courses."
"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 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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