Blackboard Learn by Anthology vs. Moodle

Blackboard Learn by Anthology

205 Reviews and Ratings

Moodle

243 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Blackboard Learn by Anthology	Score6 out of 10	N/A	Blackboard Inc. is an enterprise learning management systems vendor. Blackboard was founded in 1997 and became a public company in 2004. The company provides education, mobile, communication, and commerce software and related services to clients including education providers, corporations and government organizations. As of December 2010, Blackboard software and services are used by over 9,300 institutions in more than 60 countries. Blackboard Learn is the company's flagship LMS, supporting…	N/A
Moodle	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	Moodle is an open source learning management system with hundreds of millions of users around the globe and translated into over 100 languages, used by organizations to support their education and training needs.	N/A

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Blackboard Learn by Anthology

Moodle

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Pricing Offerings
Blackboard Learn by Anthology	Moodle
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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	Blackboard Learn by Anthology	Moodle
Considered Both Products	Anthology, Inc Becca Guler Learning Specialist at University of Houston- Clear Lake, UT-Medical Branch (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Zoom is better equipped for live streaming and recording lectures and tutoring sessions, research interviews, etc. and does allow content files to be attached through live chat function but does NOT have a student management component for grading and instructions or a … Incentivized Helpful? Nicolas Hanhan Distance Education Instructional Coordinator in Information Technology at Arizona Western College (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Blackboard Learn is more user-friendly than Moodle. Blackboard offers support to customers which is not available effectively when using open-source learning management systems such as Moodle. Incentivized Helpful? Amy Westby High School Counselor in Professional Services at International Schools Consortium (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Blackboard has been good for putting together course work and class discussion, which Google Classroom does not feature and Moodle is too laggy to work well. Incentivized Helpful? Rick Lupton Systems Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at East Carolina University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Blackboard has a vast training system to allow for supporting the product. While Moodle provides OpenSource code to allow for customization, it requires and investment in technical staff to program the software to do what you want. Blackboard has on-premise and hosted … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Deakyne Academic Services Manager in Information Technology at The University of Kansas (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology We did a formal evaluation of the LMS a few years ago, and selected to remain self-hosted on Blackboard Learn. At the time, we were not ready to upgrade or migrate and it was easier to remain with the system we already had. If we started from scratch - Canvas is the clear … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Blackboard Learn compares favorably to the other learning management solutions out there but has a leg up if you are using other Blackboard products. We liked Absorb a lot but it was ultimately more costly for us based on our current infrastructure. Moodle and Canvas are … Incentivized Helpful? Timothy Sawah IT Project Manager in Information Technology at The George Washington University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Blackboard is more expensive than its direct competitors but has better customer support and a wider variety of features. Courses are more structured in blackboard. The graphics are less messy compared to Moodle and Edmodo. Blackboard has more interactive features and the code … Incentivized Helpful? Rachel Hudish Instructional Designer at Independent contractor (Higher Education, 1-10 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Drupal functions as a content management system and it is difficult to use it for learner data; however, the size of the Drupal community makes it a contender for eLearning through the ELMS module, which integrates multiple modules for dynamic course delivery. Moodle is similar … Incentivized Helpful? Annaliza Marks Administration Applications Software Specialist, Senior and Distance Education Administrator in Information Technology at Glenville State College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology We piloted Moodle for two semesters. We found Moodle refreshing and easy to use and comparable to Blackboard. The first initial reaction to Moodle was that "free" price tag that open source software has however after using it there were a few snags. 1. Although Moodle is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Blackboard was much more user friendly than Moodle. Additionally, the graphic user interface was much easier on the eye. Blackboard allows course builders to customize their Blackboard courses just enough and limits them on changing the layout in excess. Moodle allows for too … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Canvas is Blackboard's biggest competitor... I've been in the room when the CEO of Blackboard stated this fact. Their agility and ability to integrate well with other products makes their product very attractive. Canvas was not available at the time we selected Blackboard, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Blackboard is the all around better fit for our intuition. It provides the "bells and whistles" we require in having a diverse faculty and flexibility in course delivery. The "bells and whistles" aren't cheap, but we have found that budgeting for this large expense has been … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Cluff Associate Game Designer in Research & Development at LCAD (E-Learning, 501-1000 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology I personally prefer Udemy because of its simplicity. Blackboard Learn has more options for how the content can be delivered to its users; Udemy only provides instructors the ability to upload videos and insert multiple choice questions for tests. Ultimately, it depends on the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology Very similar, equally effective in my experience. Perhaps the communication features in Blackboard are stronger. Incentivized Helpful? Donna Kjellander Adjunct Professor in Marketing at California University of Pennsylvania (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology D2L has more flexibility and far easier to utilize. D2L is more functional in terms of uploading documents, videos and tools to create an environment of learning. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology The cost of entry into these other products is much lower and they offer many of the same functions. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Kunnen Associate Director of eLearning and Emerging Technologies in Information Technology at Grand Valley State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology There are a variety of course management systems on the market today with varying levels of capabilities and features. As a leader, Blackboard provides an innovative set of scalable products and robust tools that help meet the institutional needs and strategies of colleges, … Incentivized Helpful? George Browne, CNE, CNA, MOS Technology Assistant at Moore Square Middle School at Wake County Public School System (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology I have also used Moodle which has many of Blackboard's best features; but Blackboard has many modules and "plug and play" components which enhance its utility far beyond what can be done with Moodle. Moodle is far less expensive a platform than Blackboard but "out of the box" … Helpful? Verified User Chose Blackboard Learn by Anthology I have evaluated Moodle, Sakai, Desire2Learn, and more recently (indirectly) Canvas. By far, Canvas is the most promising of the bunch and accomplishes much of what it seems Blackboard would hope to achieve, but cannot or does so poorly. Moodle is the most interesting for its … Helpful?	Moodle Jake Tully Account Executive in Human Resources at Trucking Unlimited (Staffing & Recruiting, 1-10 employees) Chose Moodle Overall, Blackboard was a clunky, unintuitive system that provided the bare minimum for offering online learning modules/educational courses. Users would complain that it was difficult to use and often couldn't find materials relevant to them in terms of finding courses, grades … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Moodle We didn't really entertain the idea of Canvas for long since the Open Source version didn't have nearly the reference and support material that Moodle did for guiding a successful setup. We did consider adding the assessment and outcomes module from our existing Learning … Incentivized Helpful? Mehmet Kanat CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) in Information Technology at Muğla Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Government Relations, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Moodle Excellent community support, it is very affordable and also about costs. Incentivized Helpful? H. P. Molloy Instructor in Information Technology at Plum Hill Productions (E-Learning, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Moodle None of the other products have nearly the flexibility or cost saving that Moodle does. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Moodle Being completely free, Moodle comes out on top for any situation where the school is small or the budget it tight. Most of these other tools have paid services where there are professionals to assist with set-up or problem-solving. However, there is tons of information online … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Moodle Moodle is a bit better than Collaborate; our organization no longer uses Collaborate. Collaborate was good for webinars. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Moodle Open source platform. So, cost effective. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Power Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator at NYC Department of Education / Francis Lewis High School (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Moodle Edmodo provides a simple platform but does not provide the depth of assignments that Moodle does. Moodle provides more assignment types, grading, deadlines, and shifting of assignments from one week to the next. Moodle is significantly more advanced in terms of what it can do … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Roodman Product Marketing Manager in Marketing at nLyten Media LLC (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Moodle Moodle has a lot of features and it's been around a long time. While it's not always the most intuitive or user friendly platform in terms of set up and maintenance, you can't beat the functionality for the price. Money talks and Moodle is free. The platform is robust … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Moodle I think Moodle would be my 1st pick, then next Schoology. I’ve been only been exposed to Moodle as an admin whereas I use Schoology as a student, not an administrator. Incentivized Helpful? Timothy Wenson System Administrator in Information Technology at Bridgewater State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Moodle We originally selected Moodle because we thought Blackboard was going to price us out of the market. Because Moodle was open source we thought the cost savings over time would be substantial. Unfortunately we did not keep Moodle on campus so it ended up being a mistake and … Incentivized Helpful? Kristina Ierardi Adjunct Instructor, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Cape Cod Community College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Moodle Blackboard and Moodle seem very similar to me. I haven't used Blackboard in a number of years. I understand that Moodle is less expensive than Blackboard, but both fit my needs. Incentivized Helpful? Lei Ye Instructional Designer at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (Higher Education, 51-200 employees) Chose Moodle Cost was a big concern for us to consider Blackboard. Moodle works fine and has made lots of great progress.It basically meets the needs of our institution. We can plan for the upgrades so less headache for the admin and it makes life easier. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Brinkman Instructional Technologist in Information Technology at Albion College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Moodle Having used Blackboard at a different institution, I find Moodle to be a superior alternative in almost every way. Blackboard does have a few nice features for teachers, particularly when it comes to grading, but those conveniences do not make up for its interface challenges. … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin David Swagler II Education Development and Implementation Manager in Corporate at Hospice of the Western Reserve (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose Moodle Moodle met almost all of our needs, except two: eCommerce and multiple portals. For this, we used a Moodle overlay called Totara. As it was built on Moodle, we got to keep all of our current classes, the administration was the same, and our server needs remained unchanged. … Incentivized Helpful? Lein Shory eLearning Program Coordinator at eMINTS National Center (Higher Education, 11-50 employees) Chose Moodle Moodle has more features and capabilities that suit our particular needs than either Blackboard or Canvas. Blackboard would simply be too expensive for us. Canvas offers a lot of nice features, and perhaps down the road as it continues to develop it might be something we'd look … Incentivized Helpful? Robin Sargent Manager of Learning and Development in Human Resources at ACS Group (American CyberSystems) (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Moodle Moodle is free, it is supported, and it's modular. All three of these qualities make it a better choice than the other LMSs I have used. sumtotal breaks all the time and I was on the phone with the support team at least once a week. There is also a lack of online support for … Incentivized Helpful? Ted Burke Director of the Library in Information Technology at Dean College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Moodle We find Moodle easier to use than Blackboard, less expensive, more versatile and we like the ability to select among numerous service providers for support and price. Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Lackey Assistant Professor in Information Technology at The College of Saint Rose (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Moodle Blackboard has clear advantages in rubric management, and offers a content management system of its own. The largest barrier is cost for smaller or financially-disadvantaged organizations. However, as in any IT project, adequate resources must be made for even "free" software. Incentivized Helpful? Charles Thomasset, MBA Adjunct Instructor at Lehigh University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Moodle I believe Moodle and Blackboard offer similar basic functions. I used Blackboard for one course and feel it might be more powerful, It all depends on how one uses a LMS for classroom learning and how much (offline) technology faculty wants to integrate in his/her course. Helpful? Steve Covello Instructional Designer/Rich Media Specialist at Granite State College (Higher Education, 51-200 employees) Chose Moodle None. Helpful? David Noffs Instructional Specialist in Research & Development at Columbia College Chicago (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Moodle Moodle compares extremely well to other proprietary LMS applications I have used including D2L and eRacer based upon the sheer number of features for managing course content. Including third party options and custom modules there are almost unlimited capabilities. Themes in … Incentivized Helpful? Mitchell Baker Technology Coordinator for the Div. of Adult Learning at Lee University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Moodle I have previously used Cold Fusion, Blackboard, ANGEL, and one other product that about physically did me in. Angel was a joy to work with and I had followed from before it was known as ANGEL. ANGEL was purchased by Blackboard. The price increase after being purchased by BB … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Moodle We actually used Blackboard and Moodle at the same time before being forced to use Blackboard exclusively by the higher-ups. Moodle is easier to navigate, easier to use, and more intuitive for all users from admins to instructors to students. Canvas is another tool that I have … Helpful? Mike Holzer Web Technology Manager in Information Technology at INRange Systems (E-Learning, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Moodle To deliver course content, ELMS is actually significantly better. But ELMS does not have the capability to offer assessments as part of the learning process. Moodle has very good assessment delivry as well as reporting. Angel is the institution's e-learning suite which does … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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Features

Blackboard Learn by Anthology

Moodle

Comparison of Learning Management features of Blackboard Learn by Anthology and Moodle
Feature	Blackboard Learn by Anthology 8.6 30 Ratings	Moodle 8.0 29 Ratings
Course authoring	9.024 Ratings	8.725 Ratings
Course catalog or library	9.024 Ratings	8.026 Ratings
Player/Portal	8.021 Ratings	8.326 Ratings
Learning content	6.127 Ratings	7.724 Ratings
Mobile friendly	9.030 Ratings	5.726 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications	7.024 Ratings	8.527 Ratings
Assignments	9.030 Ratings	8.729 Ratings
Compliance management	9.017 Ratings	9.022 Ratings
Learning administration	10.025 Ratings	8.627 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics	9.026 Ratings	9.024 Ratings
Social learning	9.022 Ratings	7.426 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning	9.01 Ratings	8.52 Ratings
Gamification	00 Ratings	6.03 Ratings

User Ratings
	Blackboard Learn by Anthology	Moodle
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (58 ratings)	8.0 (65 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	4.6 (11 ratings)	10.0 (22 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (5 ratings)	8.0 (8 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (14 ratings)	7.4 (15 ratings)
Online Training	7.0 (1 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.8 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)