Moodle
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5recommend
1warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“this seems roughly equivalent to Moodle, which is open-source (GPL) and used globally”
“That already exists [0], and is actually reasonably popular.”
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“Moodle is an open-source LMS that can be self-hosted.”
“I was an early Moodle adopter, and Moodle can to all kinds of things.”
Caveats and dissent
“Moodle is complex to deploy and maintain (often requires outsourcing)”
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“Also used by Moodle, the open source LMS”
“Moodle has had certainty based marking for at least 15 years.”
“this seems roughly equivalent to Moodle, which is open-source (GPL) and used globally”
“I used to run a Moodle instance on a laptop. Mainly for documenting projects I was working on.”
Canvas itself is also open source (https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms), which was the big appeal of it originally in a world where Blackboard had a stranglehold on the LMS market.
“https://github.com/moodle/moodle is my first find”
“I remember my university switched to Moodle around that time.”
Canvas is actually also open source and can be self-hosted: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms (I don't have experience in hosting either software so I can't really comment beyond that)
“That already exists [0], and is actually reasonably popular.”
“Moodle is an open-source LMS that can be self-hosted.”
“I was an early Moodle adopter, and Moodle can to all kinds of things.”
“I used to run a moodle on my desktop/laptop just to store project documentation.”
“An program to cleanup Moodle backups that uses gzip and xml.”
“Moodle is complex to deploy and maintain (often requires outsourcing)”