Moodle
by Moodle · Open source learning management system you host yourself
BenchRank score
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Overview
Moodle is an open source learning management system for building online courses. You download and install it yourself on any computer or web host, and it runs from a single-teacher site up to a 200,000-student university. Plugins and integrations come from the Moodle Marketplace, while hosting, support and customisation are handled separately via Moodle.com and Certified Partners.
- Best for
- Educators and institutions wanting a self-hosted open source LMS for online courses
- Pricing
- The software is described as free and open source; the captured text shows no prices for hosting, support, customisation or paid Marketplace plugins.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free open source package you download and run yourself
- Scales from a single-teacher site to 200,000 students
- Over 140 languages and 146,000+ registered sites
- Plugins and integrations listed on the Moodle Marketplace
Trade-offs
- You must download, install and host it yourself
- Support is community forums or paid Certified Partners
- Hosting, support and customisation are sold separately
- Some Marketplace plugins are paid; no costs are shown
How Moodle markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Moodle’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Welcome to the Moodle community”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Social-proof hero
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Moodle’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Moodle pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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