Moodle is powerful open-source LMS software that you host and maintain yourself. Organizations look for alternatives when they do not have technical staff for hosting, upgrades and backups, and want live classes, reporting and support included in one hosted workspace instead.
This is not a question of which platform has more features — Moodle has a great many. It is a question of who does the work of running it, and whether that work is a good use of your team.
Active students
348
Live rooms in use
6
Course completion
82%
Courses in progress
This termSomeone has to install the platform, apply security updates, manage plugins, take backups, and fix things during a term. In many academies and schools that person is a teacher or a single IT generalist, and LMS maintenance competes directly with teaching.
With a hosted LMS you create a workspace and start publishing the same day. Updates, hosting and backups are handled for you, live classes come with the plan, and pricing is a plan rather than an internal project. You trade deep plugin customization for time.
Nothing to install, patch or back up yourself.
Online sessions come with the plan instead of a separate integration.
Create a workspace, publish a course, enrol a cohort.
A plan price per organization instead of hosting plus staff time.
Stop maintaining a server and keep the same teaching model.
Replace a self-hosted install plus a separate meeting account with one workspace.
Create your workspace, invite your teachers and publish your first course. Start on a free plan and upgrade when your numbers grow.