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Really? I have used Moodle extensively both in my own courses (at a high school level) and in my own studies at university. I have had very little negative feed

• TeMPOraL 12y ago
  As a student I had to use Moodle in several courses. I, and I think most of my year, hated it with passion. Yet we had no place to send feedback to. A bunch of undergrads bitching about crappy UX - no one will listen to them. Maybe let's make the next a bit harder, so that those undergrads shut up and know their place. Damn, no one listen to our feedback about more serious issues. High-schoolers are even less likely to speak up. They deal with what they get, without a feeling things could be different. So maybe you had very little negative feedback because there were no channels available for your students to express such feedback? Moodle is a broken, confusing and aesthetically unpleasant piece of software, with only one upside - it's self-hosted.
  • zarify 12y ago
    My students speak up about every other thing that bothers them (trust me on this :P), so I don't see why their use of courseware would be any different. I looked into a bunch of different LMS packages when we were looking for something to run at our school and Moodle was the best of the bunch that wasn't externally hosted (legal requirement for anything with student data). Our education department has since rolled their own LMS which is almost useless in comparison, so all in all I'm pretty happy with Moodle. I know it isn't all sunshine and rainbows and there are plenty of things it could do better but it's better than the other LMS stuff I've used as a student and better than the other stuff I've found as a teacher.