Moodle

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Moodle Alternatives

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Posts with mentions or reviews of Moodle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-12.
  • Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2026
    I'm curious about the open source competition (https://github.com/moodle/moodle is my first find, there are likely others) and what they could've made happen with that money if they had received it instead as an investment re: not worrying about future ransomware attacks.
  • Moodle – open-source Learning Management System
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2026
  • Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2026
    > rather than universities writing an open alternative they share with each other for free

    That already exists [0], and is actually reasonably popular.

    > the SaaSpocalypse is coming for them - it seems it is simply that LLMs will be used to exploit it first

    I doubt it, because enterprise sales has nothing to do with how good your product is, how expensive it is, how easy it is to administer, how secure it is, etc.; it only depends on how good you are at enterprise sales. I mean, my university is Oracle-based, and I'm pretty sure that you could get 3 random undergraduates to write something better, so I don't think that LLMs writing better/cheaper software will make any difference here.

    [0]: https://moodle.org/

  • Wanderer's Log #4: Goodbye Moodle, Hello Custom LMS — Why We're Building Our Own Dojo
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Mar 2026
    When I first set up the Skill-Wanderer Dojo — our dedicated learning platform — I chose Moodle. And honestly, it was a reasonable decision at the time. Moodle is one of the top-tier Learning Management System (LMS) solutions in the world. It’s open-source, it’s been around for decades, it has a massive community, and it comes packed with features out of the box: course management, quizzes, grading, forums, badges, completion tracking — you name it, Moodle probably has it.
  • How to contribute to Moodle?
    1 project | dev.to | 9 Jul 2025
    Moodle is web-based open source learning platform aka. Learning Management System (LMS) written in PHP. Most people encounter it as students or teachers at some academic institution. For example at the Weizmann Institution of Science we use Moodle to communicate with students. Announce assignments, grade the assignments. It also collects the recordings from the lectures and students can access the recording from their Moodle account.
  • Do you need to be a programmer to contribute to open source projects?
    4 projects | dev.to | 8 Jul 2025
    A common misconception is that only programmers can contribute to open source project. Being a programmer of course make it possible for you to make changes to the source code of the application, but there are tons of other things that need to be done in a project. Especially if it is a large, end-user facing project such as Firefox, VLC, Moodle, or mdbook.
  • 25 Project Ideas from Beginner to Advanced with Open Source Contributions
    32 projects | dev.to | 13 Nov 2024
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  • Moodle
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2024
    Sorry, I missed your reply. You'd have to check the docs at

    https://moodle.org/

  • The 50 best open-source alternatives to popular SaaS software
    73 projects | dev.to | 10 Jul 2024
    GitHub: Moodle GitHub Repository
  • Presentación del Operador LMS Moodle
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Apr 2024
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moodle/moodle is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.

Moodle is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of Moodle is PHP.


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