Moodle

Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Moodle, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 19 complaints

Commenter finds the traditional learning tools' user experience too confusing and far from Duolingo's2023-11-18
Natural grading produced grades that were slightly off, with unclear math2023-07-17
Learning management systems are complicated, with many customization knobs and poor workflows2023-07-17
Permissions are confusing, and faculty can't understand them2023-07-17
Staff struggle to set simple time-limited visibility, leading to hacks and wrong results2023-07-17
Teachers had to retype and rescan lesson materials to fit Moodle's workflow2021-11-25
Core interface is poor because plugins fragment functionality and reshape it2021-11-19
Documentation is poor, so users struggle to find how to do things2021-11-19
Students find the interface old and hard to navigate; content creation is a nightmare2021-11-19
Default interface is terrible to use out of the box2021-11-19
Moodle's interface is terrible and it is extremely complex for users2021-11-19
Students found the Moodle demo UI too complicated and confusing to navigate2018-07-02
Using and administering the platform is confusing2017-02-21
Entering each grade requires lots of clicking; menus and icons are hard to navigate2014-09-29
Nothing is discoverable, so students get lost immediately and give up2014-05-07
Students find the learning platform broken and confusing to use2014-05-07
Teachers found the screen full of confusing buttons2014-01-27
Session timeout silently discards typed work, forcing re-login and starting over2014-01-26
Can never find anything on it2011-01-09