Oodles of Storage Space at MooDIY

Moodle is definitely one of the best and open Learning Management System (LMS), even after taking into account proprietary systems. It is both mature and modern and has been around for more than two decades with a thriving ecosystem and one of the most used LMS world-wide with a wonderful and helpful community.

To make best use of its features, you need sufficient storage to keep the annotated assignment submissions. Also, you may want to keep the courses archived with student / trainee interactions for periods stipulated by your local authorities. Also, you may want to use the Recycle Bin feature to recover courses deleted inadvertently.

However, MoodleCloud anemic storage does not allow any practical usage of these features. It seems that MoodleCloud is only an upsell strategy by Moodle HQ with its attractive prices. Many customers may soon discover that the plans are unusable due to the low storage and they can no longer fit themselves in the stifling suitcase. They are then led towards the expensive services of the Moodle Partner network.

At MooDIY, we offer more than 20 times storage space for the paid plans compared with MoodleCloud due to our long experience in Moodle hosting at scale and the resulting economies. It was the people behind MooDIY who built the first Moodle SaaS on Cloud and have since operated it successfully, both technically and commercially. Yes, much before MoodleCloud.

To be frank, we feel that even MoodleCloud’s largest plan is not usable as it offers only 5 GB of storage space which would be inadequate to store the annotated submissions of even a reasonably active class of 50 students even if we assume that video content will be hosted by specialist services like Vimeo.

While MooDIY has many other advantages over MoodleCloud discussed elsewhere in other blog posts, MooDIY’s storage is a compelling reason for choosing MooDIY.