🆚 Canvas LMS vs. Moodle
- 📈 Moodle is three times more popular than Canvas LMS.
- 🌍 Moodle is more popular in Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 Canvas LMS is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Sweden.
Type
About
Canvas LMS is a cloud-based open source learning management system designed to help educational institutions deliver and manage online, hybrid, or in-person courses with tools for course authoring, grading, analytics, and mobile access.
It offers a modern user interface, standards-based gradebooks, learning outcomes tracking, open APIs, support for Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), and integrates with a wide range of third-party apps such as 
Zoom, 
Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, and Turnitin.
Moodle is an open-source learning management system that enables educators and organizations to deliver online and blended courses with customizable tools for teaching, learning, and assessment.
It offers built-in collaborative features such as forums, wikis, quizzes and gradebooks, provides extensive plugin extensibility with over 2,000 add-ons, and supports more than 120 languages and mobile learning through the Moodle App.
Headquarters
Pricing
(50 users)$130/year
(100 users)$220/year
(400 users)$400/year
(500 users)$910/year
(750 users)$1,710/year
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the LMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Argentina in the LMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the LMS category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the LMS category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the LMS category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Spain in the LMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Sensei LMS🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,367,501 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.