Moodle Due Diligence

Run due diligence on Moodle: check compliance and get alerts when suppliers change.

Australia · moodle.org · 9 vendors

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system (LMS) designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners with a robust, secure, and integrated system to create personalized online learning environments. It is used for blended learning, distance education, and other online learning projects in various sectors.

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Last updated 2026-07-29 · revision 1

9 direct vendors, 155 subvendors

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Compliance

9 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

Australian Privacy Act 1988 — Evidence found

Evidence: https://moodle.com/privacy-notice/, https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-legislation/the-privacy-act, https://moodle.org

ISO 27001 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://moodle.org/security/, https://moodle.com/about/, https://moodle.com/solutions/government/

ISAE 3000 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://moodle.com/privacy-notice/, https://moodle.com/about/

Financials

Three-year financials

Financial Resilience Score: 7/10

Moodle Pty Ltd demonstrates strong qualitative financial resilience despite the absence of public financial statements. The company benefits from a highly sticky, mission-critical product embedded in universities, K-12 systems, ministries of education, and enterprises worldwide. Switching an LMS is expensive and disruptive, providing high revenue visibility. The global installed base of approximately 146,000+ registered sites across 236 countries with ~500 million learners provides an enormous funnel for paid Workplace, Cloud, and Marketplace upsell opportunities. The diverse partner ecosystem of 90+ Certified Partners globally spreads customer-acquisition costs and geographic risk. Moodle's open-source moat reduces R&D costs through community contributions while keeping the trademark and Workplace product proprietary and monetisable. Founder-led leadership, mission alignment, and B Corp certification (with score improving from 81.6 in 2021 to 111.0 in 2025) suggest strengthening governance and workforce practices. Product expansion since 2019 (Workplace, Academy, Direct Services, Marketplace) diversifies the business beyond LMS-only revenue. However, risks include cannibalization from the free open-source core, well-capitalized competition (Instructure Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Anthology Blackboard, Google Classroom, Open edX), channel concentration risk via Certified Partners, pressure on higher-ed IT budgets, potential PE ownership pressure, limited public financial transparency, and AI disruption requiring meaningful R&D investment.

Key strengths: Very sticky, mission-critical LMS product with high switching costs, Global installed base of ~146,000+ sites across 236 countries with ~500M learners, Diverse partner ecosystem of 90+ Certified Partners globally, Open-source moat reduces R&D costs via community contributions, Founder-led, mission-aligned, B Corp certified (score improved 81.6 to 111.0), Product diversification since 2019 (Workplace, Academy, Direct Services, Marketplace)

Risk factors: Free open-source core cannibalises paid revenue, Well-capitalized competition (Instructure Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Anthology Blackboard, Google Classroom, Open edX), Channel concentration risk via dependence on Certified Partners, Higher-ed IT budgets under global pressure, Private-equity ownership may pressure margins or lead to exit event, Limited public financial transparency, AI disruption reshaping LMS market requires significant R&D investment

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