Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation entitled What's Broken? Collecting grievances for the Moodle community by Marc Oehlman.  About 32 in attendance.  Session was insightful.  Overall, seems like Moodle is good at its core, but some usability aspects inhibit its use. Main grievances include:

• Can't enter letter grades directly
• File upload process
  • see Google Apps for good implementation
  • Automatically choose "Choose" rather than requiring the seperate click
  • "Choose" UI is inconsistent
  • 2.0 uses APIs to let institutions configure an external file storage system e.g. Box.net
• iPhone support
  • Handled entirely through the theming layer
• Ability to update several sections of the same course at once
• Copy-paste
  • Word 2007 on Windows docs into Moodle brings Word garbage into editor
  • From one place in Moodle to another brings copied JS into editor
  • Pasting into Summary can sometimes put so much junk into the start of the summary that you can't see the summary nor its edit button
• PDF downloads
  • Page layout breaks
  • Downloads take a long time
  • Problems when Reader and Pro are not the same on the same system (downgrade Reader as a solution)
• Compiler of student activity showing student activity at a glance
• Blackboard's "Collect" feature
• Block visibility per category
• Default themes don't work
  • New School Learning/Patrick Malley
  • $150ish
• Modules inconsistent about retaining block display if preference is set
• Allow a sys admin to reduce the visible options in quizzes, gradebook, etc. to streamline use for faculty/IDs
• More professional appearance out-of-the-box
• Default email notification settings - 500th discussion forum poster gets no emails, but 1st poster gets 499
• Push nightly updates to available testing server
• List underfunded features

 Misc:

• Cool stats:
  • 20% of installations are U.S.
  • Large international penetration.
  • #2 LMS in US.
  • 7.6% market share
• Got to meet some of the core Moodle developers; yes, they are real people.