For a very long time we have been using Evernote and Moodle at my school. We started with each tool over 10 years ago.
After conversations with Phil Libin & Andrew Sinkov sitting in our Middle School computer lab, we were the first school to provide Evernote Premium accounts to all of our faculty and students. My colleagues and I presented at Evenote events in NYC and at their trunk conference in San Fransisco in 2012.
Moodle has been a staple at the school for such a very long time it is hard to remember a time when we didn’t have it. It is the one foundational tools that is part of our learning program and the only tool faculty are required to use for the posting of their syllabus and homework. It’s the home base for all faculty and students.
In relative terms GSuite is new to the block, but it has come in gangbusters! We now use the Suite set of tools (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Classroom, Calendars & Email) throughout the school. The real-time collaborative nature has been a boon for collaboration which is part of the learning goals set forth in our program.
With these three tools there is often questions about what to use and when? Should I being using one or the other? What is the right tool to use?
Outside of the posting of homework and assignment to Moodle we have largely left this choice to the individual teacher and student. They can choose the right tool based on the assignment they are giving or working on.
As our program advances, these tools become more and more feature rich we’d like to do a better answering these questions. I thought it might be helpful to put together chart of some key pieces and see how each stack up against one another.
What I would love from each of you reading this is to help me flesh this chart out by adding your thoughts in the comment section below. I will add to and adjust the chart as more and more people contribute and in the end hopefully ave something that will benefit those trying to answer similar questions.
Evernote, Moodle, GSuite & Google Classroom Comparison
| Evernote | Moodle | GSuite & Classroom | |
| Ability to organize & distribute materials | Yes Notebooks/Spaces |
Yes Courses |
Yes Drive & Classroom |
| Ability to organize by class/section | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Collaboration | Yes Shared folders, notes, Spaces – asynchronous |
Yes* | Yes GSuite apps – synchronous (real-time) |
| Notetaking | Yes | No | Yes |
| Web Clipper | Yes | No | No |
| OCR | Yes | No | No** |
| Audio Notes | Yes | Yes*** | No |
| Quiz Tool | No | Yes | Yes**** |
| File Storage – Student | Yes | No | Yes |
| File Storage – Faculty | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Plug-ins, Extensions & Integrations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Integration with GSuite | Yes | Yes | NA |
| Available Offline | Yes | No | Yes***** |
| Cost | Paid****** | Paid****** | Free |
* Based on the module installed & used
** Search works with Docs, Sheet, Slides & PDFs
*** Plugin required
**** via Forms
***** via Chrome browser only
****** Premium/Hosted Costs
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