Tutor LMS is free to a limited extent; Moodle is free to its fullest extent. Tutor LMS is great for website developers who already have WordPress up and running and want to extend their services by ‘Upselling’ their current services to site owners. They could, for example, make Tutor LMS available to offer courses. Say, for example, you host a site selling widgets, you may want to offer your client the ability to create a course on “caring for your widgets” – either free or paid for, depending on your customer’s business strategy.

The buyers behind this will, in this case, be the people who create and improve websites.
That is not to say that ordinary folk like you and I cannot use Tutor LMS – provided of course, we already have a WordPress site. I found it quite easy to install the WordPress plugin and within a matter of minutes, I was able to set things up so that I could create courses. Setting up my original WordPress site was also not difficult, bearing in mind that I don’t have a web development background.

Setting up a Moodle site is more difficult and requires a considerable learning curve – probably because I don’t have a web development background. There is however a lot of resources that one can call on to get help. So, I became quite competent in Moodle in a modest way, in a short space of time.

Courses in Tutor LMS consist of Topics and Topics consist of Lessons or Quizzes. Lessons can contain videos, text, and documents that can be downloaded. Quizzes – in the free version contain only a limited number of question types.
Moodle courses can come in a variety of formats and teachers can add a rich variety of Activities and Resources to their courses. Each can be infinitely configured to cater to a particular pedagogical strategy.