Google Classroom vs Lms
Google Classroom and Lms are both learning management software. Google Classroom is a commercial product from Google. Lms is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 3.4k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Google Classroom when
- A school already on Google Workspace for Education wants a simple, free way to run classes.
- Pick Lms when
- You run ERPNext or Frappe and want staff or customer training in the same system.
Side by side
Free classroom tool in Google Workspace for Education for posting assignments, collecting work, grading and talking with students.
A learning management system on the Frappe framework for creating courses, batches, quizzes, assignments and certificates.
It is lighter than a full LMS for higher education or complex course structures.
Requires the Frappe stack and has fewer integrations than Moodle.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
Python, Frappe, Vue and TypeScript
Closed source, sold by Google
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
5.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
3.4k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v2.68.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.