Our Year in Review: How Open LMS Supported a Fantastic 2025 for the L&D Community
As the year draws to a close, we’d like to take a moment to reflect. This year, we’ve helped our clients achieve successful online learning outcomes through continued innovation and strategic partnerships that keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in L&D.
Join us in celebrating not just our organization’s accomplishments, but everything the wider Open LMS community has achieved in 2025.
Feature and Plugin Enhancements Driving Innovation
In 2025, we enhanced our platform six times, including 12 new and 113 updated plugins for Open LMS EDU, as well as 39 new and 63 updated plugins for Open LMS WORK. Additionally, we upgraded our Snap theme to further improve course navigation and content visibility, giving users a more intuitive and streamlined LMS experience.
These platform upgrades and enhancements are indicative of Open LMS’s commitment to continuous improvement, ensuring we continue to meet the diverse learning technology needs of administrators and end users alike.
Some of our key feature updates include:
- Personalized Learning Designer as an activity: We’ve overhauled our exclusive legacy feature to make PLD easier to use and more accessible to instructors and administrators. We’ve also added a new condition that automatically checks a user’s cohort membership when triggered in the LMS.
- Open LMS Sessions: Newly included by default across all Open LMS installations, this feature supports blended learning with a comprehensive set of tools for instructor-led sessions.
- Centralized Content Management (CCM): This tool was previously exclusive to Open LMS EDU. Now users of our EDU and Open LMS WORK products can use this tool to simplify the creation, replication, and maintenance of consistent content across multiple courses.
- Conduit: We’ve extended access to our exclusive administrative plugin to clients across Open LMS EDU and Open LMS WORK, offering streamlined control over user creation, course enrollment, course creation, group and cohort management, and more.
- AI Text-to-Questions: This newly integrated tool helps you quickly and efficiently generate quiz questions using artificial intelligence.
- Expanded AI Provider Support: Open LMS now allows you to leverage AI from Gemini, Anthropic, and Deepseek.
- New accessibility plugin: We’ve upgraded our platforms to turn accessibility features on by default, giving your end-users the power to customize the visual appearance of your site according to their individual preferences.
- Open LMS eCommerce upgrades: Open LMS now supports payment gateways from PayPal, Authorize.net, and PayU.
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World-Class Support Driving Client Success
Open LMS has worked tirelessly to ensure clients experienced successful outcomes this year. From helping Sodimac boost its training delivery by 25% to enhancing customization options for Canada Learning Code’s skills training programs, Open LMS has supported clients across every global region.
This year, we highlighted 11 new customer success stories. We’re particularly proud to highlight the University of Canberra, Open LMS’s longest-standing client. They have been with us since April 2008—more than 17 years!
We’ve also resolved 14,455 global tickets as of the time of writing—further evidence of the unrivalled level of support our clients receive.
Open LMS Hosted Events in 2025
Open LMS organized a range of events worldwide this year. These included client-exclusive gatherings and public events that facilitated collaboration and knowledge sharing with the wider L&D community. Open LMS hosted the following events:
In Asia-Pacific:
- Connected Manila (partnered with BEENET/Microsmith)
- Connected Japan (partnered with Correos)
- Connected Australia
In Ibero-America:
- Friends & Trends Bogotá, Colombia
- Friends & Trends Madrid, Spain
In North America:
- Academy Event 2024
- Open Office Hours NA
Open LMS Event Appearances in 2025
Open LMS team members also attended industry conferences and events worldwide to demonstrate our solutions, engage with professionals, and stay ahead of trends that impact our clients. Our team participated in the following events:
In Asia-Pacific:
- Digital Health Festival
- THETA 2025
- EDUTech Australia
- EDUTech Asia
- BETT Asia Conference
- National VET Conference 2025
- 7th DLSMHSI Educational Technology Day
In Ibero-America:
- Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) Conference
- EdTech Congress
- BETT Brazil Conference
- CIAED Brasilia, Brazil
- eLearning Experience Pentec Valencia, Spain
- FiAD (Virtual)
- Edutechnia Bogotá, Colombia
- Ellucian, Mexico
- RECLA Bogotá, Colombia
- EDUCTIC Peru
In North America:
- American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
- ATD25 International Expo & Conference
- Mountain Moot
- Educause
- SHRM25
- DevLearn 2025
- Annual Conference Summer Camp Accessibility (Virtual)
In the United Kingdom and Europe:
- Learning Technologies
- BETT UK
- World of Learning Summit, London
- World of Learning, Birmingham
- OEB (Online Educa Berlin)
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Sharing Trends and Insights: Content for the L&D Community
It’s been a big year for L&D! So far this year, we’ve produced 41 blog posts and three ebooks addressing key topics and trends impacting education, professional development, and how organizations and institutions can enhance their learning programs. These resources help us continue our mission of empowering our clients—and the wider learning community—with the knowledge and guidance they need to thrive.
Take a look at some of our most popular blog posts from this year:
- ‘All About AI in Open LMS: Redefining the Future of Education and Training’
- ‘8 Personalized Learning Designer Rules You Can’t Live Without’
- ‘8 Must-Ask Questions Before Investing in Your Next LMS Platform’
- ‘Strengthening Governance and Consistency in Learning: How Open LMS Powers Scalable, Secure, and Efficient Operations’
- ‘Monetizing Learning in 2025: How Open LMS eCommerce Empowers Higher Ed and Corporate Training’
READ AN OPEN LMS EBOOK | ‘How Implementing Competency-Based Education Prepares Your Learners for Success—And Helps Your Institution Stand Out’
But Most Importantly: Thank You!
Our success this year wouldn’t be possible without the continued collaboration and feedback of our digital learning community. As we close the door on 2025 and look ahead to 2026, we want to say thank you. Every Open LMS achievement is a direct result of your continuing partnership, your feedback, and the trust you place in us to support your learning journey.
We’re honored to serve you and the wider L&D community, and we’re thrilled to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in online learning in 2026—and beyond!
Let Open LMS support your 2026 learning or training goals. Take an LMS tour today or request a demo of our platform to see how we can best meet your needs.
