The Moodle™-Based LMS Education Platform for Learner Success

As a leading learning management system provider, Open LMS empowers over 1,000 clients to deliver learning and training services to more than 10 million active LMS users in 120 countries around the globe. Give your higher education institution the gift of effective faculty training, stunning courses, engaging content, and nearly endless tools for supporting student success—all on an affordable Moodle™-based LMS platform that ensures you only pay for what you need. Open LMS is a Moodle™-based, AWS-hosted LMS for education that gives you the gift of effective faculty training, stunning courses, engaging content, and nearly endless tools for supporting student success—all on an affordable LMS platform that ensures you only pay for what you need.

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Why Is Open LMS Great for Education

Why Is Open LMS Great for Education?

Open LMS is a Moodle™-based, AWS-hosted solution that’s perfect for schools, colleges, and universities. It supports student success, faculty training, and blended learning by providing a flexible, scalable, and secure environment that empowers institutions to deliver exceptional educational experiences.

The LMS for Education Trusted by Institutions Around the World

Invest in a Partner to Elevate Your eLearning Strategy

Invest in a Partner to Elevate Your Elearning Strategy

Fantastic online learning experiences require:

  • Effective faculty enablement and training
  • Great-looking courses and course content
  • Integrated student success and intervention tools
  • A reliable and robust learning management system for students and faculty

Open LMS gives you all four. Our experts go above and beyond to help you deliver exceptional educational experiences that achieve your teaching and learning goals. With our cost-effective and customizable pricing options, you’re free to invest in the features and capabilities your institution needs without compromising on service or support.

We’re here to support you through software training, onboarding, implementation, and beyond. As long as you’re with Open LMS, you’ll have access to our extensive support services. We’ll work alongside you as your institution grows to ensure the Open LMS platform continues to suit your unique needs.

It doesn’t matter whether you use fully online, face-to-face, or blended learning programs. Your LMS should support the way you want to teach and how your students prefer to learn. As an open-source eLearning solution, Open LMS is fully customizable and flexible enough to ensure your institution can deliver exceptional learning experiences for every student.

Enhance your learning programs with our powerful tools and features, including:

  • A flexible, scalable platform that grows and adapts to your needs
  • A tailored LMS solution that matches your institution’s unique brand with our extensive LMS customization options
  • Top-tier data security and LMS compliance safeguards that help you ensure your institution and faculty are compliant with regulatory requirements
  • Robust analytics and reporting that provide insights into student performance and the effectiveness of your faculty and staff compliance training initiatives
  • Regular software updates that keep your institution at the forefront of academic innovation
  • Transparent and flexible pricing tailored to your institution’s specific learning needs
  • Training, guidance, and ongoing support from our experts throughout the implementation process and beyond to ensure your success
  • The ability to integrate seamlessly with other systems so you can consolidate your educational management processes with one unified platform
  • Access to a growing list of helpful LMS integrations, including student information systems (SISs), single sign on (SSO), proctoring, video, AI, accessibility, and plagiarism detection tools, through our extensive partner network
  • Mobile access to your learning programs that enables your students to learn from anywhere
  • ISO 27001 certification that demonstrates our commitment to LMS security and ensuring a safe and protected online learning environment for every LMS user
The Education-Focused LMS That Prioritizes Your Success

The Education-Focused LMS That Prioritizes Your Success

Deliver the best remote and blended learning experiences with the backing of our secure, scalable learning platform for schools, colleges, and universities. Partner with Open LMS and take advantage of:

  • Unrivaled performance, scalability, and security at unbeatable value
  • Our ultra-reliable LMS platform powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Brisk responses to support requests that keep your system running smoothly, with an average response time of only 50 minutes
  • Our commitment to providing accessible eLearning environments that improve ease of access for all of your learners
  • Access to the Open LMS Academy, a collection of professional development, functional training, and teaching courses to help your faculty and admin staff reach their teaching and training goals

How Open LMS Helps You Achieve Global Educational Excellence

Universidad Católica Silva Henríque

Our feedback response rate has been at or about 80%, and that’s a very unusual response rate. I credit PLD [Open LMS’s Personalized Learning Designer] with that. I like to call it the ‘nagging technique,’ and it’s been very effective.

Emily Southwell, Learning Systems Manager at the Australian College of Ministry

98% Client Satisfaction

Our 98% client satisfaction rating reflects our commitment to providing industry-leading educational technology and support. As a Moodle™-based higher education LMS, we combine the flexibility of the world’s most popular open-source platform with the enterprise-grade hosting and services your institution needs. Trusted by over 1,000 global clients, we ensure your eLearning environment remains secure, scalable, and optimized for success.

A Scalable Learning Management Solution Tailored to Your Needs

A Scalable Learning Management Solution Tailored to Your Needs

From small community colleges to major university systems, Open LMS can be customized to best meet your institution’s needs. Our flexible platform can be configured to align with your unique brand and reflect your specific vision and values. With Open LMS, you can:

  • Modify your learning environment with your preferred logos, color themes, slider images, welcome information, and much more
  • Integrate seamlessly with other leading educational content and service providers, giving your institution an eLearning system like no other
  • Free your students from distractions with a simple, yet highly effective user interface that keeps learners focused on their learning objectives instead of the learning tool
  • Leverage intuitive workflows for instructors and personalized learning journeys for students that keep your LMS users engaged
Adjust Your LMS to Meet Your Teaching and Learning Needs

Adjust Your LMS to Meet Your Teaching and Learning Needs—Not the Other Way Around!

It doesn’t matter if your students are attending classes in person on campus, studying remotely, or engaging in a blended or hybrid learning program. Open LMS can be configured to support nearly any academic program or curriculum design.

Open LMS includes native assessment tools, built-in H5P interactive content creation capabilities, and the ability to integrate with external SCORM-compatible content libraries, ensuring your instructors have what they need to create and deliver effective and engaging learning experiences.

With Open LMS, you can:

  • Use built-in registration and scheduling tools to manage in-person or synchronous live events
  • Track and report training progress across departments and teams in real time via robust reporting tools
  • Automatically guide learners through their content and take them from one course to the next
  • Deliver learning content via a free mobile app and grant students offline access to their courses
Since 2005, we've harnessed open-source technology to empower educators and prepare students for future success. Open LMS enables institutions around the world to deliver innovative online learning experiences for millions of learners. Our seamless course integrations, commitments to data security and accessibility, and exceptional technical support empower educators to make engaging educational content and foster dynamic learning environments that set students up for success.
Take Advantage of the Exclusive Personalized Learning Designer (PLD)

Take Advantage of the Exclusive Personalized Learning Designer (PLD)

The Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) is a powerful, rule-based digital assistant exclusive to Open LMS, built on top of Moodle™. It empowers your institution to deliver automated, personalized learning journeys at scale, saving instructors time while ensuring students receive the support they need when they need it most.

With PLD, you can:

  • Automate targeted interventions, such as directing at-risk students to study groups.
  • Automatically suggest related content based on individual performance to reinforce learning.
  • Accelerate student learning journeys by guiding high-performers to new materials once assessment thresholds are met.
  • Reduce administrative burden by automating feedback, reminders, and course enrollments.

Open LMS Provides Hosting and Support for Learning Institutions Worldwide

Suzanne Thomas, Digital Systems Specialist at New Zealand’s Universal College of Learning (UCOL)

Having our Moodle™ instance hosted by Open LMS reduces the stress for our relatively small digital education team. Open LMS being responsible for data security, compliance, software updates, and enhancements allows us to focus on what is most important: providing the best possible educational experience for our ākonga [students]!

Student-Centered Custom LMS Solutions for Institutions of Every Size

Student-Centered Custom LMS Solutions for Institutions of Every Size

Regardless of your institution’s size or the complexity of your requirements, Open LMS can be customized to your specifications to ensure your faculty is prepared and your students’ educational needs are met. We offer a variety of solutions for higher education institutions of all sizes:

Universities and Larger Institutions

The bigger your institution, the more complex your needs. Update, manage, and provide learning content across multiple departments and campuses with a fully integrated multi-tenancy solution. Easily manage multiple learning environments at once with secure, streamlined deployment that lets you deliver courses to students at speed and scale without diminishing program quality. Give your tenants access to their own unique course catalogs and curricula, and present them with tailored experiences unique to their campus or department.

Our LMS for universities lets you enhance student learning and further your research initiatives with collaborative tools like discussion boards, synchronous and asynchronous virtual meetings, interactive content, and virtual messaging tools to encourage students, instructors, and professors to work together, regardless of their physical location.

Community Colleges and Smaller Institutions

Community Colleges and Smaller Institutions

Community colleges and smaller institutions often have diverse learner populations that include part-time and non-traditional students like older adults, full-time workers, and parents. Support your learners with Open LMS’s tools and features designed specifically to make learning environments more accessible for every student. Open LMS has a user-friendly interface that’s easy to navigate so learners can work through their courses without wasting precious time searching for their learning materials.

Personalization tools like the Personalized Learning Designer (PLD), an Open LMS-exclusive plugin, can help you create customized learning experiences for your students that ensure they complete the coursework they need to earn their degrees or complete their programs. PLD can also:

  • Direct users to study groups if they fall behind
  • Send learners suggestions for new content related to their current learning materials
  • Give learners suggestions for additional materials based on their performance in a course or interest in a learning topic
  • Accelerate students’ learning paths, potentially saving them even more time, based on their assessment and activity scores
Technical and Trade Schools

Technical and Trade Schools

Some skills can’t be demonstrated online, but that doesn’t mean you don’t need an LMS. Technical and trade schools can leverage Open LMS’s collaborative learning features to simplify communication between instructors and students, as well as connect students with each other to exchange ideas and discuss essential training topics. Keep track of competencies and other student achievements with robust tracking and analytics features.

Store learning materials like instructional videos, digital textbooks, and manuals within the learning platform, and take advantage of Open LMS’s exclusive Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) to give your students access to additional content that applies to their interests. With PLD, your students can move more rapidly through the online portion of your training program based on their performance on previous coursework. If students don’t achieve certain thresholds, PLD will automatically assign supplemental learning materials to help them, as well as alert the instructor of who needs more support.

Other Learning Institutions

If your institution doesn’t fit neatly into a conventional category, that’s okay! We have higher education LMS solutions that are flexible enough to meet any institution’s unique post-secondary learning needs. Contact us to learn how we can assist you in providing exceptional learning experiences.

Looking for a corporate learning platform to support your employee training and skills development initiatives? Learn how Open LMS is also the right LMS for business!

Empower Your Institution With Moodle™-Based Education Technology

  • Create engaging content
  • Foster collaboration
  • Track student progress
  • Train your instructors
  • Optimize your learning programs
  • Maintain compliance
  • Protect learner data
  • Innovate, adapt, and excel in delivering remote and blended learning experiences

With Open LMS, you get the best of both worlds. Our open-source LMS for education is built on Moodle™ and enhanced with extensive customization options, exclusive plugins, and seamless integrations to give you a flexible and scalable LMS at an affordable price. Open LMS makes it easy for you to

Award-Winning Commitment to eLearning Excellence

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Invest Where It Matters Most

Whether you’re a local community college, skills trade academy, further education institution, or major university system, Open LMS has a cost-effective option for you. Because we’re built on open-source Moodle™, you pay no software licensing fees. Your subscription cost goes toward providing our award-winning service, support, and training, so you can be sure your investment supports tools and resources that directly impact your learning programs—not inflated software fees!

See How Middlesex University Uses Open LMS

Middlesex University, a global institution serving over 36,000 students across London, Dubai, and Mauritius, relies on Open LMS to manage its complex learning data. In this video, Senior Business Analyst Charmaine McCracken discusses how Open LMS streamlines data hosting and system upgrades, saving the IT department significant time and resources while empowering them to focus on driving student success.

See Our LMS for Education in Action

Let our experts show you how Open LMS can solve your student-centered learning and faculty training needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Get the answers to some frequently asked questions.

What is an LMS in education?

In educational settings, an LMS, or learning management system, is a software platform that streamlines the delivery of learning. It acts as a central hub for schools, colleges, and universities to manage, track, and report on educational courses. A learning management system for schools typically provides a space for teachers to share assignments, collect student work, and facilitate discussions in both face-to-face and remote learning environments.

How much does an LMS for education cost?

Because Open LMS is built on open-source Moodle™, you pay no software licensing fees. Our subscription costs focus on service, support, and hosting, ensuring you only pay for what you need. For a detailed breakdown of our cost-effective and customizable pricing options, please visit our pricing page.

Is Open LMS cloud-based or self-hosted?

Open LMS is a fully managed, cloud-based LMS (SaaS). We host our platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides the security, scalability, and reliability that educational institutions need. By choosing a cloud-hosted solution, your team is freed from the technical burden of maintaining server infrastructure, allowing you to focus entirely on teaching and learning outcomes.

Does Open LMS support blended and hybrid learning?

Absolutely! Open LMS is designed to support the flexibility required by modern academic programs, whether your students are on-campus, studying remotely, or engaging in blended and hybrid learning. Our platform seamlessly combines in-person activities with digital content, mobile access, and interactive tools to ensure a consistent experience across every learning environment, making it an LMS for delivering academic success in any teaching model.

How is Open LMS different from Moodle™?

Open LMS is an enterprise-grade solution built on Moodle™. While Moodle™ provides the core open-source framework, Open LMS enhances it with expert hosting on AWS, guaranteed security, and rigorous ISO 27001 compliance. We add exclusive features like the Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) and provide dedicated 24/7 support, ensuring you get a robust, fully managed experience without the technical burden of self-hosting.

Does Open LMS integrate with our SIS and our EdTech tools?

Yes. Open LMS is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing technology stack. Through our extensive partner network, we provide connections to leading Student Information Systems (SISs), Single Sign-On (SSO) providers, proctoring tools, and more. You can explore our full range of available integrations on our LMS extensions page.

Is Open LMS accessible and secure?

Yes. Accessibility and data security are fundamental to our mission. Our platform adheres to international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA criteria, ensuring an inclusive learning environment for all users. We also maintain ISO 27001 certification, providing enterprise-level security safeguards that protect your institution’s data and keep your learning environment safe.

What support and faculty training does Open LMS provide?

We offer comprehensive support and training to ensure your success. Our global support team provides fast, expert assistance with an average response time of just 50 minutes. Additionally, your faculty and staff gain access to the Open LMS Academy, a curated collection of professional development and functional training courses designed to help your team reach their teaching goals.

Can Open LMS be customized to our institution’s brand?

Yes. Open LMS is highly customizable, allowing you to align your learning environment with your institution’s unique identity. You can modify your platform with your preferred logos, color themes, slider images, and welcome information. We offer comprehensive visual branding services—ranging from standard brand matching to advanced custom designs and mobile app branding—to ensure your LMS perfectly reflects your institution's vision and values.

How long does Open LMS Education take to implement?

Implementation timelines depend on your specific needs and the chosen onboarding package. We offer flexible options, with typical timelines ranging from 6-12 weeks depending on your data migration and integration support needs. Our team will guide you through the process to ensure a smooth transition and successful launch.