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Open LMS and Aptilink: partners since 2020!
Aptilink supports organisations that want to roll out, drive adoption of and optimise their LMS platform at scale. With Open LMS, that foundation is a managed Moodle™: you keep the openness and the plugin ecosystem of Moodle, while the vendor takes care of hosting, updates and security.
Open LMS is the world’s largest commercial provider of hosting and support services for Moodle™. Founded as Moodlerooms in 2005 and acquired by Blackboard in 2012, the company has belonged to Learning Technologies Group since 2020. Its AWS-hosted platform reports more than 1,000 client organisations, close to 10 million users and a presence in over 120 countries.
What a managed Moodle changes
Open source, without the ops
– Your code, your data and your plugins stay yours
– AWS hosting, updates and backups handled by the vendor
– 24/7 support, average response time quoted at 50 minutes
– No proprietary lock-in: your Moodle stays portable
Migration from what you have
– Your Moodle courses, SCORM content and history brought across
– Move from another LMS (K16 Solutions extension)
– Accounts and enrolments fed from your own systems
– Acceptance testing before go-live, a safe start of term
True multi-tenancy
– Several entities, campuses, brands or partners in a single instance
– Separate spaces: each with its own users, catalogue and branding
– Central administration and reporting on the platform side
– Priced on active users, not on the number of spaces
Automated teaching workflows
– Reminders, unlocked content and feedback triggered by the Personalized Learning Designer
– Event → condition → action rules, with no development
– Less administration on large cohorts
– Differentiated journeys based on level and progress
What the platform does
AI where the work happens: authoring, generation, integrity
Open LMS puts its AI features inside the course editor and the assessment flow, rather than in a separate module.
- AI-assisted editor (TinyMCE): summarising, enriching, turning text into lists or tables, tidying grammar, adjusting tone, translating into 13 languages.
- TeacherMatic: more than 70 generators for teachers — curriculum-aligned lesson plans, assessments, teaching aids, glossaries.
- Copyleaks and Turnitin: plagiarism and AI-content detection, with originality feedback inside the marking flow.
- Community plugins: course chatbot, questions generated from your material, image generation.
Personalized Learning Designer: automating the teaching side
Exclusive to Open LMS, the PLD is a rules engine that personalises the learner journey without any development.
- An event: an assignment submitted, a quiz result, a login, a deadline approaching.
- A condition: a grade threshold, progress so far, membership of a group.
- An action: a targeted message, content unlocked, a reminder, an alert to the tutor.
- What it changes: less administration on large cohorts, and reminders that go out at the right moment.
Analytics: Open Reports Engine
- More than 40 data sources: completions, enrolments, cohorts, badges, SCORM results, logins, engagement.
- Custom reports and visualisations, kept private or shared with a specific audience.
- Common uses: tracking by department, skills-gap analysis, evidence for compliance.
- Beyond the LMS: connectors to IntelliBoard and Watershed to consolidate several systems.
Content creation
Alongside the built-in authoring — H5P, assessments, SCORM import — Open LMS offers content production with GP Strategies.
- Refreshing existing content and bespoke development aligned with your objectives.
- Video and animation, interactive scenarios, product demonstrations, transcription and localisation.
- Immersive: augmented and virtual reality.
- Off-the-shelf catalogue of compliance modules, available on mobile.
Branding, mobile app, multi-tenancy
- Customisation: branding, themes, plugins and bespoke development — the foundation stays Moodle™.
- Mobile app in your own branding, iOS and Android, with offline access (courses, assignments and quizzes downloaded, syncing when back online) and push notifications.
- True multi-tenancy: separate spaces, central administration, cross-tenant reporting; priced on active users.
- Selling programmes online with IntelliCart.
Operations, security, integrations
- AWS hosting with a choice of region and multi-level backups; updates and maintenance handled by the vendor, 24/7 support (average ticket response quoted at 50 minutes).
- Security and compliance: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and CCPA tooling (consent, data deletion) — the data in your platform stays yours.
- Accessibility: WCAG 2.1 Level AA and Section 508; Brickfield and Ally for Moodle to audit content.
- 24 extensions in the catalogue: Kaltura and Panopto (video), BigBlueButton, Class and Class Collaborate (virtual classroom), PebblePad (portfolio), Genius SIS (student records), K16 Solutions (migration), Honorlock, Sumadi and SMOWL (proctoring), OpenSesame, Motrain and more.
Our services around Open LMS
Open LMS runs the platform, Aptilink runs your project: our five workstreams cover the ground in between, from auditing your current Moodle to keeping the platform lively over time.
Audit and scoping
A review of your current Moodle or LMS, scope, licence sizing, IT and security requirements, KPIs and trajectory.
Migration and integration
Courses, SCORM content and history brought across, SSO and directory, feeds from your HRIS or SIS, catalogue extensions, acceptance testing before go-live.
Structuring the spaces
The hierarchy of entities and cohorts, differentiated rights and access, course templates, the first Personalized Learning Designer rules.
Training your teams
Building the skills of administrators, teachers and support staff, resources and tutorials, alongside the vendor’s Open LMS Academy.
Support and continuous improvement
Hands-on assistance, liaison with the vendor’s 24/7 support, tracking updates, functional optimisation and support at key moments.
Use cases and sectors
Higher education: several faculties or campuses in a single instance, feeds from the SIS, academic integrity and exam proctoring.
Companies, networks and franchises: separate spaces for subsidiaries, partners or resellers, compliance and evidence of training.
Training providers: catalogues, online sales, several groups on the same course, reporting by funding body.
Leaving a proprietary LMS or a self-hosted Moodle: content and history brought across, an end to running updates yourself, without losing your customisations.
Two Open LMS rollouts delivered with Aptilink: Sciences Po Paris (5,000 users) and Montpellier Management (2,000 users).
Request your demo
Are you planning to migrate your Moodle to a managed platform, roll out Open LMS across several entities, or put AI and the Personalized Learning Designer to work on your current setup?
Aptilink offers you a demo on your own use cases, not on a sample course.
During the demo, we can cover:
- your existing foundation (Moodle version, plugins, SCORM and xAPI content) and what a smooth migration requires
- how the spaces should be split: entities, campuses, partners, rights and separation
- the first rules worth automating with the Personalized Learning Designer
- your integrations: SSO and directory, HRIS or SIS, virtual classroom, video, proctoring
- the reporting you need — and who will actually read it
- sizing the licence, which is priced on active users
Request your demo: leave your details and two or three lines of context, and we will get back to you to arrange a slot.