Open LMS

The newly unified Open LMS Version 5.1 refreshes the learning management system and enhances its open source digital education technology at enterprise scale. RALEIGH, NC—July 01, 2026—Open LMS, the world’s largest Moodle™-based learning management system provider and a global leader in digital education technology, today announced the successful unification of its product portfolio into a single, comprehensive platform.

So, you’re thinking about switching your LMS. Maybe you’ve experimented with Moodle™, tried a lightweight SaaS platform, or even considered managing a self-hosted solution on your own. On paper, those options can look appealing. In practice, they often come with hidden complexity, growing technical debt, and the prospect of stretching teams too thin.

Open LMS was recognized for its ongoing support of Continence Health Australia’s essential compliance training initiatives, including facilitation of a swift migration to its WORK LMS. RALEIGH, NC—December 09, 2025—Open LMS, a global edtech leader and the largest commercial provider of open-source Moodle™ hosting and support services, has been recognized with a Diamond award in the Best Learning & Talent Development category at the LearnX Live! 2025 Awards.

In early August 2025, Open LMS staff became aware of a systematic credential stuffing campaign against a select few of our hosted sites. While investigating the cause of this cyberattack, it became clear that this was an automated, planned campaign targeting MoodleTM sites worldwide. The attack targeted a select few Open LMS sites and thousands of other Moodle™-based sites hosted by different providers.

The Australian College of Ministries (ACOM) is a leading provider of online theological education and a founding member of the Australian University College of Divinity. The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in ministry, leadership, and counseling, as well as professional development courses for individuals and church organizations.

On October 19–20, 2025, AWS experienced a major service disruption in one of its largest U.S  data regions. The event affected several of Amazon’s core cloud services, including database, computing, and load-balancing systems that many organizations depend on to manage their workflows and daily operations. Since Open LMS uses AWS infrastructure, this incident temporarily affected portions of our hosted environment.

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.

Conduit, Open LMS’s exclusive Moodle™ plugin, is now available on both the WORK and EDU versions of the platform. Open LMS, a global leader in eLearning software and the world’s largest commercial provider of open-source Moodle™ hosting and support services, today announced expanded access to Conduit. This exclusive plugin streamlines back-end administrative tasks and improves data accuracy across enterprise and higher education learning environments.

Bill Conran, Head of Global Sales at Open LMS, shares expert insights on staying ahead of the curve. Rigid, outdated training methods will fail to engage your staff effectively, but a flexible, future-ready strategy and an innovative and powerful open-source solution like Open LMS can help you remain competitive. Want to learn how? Read on for five ways to offer scalable and agile learning so you can future-proof your business.

As digital learning becomes more personalized and data-driven, protecting your learners’ privacy has never been more critical. Whether you’re training your workforce or educating students at a college or university, your learning platform captures and stores large volumes of personal information—and it’s your responsibility to protect it! Maintaining privacy isn’t just a best practice; it’s a regulatory requirement and a trust-building imperative.