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Custom LMS Development Services for EdTech and Training Platforms

We've been the LMS engineering partner for the same EdTech group for over a decade, across three brands. The page is the proof.

Ten years, one partnership

Stack
Moodlecustomised + custom app
Tenure
10+ yrssingle partnership
Orders
100K+processed across brands
Brands
3TEFL.ie · TEFL Institute · PremierTEFL

What you get

Custom LMS Development Services We Provide

Most LMS pages list features. These are engagements: concrete pieces of work we've shipped repeatedly, on Moodle, in production, across multiple brands.

01

Customised Moodle setups

Moodle core with bespoke plugin work: themes, course formats, gradebook tweaks, enrolment plugins, reporting blocks. Not a fork, a deployment that updates cleanly with Moodle core releases.

02

Custom Moodle mobile app

Bespoke Moodle mobile app built on the Moodle App SDK or as a native shell talking to Moodle's web services. Branded per client, offline-capable, push notifications wired in.

03

Exam delivery at scale

Quiz engine tuning, attempt management, re-sit logic, proctoring hooks, certificate issuance gated to a passing score. The places Moodle's defaults break under real volume.

04

Cohort & B2B licensing

Group enrolments, seat-pool management, manager dashboards, single-buyer to many-learner workflows. The shape corporate L&D buyers expect.

05

Multi-brand deployments

One engineering team running multiple LMS brands: shared plugin layer, brand-aware configuration, isolated payment paths, independent course catalogues.

06

Billing & checkout integration

Stripe and PayPal on courses, multi-currency, promo codes, partial refunds, post-purchase enrolment flow with email confirmation and receipt logic.

07

SCORM & xAPI

Standards work when corporate clients require it. Package ingestion, completion tracking, learner data export. Done correctly, not duct-taped.

08

Performance & migrations

Queries, caching, video delivery, schema migrations without losing learner progress. The work that keeps a 10-year-old LMS codebase boring on purpose.

The LMS decade curve

What a ten-year LMS partnership actually looks like

Cumulative orders across the partnership, indexed to 100. The annotations mark the architectural decisions that mattered.

2016

Moodle core upgrade

2018

Affiliate routing

2020

Custom Moodle app

2022

Brand split: PremierTEFL

2024

Multi-currency checkout

Evidence · Three brands, one engineering team

What the capabilities look like in production

TEFL Institute logo

Case study · Moodle + multi-brand

100K+
Orders across brands
10+ yrs
Engineering partnership

Stack

Moodle · Custom plugins · Custom mobile app · PHP · MySQL

Flagship · Ireland market

TEFL.ie

The original Moodle deployment. A decade of careful customisation, exam delivery, certificate issuance, and learner-progress migrations done without losing data.

Sister brand · global reach

TEFL Institute of Ireland

Independent branding, course catalogue, and pricing, running on the same engineering layer. The brand-aware configuration that makes that economically possible is the moat.

Sister brand · partner / affiliate

PremierTEFL

Affiliate course routing, partner-priced enrolments, isolated payment paths. The third tenant on the shared infrastructure, with its own checkout and reporting.

NEXIS School of Business

Our own LMS

NEXIS isn't a client. It's ours. We run the Industry Immersion Program for GD Goenka, AI training for Chartered Accountants, and qualification packs aligned to NSQF Level 4.5 and 5.

We don't just build learning platforms, we run a school on one. nexisschool.com

Long-form on the TEFL case study. Related engagements: API and integration work for billing, CRM, and identity flows around the LMS; SaaS web app development when an LMS needs a sibling product alongside it.

Stack we ship on

Moodle core, customised, plus a bespoke app

Plugins update with core. The app talks to Moodle Web Services. Nothing painted into a corner.

LMS core
Moodle (customised) · bespoke plugins · branded theme
Mobile
Custom Moodle app · Moodle Web Services API · push notifications
Backend
PHP · MySQL / MariaDB · Redis cache
Billing
Stripe · PayPal · multi-currency · promo / coupon engine
Hosting
Tuned for course-delivery load · CDN-fronted media

Who it's for

Who Our Custom LMS Development Service Is For

  • EdTech businesses with serious volume: 10K+ learners, recurring exam cycles, certificate-gated outcomes
  • Schools and training providers running multiple sister brands off shared engineering
  • Corporate L&D platforms with cohort licensing, manager dashboards, and reporting requirements
  • Existing Moodle deployments that have outgrown stock plugin defaults

When it may not be the right fit

When Custom LMS Development May Not Be the Right Fit

  • Single-instructor course sites, where a Teachable or Thinkific subscription is faster
  • Small course catalogues with no exam, certificate, or compliance angle
  • Teams looking for the cheapest possible bid on an LMS shell

How we work

Audit, then focused build, then long retainer

We start with a paid audit on existing deployments: plugin sprawl, performance, migration risk, customisation drift. For greenfield, a discovery sprint to scope the actual learner journey before anything is built.

Build is phased and runs against working software. Plugin and theme work first, checkout and enrolment alongside, custom app last. Two-week sprints, code in your repos.

Most clients move to a long retainer post-launch. An LMS gets more complex by the year, not less. The team that built it is the team that keeps it running.

We've been the LMS engineering partner for the same EdTech group for over a decade. Across three brands. If you want a vendor for a year, hire someone else.

LMS engineering

Bring the Moodle customisations, the exam workflow, and the app you wish you had.

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