Trainers dread the interface
Every new trainer needs days of hand-holding. The 2005-era interface turns L&D into a constant IT support queue.
"My trainers ask me to just do it for them. 5 clicks to do what should take 1." — L&D Manager
AI-Powered · Fully Managed · Powered by Moodle®
The managed Moodle LMS
infrastructure that scales.
ScaleMoodle provisions a fully managed Moodle LMS in 90 seconds, connects to your HR system automatically, and generates courses with AI. Used by 400+ organisations. No servers. No DevOps. No compromise.
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30-day money-back guarantee
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Trusted by training teams at
Meridian GroupHelios TrainingApex ComplianceNorthstar AcademyCrestline Corp
90s
Tenant live time
8 min
First AI course
60%
Less admin time
400+
Organisations
Most Moodle deployments have 4 problems that compound
If your LMS feels like a full-time maintenance job
These aren't edge cases. They're documented across thousands of public reviews, forums, and support threads.
SSO takes months, not minutes
LDAP misconfiguration. NTLM that breaks on OS upgrades. SAML that fails when employees change their display name.
"Our IT contractor spent 2 months on Moodle SSO. It still breaks every time someone changes their AD password." — IT Director
Training ROI is invisible
Moodle's reports tell you who clicked what. They don't tell you who's at dropout risk or what your L&D budget delivers.
"My CEO asks about training ROI every quarter. I have completion rates. That's it." — Head of L&D
Course creation is still manual
Subject matter experts have no time to build structured courses. Instructional designers are a permanent bottleneck.
"We have 40 compliance courses that need updating annually. We never finish before the next round starts." — Compliance Manager
Infrastructure consumes your team
Plugin updates breaking prod. The annual compliance exam-day server crash. Your team is an LMS operations team.
"We upgraded Moodle and 6 plugins broke. We spent 3 days rolling back. Our exam was in 4 days." — Systems Admin
Each new deployment is a project
A new department or client means a new server, a new maintenance commitment. Growth multiplies complexity.
"We manage 12 client Moodle instances. Updating all of them takes a full week every quarter." — Moodle Consultant
✦ The ScaleMoodle AI Cloud Engine
One platform that replaces five painful Moodle workarounds.
ScaleMoodle is everything Moodle should have been — modern UI that non-technical trainers use without training, SSO that connects in 15 minutes, AI that generates courses from your existing documents, and infrastructure that manages itself. Powered by real Moodle (GPL v3). Live in 90 seconds.
Smart UX Layer
Integration Hub
AI Copilot
Learning Analytics
Managed Infra
Five layers. One outcome.
Built to eliminate every reason Moodle holds you back
Every feature removes a specific bottleneck. Outcomes first, features second.
01 · Smart UX layer
Trainers create their first course in under 20 minutes.
We replaced Moodle's frontend entirely with a Next.js application that surfaces only what each role needs. Trainers see course-building tools. Learners see their path. Admins see operations. Full Moodle power, accessible to non-technical people on day one.
Role-based dashboardsTrainer portalLearner feedMobile PWAWhite-label
→Outcome: New trainer onboarding goes from a 3-day IT project to a 20-minute self-service setup. Course production increases without headcount.
Welcome back, Sarah ↗
Safety Induction 2025
68% complete · 12 learners active
GDPR Compliance Q1
✓ Complete · 34 certified
02 · Integration hub
Connect Azure AD, Okta, or Workday in 15 minutes. Without a specialist.
SAML 2.0 and OIDC SSO ships as a self-serve configuration. Enterprise customers connect their identity provider through a guided UI. SCIM 2.0 handles user provisioning automatically — new employees appear in Moodle the day they join, deprovisioned the day they leave.
SAML 2.0 / OIDCSCIM 2.0 auto-syncAzure AD / OktaWorkday / BambooHRREST API + webhooks
→Outcome: Manual user management eliminated. New hires have LMS access on day one. Offboarded employees cannot access training after departure.
Azure Active Directory✓ 847 users synced
Okta Workforce Identity✓ SAML active
Workday HRIS✓ SCIM · 4 min ago
Add integration…Salesforce, Teams…
03 · AI copilot
From policy document to SCORM-ready course in 8 minutes.
Upload a PDF, paste a topic, provide a URL. ScaleMoodle generates sections, page content, quiz questions with answer keys, and H5P activity prompts — packaged as a Moodle .mbz file ready to import. The AI tutor answers learner questions in real time, grounded in your course content.
AI course generatorSCORM-ready outputAI quiz builderAI tutor (RAG)40+ languages
→Outcome: One instructional designer producing 2 courses/month produces 18+ with AI. Compliance coverage that took quarters to build takes weeks.
AI course generator
Generating: GDPR Compliance 2025
Section 4 of 6 · Quiz questions · ETA 2 min
AI tutor
JT
What's the max GDPR fine?
AI
Per Module 2: €20M or 4% of global turnover, whichever is higher. Covered in Enforcement — completed yesterday.
04 · Learning analytics
Know which learners will disengage two weeks before they do.
Moodle's built-in analytics record what happened. ScaleMoodle predicts what will happen. Our dropout risk model scores every learner weekly. Natural-language queries generate charts without SQL. ROI dashboards present training impact in business terms — language your leadership uses to justify L&D spend.
Dropout risk scoringCompletion forecastingNL → chartROI reportingCompliance audit trail
→Outcome: At-risk learner identification moves from reactive to proactive. Training ROI becomes a board-presentable number, not a gut feeling.
94%
Completion rate
up from 61%
up from 61%
7
At-risk flagged
this week
this week
£42k
Training ROI
this quarter
this quarter
3.4×
Performance lift
post-training
post-training
05 · Managed infrastructure
Your team does learning. Not Linux.
Kubernetes auto-scaling handles exam-day concurrent load spikes automatically. Pre-warmed pool provisioning delivers new tenants in 90 seconds. Every Moodle update is tested against your plugin stack before it reaches production. Multi-AZ Aurora with point-in-time recovery. 99.9% uptime SLA.
Kubernetes HPA90s provisioningAurora Multi-AZManaged updates99.9% SLASOC 2 in progress
→Outcome: Zero plugin breakage from updates. Zero server crashes during compliance exam season. Your IT team's Moodle tickets drop to near zero.
Platform status● All operational
Uptime last 90 days: 99.97%
New tenant
87s
Active pods
12 ↑
✓ Moodle 4.5 update — plugin tests: 23/23 passing
Simple by design
Set up your first course before the end of today.
No 12-week implementation. No professional services invoice. A working LMS on day one.
- 1
Sign up
Choose your plan. Free tier requires no credit card and never expires.
2 min - 2
LMS provisioned
Your Moodle instance is assigned from our pre-warmed pool. Subdomain live immediately.
90 seconds - 3
Connect systems
SAML SSO and SCIM user sync configured in a guided self-serve flow.
15 min - 4
Generate course
Upload a document. AI produces a complete, SCORM-ready course.
8 min - 5
Scale automatically
Add users, tenants, and AI credits as your organisation grows.
Ongoing
Customer outcomes
What happens when your LMS finally works the way it should
★★★★★
"I manage Moodle for 14 clients. Onboarding a new client used to take 3 weeks minimum. Now it takes 90 seconds to provision, and they're publishing courses the same afternoon."
3 weeks → 90 seconds per client
★★★★★
"Our instructional designer was producing 2 courses per month. With the AI generator, we're at 18 per month — same team. Compliance coverage went from 60% to 97% in one quarter."
2 → 18 courses/month · same team
★★★★★
"We spent 8 months trying to get Azure AD SSO working in our self-hosted Moodle. Two contractors. ScaleMoodle did it in 14 minutes. I set it up myself. I'm not technical."
8 months → 14 minutes for SSO
18×
Faster course production with AI
97%
Average compliance training completion
60%
Reduction in LMS admin time
3×
Faster employee onboarding to training
Built for your industry
Three use cases where ScaleMoodle pays for itself
Corporate training
Onboard faster. Train at scale. Stay compliant.
Connect to your HRIS on day one. New hires enrolled in onboarding paths before they open a welcome email. AI generates department-specific training from your internal documentation.
- ✓Auto-enrol new hires via Workday or BambooHR
- ✓AI converts internal docs to courses in 8 minutes
- ✓Manager view: team certification status at a glance
- ✓SSO: employees use their existing company credentials
Used by Meridian Group (3,400 employees) and Crestline Corp (1,200 employees)
Training centres & academies
Provision a new client in 90 seconds. Manage all centrally.
One platform. Multiple client organisations. Each with their own branded interface. Grow your consultancy without growing your ops team.
- ✓Provision new client LMS in 90 seconds, no server
- ✓White-label: each client sees their own brand
- ✓Manage all updates and backups from one console
- ✓20% revenue share on partner programme referrals
Used by Helios Training (14 clients) and Vantage L&D (8 enterprise clients)
Compliance training
AI converts policy documents into audit-ready training. Automatically.
Upload the updated policy. Receive a SCORM-compliant course with quiz questions derived from the actual policy text. Automated re-certification reminders.
- ✓Policy document → SCORM course in 8 minutes
- ✓Certificate expiry tracking + auto re-certification nudges
- ✓Audit-ready completion reports on demand
- ✓SOC 2 Type II in progress for regulated industries
Used by Apex Compliance (2,100 users) and Northstar Academy
Pricing
Pricing that matches how your organisation actually grows
Pay for active users, not seat licences. No artificial caps. No forced upgrades.
Monthly
Annual Save 33%
Starter
$0
Free forever · No credit card
For individuals and small teams exploring the platform. Real value from day one — including one AI course generation.
10 active learners
3 courses
1 AI course generation
Subdomain included
No SSO
No custom domain
No analytics
Most popular
Growth
$149/mo
+ $0.90/user above 25 included
For growing teams. Dedicated infrastructure, SSO, and the full Moodle plugin library with zero technical overhead.
25 users included
Unlimited courses
500 AI credits/month
SSO (SAML / OIDC)
SCORM 1.2 + 2004
Custom subdomain
99.9% SLA · 8h support
Business
$399/mo
+ $0.60/user above 50 included
For organisations needing advanced AI, predictive analytics, custom branding, and deep enterprise integrations.
50 users included
2,000 AI credits/month
AI tutor + predictive analytics
Custom domain + white-label
SCIM / HR sync
API access + webhooks
99.9% SLA · 4h support
Enterprise
Custom
Annual · Per seat or flat rate
Dedicated infrastructure, compliance packages, and a named account team for enterprise deployments.
Unlimited users
Dedicated node pool + Aurora cluster
Unlimited AI + custom fine-tuning
HIPAA / FERPA on request
SOC 2 Type II (in progress)
99.95% SLA · 1h P1 support
Dedicated Slack channel
30-day money-back guarantee
Cancel anytime — no notice period
Migration support included
No credit card for free tier
All plans include Moodle 4.4 LTS · S3 storage · CDN · automated backups · 24/7 monitoring · Powered by Moodle® (GPL v3)
Why ScaleMoodle
The honest comparison
How ScaleMoodle compares to self-hosted Moodle, MoodleCloud, and enterprise LMS alternatives.
| Capability | Self-hosted Moodle | MoodleCloud | ScaleMoodle ✦ | Enterprise LMS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to live | 2–6 weeks | Hours–days | 90 seconds | 4–12 weeks |
| Modern UI / UX | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO (SAML / OIDC) | DIY / complex | — | Self-serve | ✓ |
| SCIM / HR sync | Plugin + config | — | ✓ | Add-on cost |
| AI course generation | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Predictive analytics | — | — | ✓ | Expensive add-on |
| Custom plugins | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| User limit | Server-bound | 1,000 max | Unlimited | Per-seat |
| Auto-scaling | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| GPL / open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Starting price | $200+/mo hosting | $110/mo (50 users) | $0 free tier | $5–25/user/month |
Real questions, direct answers
The concerns worth addressing
Security and data isolation
Growth and above: dedicated Kubernetes namespace, dedicated PostgreSQL database, dedicated Redis instance. Network policies enforce strict isolation. Data encrypted at rest (AWS KMS) and in transit (TLS 1.3). CloudTrail audit logging, GuardDuty threat detection, automated CVE scanning. SOC 2 Type II audit in progress. HIPAA and FERPA packages on Enterprise.
Migrating from existing Moodle
Migration Express ($500 flat): provide your database dump and files archive, we restore everything within 48 hours and verify courses, users, completions, and certificates before handoff. From MoodleCloud, we import directly from .mbz backup files. We've migrated organisations with 10+ years of Moodle history. Most migrations complete in a weekend.
Our HR system is non-standard
If your HRIS supports SCIM 2.0 or SAML 2.0 — Workday, BambooHR, SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, Rippling, and most modern systems do — you're covered. For non-standard systems, our webhook API connects to Make, Zapier, or Workato. Enterprise customers receive a dedicated integration engineering session.
Total cost vs our current setup
Most organisations spend less total on ScaleMoodle than on their current Moodle setup — once you account for hosting ($200–600/month), specialist maintenance (4–8 hrs/month), update failures, and trainer hours lost to a confusing interface. Happy to work through a TCO analysis on a call. Bring your current hosting invoice.
We have Moodle customisations
Plugin-based customisations are fully supported — we maintain a curated GPL-compatible plugin library and can add specific plugins within one business day. If your customisations are direct Moodle core modifications, we help re-implement them as proper plugins — the correct long-term approach regardless, as core hacks break on every update.
What if we want to leave?
You export everything. Moodle's tools generate course backups (.mbz), user data exports, completion reports, and certificate records at any time. Monthly plans cancel with no notice period. Data remains accessible for 30 days post-cancellation. You are never locked in — your content is in standard Moodle format, importable anywhere.
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FAQ
Common questions
Real Moodle 4.4 LTS runs as the backend engine. Every Moodle feature works — SCORM, xAPI, H5P, competencies, gradebook, certificates, and the full plugin ecosystem. We replaced the user-facing interface with a Next.js application. You get Moodle's full feature depth with a product-quality experience. Fully GPL v3 compliant. Moodle® attributed in the product footer.
We maintain a pool of pre-configured Moodle instances — Kubernetes namespace, PostgreSQL database, Redis cache, S3 bucket — all pre-built and waiting. When payment confirms, we atomically assign you a pool slot, update your subdomain and config, perform a rolling pod restart, and point your DNS record. The Moodle install step happened when we built the pool, not at your signup. Result: live in under 90 seconds.
Our Migration Express service ($500 flat) accepts your Moodle database dump and files archive, restores everything into your ScaleMoodle tenant within 48 hours, and verifies courses, user accounts, completion records, grades, and certificates are intact before handoff. We've migrated organisations with 10+ years of Moodle history. Most migrations complete in a weekend.
You provide a topic, PDF, or URL. ScaleMoodle generates sections, page content, quiz questions with answer keys, and H5P activity prompts — packaged as a Moodle .mbz backup ready to import. Typical generation time is 8–15 minutes for a full course. Free tier includes 1 generation. Growth includes 500 credits/month (~5 full courses). Business includes 2,000 credits/month (~20 courses).
Every update goes through our staging cluster first where we run a full automated compatibility suite against all plugins. If a plugin fails, we fix it or hold the update. You're always on a recent, secure Moodle version — without the usual update anxiety. This is the most common pain point that brings teams to ScaleMoodle from self-hosted Moodle.
Yes. Custom domains are included on Business and Enterprise plans. You point a CNAME record from your domain to us, and we provision a TLS certificate automatically via Let's Encrypt. Your learners see learn.yourcompany.com — no trace of ScaleMoodle in the URL. White-label email is also available on Business+.
You export it. Moodle's built-in tools let you generate course backups (.mbz), user data exports, completion reports, and certificate records at any time. Monthly plans cancel with no notice period. After cancellation, data remains accessible for 30 days then is permanently deleted per our retention policy. You are never locked in.
No. ScaleMoodle is an independent commercial product built on Moodle open-source software (GPL v3). We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any commercial relationship with Moodle Pty Ltd. We display "Powered by Moodle® — Moodle is a registered trademark of Moodle Pty Ltd" in the product per trademark guidelines. All Moodle core source modifications are published publicly in our GPL-compliant repository.
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