Commercial education software can cost more than your first year of operations.
New institutions face a painful choice: pay tens of thousands in annual software licenses before enrolling a single student, or build everything in-house. There is a smarter way to implement an LMS for college and the right SIS.
Commercial LMS licenses drain startup capital
Canvas, Blackboard, and Brightspace charge annual licensing fees that can run $10,000–$50,000+ depending on enrollment. For a school that hasn't enrolled its first student yet, that's money spent before revenue begins.
Accreditors require compliant student records from day one
Your SIS must track attendance, grades, financial aid, and progress in formats your accreditor and state agency will audit. Spreadsheets won't pass review — and a misconfigured system means failed compliance.
Your team builds curriculum, not servers
Faculty and administrators need to focus on teaching and operations — not configuring databases, setting up user roles, or troubleshooting servers. Your technology should be ready when they are.
The best LMS for a new college — paired with the right SIS. Zero licensing fees.
We deploy Moodle and Gibbon — two of the world's most trusted open-source education platforms — on secure cloud infrastructure. You get enterprise-grade school management software for startup colleges at a fraction of the commercial cost.
Moodle LMS
Moodle powers 400M+ users worldwide. It handles everything students and faculty need: course delivery, assignments, quizzes, gradebooks, discussion forums, and video-conference integration — making it the best LMS for a new college at any scale.
- Course creation with categories, modules, and prerequisite chains
- Built-in gradebook, assignment submission, and quiz engine
- Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet integration for live classes
- Mobile-responsive — students access courses from any device
- Fully customizable with your institutional branding
- No per-student licensing fees — ever
Gibbon SIS
Gibbon manages your institution's administrative backbone: enrollment, attendance, grades, program management, faculty departments, and the student record compliance SIS reporting your accreditor requires.
- Student enrollment, records, and transcript management
- Attendance tracking and academic progress monitoring
- Faculty and department management with role-based access
- Program structures, terms, and instructional time configuration
- Accreditor-ready reporting and audit-trail documentation
- No per-student licensing fees — ever
Both platforms are hosted on secure cloud infrastructure with automated backups, SSL encryption, and 99.9% uptime. We handle all server management so your team never touches a command line.
Everything deployed, configured, and ready for your first enrollment.
We handle the complete installation and configuration of both Moodle and Gibbon on cloud infrastructure — from server setup to admin training — so your LMS for a new university is ready before cohort one.
Server Installation & Configuration
Latest stable versions of Moodle and Gibbon installed on our cloud hosting platform. Server configuration, software dependencies, domain mapping, and SSL certificates — all handled.
Database & Data Repository Setup
Secure, high-performance databases for both platforms with data repositories that comply with FERPA and your accreditor's data retention requirements.
Institutional Branding & Theming
Your colors, logo, and branding applied to the LMS interface. We ensure the theme renders correctly on desktop, tablet, and mobile for a professional student experience.
User Accounts & Role Permissions
Administration accounts configured with appropriate access levels — administrators, faculty, students. Role-based permissions for both LMS and SIS, with student and faculty data imported from your records.
Categories, Programs & Course Trees
Up to 3 categories with up to 10 courses organized in Moodle, plus up to 3 programs with matching course structures in Gibbon. Navigation built for students, management built for administrators.
Video Conference Integration
Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet integrated into Moodle so faculty and students access live classes and office hours from one interface. Security settings configured including password protection and waiting rooms.
SIS Program Configuration
Gibbon configured with your instructional time periods, academic terms, student groups, faculty departments, and enrollment workflows. Every field mapped to your accreditor's reporting requirements.
Administration Team Training
5-hour live training covering system navigation, course management, user administration, gradebook functions, basic troubleshooting, and best practices for day-to-day LMS and SIS operation.
Ready to set up your education technology?
Book a free consultation. We'll walk you through the Moodle + Gibbon stack, answer your questions, and give you a clear deployment timeline.
We manage the technology. You manage the institution.
After deployment, our team handles the ongoing administration of both Moodle and Gibbon so your staff can focus on running the school — not troubleshooting software.
System Updates & Maintenance
Platform patches, version upgrades, plugin updates, security monitoring, and performance optimization — handled continuously so both systems stay current and secure.
User Account Management
New student and faculty account creation, role assignments, access revocation, data imports, and secure credential management across both Moodle and Gibbon.
Student & Faculty Training
Onboarding programs for new cohorts — students learn to navigate the LMS, faculty learn course management, and administrators learn reporting and compliance workflows.
Real-Time Technical Support
Dedicated support team for troubleshooting, bug resolution, and system questions. Minimal disruption to teaching and learning when issues arise.
Compliance & Accreditor Reporting
Student record compliance SIS configured for your accreditor — attendance tracking, grade records, financial aid documentation, and audit-ready reports that meet DEAC, ACCSC, or your accreditor's standards.
Configuration & Course Expansion
As your institution grows, we add new programs, scale enrollment capacity, create additional course shells, and adjust system settings to match your expanding operations.
Your LMS is deployed. Now fill it with ready-made courses.
Our Campus Courseware catalog offers plug-and-play course packages that drop directly into Moodle. Combined with our LMS deployment, you go from zero to teaching in weeks — not months — at a fraction of the cost of building from scratch.
Skip months of course development
Import complete courses into the Moodle instance we just built. Faculty can start teaching immediately.
Slash your biggest startup cost
Faculty time is the most expensive line item for new schools. Ready-made courses eliminate months of content creation.
Mix and match
Use Campus Courseware for core courses and custom development for specialized electives. Everything is LMS-ready.
Zoom lecture management & video library hosting
Don't want your faculty managing video recordings? We handle the entire workflow — from recording to editing to publishing — so lectures are always available for students.
- Faculty Zoom training
- Weekly lecture downloads
- Light video editing
- Private YouTube channel setup
- Uploads to your channel
- Links added to Moodle course pages
Video Lecture Management
We record, edit, host, and link your video lectures — so faculty focus on teaching, not tech.
From agreement to live launch in four steps.
Whether you are implementing SIS for a small college, replacing a costly LMS for a new university program, or setting up your first system end-to-end.
Discovery & Planning
We review your institution type, program offerings, delivery mode (online, on-campus, hybrid), and accreditation pathway. We map your requirements to the Moodle + Gibbon configuration.
Deployment & Configuration
Server setup, Moodle and Gibbon installation, database creation, branding, user roles, course structures, program configuration, and video conferencing integration — all deployed on your timeline.
Training & Onboarding
Live 5-hour training for your administration team covering both platforms. System navigation, course management, student records, troubleshooting, and best practices.
Launch & 30-Day Support
Go live with dedicated post-launch support. Real-time troubleshooting, configuration adjustments, performance monitoring, and guidance for day-to-day operations.
Education technology setup for every stage.
Whether you are building your first technology stack or upgrading from a system that is costing too much.
New Institutions
You're in the licensing phase and need an education startup technology stack — LMS, SIS, and video conferencing — deployed and ready before your first cohort. Open-source means your budget goes further.
Growing Institutions
You're paying too much for commercial software or outgrowing your current setup. We migrate you to Moodle + Gibbon — same functionality, no licensing overhead, full data ownership.
Pre-Accreditation Schools
Your accreditor requires documented student record compliance. We configure Gibbon to produce the attendance, grade, and enrollment reports your accreditor expects — ready for your first site visit.