Learning needs have evolved, and the boundaries between "corporate" and "higher education" are disappearing. To meet this shift, we’re bringing all of our WORK SaaS and EDU SaaS capabilities together into a single, unified Open LMS SaaS platform. This initiative is about giving you more power and flexibility through simple configuration, rather than being limited by product labels.
Why One Platform Matters
Historically, we supported different learning needs through separate product variations. While that worked in the past, today it creates unnecessary complexity. By moving to one foundation, we ensure that you have access to a powerful and complete feature set without friction.
- One name, one codebase, no complications: Open LMS EDU and WORK are joining forces to become one unified Open LMS SaaS platform. We’re uniting our offerings and release schedules into a single, powerful foundation that grows with you.
- A Unified SaaS Plugin Matrix: You will have clear visibility into a curated selection of up-to-date plugins, ensuring consistent availability and ease of support across the entire SaaS platform. This new unified plugin matrix will be a combination of all currently supported plugins from both EDU SaaS and WORK SaaS products.
- One Aligned Release Calendar: All SaaS clients will now follow the same predictable upgrade schedule: same dates, same timelines. This will allow for better coordination, testing, and adoption of new features.
- Configurable, Not Rigid: Open LMS SaaS is a platform that adapts to your needs, allowing each organization to shape its own experience.
Your Site: Same Experience, Greater Potential
While our brand and SaaS codebases are unifying, your daily experience remains stable. This upgrade is designed to be seamless. This process will feel like going through a regular version upgrade, but with expanded capabilities, which you can choose to enable whenever you’re ready.
When will this happen?
This rollout will be delivered as part of a standard platform upgrade in July 2026, aligned with the Moodle 5.1 release.
Please take a look at our release schedules for more details:
There’s no action required from you to receive the upgrade.
What will happen to your site in July 2026?
- User Data: Stays exactly the same
- Course Content: Your structure and courses remain untouched
- Files & Settings: All custom configurations are fully preserved
- Personalizations: Your unique setup will continue to work as expected
The 2026 Roadmap: Innovation with Purpose
Our 2026 roadmap is focused on reducing your administrative burden so you can focus on your learners. Please learn more about our roadmap here.
H1: Codebase Unification & Modernization
- One SaaS Foundation: We’re merging EDU and WORK into a single codebase to ensure features are developed once and made available to everyone.
- Marketplace Alignment: We’ll be adopting new standards to ensure every plugin you use continues to be verified and secure.
- Mobile App Alignment: Our continuous updates will ensure immediate access to the latest features on the go.
- Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) + AI: We’re introducing AI-powered actions that can automatically recommend resources to students based on their specific assignment or quiz results.
H2: Automation & Intelligence
- Conduit Evolution: We’re evolving the user experience to make managing bulk user creation, tenants, and complex workflows more intuitive than ever.
- Enhanced Theme Experience: Both Snap and WORK themes are being evolved for a cleaner, modern look with more consistent navigation.
- Personalized Learning Designer (PLD): We’ll continue powering student success through AI-driven adaptive pathways and automated, event-based intervention triggers.
- Reporting Evolution (ORE): We plan on centralizing all organizational data needs into a single, unified engine for streamlined reporting.
Discover Moodle Core 5.1
Coming in July 2026, the upgrade to Moodle 5.1 will bring several high-impact features:
- New Activity Chooser: Activities will be grouped by category (e.g., Assessment, Communication) and clearly show if they are gradable.
- Total AI Control: Teachers will be able to toggle AI tools on or off for an entire course or specific activities via a dedicated settings section.
- DeepSeek Integration: Moodle has expanded its AI provider options to include DeepSeek.
- Advanced Grading Tools: Grader panels will now be resizable, and the system will log exactly when students download their feedback files.
- Smart Enrollment: You’ll be able to add users to specific groups and define a specific "starting from" access date during the enrollment step.
- TinyMCE Enhancements: Enjoy a visual refresh for media insertion and new "on-premises" support for premium features like advanced image editing, keeping your data local and secure.
This evolution is our foundation for the future, designed to grow alongside your organization.
Key Benefits
To wrap everything up, here’s a summary of the most impactful benefits you’ll experience as we move toward the one Open LMS SaaS unified platform in July 2026. This transition is designed to provide you with a more powerful, stable, and flexible learning environment without disrupting the experience you know and love.
The Core Benefits for You
- Expanded Feature Access: You’re no longer limited by "WORK" or "EDU" product labels. Every organization will have access to our full suite of tools, allowing you to adopt new learning models (like blending academic and corporate styles) whenever you’re ready.
- Predictable and Faster Innovation: By maintaining a single codebase, our engineering team can deliver updates and new features more quickly and reliably to everyone at once.
- A "No-Surprises" Upgrade: Your site data, courses, files, and custom settings remain completely untouched. This feels like a standard Moodle version upgrade, but with a wealth of new "unlocked" potential.
- Superior Stability and Support: A unified platform means a single, highly vetted Plugin Matrix and a shared release calendar. This ensures consistent quality, fewer surprises during updates, and more streamlined support from our team.
- Next-Gen Automation & AI: Through 2026, you’ll gain access to a modernized Conduit for effortless administrative automation and an AI-enhanced Personalized Learning Designer to provide smarter, adaptive journeys for your learners.
- Modern, Inclusive Design: Through 2026, you’ll see a refreshed and more intuitive interface in both Snap and WORK themes, ensuring the platform remains accessible and easy to adopt for all users.
The goal is to support your strategy, not limit it.