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ScholarLMS

EDTECH
Velocity0.0

Cloud-hosted Moodle-based LMS for small-to-medium businesses, schools, and training providers.

www.scholarlms.com ↗

Low-velocity Moodle reseller with sporadic batch releases — alive, but barely shipping.

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◆Current state
ScholarLMS is a Moodle-based managed LMS for SMBs and educators. The available changelog is sparse: a March 2026 platform update (redesigned admin dashboard, new Learning Space nav, course-page improvements), a Winter 2025 batch that incorporated upstream Moodle releases plus their own course-builder tweaks, and then a multi-year gap back to 2017. The cadence reads less like an active product line and more like opportunistic catch-up releases tied to Moodle's own update cycle.
◆Where it's heading
The product is in maintenance mode. Each release bundles a long list of small improvements rather than introducing new capability surfaces, and the months between releases are long enough that returning users may not notice changes between visits. The 'Add Sections Anywhere' framing in Winter 2025 — celebrating that sections no longer have to be added sequentially — signals an underlying UX still quite close to bare Moodle.
◆Prediction
Expect the next release to continue the same pattern: a once-a-year-ish batch with admin/learner UX polish and the latest Moodle merge. AI features have not appeared and there is no signal in the entries that they will arrive soon.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Platform Updates — March 2026

    March 2026's update redesigns the admin dashboard, adds a Learning Space concept in navigation, and touches up course pages. Genuine UX work, but consistent with the product's once-a-year batch cadence rather than a step change.

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  2. 1y ago

    Exciting New Enhancements Across the Platform – Winter 2025

    The Winter 2025 release folded in upstream Moodle updates and added course-builder, assignment, and question-bank tweaks — including non-sequential section insertion. A useful catch-up batch that highlights how closely the product still tracks Moodle's own pace.

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  3. 8y ago

    Releasing ScholarLMS My Dashboard

    Historical 2017 dashboard launch — context for why the March 2026 admin-dashboard redesign matters: the previous version had been in place for nearly a decade.

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  4. 9y ago

    Meet the New ScholarLMS Small Size – SMB Learning Management

    2017 launch of the $89/month Small plan, aimed at SMBs and individual teachers below the existing tier. Anchors the pricing positioning the product still occupies.

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  5. 11y ago

    July was a month of exciting updates at ScholarLMS

    A 2014 generic monthly recap with no specific capability surfaced. Useful only as evidence that the changelog blog goes back over a decade with long quiet periods between batches.

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