LMS Engineering, Based in Nashville
Senior engineers for LMS migrations, SCORM tracking repair, managed hosting, and custom Moodle work — serving Middle Tennessee and clients nationwide.
If you landed here searching for a Moodle developer or LMS help in Nashville, the short version: we quote clearly and up front, we do the work ourselves (no offshore hand-off), and when you call (615) 396-7139 you reach an engineer, not a ticket queue.
Who we work with
Middle Tennessee runs more learning platforms than it lets on
Nashville reads as a music town, but its day job is healthcare, education, and ministry — three sectors that live and die by training records. Here's who actually ends up on our calendar.
Healthcare training vendors
The VUMC and HCA ecosystem has spawned dozens of small companies selling CE and compliance courses. Their most common support ticket is always the same one: "the learner finished, but the LMS says incomplete." Nine times out of ten that's a tracking fault — a cmi.core.lesson_status the LMS won't accept, or a suspend_data blob that got truncated. We diagnose, repair, and verify the fix in SCORM Cloud.
Churches & ministries
Discipleship courses, membership classes, leadership tracks — often on a Moodle site a volunteer set up in 2019 and nobody has patched since. We take the whole thing off your plate: fully managed hosting, updates, backups, free migration in, no contract to sign.
Managed Moodle hostingPrivate schools & homeschool umbrellas
Umbrella programs across Williamson and Rutherford counties hold grade records for hundreds of families, and FERPA applies to more of them than most realize. When we move a school's site, grade history comes along intact — including the mdl_grade_grades_history table most migration shops quietly drop.
Nonprofits with compliance training
Volunteer onboarding, abuse-prevention certifications, grant-mandated training with an audit trail your funder will actually ask for. A care plan on your existing hosting keeps the site patched and the completion records defensible.
Care plansTrade schools & workforce programs
Competency tracking, employer reporting, enrollment flows that match how your admissions office actually works. This is custom plugin territory, and it's the most satisfying work we do.
Moodle developmentWhy local matters
Why Middle Tennessee orgs call us instead of the vendor's queue
Most LMS "support" in 2026 is a portal owned by a private-equity roll-up. You file a ticket, a first-line agent asks you to clear your cache, and four days later someone who has never seen a Moodle database suggests you upgrade to a higher tier. We think that model deserves to lose.
Ours is simpler. Named engineers, fixed quotes, and if you're local, we'll meet you at a coffee shop in Berry Hill and look at the actual problem on a laptop. That meeting is free. So is the opinion.
Being on Central time sounds like a small thing until you've spent a week trading 4 p.m. emails with a support desk nine time zones away. When your registrar notices a grade discrepancy at 8 a.m., we're at our desks too.
Get a free Moodle health check
We reply within one business day, Central time. Or just call (615) 396-7139.
Tennessee notes
The Tennessee LMS landscape, briefly
Public higher ed here largely standardized on D2L Brightspace — branded "eLearn" across the TBR community colleges and colleges of applied technology. If you're a vendor selling into those schools, or an instructor leaving one with your course content, that's a migration we do routinely.
One deadline worth knowing: Moodle 4.1 and 4.4 both hit security end-of-life on December 8, 2025. If your site is still on either branch, it has been unpatched for months. Moodle 4.5 LTS is supported through October 2027, which makes it the sane upgrade target for most organizations; 5.0 reaches end of support in October 2026, so we generally don't recommend it as a place to land.
FERPA, for Tennessee schools: if your program receives federal funds — and most accredited private schools and umbrella programs touch them somewhere — student education records in your LMS are covered. That includes grades, submissions, and activity logs. Our migrations preserve those records byte-for-byte with a row-count verification report, we handle minors' data accordingly, and we have a data processing agreement template ready for your counsel to review. More on the compliance page.
Services
What we do, and the effort involved
| Service | Effort & expertise | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| LMS migration | Moderate — days of senior work | Small site (≤200 users); mid-size sites take proportionally more. Zero-data-loss guarantee, verification report, 30 days of post-move support. |
| SCORM tracking repair | Light — fixed, flat per package | Per package, with a multi-package rate. Diagnosed, repaired, verified in SCORM Cloud. |
| Managed Moodle hosting | Subscription — tiered by size | 100 to 500 users, fully managed, free migration in, no contract. |
| Moodle development | Substantial — senior build | Themes and plugins scoped per project; block-of-hours engagements available. |
| Care plans | Subscription — tiered by scope | Your hosting, our maintenance. Standard and Premium add dev hours and SCORM triage. |
For context: agencies typically quote a wide, sight-unseen range for a migration. We'd rather scope it first — that's what the free review is for.
Service area
Where we work
In person, when it helps: Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Sumner, and Wilson counties. Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville, Gallatin, Lebanon, Mt. Juliet — if it's inside the metro, a kickoff over coffee is usually easy to arrange.
Remote: everywhere else. The work itself — database migration, SCORM debugging, plugin development — happens over a screen regardless of where you sit, so serving Middle Tennessee and clients nationwide is the same job with different commutes.
Everything runs on Central time either way.
Questions we get
Nashville LMS questions, answered
Will you actually meet with us in person?
Yes, if you're in the Nashville metro. A first conversation over coffee or at your office is normal for us. The work itself happens remotely — that's just the nature of database and server work — but you'll always know the names of the people doing it.
Can you move us off Brightspace (eLearn) into Moodle — or the other way?
Both directions. We regularly move course content and user records between Brightspace, Blackboard, Canvas, MoodleCloud, and self-hosted Moodle. Grade history and completion records come along, verified row by row. If leaving Moodle is genuinely the better fit for your program, we'll say so and help you do it.
Our courses say "complete" but the LMS shows "incomplete." Can you fix that?
Almost certainly — it's the most common SCORM fault there is, and it's usually a status-mapping or suspend-data problem rather than anything wrong with your content. Send us one package for a free diagnosis; repairs are scoped per package and quoted up front, then verified in SCORM Cloud before we hand it back.
We're a small church or nonprofit. Is this a fit for us?
That's exactly who the entry-level managed hosting tier exists for: up to 100 users, fully managed, free migration in, and no contract — if it stops making sense, you leave with your data. Small-site migrations are a one-time cost, quoted after a free scoping call.
Do you only work with organizations in Tennessee?
No — roughly half our clients are outside the state. Being in Nashville means local orgs get face time and everyone gets Central-time responsiveness. The one-business-day reply commitment applies to everybody.
Start here
Tell us what you're dealing with
Nashville-based, working with organizations across the US. An engineer replies within one business day.
Twenty minutes, no obligation. We'll look at your current LMS, flag what a migration would put at risk — grade history, SCORM attempts, enrollment data — and give you a straight answer on cost — a clear, fixed quote after the review.