LMS for training providersThe learning lives next to the booking.
Cademy’s learning management system delivers on-demand, live online, in-person and blended courses from one place. It shares a record with booking and CRM, so a paid place becomes an enrolled learner and completion becomes a certificate, with nothing re-keyed.
One login for learners to book, learn, take the quiz and collect the certificate. One record for you to see it all.
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Before the day3 lessons
Welcome from your trainer4:12
The primary surveyread
Knowledge check: DR ABC3 of 10 answered
Training day2 lessons
Practical: CPR and using an AEDThu 10 Sep · Leeds, Room 2
Choking, bleeding and shockThu 10 Sep · Leeds, Room 2
Learning
- Sections and lessons: video, reading, downloads
- SCORM 1.2 packages
- Quizzes and assessments
- Live sessions in the same outline
Structure
- Quizzes that unlock the next lesson
- Drip feed on the schedule you set
- Deadlines with due and overdue emails
- Forums on every course
Proof
- Certificates that issue automatically
- A link for every certificate, revocable
- CPD points recorded alongside
- Progress on every registration
Everything we need in one place, from building online and blended courses to running quizzes and tracking progress.
Ben Calvert-PainterOsteopath, Tutor, CPD Today
Community
A forum on every course. Questions land where the course is.
Learners post, reply and react. Facilitators share files and run polls, and get a digest so nothing waits a week.
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TRTom ReidYesterday
Is the recovery position different for someone with a suspected spinal injury? Asked at work today and wasn’t sure.42 replies · Sarah Cole replied
SCSarah Cole FacilitatorMon
Slides from day one attached. The practical on Thursday starts with CPR, so re-watch the four-minute video first.EFAW-day-one.pdf9
MSMaya Singh FacilitatorMon
Which evening suits the six-week refresher? Reply with Thu or Tue.7 replies
Forums
- Private to enrolled learners, one per course
- Posts, replies and reactions; polls, images and attachments
- Digest emails to the facilitators and owners of the course
Around the course
- Welcome content shown after enrolment: what to bring, where to park, the forum link
- Course invites to a filtered list of contacts
- Bulk email by lesson progress: everyone who has not started
When someone struggles
- Facilitator emailed when a learner fails a quiz, per quiz
- Learner emailed when a quiz is marked pass or fail
- Lesson deadlines with due-soon, due-today and overdue emails
The learner’s side
One place for their courses, their record and their people.
Every learner has a home: courses they are on, progress, the next session with an add-to-calendar link, orders and invoices, certificates. The person who booked for others manages the places from the same page.
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Learner record
- Completion status per registration: not started, in progress, not completed, completed
- Lesson progress you can correct, lesson by lesson
- Certificates, more than one per registration when the templates differ
- Access limits: lifetime, or a set time after enrolment
The person who books
- Add or invite participants after booking; names can follow
- See each participant’s progress or attendance
- Download every certificate on the order
- Complete missing details for the people they booked
Video and files
- Captions: upload .vtt or .srt in 18 languages; generated for you on Teams
- Custom thumbnails and a media library
- SCORM 1.2 hosted free, on Teams
- Copy a lesson to another course as a draft
Evidence
What a compliance lead asks for, on one table.
Who attended, who completed, what they scored, what was issued and when it runs out. The registrations table has a column for each, and the export matches the filter.
Registrations
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| Name | Registration Code | Status | Role | Course | Completion | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARAnna Reid | REG-2211 | Active | Direct | Emergency First Aid at Work | Completed | |
| TRTom Reid | REG-2210 | Active | Booker | IOSH Managing Safely | In Progress | |
| LALena Adeyemi | REG-2209 | Active | Direct | Fire Marshal | Not Started | |
| RWRuth Walsh | REG-2208 | Active | Guest | Fire Marshal | Not Started | |
| DPDan Price | REG-2207 | Active | Direct | Manual Handling | Completed | |
| MOMark Okafor | REG-2206 | Active | Booker | Mental Health First Aid | In Progress |
10 per page1–6 of 2,973 registrations1 / 298
On every registration
- Attendance per date, marked one by one or in bulk
- Completion calculated from attendance and lessons
- Quiz score against the pass mark; file-upload questions for evidence
- CPD points and hours, renamed to your accrediting body’s terms
What was issued
- Certificates with expiry, view link and revocation; sort and export by expiry
- Several per learner: attendance, accredited, award
- Issued in bulk to learners, to the booker, or as a ZIP to you
- Multi-page templates: syllabus, signatures, accreditation details
Out of the system
- Exports use your filter and your columns; column order remembered
- Scheduled exports daily, weekly or monthly, on Teams
- Registrations by organisation, on the organisation record
- Reports and exports
Compared
A corporate LMS teaches.
It does not sell, book or invoice.
Most LMSs were built for a company training its own staff. A training provider also has to sell the course, take the booking, run the classroom day and invoice the client. Cademy was built for that.
| Cademy | TalentLMS | Moodle | LearnDash | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Professional training providers | “All-in-one LMS for growing businesses” | Open-source LMS; hosted plans on MoodleCloud | WordPress LMS plugin |
| Entry price | Free plan. Pro £99 a month billed yearly, or £119 monthly | Free up to 5 users and 10 courses; Core US$119 a month for up to 100 users | MoodleCloud Standard £1,600 a year for 750 users, or host it yourself | Essentials US$259 a year, plus your own WordPress hosting |
| Selling public course dates | Bookings and payment on your own website | Not listed on their site | “Sell courses via Stripe” on the Standard plan | Stripe and PayPal for online courses |
| In-person and live online dates | Scheduled, booked, registers taken, calendar-synced | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site |
| Certificates and CPD | Automatic, with expiry dates and CPD | Certificates | Certificates | Certificates |
| Invoices, POs and Xero | Included | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site |
| CRM | Learners and organisations on one record | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site | Not listed on their site |
| SCORM | SCORM 1.2 on Teams | Yes | Yes | Via add-ons |
Why it is not close
An LMS that knows who booked, who paid and who passed.
The learning is tied to the sale
- A paid place is an enrolled learner, with nothing re-keyed
- Completion issues the certificate and awards CPD
Classroom and online, one course
- In person, live online, on demand or blended
- Registers, reminders and Zoom links come with the date
Built for clients who pay
- Organisations, POs and invoices to Xero
- Exports when a client asks for evidence
A first draft, fast
- The AI course builder drafts from your PDFs
- Automatic captions on Teams
Switching from
Coming from a corporate LMS?
Their column comes from their own website. Your courses, learners and completions move with you.
From TalentLMS
- A staff-training LMS with no booking or invoicing
- TalentLMS alternative
From Moodle
- Open source: you host it, or pay MoodleCloud
- Moodle alternative
From LearnDash
- A WordPress plugin, on hosting you run
- LearnDash alternative
AI in the LMS
A first draft and captions. You stay the author.
Two places, both optional. Nothing is published, marked or certified by AI.
AI course builder
- Drafts sections, lessons and quiz questions from your PDFs
- On every plan, labelled Beta
- AI course builder
Automatic captions
- Videos transcribed and captioned for you
- On Teams
Rules, not AI
- Quiz marking follows your pass mark
- Certificates follow attendance and completion
- Where Cademy uses AI
TMS and LMS
Two different jobs. Cademy does both.
People often ask for one when they need the other. Here is the difference.
| Training management system | Learning management system | Cademy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it runs | The business of training | The learning itself | Both, on one record |
| Day to day | Dates, bookings, facilitators, venues, registers, invoices | Lessons, video, quizzes, SCORM, progress, certificates | A paid place becomes an enrolled learner. Completion becomes a certificate |
| Who lives in it | Administrators, course owners, facilitators | Learners | Everyone, with their own role |
| Without the other | Learning records sit in a second system | Bookings and invoices sit in a spreadsheet | Nothing typed twice |
Questions
Asked before every demo.
Anything else, ask a person.
What makes an LMS right for a training provider?
Training providers sell courses to the public and to employers. They need booking, payment, certificates and client reporting tied to the learning, which most corporate LMSs leave out.
Does Cademy support SCORM?
Yes, SCORM 1.2, on the Teams plan and above.
Can I run blended courses?
Yes. Combine on-demand lessons, live online sessions, in-person days and an assessment in one course, in the order you choose.
Is it a learner management system too?
Yes. Every learner’s bookings, progress and certificates sit on one record, alongside the organisation that paid for them.
Are certificates automatic?
Yes, if you switch it on. A certificate is issued when the learner attends or completes the course, the learner is emailed, and you can give it an expiry date.
Next step
See it with your own courses.
A thirty-minute call, your courses, dates and learners on screen.
No card needed. Import a spreadsheet and run a course this week.