Realise the value of your Moodle LMS.
Moodle is a world-class, highly flexible, open source online learning management system (LMS) that is free to access and use. However, its true flexibility and value (particularly versus proprietary LMS) is best realised by leveraging the expertise of a Moodle Certified Partner.
Moodle partner services – what’s included?
Moodle certified partners offer a range of IT services to support organisations that use Moodle LMS, including:
Hosting and Fully Managed Service
Having a reliable, high availability Enterprise LMS is paramount to supporting an online community of students and educators. Fully managed cloud hosting provides peace of mind that your LMS has the load capacity to flex with the growing requirements of your business. Your Moodle should be an education instrument, not a technical responsibility.
Integrated system
Moodle certified partners have tried and tested knowledge of the architectural principals required to integrate Moodle with your other core applications.
Having all your applications connected means that data from one system can be accessed by another one, to achieve streamlined communication across internal and external functions and audiences.
Automated provisioning of students and enrolments as well as best practice Single Sign On (SSO) across your education application suites is now the expectation for your student cohort.
Extend | Customise | Optimise
Moodle was built to be extended. The “M” in Moodle stands for “Modular.” This is what gives you the power and freedom to make your Moodle do anything you need.
Open source software is widely regarded as providing organisations the freedom to innovate, as it gives free access to the source code. What this means is that expert partners, like Catalyst, can deliver the Moodle LMS that you need to help you achieve your organisation’s goals.
Support | Training | Knowledge sharing
Access to expert support and training means that your business has a fast and effective way to support your LMS and your LMS admin team. This provides assurance that you can respond to issues as they arise. It also means that you are developing technical capability within your own business.
Moodle partners transfer knowledge to your organisation as well as facilitate Moodle community knowledge sharing, helping you stay on top of trends and innovate at a faster pace.
Trusted advice and strategic guidance
If you have a challenge or project that you’re not sure how to approach, chances are a Moodle Certified Partner will have encountered it before. By engaging a Moodle consultancy service, you will be able to leverage the in-depth knowledge and expertise of Moodle technology and the environments that it operates within.
Moodle Partners always have some valuable input about how to apply Moodle LMS to solve your business problem.
Implementation and Migration
Implementation or migration of an LMS can be daunting and time consuming. There is a lot at stake and it’s especially stressful if you haven’t done it before, or if your organisation is large and complex. At that scale any minor error can be very costly.
An experienced partner will work with you to understand your organisation’s structure and requirements, devise a plan and then execute that plan smoothly, with minimal disruption.
Reporting and analytics
The automation of reporting and analytics that Moodle delivers is very powerful. Moodle learning consultants can help you build reports and dashboards and give you visibility of the key metrics that you need to track and report on.
Instructional design and courseware
Whether you are looking for help with creating professional, engaging learning content or you need help with digitising what you have, Partners have the knowledge and instructional design expertise to help you use the full range of content types (activities) in Moodle. In addition they can add community plugins to support and connect to other resources.
Additional Services – Premium Moodle Certified Partners
There are a wide range of organisations accessing Moodle LMS. In order to support organisations with enterprise level requirements, Moodle has identified and endorsed Premium Moodle Certified Partners as experts in the community. Their additional services include:
ISO 27001 Cloud Hosting
Information security enables digital transformation. By electing to work with a partner who is ISO 27001 certified (a global standard that supports information security management), you have the assurance that your data is being managed professionally and responsibly.
The bar is set high for Enterprise Moodle managed service delivery.
Custom development expertise
Are you looking for proven, quality development services for Moodle code enhancements? Moodle HQ provides a list of Premium certified partners for you to review. Endorsed by Moodle, they can help you deliver the capabilities to realise your organisation’s goals.
Moodle better with Catalyst.
Catalyst IT has been a Premium Moodle Partner for over 20 years and is one of the first and largest external contributors to the Moodle Project.
Recognised open source experts
We are multi-award winning Moodle Partners. Having been recognised as Global Partner of the Year (2019, 2021 and 2023) and LMS Contributor of the Year (2022 and 2023), is an important acknowledgement of our team’s dedication to the Moodle Open Source project; and the value that we deliver to our clients.
Our People
At Catalyst, we’ve built a process to ensure we get top quality programmers and continuously invest in staff training. In addition to testing candidates for specific skills and problem solving abilities, we check how user-centric their outputs and supporting communications are to ensure alignment with our quality policy and our clients’ requirements.
More importantly, our people are passionate about what they do. Some of our team have worked with Moodle since it’s very early versions, are on the product advisory groups for Moodle and have contributed many important improvements (to the Moodle core) and extensions (custom Plugins).
Customer-centric approach
Many of our consultants come from the industry sectors we service. This allows us to:
- really understand our clients’ business; and
- provide technical solutions that address common needs and challenges not only as they come up but proactively
ISO 27001 and 24/7 Follow the Sun support
Catalyst has ISO 27001 certification, providing assurance that your data and your reputation will be protected to a global regulatory standard.
Migrating your data to a fully managed service in the cloud is dependent on robust information security management systems. The safeguarding of information stored in the cloud is a prime concern for organisations considering migration to a cloud hosted service.
Utilising our multi-region presence, we offer 24/7 Follow The Sun (FTS) support to our clients.
We pride ourselves on a personal service, where you interact with a real person, not a machine-automated response. Our clients have peace of mind that they have a robust platform with a global team on hand to support them.
Global perspective, localised expertise
Originating in New Zealand in 1997, Catalyst IT is now a multi-region IT services group with over 350 specialists, providing enterprise level technical support for open source software.
We also have a close relationship with the Moodle HQ team and collaborate with many respected Moodle integration partners across the globe.
Our structure allows us to have a global perspective on the latest EdTech trends while maintaining localised market knowledge and service.
Ensuring quality experiences for all Moodle users is important to us.
Our solid internal processes (including hiring practices and staff training) enable us to deliver world class e-learning consulting, quality LMS and CMS implementation, client education and ongoing support and maintenance for the Moodle users who work with us. Our recent Client survey has shown that we are known for our technical integrity, responsiveness and making complex simple.
We are proud to have a strong culture of responsibility across the company – providing prompt fixes to issues when required,working together to identify opportunities for improvements and preventing other [similar] issues from happening where possible.
The broad range of Moodle LMS clients that the Catalyst team works with means that we live and breathe a large number of use cases. This enables us to provide quality advice that the Education sector needs today and into the future.
Who we work with
The Catayst Group supports enterprise level open source instances of LMS and CMS. We work with world leading Higher Education providers, Governments, and major organisations in Health, Not-for-profit and Commercial sectors.
Transform your Moodle with Catalyst
Do you want to make the most of your Moodle? Is the service that you are currently receiving falling short of expectations? Reach out to the Catalyst team of Moodle experts and start to realise your goals.