EdTech Software Development Company

Off-the-shelf LMS platforms and course builders cover the standard use case. When your pedagogy, your content structure, your assessment model, or your integration requirements diverge from what Moodle, Canvas, or Teachable were designed for, you end up with a platform that constrains how you teach rather than supporting it.

We build custom EdTech software for education businesses, universities, training providers, and enterprises -- learning management systems, course platforms, assessment tools, and corporate training platforms built around how your learners actually learn.

  • Custom LMS and course platforms built around your pedagogy and content model -- not adapted from a generic template

  • Assessment and testing tools with your question types, your scoring logic, and your adaptive testing rules

  • Student and learner management systems that connect enrolment, progress, assessment, and certification in one place

  • Corporate learning platforms with SCORM/xAPI support, HR integration, compliance tracking, and manager reporting

Summary

RaftLabs builds custom EdTech software for education businesses, training providers, and enterprises -- learning management systems, online course platforms, student information systems, assessment and testing tools, mobile learning apps, and corporate learning platforms. We've shipped consumer apps, SaaS platforms, and enterprise tools across the education and training sector. Most EdTech projects deliver a production-ready system in 10 to 16 weeks at a fixed, agreed cost.

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What EdTech businesses get when they work with us

12weeks from kickoff to a live learning platform or course delivery system
100+software products shipped across consumer apps, SaaS platforms, and enterprise tools
SCORMand xAPI compliant content delivery built into every corporate learning platform

Our EdTech software development services

EdTech software fails learners in predictable ways. The platform can't support the assessment type the curriculum requires. The mobile app works on WiFi but not offline when a learner is on a train. The corporate LMS tracks course completions but can't produce the compliance report the regulator asks for. The course builder is flexible enough for simple video courses but can't handle branching scenarios, simulations, or cohort-based learning with peer interaction.

We've built consumer learning apps, B2B course platforms, corporate LMS systems, and assessment tools. We know the vocabulary -- SCORM, xAPI, adaptive learning, competency frameworks, cohort-based courses -- and we know where standard platforms stop and custom development starts. We build the systems that education businesses and training providers need when the off-the-shelf option has stopped being enough.

Learning management systems

Off-the-shelf LMS platforms are built for the average educator. When your curriculum structure, your assessment model, your learner cohort management, or your content delivery requirements diverge from the average, you spend more time fighting the platform than using it. We build custom LMS platforms designed around how your specific courses work -- your content types, your learning pathways, your assessment sequences, and your completion criteria.

What you get

  • Course and curriculum management with your specific content types and learning pathway logic
  • Learner enrolment, cohort management, and progress tracking from a single administrative view
  • Assessment integration with your question types, scoring rules, and pass/fail criteria
  • Certification management with automatic award on completion and certificate generation
  • Instructor tools for live session scheduling, assignment marking, and learner feedback
  • Reporting for learner progress, course completion rates, and assessment performance

Best for

  • Education businesses whose course structure doesn't fit the standard LMS content model
  • Training providers who need cohort-based learning with instructor-led and self-paced elements
  • Universities and colleges replacing legacy VLEs with modern, API-accessible platforms

Online course and content platforms

Course marketplaces, subscription learning platforms, and direct-to-consumer course builders share the same core requirements: content delivery that works across devices, a payment and subscription model that matches how you sell, and learner engagement features that drive completion rather than drop-off. We build course platforms for creators, publishers, and education businesses launching digital learning products.

What you get

  • Course creation tools for video, text, audio, interactive quizzes, and downloadable resources
  • Learner-facing course player with progress tracking, bookmarking, and completion certificates
  • Payment and subscription management with one-off purchases, subscriptions, and course bundles
  • Cohort-based course delivery with scheduled releases, peer discussion, and live session integration
  • Course marketplace functionality for multi-instructor platforms with revenue sharing
  • Analytics dashboard showing enrollment, completion rates, revenue, and learner engagement

Best for

  • Education entrepreneurs building a course platform to sell under their own brand
  • Publishers and media companies launching subscription learning products
  • Bootcamps and training providers replacing third-party platforms with owned infrastructure

Assessment and testing software

Standard quiz builders cover multiple choice and short answer. When your assessment model requires adaptive testing, simulation-based scenarios, structured written assessment with rubric marking, or psychometric testing with validated scoring logic, you need a system built for the specific assessment type rather than adapted from a general-purpose quiz tool.

What you get

  • Question bank management with your question types, difficulty ratings, and tagging taxonomy
  • Adaptive testing with difficulty adjustment based on learner responses
  • Timed assessments with secure browser controls and integrity monitoring
  • Rubric-based marking for open-ended and written assessments with moderation workflow
  • Competency mapping linking assessment results to competency framework dimensions
  • Results reporting with statistical analysis, item difficulty data, and cohort performance comparison

Best for

  • Professional certification bodies building online assessment for qualifications
  • Education providers replacing paper-based examinations with digital assessment
  • Corporate L&D teams building skills assessments linked to competency frameworks

Student information systems

Student records, enrolment management, attendance tracking, grade management, and timetabling are core operational requirements for any education provider. When these run across disconnected tools -- a spreadsheet for enrolment, a separate system for grades, another for attendance -- the administrative burden falls on staff and the student record is never complete in any one place.

What you get

  • Student and learner records with enrolment history, programme details, and contact information
  • Attendance tracking with automated alerts for students below the attendance threshold
  • Grade and assessment record management with the grading schema configured to your qualifications
  • Timetable management for scheduling classes, rooms, and instructor availability
  • Parent and guardian portal for schools with communication and progress visibility tools
  • Reporting for regulatory returns, accreditation evidence, and internal performance monitoring

Best for

  • Independent schools and colleges replacing legacy student management systems
  • Training providers who need a student record system that connects to their LMS and accounting tools
  • Higher education institutions building a custom SIS to support non-standard programme structures

EdTech mobile app development

Learning happens on mobile -- on the commute, in short breaks, offline when connectivity is poor. An EdTech product without a well-designed mobile experience loses learners at the point where engagement is most fragile. We build iOS and Android learning apps that work the way learners actually use them -- offline-capable, notification-driven, and designed for short-session learning as well as long-form content.

What you get

  • iOS and Android apps built with React Native for a consistent cross-platform experience
  • Offline content sync so learners can download course materials and continue without connectivity
  • Push notification system for learning reminders, assignment deadlines, and new content alerts
  • Gamification features including streaks, badges, leaderboards, and progress milestones
  • Interactive content formats including flashcards, drag-and-drop exercises, and branching scenarios
  • Wearable and device integration for learning apps that use health or activity data

Best for

  • Language learning, professional development, and skills training apps for consumer markets
  • Corporate learning apps for field-based employees who need offline access to training materials
  • Education businesses adding a mobile channel to an existing web-based course platform

Corporate learning and training platforms

Corporate learning has specific requirements that consumer LMS platforms don't meet: SCORM and xAPI content compatibility, integration with HR systems for learner provisioning and completion data, manager dashboards for team learning visibility, and compliance tracking with evidence that specific employees have completed mandatory training within the required timeframe. We build corporate learning platforms for L&D teams whose requirements go beyond what their current LMS can handle.

What you get

  • SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and xAPI content delivery with completion and score tracking
  • HRMS integration for learner provisioning, completion data export, and learning record sync
  • Manager dashboard showing team completion rates, overdue training, and individual learner progress
  • Compliance training tracking with evidence records for regulatory audit and reporting
  • Learning pathway management with prerequisite rules, role-based assignment, and progression tracking
  • Reporting suite for L&D teams, line managers, and HR covering completion, engagement, and assessment performance

Best for

  • Enterprises whose current LMS doesn't integrate with their HRMS or produce compliance reports in the required format
  • Regulated industries -- financial services, healthcare, construction -- with mandatory training completion requirements
  • L&D teams building a custom learning experience to replace a legacy platform or a collection of disconnected tools

Problems we solve in EdTech

LMS that can't support the assessment model the curriculum requires

The standard LMS assessment tool handles multiple choice and true/false. When the qualification requires structured written assessment with rubric marking, adaptive testing that adjusts difficulty based on responses, or scenario-based simulation, the LMS either can't support it or requires an expensive third-party integration that breaks on every platform update. Custom assessment tools built for the specific question types and scoring logic the qualification requires solve this without the dependency.

Mobile learning app that doesn't work offline for learners without reliable connectivity

A learning app that requires connectivity to load content loses its value the moment the learner is on a train, in a building with poor signal, or in a country with expensive mobile data. Offline content sync -- downloading the next module automatically when on WiFi so it is available without connectivity -- is an architecture decision that has to be made at the start of the project, not added retrospectively.

Corporate LMS producing completion records but not the compliance evidence the regulator wants

A completion record showing that an employee clicked through a SCORM module is not the same as evidence that they understood and can apply the content. Regulators in financial services, healthcare, and construction are increasingly asking for assessment scores, not just completion flags. A corporate learning platform that captures assessment performance alongside completion, and produces the evidence in the format the regulator specifies, removes the risk that completion records are challenged in an audit.

Course completion rates low because the platform doesn't prompt learners to return after drop-off

The average online course has a completion rate below 15% for self-paced learners. The difference between 15% and 60% is rarely the quality of the content -- it is the presence or absence of re-engagement mechanics: automated nudges when a learner has been inactive, progress milestones that create a sense of momentum, cohort accountability that makes dropping out feel more costly. These are features that have to be designed into the platform, not bolted on later.

Student records managed across disconnected tools with no single source of truth

When enrolment is managed in one system, attendance in another, grades in a third, and certificates in a fourth, the administrative overhead of maintaining consistency across all four is significant. The error rate in any manual reconciliation process is also significant. A student information system that connects enrolment, attendance, assessment, and certification in one record eliminates the reconciliation work and gives every administrator a single view of each student's status.

No manager visibility of team learning progress in the corporate LMS

Corporate learning platforms are often set up for learners and L&D administrators but not for line managers. The result is that a line manager has no visibility of whether their team has completed mandatory training without asking the L&D team to pull a report. A manager dashboard that shows each team member's completion status, overdue training, and upcoming deadlines gives the line manager the visibility to chase their own team rather than creating a reporting overhead for L&D.

How we work with EdTech clients

We map the learning experience before designing the software. For course platforms, that means understanding the content types, the learner journey, the assessment model, and the completion criteria. For corporate LMS, it means mapping the compliance requirements, the HRMS integration, and the reporting format. Discovery produces a fixed-scope specification before development begins.

What to ask any EdTech development team

Learning and pedagogy

  • Does the platform support your specific content types and assessment model, or does it require workarounds?
  • Can the learner journey be configured without developer involvement when the curriculum changes?
  • Does the mobile app work offline, and how does content sync work?
  • Is SCORM or xAPI compliance built into the platform or added through a third-party plugin?

Integration and data

  • Can the platform integrate with your HRMS, your SIS, or your existing content tools?
  • How is learner data stored, and who owns it?
  • Can assessment data be exported for external analysis or regulatory reporting?

Delivery and cost

  • Is the cost fixed before development starts?
  • Do you own the code and the learner data?
  • What does post-launch support and content delivery infrastructure cost?

EdTech software development cost

Estimated rangeTimeline
Online course platform or LMS
$25,000--$65,000
10--14 weeks
Assessment and testing tool
$30,000--$70,000
10--16 weeks
Student information system
$40,000--$80,000
12--18 weeks
Full EdTech platform with mobile app
$80,000--$200,000+
5--10 months

The EdTech engagement problem

< 15%average completion rate for self-paced online courses without engagement mechanics
3xhigher course completion when learners receive automated nudges and progress milestones
67%of corporate L&D teams say their LMS doesn't produce the compliance reports their regulator requires

Frequently asked questions

A focused first product -- an online course platform, a corporate LMS, or an assessment tool -- typically delivers in 10 to 14 weeks. A full platform with mobile apps, HRMS integration, advanced assessment, and analytics takes 5 to 8 months. We work in milestones so you see working software every two weeks and can adjust scope before it is built into production. EdTech platforms benefit from a pilot launch with a small cohort before full rollout -- we build this into the delivery plan so real learner feedback informs the final production release.

Yes. For corporate learning platforms, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and xAPI (Tin Can) compliance are standard requirements. We build the content delivery engine to handle SCORM packages produced by authoring tools like Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, and iSpring, and to produce the xAPI statements that learning record stores and HR systems expect. For platforms that produce as well as deliver content, we can build the authoring tools or the export pipeline that produces standards-compliant packages from your content. SCORM and xAPI support is tested against real content packages before go-live.

Yes. HRMS integration for corporate LMS platforms is a standard requirement -- learner provisioning from the HRMS so new employees are automatically added to the LMS, completion data exported back to the HRMS so the HR record reflects training status, and learning pathway assignment based on role and location data from the HRMS. For education providers, SIS integration connects enrolment data to the LMS so students are enrolled on their courses automatically. We document the integration specification before development begins.

A focused build -- an online course platform or a corporate LMS for a single use case -- typically runs $25,000 to $65,000. A full platform with mobile apps, assessment tools, HRMS integration, and advanced reporting runs $80,000 to $200,000. The cost depends on the content types, the assessment complexity, the number of integrations, and whether native mobile apps are in scope. We scope every project before pricing -- fixed cost agreed before development starts.

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Talk to us about your EdTech project.

Tell us the learning experience you need to build, the assessment model it has to support, and the systems it needs to connect to. We'll tell you what we'd build and how.