BuildEmpire | Totara LMS, taken further with the BuildEmpire Edition
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Totara, taken further.Built around your team.

Everything that makes Totara a leading enterprise LMS, plus the BuildEmpire Edition: exclusive features, hosting and support you can only get with us.

  • Totara Top Performer, UK 2026
  • ISO 27001 & Cyber Essentials Plus
  • 99.998% uptime

Your brand, banner block, next-activity prompts, points, leaderboards and badges to earn.

Trusted by councils, universities, training providers and global brands

  • Milton Keynes City Council
  • STFC
  • BPP University
  • Center for Creative Leadership
  • Astutis
  • Bugaboo
  • Polaris
4.3Totara on G2
4.4Totara on Capterra

“Your responsiveness, technical support, help with upgrades, and collaboration with our tech developments have been hugely appreciated.”

Aurelie, Education Development Trust. Read EDT's review on G2

A world-class LMS, made yours

Totara gives you one of the most powerful enterprise learning platforms available. The Edition and our team give you everything around it: your brand, extra features, hosting and people who know your platform inside out.

The foundation

Totara

A leading enterprise LMS, trusted by organisations worldwide.

  • Learn, Engage and Perform in one platform
  • Certifications and automatic recertification
  • Multi-tenancy for partners, clients and departments
  • Powerful report builder and dashboards
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Only with BuildEmpire

The BuildEmpire Edition

Our own version of Totara, with three major releases since 2024.

  • 10x more colour controls and any Google Font
  • Points, leaderboards and badges to earn
  • Video, audio and notes activities
  • New dashboard blocks, course formats and eCommerce
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What you get

An LMS your people love using

Branded, engaging and fully supported, from launch day onwards.

  • 99.998% uptime on secure, managed hosting
  • ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus
  • A named account team and bespoke development
  • Free migration from other Totara partners
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The basics, fully covered

Every BuildEmpire platform runs on the latest Totara, so the enterprise essentials are there from day one. The Edition adds to them; it never replaces them.

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Interactive learning activities including matching, drag and drop and locked course pathways

Get new starters productive fast, whatever their role or location.

  • ProgrammesStructured journeys with due dates
  • Learning plansBuilt by learners and managers together
  • AudiencesAuto-assign by role, location or team
  • SeminarsFace-to-face and virtual sessions with waitlists
  • Job assignmentsLink learning to positions and managers
  • Mobile appLearn anywhere with the Totara app
Onboarding with BuildEmpire

Need courses as well as a platform? Browse our off-the-shelf learning content

What you only get with the Edition

Features our customers asked for, built by our team on top of everything core Totara already does.

BuildEmpire Edition dashboard with banner, next activity, badges and a points leaderboard

Make the LMS feel like part of your organisation, not a bolt-on tool.

10x more colour controls

Set headers, links, buttons, hover states, page backgrounds and footers. Or send us your brand guidelines and we'll set it up.

Any Google Font

Choose from thousands of Google Fonts across the whole site for a consistent, on-brand look.

A cleaner, modern theme

Rounded UI, an enhanced navigation menu and support for Totara 19's left-hand navigation.

Restyled quizzes

A fresh quiz design with cover images, built for better engagement.

Citadel, Edition 1.0

Summer 2024
  • New theme and branding controls
  • Gamification and passkeys
  • Badges and My Courses blocks

Colonnade, Edition 2.0

February 2025
  • Leaderboards and banner block
  • Notes and audio activities
  • Quiz restyle and tiles carousels

Keystone, Edition 3.0

February 2026
  • Floating notes and font selector
  • Course information block
  • Restyled Topics format and eCommerce

Everything in the BuildEmpire Edition

What our customers say

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“BuildEmpire was able to take our design goals and the feature set core to Totara, and build us a platform that is truly unique. A truly engaging experience for students, coupled with Totara's ease of administration for our staff.”
Kyle EppsProduct Designer, Center for Creative Leadership
“I have worked with several other Totara partners but they have been the best.”
Kyle EppsCenter for Creative Leadership
“The solutions they deliver and standard of development is second to none. This wealth of development coupled with an insightful, customer-service oriented account team is why I will continue to use them.”
Stuart KayCMO, BPP University
“I'm so very impressed. The whole BuildEmpire team are great. It makes my life so much easier having such great support behind me for Totara.”
AlexisSTFC
“BuildEmpire is a trusted partner on our digital transformation journey. Their Agile approach allows us to flex our requirements in line with the changing demands of the business, without any compromise on quality.”
Sarah MaundrellMBL
“You guys have been amazing! I wouldn't have been able to do my job without your support.”
LauraPolaris
“The collaboration between Bugaboo and BuildEmpire built a flexible learning management system allowing intuitive, fun and localised product training for retailers across the regions.”
Camille MenthillerBugaboo
“It looks so much better already. There's so much more help and guidance from your guys. Really, really pleased.”
ZoeQuadris

Trusted by compliance teams. Approved by IT.

Security, hosting and support handled, so your team can focus on the training, not the paperwork.

  • Totara Platinum Alliance PartnerThe highest partnership tier Totara offers, reserved for vetted, enterprise-scale delivery teams.
  • ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials PlusCertified security that passes procurement and IT review.
  • Enterprise-grade integrationsSingle sign-on, HR system sync and your existing tools, in one unified view of your data.
  • Free migration from other Totara partnersMove your users, courses and records to BuildEmpire at no cost.
  • Agile, developer-led deliveryRequirements can flex as your organisation changes, with costs agreed before any new work starts.
20 yearsdelivering learning platforms
99.998%uptime as standard
Top PerformerTotara, UK 2026
4.3 / 4.4Totara on G2 and Capterra

Who we're best for

Organisations with ambitious learning programmes and high standards. If one or more of these sounds like you, we should talk.

BuildEmpire theme with modular blocks and branding controls
  • Deep customisation

    Your branding, your workflows, your integrations. When you need something beyond the standard platform, our developers build it.

    • BuildEmpire Edition
    • Bespoke development
    • Agile delivery
    Center for Creative Leadership, MBLThe Edition
  • Compliance-heavy training

    Regulated, audited or inspected. Every certification tracked, renewed on time and provable in a single report.

    • Automatic recertification
    • Audit-ready reports
    • ISO 27001
    Astutis, STFCCompliance
  • Enterprise scale and complexity

    Thousands of learners, many departments, strict IT and procurement. One platform that fits your structure and your security review.

    • Multi-tenancy
    • SSO and HR sync
    • 99.998% uptime
    Milton Keynes City Council, STFCThe platform
  • Global and distributed teams

    Frontline, field-based or spread across countries. Learning that reaches people wherever they are, in their language.

    • Multi-language
    • Mobile app
    • Audio and video on the go
    Bugaboo, Education Development TrustSales and frontline training
  • Selling courses

    Turn your learning into revenue with a catalogue, checkout and branded portals for each client, all inside your LMS.

    • eCommerce catalogue
    • Client portals
    • SEO-ready
    BPP University, AstutisExtended enterprise

Thinking of switching partner?

Many of our customers came to us from other providers. If you're already on Totara, moving is free, and we'll have you building new things again quickly.

  • Free migration from other Totara partnersUsers, courses, completions and certifications moved across at no cost.
  • A named account teamReal people who know your platform, not a ticket queue.
  • Clear costsNew development is scoped and priced up front, before work starts.
“Moving to BuildEmpire was essential for us; we had all but come to a standstill with our previous provider and were unable to design or activate any new initiatives. The can-do attitude from the Build team was what we were looking for, and that's what we got.”
Karen ChetwyndCEO, Montessori Global Education
Free migrationMoving from another Totara partner? We migrate your platform, users and records at no cost.

See Totara with the Edition, in your brand

Book a demo and we'll show you the full platform, then talk through your requirements, any bespoke needs and moving from your current provider.

  • Free migration from other Totara partners
  • Already on Totara? Add the Edition
  • 99.998% uptime, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus
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