Totara Platinum Alliance PartnerEverything that makes Totara a leading enterprise LMS, plus the BuildEmpire Edition: exclusive features, hosting and support you can only get with us.
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“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 G2Totara 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.
A leading enterprise LMS, trusted by organisations worldwide.
Our own version of Totara, with three major releases since 2024.
Branded, engaging and fully supported, from launch day onwards.
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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Get new starters productive fast, whatever their role or location.
Prove every person is trained and in date.
Connect learning to how people perform.
Run one platform for a large, complex organisation.
Help people learn from each other.
Answer any question without a data team.
Need courses as well as a platform? Browse our off-the-shelf learning content
Features our customers asked for, built by our team on top of everything core Totara already does.

Make the LMS feel like part of your organisation, not a bolt-on tool.
Set headers, links, buttons, hover states, page backgrounds and footers. Or send us your brand guidelines and we'll set it up.
Choose from thousands of Google Fonts across the whole site for a consistent, on-brand look.
Rounded UI, an enhanced navigation menu and support for Totara 19's left-hand navigation.
A fresh quiz design with cover images, built for better engagement.
Build on Totara's badges and completion tracking with points and leaderboards.
Reward logging in, completing courses, uploading resources or joining forum discussions. Show points as gems or stars.
Add leaderboards to dashboards and course pages, filtered by date range or audience.
A short, clear list of key actions makes setting up rewards quick for admins.
Learners see the badges they've earned and the ones still available on their courses.
More ways to learn, and better ways to make it stick.
Embed YouTube or Vimeo, add captions, set a required watch percentage and let learners resume where they left off.
Upload MP3s that keep playing on mobile even with the screen locked, with completion rules.
Learners take notes during any activity, then download them as one branded PDF.
A safer, simpler way for learners to log in.
Dashboards that tell learners what to do next.
Announce new courses, programmes or company news with an image, title and button.
Takes learners straight to their next incomplete activity from the dashboard.
Show activities as tiles or a carousel. Brand your whole catalogue in seconds with automatic image fallbacks.
High-contrast headers, clear completion ticks, and a course block showing name, image and progress.
Sell your learning directly from your LMS.
Sell courses and programmes without extra plug-ins or third-party tools.
A modern horizontal layout that sits seamlessly alongside the core Totara catalogue.
Learners find the content they want instantly as they type.
Help new learners discover your catalogue through search.
“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.”
“I have worked with several other Totara partners but they have been the best.”

“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.”
“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.”

“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.”
“You guys have been amazing! I wouldn't have been able to do my job without your support.”

“The collaboration between Bugaboo and BuildEmpire built a flexible learning management system allowing intuitive, fun and localised product training for retailers across the regions.”
“It looks so much better already. There's so much more help and guidance from your guys. Really, really pleased.”
Security, hosting and support handled, so your team can focus on the training, not the paperwork.
Organisations with ambitious learning programmes and high standards. If one or more of these sounds like you, we should talk.

Your branding, your workflows, your integrations. When you need something beyond the standard platform, our developers build it.
Regulated, audited or inspected. Every certification tracked, renewed on time and provable in a single report.
Thousands of learners, many departments, strict IT and procurement. One platform that fits your structure and your security review.
Frontline, field-based or spread across countries. Learning that reaches people wherever they are, in their language.
Turn your learning into revenue with a catalogue, checkout and branded portals for each client, all inside your LMS.
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.
“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.”
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