Dive into our builds, our process, and the talented team behind it all.
Let’s break it down for you, with a short video from our Head of Marketing, Laura.
Before we dive into our builds, here’s a little more about us.
We’re a team of nearly 20 delivering Totara-based learning platforms across sectors and countries.
Scroll over our friendly faces to learn more.
Fred is the CEO and Founder of BuildEmpire, starting the business as a developer.
Laura is Head of Marketing at BuildEmpire and has worked in L&D for 3 years. Her favourite feature is gamification.
Michael, COO at BuildEmpire, is our go-to expert in practically everything and the owner of Milo, our adorable dog mascot.
As Head of Sales, Fliss helps people discover how to build their dream LMS using our platform.
Before we dive into our builds, here’s a little more about us.
We’re a team of nearly 20 delivering Totara-based learning platforms across sectors and countries.
Scroll over our friendly faces to learn more.
Fred is the CEO and Founder of BuildEmpire, starting the business as a developer.
Laura is Head of Marketing at BuildEmpire and has worked in L&D for 3 years. Her favourite feature is gamification.
Michael, COO at BuildEmpire, is our go-to expert in practically everything and the owner of Milo, our adorable dog mascot.
As Head of Sales, Fliss helps people discover how to build their dream LMS using our platform.
This month, we’re talking the BuildEmpire Edition.
What is it? All the best parts of Totara plus extra, custom development to take your learning platform to the next level.
User experience matters, which explains our simple, clean and well-designed custom blocks, from our Next Activity block to our Dashboard Banner block.
From gamification and eCommerce to passkeys, we’ve got loads of awesome plug-ins that supercharge your LMS and make learning way more exciting.
We built our very own theme, Blueprint, to make your Totara platform look more streamlined and user-friendly.
This month, we’re talking about our BuildEmpire Edition’s theme ‘Blueprint’.
What is it? All the best parts of Totara’s Inspire theme, but with an even better design and more customisation to make your LMS feel like your LMS.
We’ve restyled key areas like the menus, calendars, reports, and Record of Learning to feel cleaner, clearer, and more user-friendly.
Branding creates trust. When your LMS reflects your organisation’s visual identity, learners feel more connected and confident using it.
People process visuals faster than text. Tiles with images make course selection more intuitive and engaging, especially for visual learners or those with lower digital confidence.
This month, we’re diving into customisation and AI.
If your LMS isn’t customised, your learners risk a poor experience, trust in the platform can drop, and your admin team will face more workload. Here are the custom blocks we’ve built to fix that.
My Courses block helps learners to see progress with ease. See what they are almost done. It’s especially great for helping with completions.
The Dashboard Banner highlights key info with an image and CTA to boost learner engagement.
The core Badges block shows earned badges, while Available Badges shows earned and unlockable ones.
This month, we’re diving into eCommerce.
If your LMS can’t handle direct purchases, you’re leaving revenue on the table. Manual work piles up for your team, and learners get frustrated. Here’s how BuildEmpire can fix that and make life easier for everyone.
Add prices to courses, workshops, or events, and let learners purchase them online for instant access.
Offer courses to individuals or groups and set different prices for different audiences.
With our Stripe plugin, you have a single place to manage everything, including your sold content, total revenue, and enrollment numbers.
Dive even deeper into the BuildEmpire Edition.
With Blueprint, you’ll always be on brand. Find out why that matters for your learners in our latest Behind the Build video.
When you customise your LMS, you give your learners the best chance of success. It feels personal and guided. Find out more in our latest video.
When eCommerce is directly built into your LMS, it makes life much easier. Spend less time on admin, offer seamless payments, and give learners instant access to courses. Find out more in our latest video.
Here’s some new features we’ve built recently, and exactly why we built them
Our Edition takes your Totara LMS to the next level.
There’s not a lot we can’t do, but here are some of our users’ favourites related to our theme, colours, and notifications. 👇👇
We love customisation. And it’s what The Edition is all about, solving our users’ problems. Whether that be with multi-tenancy, custom blocks or custom due dates,
there is a lot we can do.
Here are examples of customisation you can unlock.👇👇
We all know engagement is vital. That’s why we have specific reports to track user engagement over long-term courses, pulling together disparate data. And with our gamification features, you can help increase learning motivation.
Find out more about these features here. 👇👇
AI transforms how we learn and grow. It makes experiences smarter, faster, and personal, freeing people from repetitive tasks and helping them focus on what really matters — skill development, progress, and impact.
Here are the core AI features in Totara.
We’re gathering insights from L&D professionals like you to better understand trends, challenges, and opportunities.
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What L&D pros are loving over on LinkedIn
When our team are not enhancing your LMS, we love a team social to let our hair down.
Theme parks are a team favourite.
Whether you’re building a learning platform from scratch or migrating from another provider, we can help. Our team of devs and learning experts can help you make a solution custom to your needs.
