What is an eLearning system and how can it benefit my organisation?

An eLearning system, often referred to as a Learning Management System (LMS), is a digital platform that enables organisations to create, deliver, manage, and track online training. It centralises learning materials, automates enrolment and progress tracking, and provides reporting dashboards to measure performance. Businesses benefit from improved training efficiency, lower delivery costs, consistent learning standards, and scalable onboarding for remote or distributed teams. We design and develop custom LMS platforms tailored to your workflows, compliance requirements, and user journeys. Whether you need internal staff training, partner certification, or commercial course delivery, we build scalable, secure systems with advanced reporting, integrations, and automation.

What’s the difference between an LMS and a CPD system?

An LMS focuses on delivering and managing training content while tracking learner progress, assessments, and completion rates. A CPD (Continuing Professional Development) system goes further by tracking accredited learning hours, certifications, compliance requirements, and renewal cycles which is particularly important in regulated industries. We build integrated LMS and CPD platforms that automatically calculate credits, generate compliance reports, manage certification renewals, and integrate with professional bodies. This ensures your organisation maintains regulatory standards while reducing manual administration.

Should we build a custom LMS or use an off-the-shelf platform?

Off-the-shelf LMS platforms can be suitable for organisations with straightforward training needs and minimal integration requirements. However, businesses with complex processes, accreditation requirements, membership tiers, or CRM/HR integrations often benefit from a custom-built LMS. We assess your operational requirements to develop a fully bespoke LMS solution. Our focus is on long-term scalability, seamless system integrations, and creating a user experience aligned with your brand and commercial goals.

What industries need a CPD tracking system?

CPD tracking systems are widely used in healthcare, finance, legal services, engineering, professional associations, and other regulated industries. These systems ensure accurate tracking of learning hours, certification compliance, and audit-ready reporting. We develop secure CPD platforms that automate credit calculations, support event-based learning, manage evidence submissions, and generate compliance documentation, reducing risk while improving user experience for members and stakeholders.

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We’ve collaborated with educational establishments for 25 years, with the shared goal of making educational content digitally accessible on user-friendly, online platforms.

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eLearning providers require an intricate blend of education-specific functionality, technical expertise, thoughtful design, and ongoing collaboration - a hallmark of our work in building educational platforms.

Tailored eLearning that fits your curriculum

Building innovative educational platforms

We design and develop scalable, future-ready white-labeled and SCORM compliant eLearning platforms tailored to course providers and universities that are completely custom to the institution. Our solutions combine intuitive UX, robust architecture, and advanced learning tools to deliver engaging, measurable educational experiences.

Collaborative reading lists

Enable shared reading lists that support academic collaboration and corporate knowledge sharing. Faculty, trainers, and learners can curate, annotate, and access resources in a centralised, interactive environment.

Integrating with external educational systems

Our platforms integrate seamlessly with existing and third-party learning tools. We ensure secure data exchange, single sign-on (SSO), and streamlined workflows to create a unified digital learning ecosystem.

Making offline materials digital

We transform printed textbooks, lecture notes, manuals, and training resources into dynamic SCORM compliant digital content. From interactive modules and multimedia enhancements to searchable archives, we modernise traditional materials for today’s learners.

Structured taxonomies

We implement intelligent content structures using structured taxonomies and tagging frameworks. This enables advanced search, content discoverability, curriculum alignment, and personalised learning pathways across large content libraries.

CPD progress and submissions

Our platform supports Continuing Professional Development (CPD) tracking with automated progress monitoring, evidence submissions and appraisal management, helping organisations meet regulatory and professional standards.

Question sets and benchmarking

Create and manage comprehensive question banks with automated marking, adaptive assessments, and performance benchmarking. Our exam preparation portals help students to practise sessions, answer questions, and then review their answers. The system analyses their results to identify areas of weakness and suggest resources to address those weaknesses.

Location-based access or subscriptions

Control access by geography, campus, corporate branch, or subscription tier. Our flexible permissions system supports multi-campus universities, international organisations, and tiered commercial models with secure, role-based access management.

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Who are our eLearning platforms for

Students and trainees

Allow students to navigate your full library with ease, accessing content that aligns with their syllabus or independent learning goals. Provide personalised activity plans, note taking and highlighting on digital content, question-and-answer based learning, and peer-based analytics to track their progress.

Academics and course providers

Provide a comprehensive, always up to date, repository of research and course materials in digital format, managed by your library staff, and accessed around the clock by your students to assist with a learning schedule that works for them.

Tutors and leaders

Give tutors the freedom to assemble customised reading lists and activities, making it easier to align content with course objectives. Ensure your team remain adaptable to evolving academic curriculums.

Learning materials made accessible anywhere, anytime

A CMS your team will love

Every Redwing Interactive website comes equipped with SM5, a seamless and intuitive content management system. From adding new pages or images to updating blog posts, SM5 means editing content is effortless. Built with SEO at its foundation, it empowers teams to optimise content and enjoy the process of keeping your online presence dynamic and impactful.

The user journey is our top priority

Every website is different, and you need a design team that understands how to match your business objectives with an exceptional online experience for users. Redwing Interactive blends an intuitive and seamless user journey with modern, responsive web design, optimised for speed and reliability. This combination delivers high conversion rates and user retention.

Fast websites on secure servers

Our websites are hosted on Redwing's secure servers, protecting your customers' data and making them faster than the commercial template providers - our average uptime is 99.9%. Plus, our service level agreements will give you peace of mind for the very rare occasions there is an issue.

Account management and support

Every Redwing Interactive website is supported by our dedicated account management and technical support team. We build for long-term success and we form close relationships with our clients, working in partnership to evolve websites as technology, SEO algorithms and user requirements change.

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Some of our recent eLearning solutions

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A 25-year partnership in ground-breaking online exam preparation with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

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Turning extensive educational content into an online university learning platform for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

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Do any of these challenges sound familiar?

You have a complex workflow that you want to manage digitally

Your business processes don’t fit neatly into off-the-shelf tools. You need smarter automation, custom logic, or integrations that mirror how your business really works without being forced to work around limitations.

You’re using multiple systems which feels chaotic

Your tools don’t talk to each other. Data is scattered, processes are manual, and simple tasks take far too long. Instead of supporting your team, your tech stack is slowing everyone down.

You want to improve but you’re not sure how to

You know there’s potential in your website, but the next step isn’t obvious. Should you redesign? Rebuild? Optimise? Without clear guidance, it’s hard to invest confidently.

Your digital offerings feel dated

Your business has evolved, but your website hasn’t kept up. The design, user experience, or functionality no longer reflects the quality of what you offer, and you worry visitors can tell.

We can help! Begin by telling us about your business and your project.

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Free consultation

Tell us the scope of your project and how you’d like us to help. We’ll provide a free 30-minute call to discuss your requirements in detail.

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Proposal

Using the information from the consultation, we’ll provide a free of charge proposal, outlining our suggested action plan, the cost and an indicated project timeline.

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Get started

Upon approval of the proposal, we’ll set an official start date for the project and begin to put our suggested solution into action.

A typical eLearning project lifecycle

Analyse

We’ll set up a discovery session to learn about your business in more detail, including your market, users and competitors. Next, we’ll benchmark competitor platforms and audit the student experience. We’ll also prepare an SEO report to identify how visitors are finding your current offering if you have one.

Prototype

Insights from the research will be used to design the platform's navigation, structure, and interactions, which will be presented as interactive wireframes. We’ll then produce designs for the new platform as it will appear in both mobile and desktop form, guided by the wireframes and establishing a clear and bold direction.

Build

Upon approval of the visuals, we’ll create an internal development brief and pass all assets over to the development team, encompassing front-end and back-end developers. We’ll then create your offering, integrating the specific functionality agreed upon and fully testing each area of the code.

Refine

After building the offering and associated functionality, the platform will be handed over to you for review and final testing, and full training in the use of the CMS provided online, after which you'll be able to refine and edit the content and eLearning facilities. This stage also offers an opportunity for feedback, UAT and final bug fixes from the development team.

Launch

When testing is complete and you’re happy with the offering, a launch date will be agreed. We’ll supply a launch plan with the steps we’ll need to take outlined, as well as any steps you’ll need to make, such as domain configuration that we can also assist with.

Evaluate

For the first month after launch we’ll provide hypercare – intensive support to ensure that help is available to you as a priority. Beyond hypercare we provide continued support for the platform, to the high standards for which we have become recognised.

Your questions answered

An eLearning system, often referred to as a Learning Management System (LMS), is a digital platform that enables organisations to create, deliver, manage, and track online training. It centralises learning materials, automates enrolment and progress tracking, and provides reporting dashboards to measure performance. Businesses benefit from improved training efficiency, lower delivery costs, consistent learning standards, and scalable onboarding for remote or distributed teams. We design and develop custom LMS platforms tailored to your workflows, compliance requirements, and user journeys. Whether you need internal staff training, partner certification, or commercial course delivery, we build scalable, secure systems with advanced reporting, integrations, and automation.
An LMS focuses on delivering and managing training content while tracking learner progress, assessments, and completion rates. A CPD (Continuing Professional Development) system goes further by tracking accredited learning hours, certifications, compliance requirements, and renewal cycles which is particularly important in regulated industries. We build integrated LMS and CPD platforms that automatically calculate credits, generate compliance reports, manage certification renewals, and integrate with professional bodies. This ensures your organisation maintains regulatory standards while reducing manual administration.
Off-the-shelf LMS platforms can be suitable for organisations with straightforward training needs and minimal integration requirements. However, businesses with complex processes, accreditation requirements, membership tiers, or CRM/HR integrations often benefit from a custom-built LMS. We assess your operational requirements to develop a fully bespoke LMS solution. Our focus is on long-term scalability, seamless system integrations, and creating a user experience aligned with your brand and commercial goals.
CPD tracking systems are widely used in healthcare, finance, legal services, engineering, professional associations, and other regulated industries. These systems ensure accurate tracking of learning hours, certification compliance, and audit-ready reporting. We develop secure CPD platforms that automate credit calculations, support event-based learning, manage evidence submissions, and generate compliance documentation, reducing risk while improving user experience for members and stakeholders.

We gave Redwing an extremely complex task. Not only were we proposing one website per physical location, but also expanding the number of product lines and suppliers exponentially. The Redwing team understood the brief quickly and created a set of designs absolutely right for the demographic. The result? Over 100% increase in orders across the sites, tremendous customer satisfaction and a flexible framework for increasing functionality over time. Working with Redwing is always a great experience.
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