Overview of Education Software Development

We provide comprehensive education software development services to private and public institutions, ranging from K-12 schools to universities, enabling them to teach students more efficiently. Our tech solutions make learning processes easier for educators, accessible and more interactive for students, and cost-effective for businesses.

Utilizing over 30 years of experience, we develop advanced digital learning tools that significantly boost and streamline processes related to operational management, instruction, interaction, and engagement. Whether you need to enhance existing solutions or develop new ones from the ground up, our  purpose is to improve learning performance, accelerate the training pace, and increase student and teacher engagement in educational processes.

Education Software Solutions We Deliver

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    Learning Management Systems and Learning Experience Platforms

    Provide your students with accessible and highly engaging educational processes and learning materials through our robust learning management systems (LMS) and learning experience platforms (LXP). With our LMS and LXP solutions, you streamline your corporate learning and establish a personalized environment for knowledge sharing within your enterprise.

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    Virtual Classroom and
    Video Streaming

    Connect your students and team from all over the world through our online video classrooms and video streaming solutions. Ideal for interactive classes, webinars, and live lectures, our video streaming platforms provide users with a smooth, engaging, and synchronous learning experience.

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    Student Information Systems and School Management

    Optimize your administrative functions, automate manual workflows, and streamline organizational management with our exceptional student information systems (SIS) and school management software. When implemented in your educational facility, our SIS and school management software increase your operational efficiency and improve resource allocation.

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    Learning Content Management Systems and Authoring

    Efficiently create, store, and manage your educational content, utilizing our education software solutions, including learning content management systems (LCMS). We ensure that our LCMS, equipped with authoring toolsets, is fully compatible with SCORM and xAPI industry standards, delivering your students exceptional educational material.

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    Assessment, Testing, and Proctoring

    Automate evaluation and test conducting with our advanced assessment, testing, and proctoring platform. By implementing online proctoring tools, we ensure the integrity of corporate and educational exams and assessments, and provide you with reliable metrics of program effectiveness and student performance.

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    Ecosystem Integrations

    Implement various management solutions seamlessly into your educational enterprise, elevating it to a whole new level. We leverage decades of domain experience and proficiency in industry standards such as LTI 1.3 and single sign-on (SSO) to securely connect different environments like LMS, SIS, and HRIS, and ensure a cohesive user experience across a wide tech stack.

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    Learning Analytics and Business Intelligence

    Transform your raw data into educational insights with our sophisticated learning analytics and business intelligence (BI) solutions. We develop solutions to automatically analyze student behavior, engagement, and performance metrics, enabling educational institutions to measure effectiveness and enhance their teaching programs.

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    M-learning and Mobile Apps

    Receive an advanced m-learning solution for accessible and flexible learning experiences from any location. Whether it’s an iOS/Android native mobile app or a cross-platform application, our educational software development services expertise spans across various platforms, allowing us to provide you with any kind of m-learning solution.

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Our Education Software Services

Consulting 

We utilize years of domain expertise and a sophisticated edtech toolset to consult you on your learning initiatives. Our experts in education software development help you modernize existing legacy platforms, diagnose and resolve complex technical issues, optimize UX/UI for student engagement, and build a scalable, future-ready architecture your students and tutors depend on.

Consulting 

Custom Development

Within our education software development services, we design and build bespoke educational solutions not only to your needs but also to users’ needs. Whether you need a learning platform, a mobile application, or an in-house corporate training model, our full-cycle custom education software development services address your unique requirements.

Custom Development

Platform-based Development

We leverage established platforms such as Moodle, Canvas, and Blackboard to create robust edtech solutions that drive commercial success. Whether you require a new build or enhancements for your existing platform-based solution, we streamline your educational initiatives and provide cost-effective environments.

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QA and Testing 

Our team meticulously evaluates your educational solutions and learning applications, identifying gaps and vulnerabilities that require attention. As a result of our thorough assessment, you get a refined and enhanced solution for your edtech initiatives.

QA and Testing 

Modernization and Platform Migration

If your edtech platform struggles to meet modern technological demands, our professionals can modernize and future-proof your legacy systems, codebases, or infrastructure. We also migrate your platform to a more modern and efficient stack that improves its system performance, scalability, security posture, and stability, ensuring your platform can remain competitive and support future feature development.

Modernization and Platform Migration

Content Packaging and Migration

We restructure your education software solutions, transfer your vast libraries across platforms, and ensure compliance with industry standards like SCORM and xAPI. These comprehensive initiatives enable seamless delivery and robust, secure tracking of educational materials across various environments.

Content Packaging and Migration

Maintenance and Support

By conducting proactive monitoring, implementing bug fixes, providing timely updates, and applying security patches, we maintain and support your educational environments, enabling you to focus on your strategic objectives. Through maintenance and support services, we ensure the continuous reliability and optimal performance of your edtech solutions.

Maintenance and Support

What Outcomes You Get

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    Streamlined LMS/LXP capabilities

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    Simplified onboarding and admin ops

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    Reduced manual workload via automation

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    Migrated content to cloud libraries

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    Integrated with business systems and SSO

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    Improved assessment integrity and insights

Security, Compliance and Accessibility

At NIX, we invest heavily in the security, accessibility, and compliance of our custom software solutions with all relevant industry standards to provide you with the most advanced and reliable solutions that meet your needs.

  • FERPA/COPPA and GDPR Compliance with FERPA (US student records), COPPA (US child online privacy), and the GDPR is the basis of our data privacy legislation. By implementing these security protocols and policies, we ensure the secure collection, processing, and storage of students’ data.
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA / Section 508) Our expertise in accessibility includes implementing stringent WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 standards for our educational software development. By complying with these regulations, we guarantee that our edtech solutions are accessible to all individuals, including those with disabilities.
  • Content Standards (SCORM 1.2/2004, xAPI) As a profound education software development company, we utilize comprehensive content standards such as SCORM 1.2/2004 and xAPI to capture valuable data from various learning experiences, delivering interoperability and granular analytics.
  • Identity and Access (SSO, RBAC, audit) NIX’s team establishes robust identity and access management (IAM) solutions, including single sign-on (SSO), role-based access control (RBAC), and comprehensive audit logging approaches. This allows us to simplify and secure access, define user roles, and continually track user activity, setting the highest standard of data security across all your educational platforms.
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Adoption Roadmap

  • Discovery and Stakeholder Alignment

    Our team aligns with your vision, project goals, and stakeholder requirements.

  • User Experience, Information Architecture and Content Strategy

    We develop intuitive user experience (UX) and information architecture (IA) designs along with a detailed content strategy for roadmap delivery.

  • Architecture and Integrations Plan

    Laying the technical foundation of your educational platform through architectural and integration planning.

  • Development and QA

    We build your edtech platform and rigorously test it for quality and performance.

  • Content Migration and Training

    Migrating your content to the new platform and providing a smooth solution adoption.

  • Pilot and Launch

    Conducting small-scale testing before a controlled launch to identify and fix issues.

  • Support and Enhancements

    We continually maintain and improve your platform to ensure its long-term stability and longevity.

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Relevant Case Studies

We really care about project success. At the end of the day, happy clients watching how their application is making the end user’s experience and life better are the things that matter.

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AI-powered Solution for Reviewing and Rating Books

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VisionOS App for African Healthcare Education

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AI Integration: Streamlining Accreditation Workflow in Education

Education

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Mobile App to Streamline Teacher-Student Workflows

Education

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Infosec: Migration of an Education Platform to CMS Optimizely

Education

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uClass: LMS Streaming Platform with Data Analytics

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Why Choose NIX for Educational
Software Development

  • One-stop shop

    From strategy and planning to market-ready solutions, continuous support, enhancements, and promotion.

  • Executive Level Support

    Strategic agility, rapid escalations, and hands-on leadership—your project moves forward without bottlenecks.

  • Involvement and Versatility

    We take delivery ownership of every project, driving measurable impact beyond just execution.

  • Industry Recognition

    Our strategic alliances with AWS, Microsoft, and GCP translate into better technical solutions and conditions for your business.

  • Seasoned Expertise

    Decades-honed expertise across various domains and thousands of projects translates into solutions that hit the mark.

  • Mature and Transparent Processes

    Our time-tested delivery process drives results, fosters team alignment via consistent communication, and remains adaptable to new challenges.

  • 360-degree Approach

    We listen first, build second—exploring every angle and uncovering all potential solutions to pinpoint the best-fitting one.

  • Client-centric Approach

    Your business isn’t static, and neither are we—our adaptable approach ensures your software keeps pace with your needs.

What Our Clients Say

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Max Ushchenko

Max is our senior practice leader and evangelist for the “big triad” of machine learning, data analytics and data engineering, with a vast background in AI, BI services, and product management.

Head of Data and AI Practice at NIX

Max is our senior practice leader and evangelist for the “big triad” of machine learning, data analytics and data engineering, with a vast background in AI, BI services, and product management.

Eugene Rudenko

Yevhen, a seasoned AI consultant with 10+ years, delivers expert-level software optimization and business automation through strategic implementation of cutting-edge AI solutions.

Applied AI & Data Science Solutions Consultant

Yevhen, a seasoned AI consultant with 10+ years, delivers expert-level software optimization and business automation through strategic implementation of cutting-edge AI solutions.

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FAQs

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How long does it take to launch an education software MVP?

Every project in the education industry is unique, so setting the duration of the development without the project scope is impossible. However, the typical MVP of educational software can take three to five months, depending on the complexity, integrations, and compliance with FERPA, GDPR, and others.

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How much does education software development cost?

The cost of education software development services is based on several factors, including the complexity of the scope, the number of integrations, the tech stack, the project duration, required compliances, and the testing phase. The combination of these factors forms your unique educational software development cost.

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Can you migrate our legacy LMS (users, grades, content) and provide SLA support?

Yes, our education software development services expertise encompasses the full-scope migration of legacy LMS systems, securely transferring all data, users, content, and grades. We also provide service level agreements establishing response times for maintenance and support.

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Can you integrate with our LMS/SIS and enable SSO?

Yes, within our elearning software development services, we seamlessly integrate with existing LMS/SIS systems and implement industry standards SSO through LTI 1.3 protocols for unified access and data flow.

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Do you support SCORM 1.2/2004, xAPI, and LTI 1.3?

Yes, our professional team establishes compliance of our innovative solutions with all major e-learning standards, including SCORM 1.2/2004, next-generation xAPI, and LTI 1.3. It enables us to ensure the compatibility and trackability of the content, as well as the secure integration of tools.

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How do you ensure FERPA/COPPA/GDPR compliance?

In our custom software development, we implement data minimization, encryption, and user consent mechanisms into our development. More importantly, as an education software development company, we define and implement strict role-based access controls (RBAC) and conduct data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) to ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements.

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Will the solution meet WCAG 2.1 AA / Section 508 accessibility?

Yes, we design elearning solutions that adhere to both WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 accessibility standards. This guarantees that all users, even those with disabilities, can access the solution.

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