Solutions
Longsight has spent years inside open-source LMSes and adjacent systems: assignments, tests and quizzes, gradebook workflows, SCORM runtimes, plagiarism detection, integrations, and the backend plumbing that keeps all of it standing up during the semester.
Open-source LMS platforms, assessment systems, SCORM, credentials, and the infrastructure underneath them.
CredTrail
Open-source badging and public verification
Durable credentials that can live outside the LMS, with verification and standards-based delivery.
Open-source LMS work
Assignments, quizzes, grading, and UI polish
In progress
A new QTI 3.0 authoring system focused on cleaner item creation, validation, and interoperability.
Academic integrity
We have built plagiarism detection systems from scratch, not only integrations to someone else’s.
Platform engineering
Concurrent services, queue processors, and large ring-database work when the workload demanded it.
Semester-critical feature work
We spend time where institutions actually feel software quality: assignments, grading, rubrics, tests, quizzes, mobile usability, accessibility, and the admin screens that support teams live in.
Interop that has to keep working
Our work regularly crosses standards and boundaries: SCORM, LTI, SSO, SIS sync, content migrations, reporting pipelines, and newer credential standards like Open Badges 3.0 and wallet delivery.
Deep backend engineering
We also build the less visible machinery: concurrent processors, queue-backed services, specialized data flows, and the kind of big ring-database work you only do when ordinary CRUD stops being enough.
Where we go deep
We work inside mature open-source platforms, beside them, and underneath them. That means product work, interoperability work, and serious backend work, often in the same project.
Open-source LMS product engineering
We have spent a lot of time in open-source LMSes, especially Sakai, building and repairing the paths that faculty and students use every day. That includes Assignments, Gradebook, Tests & Quizzes, rubrics, portal navigation, accessibility, and the administrative edges that determine whether support tickets pile up.
Assessment engines and authoring
Assessment work is its own discipline. We have been deep in timing logic, accommodations, statistics, scoring, question behavior, and authoring constraints. QFlowLearn extends that work into a dedicated QTI 3.0 authoring system built for cleaner authoring and better interoperability.
SCORM and content portability
We have modernized SCORM runtime flows, launch behavior, site-to-site import, and REST-backed player plumbing so packaged content is easier to debug and easier to carry forward.
Read the SCORM work →Academic integrity systems
We have built plagiarism detection from scratch, including the workflow and system behavior underneath it, not just the last-mile integration to an external service.
Platform architecture
Some projects need more than a clean UI and a sensible schema. We have built high-concurrency systems, queue-driven services, and large ring databases where the traffic shape and data model called for them.
Current work
Some of our best work right now sits just outside the traditional LMS footprint: durable credentials, cleaner assessment authoring, and platform tooling that treats standards as first-class architecture instead of afterthoughts.
CredTrail
CredTrail is our open-source credential layer for institutions that want badges and verifiable records to live outside the LMS. Public verification routes, standards-based APIs, exports, and wallet flows are part of the product shape, not retrofits.
QFlowLearn.com
QFlowLearn is our newer assessment-authoring effort: a focused environment for QTI 3.0 item creation, validation, packaging, and export. The point is not just to author items, but to make interoperability feel normal instead of fragile.
Still deep in LMS work
We are still doing the careful, high-value work inside mature LMS platforms: fixing grading edge cases, tightening assessment behavior, cleaning up accessibility issues, modernizing interfaces, and making content workflows more durable.
Work with us
We can help inside an existing LMS, around it, or on the new products that need to outlast it.
