Health & Safety

Webanywhere Collaborates with British Safety Council

Leeds (UK), May 2011 - Webanywhere, the European Moodle and Totara Partner, has been selected by the British Safety Council, a health, safety, and environmental charity, to provide a Moodle-based learning platform that will enable them to realise a number of strategic objectives for managing and delivering online training courses.




The British Safety Council recognised the benefits of using the open-source Moodle LMS - including no license fees, scalability, portability, and integration with third-party and legacy systems. Webanywhere's Moodle solution features a "multi-tenant" approach, which presents each user of the LMS with a design theme defined by their login and provides secure access to their own courses.

Conor Gilligan, Head of Operations at Webanywhere's Corporate Division, comments, "We are delighted to be working with the British Safety Council on their strategic eLearning project and see a number of ways that our multi-tenant LMS design can create efficiencies for training providers. Traditionally, LMS systems for multiple clients are based on multiple portals. In our multi-tenant infrastructure, the LMS can host a large number of client organizations within a single instance of the platform."

"This architecture enables administrators to manage activity site wide, including reporting (across courses and clients) and setting up clients without the complexity of multiple installations. We are receiving a lot of interest from multi-user and multi-client organizations, such as training providers, corporates, not-for-profits, and franchise organizations to create real cost efficiencies with this model", she continues.

Matt Sharp, interim Head of eLearning at the British Safety Council, says, "We selected Webanywhere for the quality of their response to our requirements and ability to design and deliver an LMS solution that meets our needs for scalability, cost efficiency, and revenue generation. We are looking forward to working with Webanywhere on a number of web-based projects in the coming months."