Continuing Education & PDH Tracking
Courses and webinars that record completed professional development hours, issue certificates, and give engineers a clear history of their credits when license renewal comes around.
Our experience
We've Built LMS Platforms for Certification Programs and Course Creators
Training is central to how AEC firms operate. Engineers maintain licenses through continuing education. Field staff complete safety training. New hires learn your QA/QC procedures and software standards. And certification bodies run entire programs — coursework, exams, and renewals — that their credential holders depend on.
We've built learning management systems for a range of programs, including EnviroCert International, an environmental certification organization, as well as the Bedside Harp certification program, Data Management Training, and LetsGoPiano.com. Each had different requirements: certification tracks, professional training, paid courses, and self-paced learning at scale.
That range is the point. Off-the-shelf platforms work until your program has rules they weren't built for. We develop LMS platforms around your program's actual requirements — your courses, your credentials, your reporting, and your brand.
What we build
LMS Development for Training and Certification
Certification Programs
Complete certification workflows: enrollment, required coursework, exams, credential issuance, renewal requirements, and records your staff can manage without spreadsheets on the side.
- What we do
- Course sequencing, exams and assessments, credential and renewal tracking, administrator tools, and reporting.
- Why it matters
- For a certification body, the LMS is the program. It has to enforce the rules accurately and make life easy for both candidates and administrators.
Internal Training
Training for your own team — safety programs, QA/QC procedures, CAD and software standards, and new-hire onboarding — with assignments by role and completion tracking for managers.
Courses for Clients & the Public
Share your firm's expertise through courses for clients, municipal staff, contractors, or the public, building authority and relationships beyond individual projects.
E-Commerce for Paid Courses
Sell individual courses, bundles, or memberships with secure online payments, discount codes, and group or organizational purchases.
Certificates, Progress & Reporting
Automatically generated certificates, learner dashboards that show progress, and administrator reports on enrollments, completions, and results.
Who this is for
Built for Firms, Associations, and Certification Bodies
Our LMS work serves organizations that take training seriously — whether the learners are your own employees, your clients, or professionals earning a credential.
What Firms Build with an LMS
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You Run a Certification or Credentialing Program
Candidates need to complete coursework, pass exams, and renew on schedule. You need a platform that enforces your program's rules and keeps records accurate.
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Your Engineers Need to Track Continuing Education
Licensed staff are tracking PDHs on their own. You want courses, completions, and certificates in one place.
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Internal Training Lives in Binders and Recordings
Safety, QA/QC, and software training exists, but it's scattered and hard to assign or track. You want a structured program with clear completion records.
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You Want to Offer Paid Courses
Your firm or association has expertise others will pay to learn. You need a branded platform with e-commerce built in.
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How it works
How an LMS Project Works
Timelines depend on the program's complexity — the number of course types, certification rules, integrations, and whether e-commerce is included. We provide a phased plan after discovery.
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Program Discovery
We map your program in detail: learner types, course structures, assessment and certification rules, renewal requirements, pricing, and the reports administrators need.
- Deliverables
- Program requirements · Learner and admin journeys
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Platform Planning
We decide what to build custom and what to configure, define integrations such as payments and single sign-on, and plan the migration of existing learners and records if you have them.
- Deliverables
- Technical plan · Migration plan
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Design
We design the learner experience — catalog, course player, dashboards, and certificates — along with the administrator tools your team will use every day.
- Deliverables
- Learner and admin designs
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Build & Test
We develop the platform, load initial courses, and test the full learner journey end to end, including enrollment, payment, assessment, and certificate issuance.
- Deliverables
- Fully developed LMS · End-to-end testing
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Launch & Support
We launch, train your administrators, and stay on for hosting, maintenance, and new features as your program grows.
- Deliverables
- Live platform · Administrator training · Ongoing support
Why Cavallo
Why Organizations Choose Us for LMS Development
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Experience Across Program Types
We've built platforms for certification bodies, professional training providers, and consumer course sites. We know what changes from one program to the next.
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Deep Roots in AEC
We've worked with engineering, environmental, and construction firms since 2014, so we understand continuing education requirements, safety and QA/QC training, and how technical professionals prefer to learn.
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Built Around Your Rules
We develop around your program's requirements instead of forcing your program into a platform's limitations.
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Long-Term Partnership
Training programs evolve every year. We host, maintain, and extend the platforms we build so your LMS keeps pace with your program.
Related services
Training That Connects to
LMS development is part of our custom software development practice for AEC firms. Internal training platforms pair naturally with a company intranet, and AI development can help staff find answers in your training materials and procedures.
If your LMS is public-facing, our web design and development team can make sure the marketing site and the course catalog work together. See more on our work page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should we build a custom LMS or use an off-the-shelf platform?
It depends on your program. If your needs are standard, a configured off-the-shelf platform may be the right answer, and we'll tell you so. A custom or extended LMS makes sense when you have specific certification rules, renewal cycles, reporting requirements, or integrations that packaged platforms handle poorly.
Can the LMS track PDHs for professional engineers?
Yes. We can build tracking for completed hours by course, issue certificates showing credit earned, and give learners a running history they can reference at renewal time. Approval of specific courses by state licensing boards is a separate process handled by the course provider.
Can we sell courses and accept payments?
Yes. We build e-commerce into the platform so you can sell individual courses, bundles, or memberships, offer discount codes, and support group purchases for organizations enrolling several learners.
Can it handle exams and certification renewals?
Yes. We build assessments, passing criteria, credential issuance, and renewal tracking based on your program's rules, along with administrator tools to manage exceptions and records.
Who creates the course content?
Your subject-matter experts provide the knowledge and materials, and we build the platform that delivers it. We can help structure existing content for online delivery and set up templates so your team can add new courses on their own.
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Build a Training Program That Runs Itself
Whether you're launching a certification, tracking continuing education, or formalizing internal training, let's talk about a platform built around your program.
