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Open source authoring

Rich learning content, inside your LMS.

Bring teaching content, activities, and assessment together in one visual editor, exactly as learners will experience them.

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Supporting interactive learning at the School of Dentistry.

Scaffold is being used to create richer digital learning activities for dental education.

Create a complete learning journey.

From the first explanation to the final answer, Scaffold keeps the whole lesson together. Follow one activity from authoring into the learner experience.

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Compose Build the lesson

Arrange explanation, media, and activities directly on the page your learners will use.

Made for the whole learning experience.

Scaffold helps educators move from an idea to a complete activity without losing the relationship between what they teach, what learners do, and what happens next.

Create visually

Shape pages and slides directly in the experience your learners will use. Arrange layouts, media, and interactive blocks without translating the lesson into code.

Bring teaching and assessment together

Place explanation, practice, questions, hints, feedback, and grouped quizzes in one coherent lesson—not across separate tools.

Explain Build understanding
Explore Put ideas into practice
Assess Respond with useful feedback

Understand the learner journey

Capture meaningful activity beyond a final score—from opening a hint and interacting with content to submitting an answer and progressing through a quiz.

xAPI learning records, represented through your LMS.

  1. Opened a hint
  2. Explored content
  3. Submitted an answer
  4. Progressed through a quiz

Narrated demonstration

See a lesson take shape.

Follow one complete Scaffold workflow—from shaping the first page to adding activities and assessment, then moving into a learner-ready presentation.

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Start with what learners need to do.

Choose a teaching move, then combine the blocks that serve it. Scaffold keeps explanation, exploration, practice, and assessment in the same learning experience.

Explain

Give an idea the words, media, structure, and emphasis it needs.

Text · images · audio · video · PDFs · embeds · charts · callouts

Explore

Let learners reveal, compare, navigate, and make connections.

Timelines · galleries · glossaries · comparisons · hotspots

Check understanding

Place a useful pause exactly where a learner needs to think.

Flashcards · checklists · hints · feedback · knowledge checks

Assess

Build richer evidence of learning than a final multiple-choice score.

Matching · categorisation · sequencing · blanks · dropdowns · hotspots · quizzes

Scaffold and Scaffold Plus

Open to everyone. Built to scale with your institution.

Scaffold is free and open source. Scaffold Plus is the hosted platform for teams that need to create, assure and manage learning content together.

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Free and open source

Create, assess and understand learning without a subscription.

Install Scaffold into your learning environment and use the full authoring and learner experience.

  • The complete visual editor and block library
  • Teaching content, activities and assessment
  • Saved progress, grades and learning records
  • Open-source code you can inspect and adapt
Scaffold Plus Being shaped
Hosted institutional platform

Create and govern learning across your organisation.

A shared place for teams to develop, improve and manage learning content around the same Scaffold experience.

Being shaped for Plus

  • Shared workspaces, reusable content and team collaboration
  • AI-assisted checks for accessibility, learning design and assessment quality—with authors always in control
  • Reviews, approvals, version history and content governance
  • Secure hosting, SSO, institutional administration and support
The same core product

The complete Scaffold authoring and learner experience remains free and open source. Plus builds on it with hosted collaboration, AI-assisted quality assurance and institutional controls.

Make your learning platform a better place to create.

Scaffold is a visual authoring layer for the learning environment your institution already operates—not another destination for teachers and learners to manage.

Create

Authors shape complete learning activities where their courses live.

Learn

Learners move through content, practice, feedback, and assessment as one experience.

Understand

Progress, completion, and evidence of learning stay connected to the course.

Your next step

Bring your next learning activity to life.

Explore Scaffold immediately, share the installation route with your institution, or talk to us about the hosted Plus platform.

Considering Scaffold for your courses?

Tell us how you would use it and which LMS you run. We will answer questions about fit, current integrations, and what is coming next.