A scalable edtech platform to support learning at King’s College, London

Our approach

Like many universities, students at King’s College, London (KCL) moved rapidly to remote working during the Covid pandemic. With over 35,000 students, the additional load on the Moodle LMS infrastructure was significant and was followed by year-on-year growth leading to challenges in dealing with peaks of demand.

CoSector worked very closely with KCL to define and build a more secure, scalable infrastructure platform capable of dealing with peaks in demand for the LMS without over provisioning at quieter times.

The combination of pre-scaling and live scaling built into the new platform was thoroughly tested against various use cases in the login cycle, quizzes and assignments and against multiple intensities of demand to build confidence that the service would be able to handle anything thrown at it.

CoSector built a new service model to wrap around the improved infrastructure and ensure its performance guarantee is met and to provide a highly responsive platform for KCL students.

The student experience has been greatly improved and issues previously felt because of bottlenecks during high demand have been designed-out of the system.

KCL is forecasting a reduction in the carbon footprint of the LMS infrastructure in 2025.