Course migration without the risk

Move your courses,
keep every student.

You built something your students love. Switching course platforms shouldn't put any of it at risk. We handle the entire move to WordPress or Laravel, so your courses, videos, and enrollments arrive intact — and your students pick up right where they left off, on a faster site.

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"The migration preserved every enrollment date, every quiz, every video. Our students didn't notice a thing — except the site got faster."

Music Education Platform Director — 13 courses, 691 videos migrated from Thinkific to LearnDash

Videos Migrated
Enrollments Preserved
Courses Transferred
Data Loss
Migration Paths

What platforms do we migrate?

We only take on migrations where the source platform offers a real API. That's how everything arrives accurately, down to the details a CSV export quietly drops: quiz logic, completion history, and each student's original enrollment date. No scraping, no spreadsheet guesswork.

Pricing

How much does LMS migration cost?

Fixed-price per migration. No hourly billing. You know the total before we start.

Starter
$1,500 – $3,000
1–5 courses · Up to 100 videos · Up to 500 enrolled users
◈Course structure migrated, lesson by lesson
◈Videos rehosted on your own infrastructure
◈PDFs, downloads, and supplementary files moved over
◈Student accounts brought across with original signup dates
◈Enrollment history preserved (who's in what, when they started)
◈Hosted video with basic protection (fine for free previews + low-stakes content)
◈Migration audit report (line-by-line proof of what moved)
◈Staging environment for you to approve before go-live
2–4 business days
Professional
$3,000 – $7,500
5–20 courses · Up to 500 videos · Up to 5,000 enrolled users
◈Everything in Starter, plus:
◈Player-locked videos — only play on your site, deters casual download
◈CDN-accelerated playback worldwide (no buffering on remote learners)
◈Custom video player hardening — devtools-resistant, no easy URL grab
◈Lesson attributes preserved end-to-end (timestamps, completion logic)
3–7 business days
Enterprise
$7,500+
20+ courses · 500+ videos · 5,000+ enrolled users
◈Everything in Professional, plus:
◈Per-student secure video access — each learner gets a time-limited personal link, deters resale and account sharing
◈Integration with your custom Laravel / PHP / in-house destination
◈Priority support throughout the project
5–14 business days
Video Protection

How do we protect your video content after migration?

Self-hosting doesn't mean leaving your videos exposed. Seven overlapping layers protect them as well as a paid Vimeo plan does. You skip the subscription and pay only for the storage and bandwidth you use. And there's no upload cap, so your whole library migrates at once, instead of trickling in under Vimeo's annual limits. Built on AWS CloudFront.

Infra
Videos only play on your site
Your video files refuse to load anywhere but your own domains, so no one can lift a link and embed your lessons on their own page. (S3 bucket policies)
Infra
Only logged-in students can watch
Playback is tied to a signed-in session, so a video link is useless to anyone who isn't an enrolled, logged-in student. (CloudFront signed cookies)
Infra
Shared links stop working fast
Each video link is temporary and expires within minutes, so a student can't paste it into a group chat and give the whole course away. (Pre-signed URLs)
Player
No download button
The browser's built-in download button is removed from the player, so the easy one-click save is gone. (HTML5 controlsList)
Player
No pop-out workaround
The pop-out mini-player is disabled, closing a side door people use to slip past the on-page protections. (disablePictureInPicture)
Player
Right-click save is blocked
Right-clicking a video no longer offers Save As, removing the most common casual-download trick. (Context-menu blocking)
WP
Protection that stays on
A small WordPress plugin makes sure these safeguards survive every content edit and update, so a routine page change can't quietly strip them out. (wp_kses allowlist)
Who's building this

Engineers, not salespeople

migratelms.com is a deliberately small operation. Every migration is scoped, built, and QA'd by the same two people — the ones whose names are on this page. No account managers, no outsourced work, no hand-offs. If your migration hits a weird Thinkific GraphQL edge case, you're talking to the engineer who'll fix it.

Migration Engineer
Marc Gratch

Senior PHP developer specializing in LMS platform architecture, WordPress/LearnDash internals, and AWS infrastructure. Built the Thinkific export pipeline and LearnDash import system from the ground up. Expertise in API integration, video asset migration, and content protection engineering. Brings systems-level engineering experience to make complex migrations reliable, repeatable, and easier to validate.

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Migration Architect
Carrie Dils

Senior WordPress developer and instructional designer specializing in LMS migrations, course architecture, and content modeling. Experienced with WordPress internals, LearnDash structures, Thinkific APIs, course access logic, block editor workflows, and accessibility. Brings technical judgment and a course-builder’s perspective to preserve course flow, learner experience, and long-term maintainability.

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Because the team is two engineers, we take on a limited number of migrations at a time. That means your project gets real attention, not a runbook handed to a junior. Read more about the team →

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about LMS migration

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