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5 articles on strategy.

2026-05-14Recovering Course Progress After You've Already Cut Over: Merge, Never OverwriteMost migrations skip historical course progress on purpose — it's expensive to reconstruct and rarely missed. But if you decide later that you want it back, and your students have already been using the new system, you can't just import. You have to merge. Here's the pattern that works.2026-05-08Why We Built a Re-Runnable LMS Exporter (And Why You Should Too)Every migration we've inherited from another vendor has had the same bug: it was a one-shot script. The source platform kept selling courses during the migration window and 200 last-minute purchases got dropped. Idempotency is the cheapest insurance you can write.2026-05-04Stop Calling It 'Protected PDF.' Here's What's Actually Possible in the Browser.You can't prevent a logged-in student from saving a PDF they're allowed to view. What you can do is raise the cost of casual copying enough that it stops happening — and stop selling clients on protection you can't deliver.2026-03-12Why API-Driven Migration Beats Scraping, CSV, and Manual RebuildThere are four ways to migrate an LMS: manual rebuild, CSV export/import, web scraping, and API-driven extraction. Only one preserves 100% of your data with zero guesswork. Here's why.2026-02-20Why Vimeo Upload Quotas Make S3 the Better Choice for Course VideosAt $65/month, Vimeo Advanced limits you to 240 video uploads per year per seat. With 1,000+ course videos, that's nearly two years of uploading. S3 has no upload limits and costs a fraction per GB.