The challenge

Too much time spent managing the learning platform.

Before moving to Blend‑ed, Risknowlogy hosted and managed its own learning management system.

The company maintained separate staging and production servers, supported by a dedicated developer responsible for platform maintenance, customizations and upgrades.

Whenever Risknowlogy needed functionality that was not available out of the box, its developer had to build it. Those modifications also made subsequent upgrades more difficult, sometimes causing existing functionality to break.

For a relatively small training company, the ongoing infrastructure and development costs were becoming difficult to justify.

“Managing our own servers was costly. Having an engineer taking care of features was costly.”

Dr. Michel, Founder, Risknowlogy

There was another challenge in how Risknowlogy delivered training.

Courses traditionally followed scheduled instructor-led batches, with fixed start and end dates. Learners who approached Risknowlogy between batches had to wait for the next intake.

Dr. Michel wanted greater flexibility in how people could access training, without creating more administrative work for his team.

Rather than spending time planning technical features, managing developers and maintaining servers, he wanted to concentrate on developing and delivering training.

The solution

Moving training operations to Blend‑ed.

Risknowlogy selected Blend‑ed to manage its learning platform and support its evolving training requirements.

Blend‑ed handled the migration of Risknowlogy’s existing courses and learner data from its self-hosted Open edX environment.

The transition followed a planned process, allowing Risknowlogy to continue operating its academy without rebuilding its courses or learner records from scratch.

“I think the transition went very smooth. You had a kind of a plan or a step plan on how to execute it. All of that went according to plan.”

Dr. Michel

With the platform managed by Blend‑ed, Risknowlogy no longer needed the dedicated developer who had maintained its previous installation.

Beyond removing that responsibility, Blend‑ed also provided capabilities that helped Risknowlogy change how it delivered and managed its training programs.

From scheduled batches to enrollment at any time.

One of the changes Risknowlogy introduced was a more flexible approach to course enrollment.

Previously, learners joining a scheduled course had to wait until the next batch began.

Using Blend‑ed’s relative due-date functionality, Risknowlogy moved some of its courses to an everboarding model.

Learners can now enroll in these courses at any time and follow a defined learning schedule based on their individual start date.

For example, a three-month program can release content weekly from the date a learner enrolls, rather than requiring everyone to begin on the same day.

This allows Risknowlogy to offer structured training without limiting enrollment to a few fixed intakes each year.

The company continues to deliver instructor-led programs alongside its more flexible self-study courses.

Multiple training and certification options within a course.

Risknowlogy’s programs serve learners with different training and certification requirements.

Some participants need access to training alone, while others want to pursue additional professional certification.

With Blend‑ed, Risknowlogy can offer multiple enrollment options for the same course, each with its own pricing.

For example, a functional safety program can present training-only access alongside packages that include different certification options.

This allows prospective learners to choose the package that fits their requirements without having to navigate separate course listings for each option.

Simpler assessment management and financial reporting.

As a professional training and certification provider, Risknowlogy needs access to assessment results and grading information.

Blend‑ed introduced improvements based on Risknowlogy’s feedback, including simpler assessment management directly from the administrative dashboard.

Instead of navigating into individual courses to review assessment data and manage grading, staff can access these functions from the dashboard.

Blend‑ed also introduced financial analytics within the dashboard, giving Risknowlogy easier access to information about the commercial side of its training operations.

These improvements reflect an important part of the relationship: Risknowlogy can provide feedback on its operational needs, and Blend‑ed can incorporate relevant changes into the platform.

“When I gave you feedback… you implemented it relatively quickly.”

Dr. Michel

The impact

More attention on training, less on technology.

Moving to Blend‑ed changed the responsibilities involved in running Risknowlogy’s online academy.

Before Blend‑ed

Own staging and production servers

A dedicated developer for maintenance, customizations and upgrades

Upgrades that could break custom features

Fixed batches: learners waited for the next intake

With Blend‑ed

The learning platform managed by Blend‑ed

No developer needed for the platform

Feedback turned into platform changes, relatively quickly

Enrollment at any time, dated from each learner’s start

The company no longer maintains its own LMS servers or depends on a dedicated developer for platform maintenance and upgrades.

Its course-related team remains in place, while Blend‑ed handles the underlying learning platform.

For Dr. Michel, the difference is being able to spend more time on the work he originally built Risknowlogy to do.

Instead of focusing on what the product was supposed to do, I could now start making trainings again. And that is, of course, supposed to be my expertise.

Dr. Michel

Founder, Risknowlogy

Risknowlogy

Since going live on Blend‑ed in August 2025, Risknowlogy’s academy has issued 646 certificates, and signed-in learners from more than 57 countries have used the platform.

The academy’s publicly rated courses also have a review-weighted average of approximately 4.75 out of 5.

These figures reflect the current activity and reach of Risknowlogy’s training academy, alongside the operational changes Dr. Michel described.

A learning experience that works for learners.

Dr. Michel also highlighted the experience learners have when accessing their courses.

“I don’t think I’ve ever had a student who logged in and then contacted us and said, I have no clue what I’m supposed to do over here.”

Dr. Michel

He credited the underlying learning platform and Blend‑ed’s interface improvements for making the learner experience straightforward.

Support has been another important part of the relationship. Dr. Michel described Blend‑ed’s support as fantastic, noting that issues he raised were usually resolved within 24 hours.

Following its first year on Blend‑ed, Risknowlogy renewed for a second year.