Hubken's e-learning glossary: Multitenancy

There are many use cases in which organisations might choose to utilise a multitenancy solution. These include:

• Companies embracing eCommerce to sell training to clients through tenant learning portals
• Charities hosting separate tenant spaces for volunteer training
• Businesses separating learning across multiple offices, countries, or departments
• Corporate entities with multiple brands preferring distinct branded learning environments
  
  

For an organisation in need of more than one e-learning space, multitenancy is enormously useful. Not only does it make it possible to centrally manage all e-learning sites in one place, but it is much more cost effective than subscribing to multiple LMS platforms - saving potentially tens of thousands of pounds every year. 

The individual tenants of a multitenancy LMS are the groups of users affiliated with each distinct user site. For example, a group of tenants might look like this:

Tenant 1: Main Accountancy Brand

Tenant 2: Secondary HR Brand

Tenant 3: Secondary Financial Services Brand

No - multitenancy is a function only available within specific LMS platforms. One of the best available platforms offering a robust multitenancy package is Totara Learn. 

Unfortunately, Moodle doesn't offer multitenancy functionality. It is possible to produce a multitenancy effect with a Moodle platform, but for true, fully optimised and manageable multitenancy a Totara Learn platform is recommended.