Larmer LRS
LEARNING RECORD STORE – LEARNING ANALYTICS PLATFORM – CONTENT PORTAL
Unique analytics platform for learning reporting
Larmer LRS
The Larmer LRS is the market-leading Learning Record Store using the Experience API (or xAPI) specification, cloud-based and hosted in the UK. It is the first commercial LRS to be xAPI 2.0 conformant by passing the ADL LRS Test Suite.
Larmer LRS provides unique features which allow it to function independently, including hosting and administering your content, as well as working hand in hand with your Learning Management System (LMS).
Built for organisations of any size, including enterprise level, Larmer LRS records all your digital learning data, and provides granular tracking and reporting on learner activity. Our LRS platform incorporates features that aren’t typically found in other LRSs, resulting in a unique analytics platform for learning reporting.
Learning Record Store
Larmer LRS is an official xAPI-Conformant LRS for storing and retrieving xAPI statements, and the only LRS on the market to achieve full xAPI 2.0 conformance. It fully supports all types of xAPI data, including statement signatures, binary attachments, and document stores. You can also import from other LRSs, forward statements, or export data out.
Learning Analytics
Powerful graphing and reporting tools help you organise your data and detect trends. You’ll gain valuable insights even from your first xAPI statements using our default dashboards. Take your analytics to the next level via the chart builder, advanced graph query tools, custom dashboards, and special support for common xAPI profiles. AI integration allows you to query your learning data in plain English, creating customised, highly analytical dashboards without writing a single line of code.
Learner Portal
Larmer LRS can support some basic LMS use cases for managing learners and content. Larmer LRS has a back-end interface for hosting and administering the content and a front-end interface for learners to login and launch the content. Security controls keep learner accounts protected, including account lockout, password complexity enforcement, automatic rotation and inactive account disabling.
Cloud-Hosted LRS
Larmer LRS is accessed directly from a web browser without any downloads or installations required. Larmer Brown hosts and maintains high security servers, databases and the code that runs the LRS in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
We offer a highly secure cloud service to deploy and store LRS software instances and data. The scalability, availability and security provided by our hosting platform simplifies LRS deployment and the lack of end user licence greatly reduces customer costs. It also allows us to future-proof our LRS architecture for you, enabling you to grow the architecture as your user and storage requirements grow.
Our Support and Training offerings are customised to meet your requirements and subscriptions include technical and telephone support, as well as all future upgrades. We offer a four-hour virtual workshop covering set up, analysing data and reporting, with a final session focusing on your own data. Bespoke support to suit your needs is also available upon request. A Premier Subscription also provides consultancy support.
Benefits of using an LRS
Where a Learning Management System (LMS) traditionally reports on data collected from packaged content stored within its system, an LRS is not so restricted. By using xAPI to track learning experiences, an LRS can collect data from a multitude of sources so everything can be tracked and reported, providing a more complete picture of what learners are learning. Using an LRS also enables organisations to track and analyse learner data at a granular level, and stipulate specific actions as a result of each outcome. We discuss the differences between LRS and LMS in further depth here.
Key Features and Differentiators of the Larmer LRS
The Larmer LRS has several unique features not typically found in other LRSs on the market, including:
Activity-Based Pricing
Our pricing model is based on the volume of activity and storage. There is no user-based pricing where you pay per user. You can start small, test the results and then step-up as required. Our subscription service offers rolling monthly or annual subscriptions, the former being designed to meet short-term project reporting.
Branding
The UI is fully customisable, including the Learner Portal login screen, and can therefore be branded to reflect your corporate style, or multiple portals for your divisions or clients.
Learner Portal
Not only is Larmer LRS a Learning Analytics Platform, Larmer LRS has a back-end interface for hosting and administering your content and a front-end Learner Portal for learners to login and launch the content that generates the xAPI data – this is normally a feature provided only by an LMS. Learner profiles can be set up simply and quickly, allowing full access to all the content. It supports tracking for many content types (i.e., links, PDFs, videos, SCORM 1.2 courses, and xAPI content).
Define User Roles
Larmer LRS is the only LRS on the market that provides the ability for customers to define their own user roles and permissions in the system. Not only can the system identify a platform-level administrator (master admin), but additional administrative permissions and access controls can be enabled at more granular levels for a wide variety of organisation-defined role types (e.g., Application/Platform Administrator, Manager, Viewer, Data Scientist, Content Tester, etc.). This supports the requirement for an administrator to be able to control all user accounts, but provides many more organisational hierarchy possibilities as well.
Analytics & Dashboards
Larmer LRS has the most robust xAPI tooling and learning analytics platform of any LRS product on the market, allowing you (or us on your behalf) to monitor many metrics at once. Like most LRS tools, it provides several reports and graphs out-of-the-box. However, Larmer LRS surpasses other LRS products by providing more built-in dashboards and widgets, such as dashboards based on measures for training effectiveness and efficiency, test item analysis over assessment data, individual visualisations over all types of assessment question interactions, video histograms, Sankey diagrams, and many more.
It is possible to view correlations between different reports, identify and track learning trends, and we can create custom dashboards on your behalf. You can also create multiple dashboard interfaces for different roles or permissions (e.g., learners, instructors, admins).
Larmer LRS offers a handy visualisation tool for creating charts without having to write any complicated code or queries. The Widget Builder tool provides a simple interface for building a wide variety of charts to visualise your xAPI data. You can create a single chart or a series of custom charts to reflect the data. It also fully supports xAPI context extensions and result extensions data.
AI-Powered Analytics with MCP Integration
Larmer LRS supports integration with AI tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that allows AI assistants – including Claude by Anthropic, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and OpenAI Codex – to connect securely to live xAPI data.
With the Larmer LRS MCP connector, users can query data, generate reports and build custom dashboards in real time using natural language – no specialist technical knowledge required. Simply ask your AI assistant what you want to see and get results instantly.
There are two ways to take advantage of this capability:
- Organisations can connect their own AI tool directly to their Larmer LRS instance via a dedicated MCP API key – data never leaves your environment.
- Larmer Brown can manage the AI integration on your behalf; in this case, learning data is exported into the Larmer Brown environment for analysis, with any resulting dashboards and reports copied back into your LRS.
Access is controlled via a dedicated MCP API key, separate from your standard xAPI credentials, ensuring AI connectivity remains secure and auditable within your existing permissions model.
Integrate & Embed Dashboards
Offering a unique architecture that enables LRS users to create custom integrations or extend LRS functionality by creating their own plug-ins, we provide features that enable you to create custom dashboards and individual graphs and charts created in the LRS. Our dashboards enable easy sharing or integration of data into other locations, including internet sites and LMS platforms. These can be shared as embeddable links that can be secured with a password, allowing colleagues to view reports without the need to access the tool.
Data Migration and Integration
In the case of data transfer, importing or exporting of data as CSV, JSON and data dumps via URL is possible. A SQL plugin for exporting data is also available as an option. You can also integrate entire binary database exports/backups and ingest xAPI data from other sources.
Statement forwarding allows organisations to link together several LRSs into a network, so you can aggregate data from multiple accounts.
Advanced Queries & API
Our LRS offers query and aggregate xAPI data using a powerful advanced search API and a simplified query language (VQL), together they enable the creation of complex queries and metrics.
Multiple-Hierarchical Architecture
Using the Larmer LRS, you can create multiple LRS instances in a hierarchical structure to provide different testing environments and data integration opportunities. Each LRS database within the structure can be assigned its own Administration Teams with each having full responsibility, including learner and content management, as well as the tracking and reporting of data within their dedicated LRS. Each LRS in the hierarchical structure can generate analytics from each LRS reporting to them. Multiple LRS instances offer customised, segregated reporting, for example by location, job role, department, etc. In addition, using statement forwarding, reporting can be collated in a master instance.
Security and Conformance
Larmer LRS supports basic authentication and two-factor email verification by default but can also be configured or integrated with any Identity Access Management (IAM) or Single Sign-On (SSO) solution. Our LRS has been used or tested with the OpenID Connect specification and is compatible with OpenID providers such as OKTA, GLUU, and Auth0. Additional security controls include configurable account lockout, enforced password rotation, automatic disabling of inactive accounts, and system-level password complexity requirements.
Larmer LRS hosting offers dedicated, cutting-edge security from an ISO accredited data centre that adheres to UK Government specifications. For our government and public sector clients, our hosting service has also achieved Cyber Essentials Plus certification and is available on the G-Cloud framework. This ensures the very highest standards of security, business continuity and peace of mind.
Flexible Deployment
The LRS can be deployed as a Software as a Service (SaaS) option hosted in a Larmer Brown private cloud, with or without Administrator Support. Alternately, it is available as an on-premise solution.
Enterprise Scalability
Larmer LRS is designed to store hundreds of millions of xAPI statements and receive tens of thousands of API calls per second. This means that the platform will never fail to accommodate the increase in resources necessary should your requirements scale up, or down.
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