Scaffold Platform
Course data, protectedat the level you need.
Three tiers of LMS data resiliency, one platform. Each builds on the last — start where you are, scale when you're ready.
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One Scaffold Platform, three levels of capability.
Each tier includes everything in the tier before it.
- 01 · Active archiving
Scaffold Archiving
Includes Archiving
- Aging course content and student data moved out of your active LMS
- Fully integrated and searchable, with one-click restore back into the LMS
- Retention that satisfies FERPA, accreditation, and audit requirements
Capabilities included
- Historical Courses
- 02 · Live protection
Scaffold Backup
Includes Archiving + Backup
- Everything in Archiving, at full retention capacity
- Current course backup with rapid recovery from deletion or corruption
- Emergency enrollment keeps teaching moving when the LMS is unavailable
Capabilities included
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- Historical Courses
- Current Courses
- Emergency Enrollment
- 03 · Restore, search, and report
Scaffold DataX
Includes Archiving + Backup + DataX
- Everything in Backup, plus the capabilities of a full data warehouse
- AI search across years of course data, without a query or a data team
- Reporting and analytics across the archive for institutional review
Capabilities included
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- Historical Courses
- Current Courses
- Emergency Enrollment
- Reporting
- Analytics
- Snapshots
- AI Search
What it is
One platform, three levels of resiliency.
LMS data resiliency is not a single problem. Some institutions need years of aging courses archived out of an active LMS while keeping them retrievable. Others need to recover a live course after a deletion or failed integration. Others need to answer an accreditor years after the course was taught, without a data team.
The Scaffold Platform addresses all three through a single tiered model. Each tier includes everything in the tier before it, so institutions can start where their risk actually sits and move up without re-implementing or migrating data between systems.
Resiliency outcomes
Key benefits
- Match your investment to your actual risk rather than buying capability you do not need
- Aging course content and student data archived out of the active LMS, still fully accessible
- Live course backup, rapid recovery, and continuity of instruction during an outage
- Support for Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, and more
How to choose
Four questions that point to a tier.
Most institutions arrive knowing they have a data risk without knowing which level of protection answers it. These four questions usually settle it.
Step 01
What has to come out of the LMS, but stay reachable?
If years of aging courses are cluttering the environment or leaving student data in a system built for teaching rather than retention, archiving is your baseline requirement. That is Scaffold Archiving.
Step 02
What has to survive an incident?
If a deleted course, a corrupted import, or an unavailable LMS would disrupt active teaching, you need live course backup and rapid recovery, not just historical retention. That is Scaffold Backup.
Step 03
Who needs to reach the data, and how fast?
If your team must produce records years later, restore to a specific date, or answer questions without writing queries, retention alone is not enough. That is Scaffold DataX.
Step 04
What happens when the requirement changes?
Because the tiers are cumulative, moving up is a change in capability, not a migration. Institutions that start with archiving keep everything they have already preserved when they add backup or DataX.
Scaffold Archiving
Archive aging content without losing access to it.
Active LMS instances accumulate years of courses no one teaches but the institution still has to keep. Leaving them in place clutters the environment and leaves aging student data in a system built for teaching, not retention.
Scaffold Archiving moves that content and student data onto the Scaffold Platform, where it stays integrated with your LMS — searchable through a familiar interface rather than zipped into cold storage, and restorable with a click.
Keep the LMS clean.
Aging courses come out of the active environment so faculty work in a current instance.
Retrieve anything in one click.
Archived courses stay searchable, and content pushes back into the LMS without downloading and repairing a cartridge.
Meet retention obligations.
Enrollments, submissions, discussions, and grades stay available for FERPA, accreditation, grade challenges, and audits, with permissions that match your data policy.
Included at this tier: Aging course content and student data
Scaffold Backup
Recover active courses, not just archived ones.
Archiving protects the content you have moved out of the LMS. It does not help when a live course is deleted mid-term, an integration overwrites content, or the LMS becomes unavailable during finals week. Those are different failures, and they affect teaching in progress.
Scaffold Backup extends resiliency to active courses, adding live course backup, rapid recovery, and emergency enrollment so instruction can continue when the primary environment cannot support it. Emergency enrollment is a temporary path for faculty and students to keep teaching and learning when the primary LMS is down.
Recover courses quickly.
Restore deleted or damaged live courses without rebuilding content.
Keep teaching during an outage.
Emergency enrollment gives faculty and students a path to continue coursework when the LMS is unavailable.
Reduce the blast radius of a mistake.
A failed bulk change or bad import becomes a recovery task rather than a semester-long rebuild.
New at this tier: Current courses · Emergency enrollment. Also includes full archiving capacity.
Scaffold DataX
Find it, restore it, and prove it.
Recovery answers one question: can we get the course back? Institutions face a harder second one — can we find what we need inside years of preserved data, restore to a specific moment, and produce evidence when an accreditor or general counsel asks?
Scaffold DataX adds point-in-time snapshots, search, reporting, and analytics across all of it — archived courses and live LMS data alike — so preserved data becomes something the institution can query rather than something it merely stores.
Restore to a point in time.
Snapshots let you identify potential changes to data with point in time comparisons
Search years of course data.
AI search surfaces the specific course, submission, or record without a query, a ticket, or a data team.
Answer accreditors and records requests.
Produce defensible documentation of what was taught, when, and by whom, from a governed source.
New at this tier: Reporting · Analytics · Snapshots · AI search. Also includes everything in Archiving and Backup.
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What is included at each level.
Each tier includes everything in the tier before it.
Aging course content and student data
- Archiving
- Backup
- DataX
One-click restore back into the LMS
- Archiving
- Backup
- DataX
Current (live) course backup
- Archiving
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- Backup
- DataX
Rapid recovery
- Archiving
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- Backup
- DataX
Emergency enrollment
- Archiving
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- Backup
- DataX
Point-in-time snapshots
- Archiving
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- Backup
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- DataX
AI search across the archive
- Archiving
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- Backup
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- DataX
Reporting
- Archiving
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- Backup
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- DataX
Analytics
- Archiving
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- Backup
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- DataX
Available for Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and D2L Brightspace. Capacity and platform coverage are confirmed during scoping. Emergency enrollment is a temporary path for faculty and students to keep teaching when the primary LMS is unavailable.
Get started
Not sure which level you need?
A short scoping conversation covers your platform, your retention obligations, and where your current gaps sit — then points to the tier that fits.
- SOC 2 Type II
- ISO 27001
- FERPA Aligned