Private training providers and educators in Australia and New Zealand often rely on learning management systems (LMS) to deliver courses and track student progress online. SELMA SIS removes the need to manually keep your student management system and LMS in sync. The platform comes ready with built‑in integrations for popular LMS platforms. SELMA SIS supports native connections with leading systems such as Canvas, Moodle, CloudAssess, and can connect to other platforms like Blackboard when needed. These integrations allow student records, enrolments, grades and progress to flow seamlessly between SELMA SIS and your e‑learning platform, eliminating double data entry and ensuring all systems remain up to date. For example, when you enrol a student in SELMA SIS, the system automatically creates or updates that student’s enrolment in the LMS course, granting them immediate access to online material. Meanwhile, when the student completes quizzes or assignments in the LMS, their grades and completion status sync back into SELMA SIS so that the central record is always current. This two way synchronisation saves administrative time and reduces errors by avoiding duplicate records, giving staff confidence that SELMA SIS and the LMS are sharing information correctly.
Canvas Integration: Connecting SELMA with a Leading LMS
Canvas is one of the world’s most popular LMS platforms and has seen rapid adoption in Australia and New Zealand. Its clean interface and cloud‑first design make it a favourite in higher education and professional training. SELMA SIS provides a built‑in Canvas integration that lets you continue using Canvas without any extra data‑management work. Once SELMA and Canvas are linked, any new student enrolment or course registration recorded in SELMA is automatically reflected in Canvas.
In practice, the moment you add a student to a course in SELMA, their account and enrolment appear in the corresponding Canvas course. The student gains instant access to all online materials with no manual setup of logins or course lists. Conversely, when instructors record grades or mark modules complete in Canvas, those results flow back into SELMA SIS. This two way sync ensures SELMA always has the latest learning progress from Canvas, so administrators can run reports or track performance from within SELMA without having to toggle between systems. The student can log into Canvas right away, and staff don’t need to worry about missing someone or giving the wrong course access. Instructors continue using Canvas as usual, but when they grade online quizzes or assignments, those grades update back in SELMA.
In short, the Canvas integration with SELMA SIS streamlines e‑learning delivery: teachers use Canvas to teach, while SELMA keeps the data in harmony behind the scenes.
Moodle Integration: Seamless Sync with the Open Source LMS
Moodle is an open source LMS created in Australia and widely adopted across New Zealand and Australia. In fact, Moodle historically holds the largest share of the LMS market in the region. Many training providers choose Moodle for its flexibility and community support. SELMA SIS offers a native Moodle integration, allowing your administrative system and Moodle to act as one cohesive system. When a student is enrolled or their details are updated in SELMA, their profile and enrolments in Moodle are automatically created or adjusted. There is no need to export CSV files or re-enter student information into Moodle; SELMA handles the data push to Moodle for you. Likewise, any grades, course completions or other learning outcomes recorded in Moodle can be synced back into SELMA SIS, ensuring each student’s academic record is kept complete.
This integration brings significant benefits. Administrators save time by avoiding double data entry: for instance, if a new intake of students is added to a course in SELMA, by the time the instructor opens Moodle the entire class will already be enrolled in that course. Students enjoy a smooth start, able to log into Moodle from day one without credential hassles. Trainers can grade assessments or track learner activity in Moodle, and trust that SELMA SIS will capture those results automatically. In this way SELMA updates overall course completion status or final grades in the central system without any manual work. Such seamless data flow is particularly useful for compliance and reporting, all your Moodle data is consolidated in SELMA, ready for any progress reports.
In short, the Moodle integration keeps your teaching platform and student administration in lockstep, so your team can focus on teaching rather than data upkeep.
CloudAssess Integration: Purpose‑Built for Vocational Training
CloudAssess is an LMS built specifically for vocational training and competency‑based education. It provides tools for managing practical assessments, offline evaluations and compliance tracking, making it a popular choice for Registered Training Organisations and skills‑focused educators. SELMA SIS provides an out‑of‑the‑box integration with CloudAssess to streamline workflows. Through this integration, SELMA SIS automatically sends student enrolment information to CloudAssess, when a student is registered for a course or unit in SELMA, they are immediately set up in CloudAssess with the correct cohort and assessments. This removes the need to manually enter trainee details into CloudAssess. More importantly, as students progress through their competency assessments in CloudAssess, their results and completion data are synced back to SELMA SIS, updating their record without staff intervention.
The advantage for compliance is clear: CloudAssess is often used to gather evidence of skills and track industry qualification completions. With the integration in place, the moment a student completes an assessment or is marked competent in CloudAssess, SELMA SIS records that outcome in the student’s file. When it comes time to generate regulatory reports, for example NZQA unit standard results or Australian AVETMISS outcomes, SELMA already has the latest assessment results on hand. This highly automated integration saves training providers considerable time and ensures data consistency: administrators no longer have to cross‑check spreadsheets against the LMS or worry about missing updates. In practice, trainers can continue using CloudAssess’s specialised tools for observations, evidence capture and grading, confident that SELMA SIS is capturing all those achievements in the background.
The integration of CloudAssess thus gives vocational educators the best of both worlds: a platform built for hands‑on training delivery and a central system that consolidates all student progress for easy management and reporting.
Blackboard Integration: Sync with a Widely Used Enterprise LMS
Blackboard is a robust, widely used LMS that supports colleges and large training organisations in managing digital learning. If your institution uses Blackboard, SELMA SIS can integrate with it so that all your enrolment and performance data stays aligned. Just like with Canvas and Moodle, adding or updating a student in SELMA will automatically update Blackboard as well, enrolling the student into the correct online classes without any manual effort. Course rosters in Blackboard will always mirror what is in your SIS. In the return direction, SELMA’s integration can pull back key data from Blackboard, such as final course grades or completion flags. This means that when an instructor finalises grades in Blackboard, those grades can appear in SELMA SIS immediately or as part of the next sync, automatically populating transcripts or progress reports.
The benefit is clear: educators and administrators only need to maintain information in one place, and the integration takes care of populating the other. For example, an instructor might track engagement and grades within Blackboard, while an administrator later sees in SELMA which students have passed or need additional support, all without separate data entry. This not only saves time but also reduces the risk of discrepancies between systems, if a student withdraws or changes courses in SELMA, that change will be automatically updated in Blackboard.
By connecting SELMA SIS with Blackboard, larger institutions can leverage Blackboard’s powerful e‑learning capabilities alongside SELMA’s strong administration and compliance tools, with everything working together behind the scenes.
Open API and Additional LMS Connectivity
While SELMA SIS provides ready-made integrations for Canvas, Moodle, CloudAssess and Blackboard, it also recognises that every organisation’s technology ecosystem can vary. To ensure ultimate flexibility, SELMA SIS offers an open API and supports integration platforms to connect with virtually any LMS or system you might use. In other words, if your organisation uses a different or custom LMS, SELMA’s API allows developers to establish seamless data exchange with that platform.
The system even works with no‑code integration services like Zapier or Make.com, enabling connections to external apps without heavy development. This open connectivity means you are not limited to only the pre‑integrated options, you have the freedom to connect the systems that work best for your educational approach. For example, if a new specialised LMS emerges in the future, you could adopt it and use SELMA’s API to integrate it, preserving the seamless flow of enrolments and results.
Ultimately, SELMA SIS can serve as your central “source of truth” for student data even as you plug in new learning platforms and tools.
In summary, with SELMA SIS as the hub of your student management, these out‑of‑the‑box integrations streamline operations and give students a frictionless learning experience. By syncing with Canvas, Moodle, CloudAssess, Blackboard or any other LMS, SELMA SIS reduces manual workload and lets your team focus on teaching and training rather than on data entry
