42,000 students migrated in a single weekend
Westbridge had run two legacy LMSs in parallel for seven years — one for undergraduate programs, one for continuing education. Both had failed the university's compliance re-certification and needed to be consolidated onto a single, audited platform.
The problem
Two legacy LMSs, two incompatible auth systems, two separate audit regimes. Compliance had flagged cross-system data leakage risk and required full consolidation within a single quarter. The previous consolidation attempt — with another vendor — had stalled for 11 months on tenant-isolation concerns.
Why Cognaxa
PostgreSQL Row-Level Security enforced at the query planner meant the compliance team could sign off on tenant isolation by reading one policy, not auditing every service. SSO via Microsoft Entra ID with SCIM provisioning removed the manual account-creation bottleneck that had broken the previous migration.
How the migration ran
Friday afternoon: export from both legacy systems (Canvas .imscc and Blackboard .zip). Friday evening: import into Cognaxa with course structure preserved. Saturday: parallel run for a subset of courses with dual-entry grading. Sunday: full cutover, legacy systems placed in read-only mode. Monday morning: no support tickets about missing content.
The outcome
Westbridge completed the migration inside the quarterly window. Their next annual security audit surfaced zero findings related to the LMS layer — the first clean audit in four years. Direct engineer access to the Cognaxa team during the switch was cited as the single biggest differentiator.
"We migrated 42,000 students from two legacy systems in a single weekend. Cognaxa's row-level tenancy was the single non-negotiable that our compliance team signed off on — no other vendor came close."
Dr. Sarah MitchellAcademic Director, Westbridge University
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