16 Mar Accipio Becomes a Premium Moodle Certified Partner in New Zealand
For Accipio, becoming a Premium Moodle Certified Partner in New Zealand is more than a commercial milestone. It is a homecoming.
Founded by New Zealander Sascha Benson-Cooper, Accipio has spent more than a decade building its reputation as one of the UK and Europe’s most capable Moodle and Totara specialists. The company arrives in New Zealand with serious scale, a deep technical team, and a suite of proprietary plugins unique to Accipio.
As of 17 March 2026, Accipio joins an exclusive group: one of only two Premium Moodle Certified Partners operating in New Zealand. That status matters for reasons that go well beyond a logo on a website.
What Premium Moodle Certified Partner Status Actually Means
Moodle’s partner programme operates across several tiers, with not all certified partners being equal. Premium status is the highest tier available, and for the New Zealand market, it carries a specific and significant distinction: only Premium Certified Partners are authorised to implement and support Moodle Workplace.
Moodle Workplace is the enterprise edition of the world’s most widely deployed open-source learning management system. Built on the same proven Moodle core, Workplace adds a layer of capability specifically designed for organisations that need to manage workforce development at scale, including multi-tenancy for different teams or business units, automated learning programmes tied to roles and onboarding, competency frameworks, and advanced reporting.
For New Zealand organisations that have been running standard Moodle and wondering whether it can do more, the answer is yes. For those evaluating LMS platforms for the first time, Workplace represents a meaningful step up from what most vendors can offer. And for the first time, Accipio will be here to deliver it.
Why New Zealand, Why Now
Becoming a Moodle Certified Partner in New Zealand is both a strategic milestone and a personal one for Accipio. As a Kiwi-founded company, expanding into Aotearoa feels like a homecoming, returning with serious scale and experience. We see significant opportunity in New Zealand, particularly around Moodle Workplace. It is a powerful enterprise product, yet adoption locally remains comparatively low. We believe organisations here are ready to leverage Workplace properly, not just as an LMS, but as a scalable workforce development and commercial learning platform
That assessment is well-founded. New Zealand’s eLearning market has matured considerably over the past decade, accelerated further by the disruption of 2020 and the lasting shift toward hybrid and distributed working. Organisations in government, education, professional services, and the corporate sector are increasingly investing in learning infrastructure that can scale with them, and many are finding that the platforms they adopted in a hurry have limits they are only now bumping against.
Moodle Premium Certified Partners are recognised for their technical expertise, strong service capability, and commitment to the Moodle ecosystem. With Accipio’s experience in delivering comprehensive learning platforms and supporting organisations adopting Moodle solutions, we look forward to seeing them help more institutions and businesses across New Zealand realise the full potential of the Moodle platform.
A Local Presence, Global Depth
Accipio’s New Zealand operation is led by Austen Sinclair, who is building the company’s presence on the ground from Wellington.
Joining Accipio's team just as we've achieved Premium Partner status feels like the right moment to be here. I've worked in the NZ eLearning space long enough to know where the genuine gaps are, and I've worked alongside Accipio long enough to know we can fill them. This isn't about adding another vendor to the market—it's about raising the standard for what's possible when learning platforms are treated as serious business infrastructure.
Accipio’s ‘Follow the Sun” support model means clients have support 24 hours a day making the day is twice as long – a the ‘double day’ of sorts where support we can achieve the equivalently of two days effort in a day due to NZ & UK offices. That the local team is supported by Accipio’s full technical and professional services capability in the UK, giving New Zealand clients access to a depth of Moodle and Totara expertise that would be difficult to replicate with a purely domestic team.
What Accipio One Brings to the New Zealand Market
Premium Partner status alone does not fully distinguish Accipio. What does is Accipio One, a modular suite of proprietary plugins built natively on Moodle and Totara that extends the platform’s core capability in directions that matter to organisations running complex learning operations.
The Accipio One suite transforms your enterprise learning ecosystem into a high-performance engine by unifying seamless LMS eCommerce capabilities, automated apprenticeship management, AI-driven curation, and an automated grading suite that simplifies complex assessment workflows into one frictionless, expert-led platform, along with a range of additional modules that can be configured to match an organisation’s specific needs.
No other Moodle Certified Partner in New Zealand has this. For organisations that need their LMS to function as a genuine operational platform, not just a place to host content, Accipio One changes what is possible.
Who is this for
Accipio works with a wide range of organisations across sectors, including corporate training, government and public sector, professional associations, higher education, and organisations delivering apprenticeship or structured Management development programmes. The common thread is not sector but ambition: clients who need their learning platform to work harder, integrate more deeply, and scale more reliably than the average LMS deployment allows.
New Zealand organisations that fall into that category, whether they are evaluating Moodle for the first time, considering a move from another platform, or already running Moodle and ready to take it further, now have a local partner with the credentials and the capability to help them do it properly.
A Note on Accipio's History
Accipio was founded in 2010 in the UK with a clear focus: to provide organisations with Moodle and Totara expertise that goes beyond hosting and helpdesk support. Over more than a decade, the company has built its reputation on technical expertise, a high-touch support model, and a track record that includes some of the UK’s most challenging LMS deployments, including the Premier League, PepsiCo, major government departments like the Cabinet Office and Department of Health and Social Care, and various major training companies.
The AccipioOne plugin suite emerged from that work: proprietary tools built to provide powerful new and additional features to both the Moodle and Moodle Workplace platforms.
Entering the New Zealand market as a Premium Moodle Certified Partner is the next chapter in the Accipio story.
What Happens Next
Accipio is now accepting enquiries from New Zealand organisations interested in Moodle, Moodle Workplace, Totara, or the Accipio One plugin suite. Whether you are starting from scratch, migrating from another platform, or looking to extend what your current Moodle deployment can do, the team would welcome a conversation.
Get in touch
Website: https://www.accipio.com/contact
Email: austen@accipio.com | sales@accipio.com
Phone: +64 (0) 4 885 4956
Address: Level 2, 40 Lady Elizabeth Lane, Wellington Central, 6011 New Zealand