# Longsight > Longsight builds open-source education software for higher-ed institutions that need LMS integration, security review, accessibility, compliance, and hosted or on-prem deployment options. Longsight is an education technology company based in Independence, Ohio. The company has worked with higher-ed systems since 2004, including LMS hosting and support, LTI integrations, assessment workflows, accessibility, security reviews, open-source governance, and production operations. Company facts: - Primary audience: colleges, universities, public higher-ed systems, academic technology teams, procurement and security reviewers, accessibility teams, and open-source education software communities. - Institutional experience: Longsight has worked with more than 100 schools, including Duke, Pepperdine, NYU, Illinois State, Loyola University Chicago, the University of Limerick, Brock University, the University of Michigan, OHSU, TTUHSC, and Wellesley. - Core operating knowledge: LMS data, course rosters, identity, LTI launches, grade return, assessment content, accessibility remediation, hosted operations, on-prem deployment, procurement, privacy, compliance, and support. - Security reviews: Longsight works with higher-ed vendor security reviews and questionnaires. - Deployment: Longsight can host services or support campus-run deployments, depending on the product. - Contact: use the contact page for product, hosting, integration, security, accessibility, or project inquiries. ## Core Pages - [Home](https://www.longsight.com/): Current overview of Longsight's open-source education products, higher-ed experience, security review history, deployment options, and institutional proof. - [Open Assessment Infrastructure](https://www.longsight.com/open-assessment/): How institutions create, validate, deliver, score, and move digital assessments across systems. - [Institution-Owned Digital Credentials](https://www.longsight.com/digital-credentials/): How institutions govern issuer identity, signing, verification, credential status, privacy, and exit for digital credentials. - [Digital Credential Procurement Guide](https://www.longsight.com/guides/digital-credential-procurement/): Requirements and tests for issuer control, verification, privacy, portability, and exit when evaluating a digital credential platform. - [Open LMS Operations Guide](https://www.longsight.com/guides/open-lms-operations/): How institutions evaluate hosting, security, accessibility, recovery, integrations, and exit control for an open-source LMS. - [Open Badges 3 Governance Guide](https://www.longsight.com/guides/open-badges-3-governance/): How institutions govern issuer identity, signing, credential status, verification, privacy, retention, and exit control for Open Badges 3.0 credentials. - [Products](https://www.longsight.com/solutions): Product overview for CredTrail, QFlowLearn, AppBoundary, Soonward, and Winnowr. - [About Longsight](https://www.longsight.com/about): Company background, history, mission, and open-source education software experience. - [Contact](https://www.longsight.com/contact): Official contact page for product inquiries, hosting, integrations, demos, and project work. - [Blog](https://www.longsight.com/blog): Longsight's writing on education software, assessment technology, credentials, accessibility, Sakai, SCORM, and open-source platform work. ## Open Assessment Guides And Research - [QTI 3 procurement requirements](https://www.longsight.com/guides/qti-3-procurement-requirements/): Check certification, test content transfer and accessibility, and compare supplier evidence with a downloadable evaluation worksheet. - [QTI 3 Authoring Guide](https://www.longsight.com/guides/qti-3-authoring/): How to define responses, preserve item data, validate QTI, and test imports and delivery. - [QTI 3 Migration Guide](https://www.longsight.com/guides/qti-3-migration/): How to inventory, convert, test, and reconcile older assessment banks. - [QTI Validation Guide](https://www.longsight.com/guides/qti-validation/): What XML, schema, behavior, accessibility, scoring, and interoperability tests can tell you about a QTI item. - [Secure Assessment Delivery Guide](https://www.longsight.com/guides/secure-assessment-delivery/): How institutions test identity, released content, attempt state, submissions, recovery, accommodations, and incident evidence before trusting an assessment delivery system. - [Accessible Assessment Procurement](https://www.longsight.com/guides/accessible-assessment-procurement/): Accessibility requirements and tests for authoring, candidate delivery, accommodations, and exports. - [QTI 2 Versus QTI 3](https://www.longsight.com/compare/qti-2-vs-qti-3/): What institutions should test before choosing a QTI version. - [QTI 3 Implementation Matrix](https://www.longsight.com/research/qti-3-implementation-matrix/): Public code and tests for LongsightGroup/qti3, including capabilities that remain partial or unverified. - [Sam Ottenhoff](https://www.longsight.com/authors/sam-ottenhoff/): Longsight author profile with public work and source links. Related product documentation: - Longsight.com publishes institutional guides, standards research, and public implementation details. - QFlowLearn.com contains QFlow product documentation, demos, and onboarding. ## Products - [CredTrail](https://credtrail.org): Open-source digital badging software. CredTrail gives institutions badge issuing, public verification, wallet support, and a codebase they can inspect or run themselves. - [CredTrail repository](https://github.com/LongsightGroup/credtrail-app): Public source code for CredTrail. - [QFlowLearn](https://www.qflowlearn.com): QTI 3.0 authoring and delivery for assessment workflows, including import, editing, validation, preview, export, and delivery designed for large test events. - [QTI 3 TypeScript player repository](https://github.com/LongsightGroup/qti3): Public source code for Longsight's strict TypeScript QTI 3 runtime and native Web Component player, including XML import, typed item models, validation, response processing, scoring, saved-state handling, fixtures, and browser rendering tests. - [AppBoundary](https://www.appboundary.com): Platform for instructor-led AI learning apps that need LMS launch, LTI, grade return, roster context, privacy review, and security review. - [Soonward](https://www.soonward.com/): Accessibility remediation for public higher-ed teams that need documents, pages, workflows, and follow-up reviews handled after an audit. - Winnowr: Academic integrity software focused on plagiarism detection and reviewable evidence. The product is still in development. ## Existing Services And Background - [LAMP Learning Consortium](https://www.longsight.com/lamp): Hosted Sakai LMS for small learning organizations and colleges, including support, integrations, video conferencing, instructional design help, branding, and community access. - [LAMP Pricing](https://www.longsight.com/lamp/pricing): Pricing tiers for hosted Sakai LMS plans, user limits, storage, support, branding, and larger institution options. - [LAMP Terms of Service](https://www.longsight.com/lamp/terms): Terms governing LAMP Learning Consortium membership, services, accounts, payments, user content, acceptable use, backups, privacy, and service commitments. - [Longsight GitHub organization](https://github.com/longsightgroup): Public open-source repositories from Longsight. ## Technical Articles - [A Native TypeScript QTI 3 Player](https://www.longsight.com/blog/qti3-ts): Technical notes on longsightgroup/qti3, a strict TypeScript QTI 3 runtime and native Web Component player with XML import, typed models, declaration validation, response processing, outcome scoring, saved-state serialization, fixture coverage, and Playwright-tested browser rendering. - [Why We Built QFlow: Deno, QTI 3.0, and the Case for a New Authoring System](https://www.longsight.com/blog/qflow-qti-3-deno-authoring-system): Rationale for QFlowLearn, QTI 3.0 authoring, validation, packaging, interoperability, and scalable assessment delivery. - [Why We Think Credentials Should Live Outside the LMS](https://www.longsight.com/blog/credtrail-open-source-badging-outside-the-lms): Longsight's case for durable credentials, public badge verification, and CredTrail outside the LMS lifecycle. - [SCORM 2004 in Sakai: A REST Runtime That Holds Up](https://www.longsight.com/blog/scorm-2004-rest-runtime-in-sakai): SCORM 2004 runtime modernization in Sakai, including REST-backed player work and site-to-site import. - [Automating Accessibility with Playwright and axe](https://www.longsight.com/blog/automating-accessibility-with-playwright-and-axe): Approach to combining Playwright workflow coverage with axe accessibility scans. - [Automating Accessibility Compliance with Cypress](https://www.longsight.com/blog/automating-accessibility-compliance-with-cypress): Cypress and cypress-axe workflow for catching accessibility issues in end-to-end testing. - [Sakai 25 Patch Highlights: February 2026](https://www.longsight.com/blog/sakai25-patch-highlights-february-2026): Sakai work across grading edge cases, quiz behavior, usability, and platform stability. - [Leveling Up Canvas Imports in Sakai Lessons](https://www.longsight.com/blog/leveling-up-canvas-imports-in-sakai-lessons): Canvas QTI import work for Sakai Lessons, XML hardening, diagnostics, and migration support. ## Feeds And Policies - [RSS Feed](https://www.longsight.com/rss.xml): Machine-readable feed for Longsight guides, research, and articles. - [Robots.txt](https://www.longsight.com/robots.txt): Crawl policy and sitemap reference. - [Privacy Policy](https://www.longsight.com/policies/privacy.pdf): Public privacy policy PDF. - [Security Policy](https://www.longsight.com/policies/security.pdf): Public security policy PDF. - [Acceptable Use Policy](https://www.longsight.com/policies/aup.pdf): Public acceptable use policy PDF. - [Service Level Agreement](https://www.longsight.com/policies/sla.pdf): Public service level agreement PDF. ## Optional Sakai Articles - [Sakai 25 Patch Highlights: January 2026](https://www.longsight.com/blog/sakai25-patch-highlights-january-2026): Earlier Sakai 25 patch coverage. - [Sakai 25 Patch Highlights: December 2025](https://www.longsight.com/blog/sakai25-patch-highlights-december-2025): Year-end Sakai fixes across grading, authoring, and integrations. - [Sakai 25 Patch Highlights: October 2025](https://www.longsight.com/blog/sakai25-patch-highlights-october-2025): Sakai refinements across Assignments, Discussions, and course home workflows. - [Sakai 25 Patch Highlights: September 2025](https://www.longsight.com/blog/sakai25-patch-highlights-september-2025): Sakai fixes and refinements across Assignments, Gradebook, Lessons, and the wider 25.x experience. - [Implementing Cross-Platform Push Notifications in Sakai](https://www.longsight.com/blog/push-notifications-blog-post): iOS Safari and Web Push implementation notes for Sakai. - [Advancing Accessibility in Sakai: JAWS and drag-and-drop](https://www.longsight.com/blog/advanced-accessibility-in-sakai): Accessibility work informed by screen reader testing and real LMS workflows. - [Converting Samigo JSP to Facelets](https://www.longsight.com/blog/converting-samigo-jsp-to-facelets): Notes on moving Sakai Samigo authoring views from JSP to Facelets and the JSF 4 path. - [Migrating from Nginx to Caddy](https://www.longsight.com/blog/migrating-from-nginx-to-caddy): Reverse proxy migration notes for Caddy and Tomcat-style infrastructure. - [Powering UI with Lit Web Components](https://www.longsight.com/blog/powering-sakai-s-ui-with-lit-web-components): How Sakai uses Lit web components for maintainable LMS UI.