2026 Product Theme - Flexible Learning
Flexible Learning transforms Bud into a more adaptable LMS that reflects how learning actually happens. By blending learning and assessment, managing evolving aims, grouping content into bite-size chunks and providing learner-level configuration at ease, enabling more personalised delivery, automated workflows, and better learner outcomes at scale.
These items have been researched and prioritised, and are currently in development. They will be available soon.
We’re enabling providers to build structured, reusable modules that can be applied across programmes. This streamlines content creation and management and transforms the Learner and Employer experience by replacing overwhelming activity lists with clear, modular learning journeys.
This item forms part of our 2026 Flexible Learning theme.
Drawing on each learner's previous review, progress to date and target KSBs, Review Assistant helps trainers prepare for the next review session and drafts the summary from a Teams, Google Meets or Zoom recording transcript, so they can spend less time on admin and more time supporting learners with clearer next steps.
We are redesigning how user roles work in Bud, moving away from broad, fixed roles towards a new set of action-based roles, each with clear permission tiers. This gives training providers precise control over what every user can see and do in the platform.
Following the Inclusion & Support enhancements made to the platform, we are improving our inclusion and Ofsted- focused reporting to better support ongoing governance and learner support.
We’re exploring the ideas in discovery to better understand users' needs and shape the most effective solutions.
Phase 2 of delivering several highly requested content configuration items, including activities set in the Programme in days, weeks and months, filtering in the Progress Record to see uncompleted criteria, alerts on activities with a higher volume of actual hours compared to planned, and more!
You can read more about some of these in our release notes here.
This item forms part of our 2026 flexible learning theme.
Following the introduction of aim management, we're extending the change automation to cover change of circumstance and business process workflows too. It cuts admin time and gives you a clear, reliable audit trail of every change.
We are working on a new Bud Calendar, which will provide Trainers, Learners and Employers with a single view of all their Bud events, including their diary of reviews, enrolments and gateways.
We’re assessing giving providers the choice between Skills Scans at criteria or duty level. This work will make skill scans simpler and more efficient while still maintaining quality and traceability.
These are potential features or enhancements that we’re considering for future development.
Leveraging our improvements from the 2026 flexible learning theme, to improve and enhance the metrics to view and track Learner's progress within the platform.
This could include tracking against Assessment outcomes, modular progress, and enhanced learning metrics.
This item forms part of our 2026 Flexible Learning theme.
We’re investigating how we can help to reduce the external systems relied on for booking, scheduling and attendance tracking which result in a fragmented learner experience and complicated progress tracking.
These are items that we have delivered in the current or previous quarter, which you may now begin to use.
We are introducing flexibility to manage additional learning aims during delivery, while maintaining alignment between learning plans and ILR data. For more information about the functionality, read our Knowledge Base article here.
This item forms part of our 2026 flexible learning theme.
Introducing an Initial Assessments integration for our OST Programmes with Century that enables a seamless experience for trainers and learners to conduct and record results for Initial Assessments from Bud.
For more information about the integration, read our article here.
We're introduced a new set of enhancements to our AI-powered chatbots, Bud Assist for Trainers and Bud Assist for Learners.
Bud Assist for Learners – Chat Logs and Enhance Trainer Feedback are now live in the platform. We've also extended the context of Bud Assist for Trainers, so it can now answer and advise on Ofsted-related questions.
As Ofsted places greater emphasis on inclusion, wellbeing, and learner support, we've enhanced Bud’s Inclusion and Support functionality to support a clear, evidence-based Assess, Plan, Do, Review approach.
Through developments such as wellbeing reviews, wellbeing logs, inclusion notes, and strengthened Support Plans, providers will be better equipped to identify needs, coordinate support, evidence impact, and help learners receive more personalised support to succeed.
Join our upcoming webinar on 21 October at 10 AM to see the functionality in action. Register here.
Disclaimer
This roadmap is shared for informational purposes only and represents our anticipated focus areas for the current quarter and beyond. It should not be relied upon for major purchasing, planning, or investment decisions. All roadmap items are subject to change or delay, and continued development or release of features remains at the sole discretion of Bud Systems. We strive to keep the roadmap accurate and current, with updates provided through quarterly roadmap publications and our monthly updates.