LMS migrations have a bad reputation because most are run as IT projects, not academic ones. A 6-week migration from Moodle to a modern LMS is genuinely achievable — if you sequence it like an academic deployment, not a database lift.
Weeks 1–2: Discovery & SSO
Audit the Moodle estate: how many active courses, plugins in use, integrations (SIS, payment, library), gradebook complexity. Set up SSO (SAML or OIDC) and SCIM provisioning against your IdP early — it unblocks every other workstream.
Weeks 3–4: Content import + faculty training
Import Moodle backup files (.mbz) into the new platform. Run two faculty training cohorts — one for the early-adopter department, one for the rest. Don't wait for "all content done" before training; train on the first 20 courses imported.
Week 5: Parallel run
Run the new LMS alongside Moodle for one week, with one cohort actively using the new system. Track every issue raised. Most show-stopping bugs surface in the first 48 hours of real student use.
Week 6: Cutover
Final gradebook reconciliation, Moodle frozen as read-only, new LMS becomes the system of record. Keep Moodle in read-only mode for one semester as historical archive. See DeepTech vs Moodle for the feature comparison and white-label LMS for what you're migrating to.