Who We Are
ALMS NZ is an Assessment and Learning Management System built specifically for New Zealand secondary schools. The platform has been in active development and classroom use for over four years, evolving continuously based on real teaching experience and direct feedback from teachers and students.
ALMS NZ was conceived and developed by practising New Zealand secondary school teachers. It is designed around how NZ classrooms actually work — including NZQA standards, school timetabling, mixed-ability classes, and the day-to-day realities of managing diverse groups of students at different levels simultaneously.
How It Started
The foundation of ALMS NZ came from postgraduate research in contemporary education. A teacher undertaking a Master of Contemporary Education through The Mind Lab, Now Academy Ex began investigating how technology could be purposefully adopted to manage assessment, tracking and reporting in technology subjects at secondary school level.
That research identified a consistent gap: the tools available to NZ secondary teachers were either too generic to be useful, too complex to be practical, or simply not designed with the New Zealand curriculum and NZQA framework in mind. ALMS NZ was built to close that gap.
Why We Built It
Most learning management systems are built by software companies and adapted for education. ALMS NZ started the other way around — with the classroom problems first, grounded in research, and the technology built to solve them.
After years of working around the limitations of generic platforms, development began on a system built entirely around New Zealand secondary education. Every feature — from NZQA standards integration and merit tracking to food technology recipe management and live class discussions — exists because a teacher needed it, not because it looked good in a product roadmap.
Four years of real classroom use means the platform has been tested, broken, improved and refined in the environments it was built for. The result is a system that speaks the language of New Zealand secondary education without requiring teachers to adapt their practice to fit the software.
Who Supports It
The infrastructure, hosting and technical operations of ALMS NZ are supported by a registered New Zealand information technology company. This means the platform is backed by a legal New Zealand entity accountable under New Zealand law, with obligations under the Companies Act, the Privacy Act 2020, and the Consumer Guarantees Act where applicable.
Schools and teachers can engage with ALMS NZ knowing there is a real, accountable organisation behind the service — not an anonymous overseas platform.
Who It Is For
ALMS NZ is available to New Zealand secondary schools. Access is granted at the school level — teachers sign in with their school Google account, and students are enrolled through their class. Individual sign-ups outside of a registered school are not supported.
If your school is not yet registered, you can request access via our Contact page or the Request Access form.
Our Commitment
We are committed to keeping student and teacher data private, secure and within appropriate legal boundaries. We do not sell or share personal information. We do not serve advertising. The platform exists to support teaching and learning — nothing else.
Shape the Platform
ALMS NZ is built on teacher feedback and we want to keep it that way. If you are a teacher with a feature request, a workflow that the platform does not yet support, or an idea for how things could work better in your classroom — we want to hear from you.
Feature requests from teachers are reviewed regularly and the most practical and widely applicable ideas are prioritised in our development cycle. This is how the platform has grown over four years and how it will continue to grow.
Reach out via our Contact page — tell us what you teach, what you are trying to do, and what is getting in the way. That is exactly the kind of input that shapes ALMS NZ.