The AMS turns every
into an accredited record
The Academic Management System (the AMS) provides a complete operating system for higher education. It holds every college, degree, course, and student — and captures the evidence of learning as it happens. At any moment, Woolf can show what a learner actually did, which verified course it counted toward, how many credits it earned, and whether the degree is ready to award.
Four parts, one system
A partner runs the day-to-day learning experience. Woolf runs the university. The AMS keeps the chain of evidence intact between them.
The AMS
The academic core. The single source of truth for content, students, progress, and graduation records.
Airlock API
A GraphQL surface partners use to sync content, enroll students, and send grades and submissions.
Airlock SDK
A JavaScript SDK that records learning as it happens. It captures which student did what, and when.
Woolf Widget
A floating dashboard embedded in the partner's product, giving every student 24/7 access to their progress and credentials.
Rigor without parallel
Quality, excellence, rigor – grounded in the evidence
How the AMS knows everything
Three things give the AMS a complete, queryable picture of the platform.
The activity log
Every meaningful change is an event, with a before-and-after snapshot and a reason. Around 150 kinds of events — enrollments, payments, exams, compliance gained or lost — plus a learning stream that carries workload, grade, and contact time. That is the audit trail.
Actor-based capture
Because students sign in before anything is recorded, every learning event is tied to a real, verified person. Submissions that show up without that evidence get flagged, rate-limited, and held for review.
Workload and credit accounting
Progress combines program size with academic requirements that demonstrate skills, knowledge, and competency. The same evidence record drives a student's progress, their transcript, and the degree's accreditation.
Learners engage when courses count for credit
Accreditation changes the stakes of a course. When learners know their work counts toward real academic credit, a transcript, and a recognized degree, they have a deeper reason to persist than completion alone.
We see this across Woolf partners: Udacity learners stay engaged longer when their Nanodegree work becomes part of an accredited master's pathway, while partners like Scaler and GCAS saw stronger economics and demand after adding recognized degrees.
Frequently Asked Questions
The short version of how the AMS works.
What exactly is the AMS?
The AMS is the Academic Management System — the platform that runs Woolf, an accredited university in Europe. It holds all content, students, progress, and graduation records, and it captures the evidence behind every credit.
How is this different from an LMS?
An LMS hosts content and tracks completion. The AMS is an academic institution's system of record. It doesn't take a partner's word that learning happened — it captures the evidence at the moment of learning and reconciles it against the rules of accreditation.
Do students have to leave the partner's product?
No. A partner runs the day-to-day learning experience inside their own product. The Airlock SDK records activity in the background, and the Woolf Widget gives every student access to their Woolf dashboard, progress, and credentials without leaving.
How are credits calculated?
Progress combines program size with verified academic requirements that demonstrate skills, knowledge, and competency. The same evidence record drives a student's degree progress, their transcript, and the degree's accreditation.
What stops someone from faking learning?
Every learning event is tied to a verified student who signed in before anything was recorded. Submissions that arrive without that evidence are flagged as a compliance risk, rate-limited, and held for pre-approval.
Who awards the degree?
The university does — not the partner. Graduation is a university-approved award, built on a record assembled from verifiable events rather than self-reported milestones.
Run your degrees on the system of record
Keep your learners and your experience. Let Woolf carry the accreditation.