The itslearning LMS was created by a group of students at Bergen University College in 1998 as a project on the topic of "virtual classrooms".

[1][2] A council of educators inquired about the platform's feasibility, and once awarded a grant by the College, itslearning was established the following year.

[2] In December 2019, itslearning was acquired by Sanoma Group – a European learning and media company in Helsinki.

[3] As of 2020, the company headquarters are in Bergen, with offices in Oslo, Berlin, Boston, Copenhagen, Enschede, Helsinki, Milton Keynes, Malmö, and Paris.

itslearning is specially adapted to schools, and enables publishing of subject schedules, and individual or group messages (to a class).