Decentralised SCORM Hosting
Learn about how decentralised SCORM can finally allow simple content sharing.
Shareable Content Object Reference Model, or SCORM, is a set of technological requirements for producing and distributing e-learning materials. The fact that SCORM packages are typically stored locally within an LMS might offer a variety of difficulties. Essentially, SCORM is a wrapper that facilitates reporting from HTML or, in the past, java content. The largest standard for educational content, by far.
Do you want to share SCORM content?
Many Acorn PLMS customers want to share SCORM-based eLearning with other organisations. Examples include regulators, software companies sharing customer training, or content providers. Currently, you are probably finding in the market what we found: that there are only very technical solutions that allow the sharing of SCORM content (though it’s not particularly easy), all while not enabling users to host the content for their audience.
What’s the workaround?
There are providers of technology that allow the sharing of SCORM packages, though you have to send SCORMs directly or have some form of LMS integration suite.
Challenges with this workaround
- The inability to manage content in a single place. Every time you make changes, you have to send new modules to all clients, as well as request them to upload them.
- Risk of your clients updating content—and having different versions in different locations, with no oversight.
- You can’t report on completions or progress tracking, raising issues with licensing and module issues/resolutions.
- If you need to revoke access to protect your IP, well, you can’t.
- If you need to revoke access due to non-payment, you can’t.
All in all, this can be summarised by saying you can’t control your own content once it’s gone to your client.
Keep in mind:
- Some LMS restrictions can present issues, like content size or links.
- Some solutions address some of these issues—but not all.
The limitations of those solutions are based on a lack of multi-tenancy functionality, which means you can’t:
- Reduce the number of learning systems your organisation has to access and manage.
- Do cyber security auditing for multiple tenancies.
- Bundle your SCORM content with existing content.
Acorn development team got to work
Our cloud-based solution solves these issues by providing a centralised location for hosting and delivering SCORM packages directly to any LMS, while enabling them to also host it internally within Acorn. That’s enabled within multi-tenancy for other groups that don’t have the external need, too.
This allows for greater flexibility in managing and updating e-learning content and ensures that all users have access to the most up-to-date versions of SCORM packages. At the same time, content sits within their own overall environment for things like compliance, integrations (like Teams), and reporting.
It ends up looking kind of like this:
In addition, our decentralised SCORM hosting includes a range of features designed to make managing e-learning content easier. You’ll have access to detailed reporting and analytics capabilities, as well as tools for managing user access and permissions. With Acorn PLMS, you can streamline your e-learning content management and deliver engaging learning experiences to your learners.
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