SCORM is one of the most famous term in the eLearning industry. It stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model. As an eLearning professional you need to learn all the basic about this LMS standard. Courses/contents published in this standard are supported by almost all the well-known learning management systems (LMSs). It consists of a set of technical specifications and characteristics that ensure the published courses of eLearning sharing information to a learning management system. Furthermore, LMS is the place where you can learn all the basic terms related to your course published as well as can learn lots of things related to learners. For example, you can track the user progress, you can learn either your user is completing course or not, passing score, completion status and multiple other such aspects related to the course and end user. The interesting thing about SCORM is that it is supported by almost all the LMSs.
It was first developed and introduce by Department of Defense to make sure different learning courses and content created in the organization by different developers and designers would work on their LMS. Soon SCORM became the software standard for the industry. SCORM is not the only standard, it has also some other versions like:
- AICC
- Tin Can API or xAPI
There are various software available which can be used to create SCORM compatible contents, few of these are given below.
- Articulate Storyline 1, 2
- Articulate Studio
- Lectora
These are the tools which are easy to use for creating SCORM packages and later publish on a learning management system supported this eLearning content sharing standard. SCORM compatible content can be created just with the help of few clicks in the Articulate Storyline 2. You just need to select the option at the time of publishing a course. SCORM is best to choose as compare to others. If you have any question or tip, please leave a review at the end of this post.
