What Is SCORM and Why It Makes Corporate Training a Breeze

SCORM is a file format used in the education industry which was designed to make virtual courses shareable and interchangeable between course providers and course consumers as well as provide a uniform reporting method for course statuses in Learning Management Systems (LMS’s). Before SCORM, there was no universally adopted method of preparing a course to be shared with others or for getting student progress, success, or failure data on virtual courses.

A single virtual course may contain a plethora of media ranging from documents, videos, slide decks, and interactive activities to knowledge checks and quizzes. The SCORM file format allows these and other components to be packaged together in a neat package that many Learning Management Systems can read and play without much effort. SCORM was actually created in the year 2000 within the Department of Defense but has since undergone several revisions and become the de facto industry standard in computer-based training.

Why is a technology format from the year 2000 still relevant to organizational training programs today? First, most Learning Management Systems still use it. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Second, advent of the SCORM Cloud and the SCORM Cloud dispatch has kept SCORM at the forefront of the modern training program. SCORM Cloud marries the tried and tested SCORM format with the best of cloud technology to deliver more features and options than ever before. SCORM Cloud hosts course content on a cloud server that shares courses with online or locally hosted learning management systems through a SCORM package called a dispatch. This allows course content to be updated in real time, but also gives more control and features to the course author/provider.

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