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Rise-style lessons and Storyline-style slides, in one browser editor.

Build from 38 block types or slides with triggers, states and layers, send a review link, and export SCORM, cmi5 or xAPI. $149 a month for up to 10 authors, never per seat.

Stuck SCORM? Call the Scormbusters. It opens the courses you already have: import a published Storyline, Rise, Captivate or SCORM package and keep editing it here.

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See every feature · Scenes on a Mac · Leaving Articulate 360?

A 2000s SCORM 1.2 course after import, open in the Scormbusters editor. Course: Golf Explained, Rustici Software, CC BY 3.0 (course text from Wikipedia and wikiHow).

The editor

Two editors, one course

Reflowing lessons from blocks, and slides in Scenes when you need a trigger. New courses and imported ones open in the same editor. Everything below is in the product today, on every plan, except where it says Enterprise.

Every feature →What Scenes does →

Fig. 1 — an adaptive path: pass the quiz gate, or loop back and retry

BLOCKS

38 block types

Text, video, quiz, matching, drag-and-drop, scenarios and your own sandboxed HTML, composed in one lesson editor and previewed as the learner sees them.

FLOW

Visual branching

A node-based flow editor routes learners by quiz score, choice, or completion. Adaptive paths are drawn, not configured.

EXPORT

SCORM 1.2 and 2004, cmi5, xAPI

Standard packages for any LMS, unbranded on every plan. Checked in SCORM Cloud and Moodle; the full editable source is a separate project export.

SCENES

Slides with triggers, states and layers

Storyline-style slides in the same course: objects where you put them, layers, variables, a timeline, and triggers with conditions. Runs in the browser on a Mac, a PC or Linux.

ACCESS

Accessibility checker

Contrast, alt text and structure are checked while you author, so problems are caught before a learner meets them.

Your AI assistant, no credits

Connect the Claude or ChatGPT you already use (or a local model) over MCP, 32 tools. Scormbusters never makes an AI call or stores a model key — nothing metered, nothing marked up, entirely optional.

LTI

LTI 1.3 launch (beta, Enterprise)

On Enterprise, learners open courses from Canvas, Moodle or Blackboard with no separate login, and their scores post back to the LMS gradebook. Verified end to end on Canvas and Moodle; Blackboard not yet.

REVIEW

Review links, no seats

Reviewers open a link with no account, say what kind of change they want, and their comments land in the author's inbox. Version history and compare keep every round.

Why Scormbusters

Out of the old tool, and never stuck again

Migration gets your courses out. These three keep them out.

Your files are yours. No lock-in.

The last tool kept your course in a file you can't open. We'd rather not be the next one.

Export any course to SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, cmi5 or xAPI on every plan, with no Scormbusters branding in the package.
Download any course, or the whole library, as a project export: its complete editable source and media, documented with a JSON Schema, that imports back as the same course.
The runtime inside every exported package is MIT-licensed, so you can deliver and redistribute your courses freely.
Exported packages never contact our service. They keep working in your LMS whether or not you still subscribe.
If a subscription ends, the workspace turns read-only, not closed: for at least 90 days you can still export what you built and what you have already migrated.
An imported course's text also downloads as a Word document, for reviewers who live in Word.

How to keep your courses →

A full editor, not just a converter.

Getting out of the old tool is half the job. The other half is the next five years of edits.

38 block types, from text and video to matching, drag-and-drop, scenarios and your own sandboxed HTML.
The Scenes slide editor: free-positioned objects, layers, triggers, variables, states and a timeline.
Branching with the adaptive flow editor: route learners by score, choice or completion.
A question bank, and question pools that draw a fresh set of questions for each attempt.
Stakeholder review links: reviewers comment with no account or seat, and their feedback lands in the author inbox.
Version history and comparing versions; co-editing that shows who else is in the course.
Translations shipped as one multilingual package, with XLIFF for your translators.
Themes and branding, an accessibility checker that runs while you edit, completion certificates and analytics.
LTI 1.3 launch from Canvas or Moodle on Enterprise (beta).

See every feature →

Bring your own AI.

No AI credits to buy. There's nothing for us to mark up.

Connect Claude (claude.ai, Claude Desktop or Claude Code), ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Codex CLI or Gemini CLI, or any other MCP client.
Sign-in is OAuth. The assistant works in your workspace with your own permissions, and you can disconnect it at any time.
We never call a model and store no model key, so your content is not sent to a model by us, and there is nothing metered or marked up.
It is optional: everything an assistant does through MCP can be done by hand in the editor.

Connect an assistant →

Before and after

One real course, start to finish

Frames from our demo film, not mock-ups. An old SCORM 1.2 package, the same lesson after import, and the rebuilt course back in the same LMS.

01 · BEFOREThe old SCORM 1.2 package running in SCORM Cloud. One long page of text, and every photo carries the same alt text: “golfing image”.
02 · IMPORTEDThe same lesson after import, in the Scormbusters editor. Heading, photo and text are ordinary blocks; the alt text has been rewritten.
03 · AFTERRe-exported as SCORM and back in the same LMS. The wall of text is now an introduction, an accordion and flashcards, with every fact kept.

The rewriting in the film was done by an AI agent connected over MCP — optional, and the same edits can be made by hand. The import itself is not AI: it reads the data the package already holds. Course: Golf Explained, Rustici Software, CC BY 3.0 (course text from Wikipedia and wikiHow).

Import scorecard

What comes across, measured

We import 98 real published courses on every release. Words: 100%. Images: 99%. Quiz questions: 84%. Interactions: 46%, and every one we drop is listed.

Full import scorecard →

The case file

Every import opens a case file

What came across, what didn’t, and why. An importer that quietly drops things can’t be trusted with a library.

CREATEDLessons built and media files uploaded.
REBUILD LISTEach thing that could not be recreated, counted, with why — so you can estimate the work, then tick items off in the editor as you rebuild them.
KNOWWhat changed on the way: images that need alt text, narration that no longer autoplays, slides left out.

Busted loose.

Trauma Informed Teaching E-Module — 111 lessons created

161 assets uploaded

237 things could not be recreated

Everything else came across. These need rebuilding by hand.

235 × Buttons and click interactionsThis course's actions keep no state — they move between slides, show and hide things, or run effects and JavaScript — so it reflowed into lessons: Next does the moving, and whatever they revealed is ordinary content. A course whose actions keep state (variables, conditional actions, object states) comes across on the slide canvas instead, with its actions rebuilt as working triggers where they run the same way.
2 × Text entry boxesLearner input fields are not rebuilt.

Worth knowing

111 × Slides converted to lessonsEach Captivate slide is a lesson of editable blocks in reading order. Timing, effects and slide layouts are not kept.
217 × Images without alt textCaptivate filled these with a placeholder; the accessibility check lists them to describe.
47 × Narration clipsLearners start them; nothing plays on its own.
3 × Survey questionsCaptivate did not score these; they are imported with the answer it stored as correct.
Quiz results slidesLeft out: Scormbusters shows learners their own score.

The report card as the import screen shows it, filled with the importer’s real output for a public Captivate 2019 course from our test corpus. Redrawn here for legibility.

Why now

The dates that are moving course libraries

Some are legal deadlines, one is a vendor’s end of support, and one is not a deadline at all. Each links to the detail.

ADA TITLE II
Apr 26, 2027
US state and local governments serving 50,000+ people must meet WCAG 2.1 AA; smaller ones by April 26, 2028.
What it means for courses →
HHS SECTION 504
May 11, 2027
HHS-funded organizations with 15 or more employees must meet WCAG 2.1 AA for web content, online training included; smaller ones by May 10, 2028.
Plan a course library →
ARTICULATE STUDIO
Dec 31, 2026
Studio 360, Replay and Peek lose support; Engage interactions import into Storyline only while Engage is still installed.
What we can and can't do →
CAPTIVATE CLASSIC
No cut-off
Adobe lifted its deadline, so there is no cliff — but Classic output does not reflow, and Adobe's beta importer needs an 11.8.3+ .cptx.
Migrate Captivate Classic →

No source file needed

The published package is enough

Authoring tools write the whole course into their output as data. Scormbusters reads it without running any of it, recognizes which tool made it, and rebuilds the content as a course you can edit.

TEXTThe words learners actually saw, recovered from the package — not the alt text, not a screenshot.
QUIZZESQuestions with their answer keys and the pass mark, from Captivate, Storyline, iSpring, Lectora, QTI and Moodle.
MEDIAImages, narration, video and captions, where the original had them.
HONESTStoryline triggers and Captivate actions are rebuilt only where the slide canvas runs them the same way: in our test corpus, 49% of Storyline's and 40% of Captivate Classic's. JavaScript, effects and motion paths never are. The import report lists each one.

Imports today

Captivate Classic 9–2019
Captivate 12 / 13
Storyline
Rise 360
Lectora
iSpring
SCORM 1.2 / 2004
AICC
cmi5
xAPI
Adapt
H5P
Common Cartridge / QTI
Moodle backups
PowerPoint

Articulate Studio packages are recognized and their Presenter ’09 slide text and notes read; content inside Flash is reported, not converted.

What we can show you

Checkable claims, no borrowed logos

We are new, so there are no customer logos here. These are the things you can verify.

NO ACCOUNT
Try it before you sign up
The accessibility scan and the rebuild preview take a published .zip with no account. A scanned file is read once and deleted immediately, never kept.
Check a course’s accessibility free →
LMS
Checked in SCORM Cloud and Moodle
Real exported courses are walked by an automated learner in SCORM Cloud, Rustici's reference engine, under SCORM 1.2 and 2004 — completed, passed and scored — and pass our conformance probe in Moodle. Every result is dated on the conformance page.
YOUR DATA
Yours to export or delete
On the hosted service your courses are stored in the United States. Export or delete them at any time; deleted content leaves backups within 30 days.
Privacy policy →
NO LOCK-IN
Exports that are yours
SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, cmi5 and xAPI on every plan with no Scormbusters branding, and a separate project export of the full editable source. The runtime inside each package is MIT-licensed, so your courses are yours to deliver and redistribute.
Security →

Pricing

Flat plans, never per learner

Hosted plans include imports; bigger libraries are migrated by the pack or done for you.

Hosted plans

Designer $20/month for one author, Studio $149/month per organization for up to 10, each with monthly migrations, after a 14-day trial.

Migration

A back catalog: credits from $99 a course, a $4,900 Library Pass for up to 150 courses, or we rebuild, fix and republish it for you from $600 a course.

Free tools

No account needed: see a course rebuilt, or check its accessibility, before you pay anything.

See pricing and authoring plans →

Questions

Straight answers

Including the ones where the answer is no.

Is Scormbusters an authoring tool or a converter?

Both, and the editor comes first. You build courses in it from 38 block types and the Scenes slide editor, review them with a link, and export SCORM, cmi5 or xAPI. It also imports published courses from other tools, so an existing library lands in the same editor.

Every feature →

I only have the published SCORM zip. Can I edit it?

Yes. Scormbusters reads the published package itself — the text, images, audio and, where the package records them, quiz questions with their answer keys — and rebuilds it as a course you can edit. The source file is not needed. Captivate, Storyline, Rise, Lectora and iSpring publishes are each read by a parser for that tool; anything else falls back to the generic SCORM reader.

Edit SCORM without the source file →

My .cptx won't open in the new Captivate. What now?

Captivate 13.1 added a beta Classic importer, but it only opens .cptx projects saved in 11.8.3 or later, its output is not responsive, and it cannot start from a published course. Scormbusters imports Classic .cptx files — slides, text, images, narration and quiz answer keys — and Classic HTML5 publishes from Captivate 9 to 2019, so an older project, or only its published zip, still comes across. Adobe has not set an end date for Classic: it lifted its deadline in March 2025.

Captivate Classic migration →

I lost the .story file. Can you recover a Storyline course?

From its HTML5 publish, yes: the real slide text (not screenshots), images, audio, and graded questions with their answer keys and the pass mark. Triggers are rebuilt where the slide canvas runs them the same way (jumps, layers, variables, conditions, states): 49% of trigger actions across our test corpus. JavaScript, motion paths and the rest are listed in the import report.

Storyline published output to editable →

Can I convert Flash-era courses?

Only partly. Content compiled into Flash (.swf) is not read. Storyline packages with no HTML5 output recover structure only; Flash-only Captivate publishes are not converted. If the course was ever also published to HTML5, import that instead.

What comes across from a package →

What about Articulate Studio 360 end of support?

Studio 360 (Presenter, Quizmaker and Engage), Replay and Peek reach end of support on December 31, 2026. Published courses keep running; editing them gets harder. Scormbusters recognizes Studio packages and reads Presenter '09 slide titles, text and notes into an outline. Content compiled into Flash (slide artwork, Quizmaker questions, Engage interactions) is reported, not converted.

Articulate Studio end of support →

Will the migrated course pass WCAG 2.1 AA?

Courses are built from blocks designed for WCAG 2.1 AA: they reflow on any screen, work by keyboard, pass automated axe checks in a real browser, and the checker flags contrast, alt text and structure while you edit. Your content and a human review decide conformance — the words you write, such as alt text and captions, still need a person to review them, ideally with a screen reader.

What's tested →

Does it go back into my LMS?

Yes. Export SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, cmi5 or xAPI and upload it in place of the old package. Export with Replace the original and completions and grades stay attached in the LMS; an imported quiz pass mark carries over. In-course bookmarks start over.

Captivate to SCORM without the source →

What doesn't come across?

Anything with no equivalent here: custom JavaScript, effects, motion paths, timeline pauses, and the triggers or actions that would run differently. Across 98 real courses, words came across 100% and quiz questions 84%; interactions 46%. The import report counts every gap before you open the course.

What you will rebuild →

How much does migration cost?

Importing is free: import and preview as many courses as you like. A migration is counted when you first export or publish an imported course: 5 a month on Designer ($20/month), 25 on Studio ($149/month per organization), 3 in the 14-day trial. Beyond that, credits are $99 a course (10 for $790, 50 for $2,950), a Library Pass covers up to 150 courses for $4,900, or we do it for you at $600–$1,200 a course.

Pricing →

Open standards · No lock-in

Don’t trade one locked format for another.

SCORM, cmi5 or xAPI on every plan, unbranded, plus a project export of the full source. Your courses keep working in your LMS whatever happens to us.

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