Keep your courses: exporting everything, and what happens if you cancel
Your courses are yours. Download any course or the whole library as an open project export, export LMS packages that work without Scormbusters, and keep doing both for at least 90 days after a subscription ends.
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I'm worried about losing my courses if we stop paying.
The guarantee
- On every plan you can download any course as a project export — its complete, editable source and media — and as SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, cmi5 or xAPI packages.
- If your subscription ends, your workspace becomes read-only rather than closed. For at least 90 days every course still opens and previews, every course you built and every imported course you have already exported or published still exports in every format, and owners and admins can still download the whole library.
- Packages you have already exported keep working in your LMS whether or not you subscribe, because they do not depend on Scormbusters at all.
Download one course
Any author can download a course's project export:
- From Courses, use the download icon on the course's card.
- In the block editor, open Export and choose Project export.
You get a .opencourse.zip holding the course as JSON and every image, video and audio file it uses. See The project export format for what is inside.
Download the whole library
Owners and admins can open Settings → Library export and download every course in the workspace — restricted courses included — as project exports. Imported courses that have never been exported are left out and listed, since exporting one counts it as a migration; export them one by one to keep them. A large library comes in parts of ten courses, so each download finishes in one go; each zip holds a folder per course and a library.json listing them.
If your subscription ends
Nothing is deleted when a subscription is canceled or a trial ends without one. The workspace becomes read-only:
- You can open and preview every course, and export it as a project export or as a SCORM, cmi5 or xAPI package.
- An imported course that was never exported or published has not been counted as a migration, and with no plan there is no allowance to count it against: exporting it uses a migration credit, which you can still buy. Courses you built, and imported courses already counted, never need one.
- You cannot edit, publish, create or import courses, or open new review links.
This lasts for at least 90 days from the day the subscription ended; Settings → Plan & billing shows the date. Subscribe again at any time and editing comes straight back, with everything where you left it.
Tip: Before you cancel, download the library from Settings → Library export. It takes a few minutes and leaves nothing to chance.
Exported packages do not depend on Scormbusters
A package you export runs entirely in the learner's browser inside your LMS:
- Every image, video and audio file the course keeps in Scormbusters is copied into the package — in blocks, inside text, in themes and on Scenes slides — so nothing is loaded from Scormbusters when a learner takes it.
- The player in the package talks only to the LMS (or, for cmi5 and xAPI, the learning record store the LMS gives it at launch). It never contacts Scormbusters, and needs no account, license key or subscription.
- The code inside the package is MIT-licensed, so you may host, copy and redistribute it freely.
Two things stay links by design: media you embedded from elsewhere on the web (a YouTube or Vimeo video), and any file that could not be read at the moment of export, which keeps its address rather than breaking the package.
What is not in an export
Exports hold courses, not your workspace's records. Learner progress, scores and completions from courses delivered by Scormbusters, review comments, version history and workspace settings are not included. Results from courses you delivered through your LMS are in your LMS.
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