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What is Scormbusters?

What Scormbusters does, how courses are structured (course, module, lesson, block), and how building and taking a course fit together.

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Authoring and delivery in one place

Scormbusters is a browser-based tool for building eLearning courses and delivering them to learners. Most teams run a separate authoring tool (such as Articulate Rise or Adobe Captivate) alongside a separate learning management system. In Scormbusters you build, publish, enroll learners and see their results in the same workspace.

Because authoring and delivery share one database, a learner's quiz score on one lesson can decide which lesson they see next (see Branching with the Adaptive editor), and results are recorded against the same lessons you edit.

Tip: Moving from another tool? Click Import on the Courses dashboard to bring in a published SCORM package or a source file. See Importing a published SCORM package.

Core concepts

Everything lives inside an organization (org). Your org is created when you sign up and holds your team, courses and settings. Team members belong to the org with a role (see Invite your team).

A course contains modules, which group lessons. A lesson is built from blocks: text, media, interactive and question blocks stacked in order. Progress and scores are recorded per lesson and rolled up to the course.

Courses imported from slide-based tools (Storyline, and Captivate courses whose actions keep state) are edited in Scenes, a slide editor where content is laid out on a canvas rather than stacked; see The Scenes editor.

Building and taking a course

Authors work in the course editor, opened from the Courses dashboard. Learners take courses from My Learning (/my-learning), which lists the courses they are enrolled in, and the course player at /learn.

A course that is not published cannot be opened by learners, even if they are enrolled.

Note: Publishing is a switch, not a snapshot. Once a course is published, the edits you save reach learners the next time they load a lesson. Make large changes in a copy, or unpublish while you work.

When you still need an LMS

If your organization already has an LMS, you can export a course as a SCORM package or connect through LTI instead of moving learners. See Exporting to an LMS and LTI setup.

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