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Publishing and sharing a course

Three ways a course leaves the editor: publish it with a public link and your organization's catalog, share it for review, or export a package — and how to test that package in a SCORM player first.

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Publish, share or export

  • Publish puts the course live in Scormbusters: anyone with its public link can take it, and learners in your organization can find it in the catalog and enroll.
  • Share creates a review link for people who comment rather than learn; see Stakeholder review.
  • Export downloads a package for your LMS. You do not need to publish a course to export it; see Export to your LMS.

Publishing a course

In the course editor, click Publish in the top bar. The first time, a dialog asks you to confirm and says what publishing does; click Publish to go ahead or Not yet to leave it as a draft. The button then reads Published.

Publishing records who published the course and when, which is what Compare versions compares against (see Version history and compare), and sends a course.published webhook if your organization has one.

Any member who can edit courses can publish them. Unpublishing returns the course to draft: the public link stops working and learners can no longer open it.

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

Test in a SCORM player

Before you upload a package to an LMS, open Export → Test in a SCORM player. It runs the exported package against a built-in SCORM inspector, so you see what the LMS will see without uploading anything:

  • switch between SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004;
  • watch the status, score, success, bookmark, session time, suspend data and interactions the course reports;
  • read every API call in the log, with a filter;
  • Restart, or Simulate resume to check a learner comes back where they left off.

The SCORM player covers block courses. A Scenes course is checked with the Scenes editor's Preview and preflight instead; see The Scenes editor.

Preview

Preview in the top bar opens the course as a learner sees it in Scormbusters, with lesson navigation and working questions. Previewing does not publish anything. In the lesson editor, Preview lesson shows just the lesson you are editing.

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