SCORM & eLearning Standards articles, guides, and product updates from the Mini Course Generator blog.
If a system has asked you for AICC instead of SCORM, the difference is not age. AICC posts learner data from the content server. SCORM sends it through the learner’s browser. Here is what that changes, what an AICC course actually contains, and the three questions to ask before you build anything.
A SCORM authoring tool has two jobs: build what you need, and produce a package your LMS will accept. Sixteen tools sorted by those two, with prices read from the vendors themselves and the free tiers’ export limits named.
Pick SCORM 1.2 unless you can name the reason you need 2004, and there are only three that hold up. Here are the six differences that are real, the line of text in your package that decides which runtime your LMS gives it, and how to check which version a package is actually running under.
Handed a SCORM file, or told to produce one? Here is what the zip actually contains, the one difference between SCORM 1.2 and 2004 that decides an audit, and the two-stage test that catches a package that plays but records nothing.
An AI SCORM generator produces a package your LMS imports without an authoring tool. What SCORM actually requires, what agents get wrong, and how to test it.
SCORM is 25 years old and still everywhere. xAPI became an IEEE standard and nobody noticed. The honest comparison, including the question vendors dodge: what replaces SCORM?