How to import a SCORM file into Articulate Storyline?

Jul 05, 2016

Hi - I´m new to Articulate and trying to find out how to import content on SCORM format into Articulate storyline. I've received some learning material on that format and I've heard that I should be able to upload it to Articulate. Can anyone give me a step by step guide on how to do so?

Thanks in advance!

Kristín

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Math Notermans

Scorm is the final output. Similar to a print on paper....if you keep the original Word of .doc you can edit it... i seldom see the question can i generate a Word from my print... thats the same thing as creating a .story from scorm.

Always save and keep track of your .story files. Those are your source. If someone leaves a company he is obliged to make sure those sources are available for his successor. If not im quite sure you can take legal action and sue him/her to deliver those sources.

If you switch to another tool... you might run into the issue that you have to remake your courses. The Scorms you can always upload to any other LMS, but changing things in another authoring tool is impossible.

If you want/need a format thats open to edit in most tools, you should go for HTML5, you can edit HTML5 in Notepad and any editor outthere. As is the HTML5 output Storyline creates is not 100% compatible with standard HTML5. A lot is coded in a specific Articulate way and thus hard to decipher. You however can edit in the published HTML.

Walt Hamilton

I hear a lot of people here asking, “I baked a batch of cookies, and nobody ate them. Why can’t I drop them into a mixer, beat them up, add some peppermint to the dough, and rebake them?” That, after all, is the same as taking SCORM and dropping it into SL, just that one uses a computer, and the other a mixer.  To be fair, if you were an awesome programmer and had sufficient motivation, you could probably create a program to decompile SCORM. You could possibly end up with something. Of course, given the demand, you would be working for cents per year.  In the same way, if you beat the cookies into a fine enough powder, and add milk, you might end up with something.

Perhaps this little analogy will help explain why decompiling SCORM (or any published SL format) isn’t done.

Jürgen Schoenemeyer

the following elements can you can easily extract from a scorm package (or a "publish to web" package)

unzip the package, you will find ...

  • video (mp4)* (-> ./story_content/... )
  • audio (mp3)* (-> ./story_content/... )
  • images (jpg, png, gif)* (-> ./mobile/... )
  • resources (-> ./story_content/external_files/...)
  • web object (-> ./story_content/WebObjects/.../...)

* but the original filenames are gone

Joseph Francis

Paraphrasing the response to the identical question on that "other" eLearning development tool's support community page:

Storyline does not allow you to import SCORM zip packages into a Storyline project file. Storyline is an app that creates SCORM packages.  The Learning Management System (LMS) is where you upload SCORM zip files.