How to import a SCORM file into Articulate Storyline?

It would be really helpful if the process to create the scorm file, just bundled up the story file too.  Then when you want to revisit the project later (because you will), it was right there for you.

Hi Crystal - I actually have the same question as Kristin. My issues is we created a storyline, then published it to create a scorm file. We have uploaded it into our learning tool, however have lost the original storyline file. I am able to download the scorm file from our learning tool but want to know how to import it back into Articulate Storyline2 to create the storyline file.   This will give us the ability to edit and repost without having to re-create the course. ... Any ideas?

It would be powerful to be able to import a SCORM file to Storyline, be able to edit it and re-publish. A training completed by a former colleague needs to be updated. We don't have the source file but do have the SCORM package.

Unfortunately you will not be able to convert your published file back into a project file.

Being able to import an existing SCORM package (that was created in a different LMS or inherited from an employee, etc.) into Articulate so we can update its contents would be VERY useful to us, too!

We have this same issue and we came up with a couple of workarounds: 

If the SCORM package is a practice or quiz style, it can be simple to recreate it into a basic Storyline project by just

1. Open the SCORM package inside of an LMS or display it somehow. 
2. Use Storyline to record your clicks and entries as you move through the SCORM course. 
3. Look at the final recording and make decisions on which slides can be kept as is (probably any hotspot slides can be easily edited) or which slides need to be redone (the recording is helpful here because you can use it as a basis for the design and elements). 

This is less helpful when your SCORM package has MP4s inside of it. If you record it using Storyline and all you want is for the same functionality and design BUT you want to export it as an xAPI file, then it can be helpful. But most likely, you will want to change the design. Nonetheless, to record yourself taking the SCORM course is a good starting point at least. 

Hey there. I have a similar challenge. There is a huge amount of courses, designed in a different authoring tool. Now I would like to rework them. However, I only have access to the SCORM files. I`m wondering if there might be a workaround to at least get a quick start. For example: Is there a way to export a SCORM course into a PPT-file, I could then import into Storyline or continue to work on it using the Presenter? While I assume a lot of the interactions probably will break, it would already help a lot to have text and pictures (kind of) in place. Any ideas?

Hi Girish,

Rise 360 is a web-based software where courses are edited and saved online, while Storyline 360 is downloaded to your computer, and you can save a .story file to your local drive similar to PowerPoint.

If you need to make edits to a Rise 360 course, your co-worker can send you a copy of the course using the steps outlined in the article below. I hope this helps!

• Rise 360: How to Send a Copy of a Course to Other Authors

Hello Ramon,

Yes there is! You can add other SCORM projects in your Storyline 360 course by adding them as web objects. Doing so will embed another SCORM project in one of the slides in your Storyline 360 course. We also have this article which explains how to track multiple SCOs in the same course. 

Storyline: Track Multiple SCOs in the Same Course

Hope this helps!

This topic is quite hilarious. It's like people asking why they can't import generated video into videoediting program to edit it, or why can't they drag and drop bought game into Unreal Engine app to edit it. This reminds me of one of the best questions clients can ask - Why you can't turn that guy on the foto so his back is visible :D

You don't and never will have option to import published project back into storyline. Period. There's simple no point in asking it, you only need to have a common sense WHY this won't happen. Ready product and source files are two different things in EVERY desigining work. And that's perfect, because, you know... you all want to steal someone's intellectual property and change it. Just start to ASK your developer to provide source files at the end of the work. Or pay for it ;)

However, there are two fine questions in this topic.

Same question here. If I get a SCORM file from a vendor and just need to add our intro slide, is that possible?

For example, I have a 2 SCORM packages, 1 is how to cook pasta, and 2 is how to make a sangria ..Say, I want to create a storyline project adding these two packages AS IS, with no modification whatsoever to any of them. Is this possible with the current 32 bit storyline360?

They seem very different, but are asking for the same thing. This can be done without using Storyline and you only need to basic understand what is SCORM package. That's a PACKAGE of some FILES that are meant to be a TRAINING. Inside the SCORM package, there can be multiple scorm packages arranged as one big SCORM package, with some navigation etc. That's how this thing started - simple .html pages arranged by SCORM protocol to communicate with each other and LMS.

So, sangria+pasta can add to one new scorm package, you just need to compile it on your own.

Also, random course from a vendor, which needs only intro in the begining, can also be two separate scorm packages combined into one.

https://support.scorm.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051563253-Combining-Multiple-SCOs-Into-One-SCORM-Course you can start here and sort things out, if you are badly in need. I will, however, not provide any further tips - that's some more advanced techniques and need certain knowledge in javascript in order to execute that correctly. You can however get your company IT/Programming guy to make it happen. Or find someone on the market, who will do this job for you.