How to import a SCORM file into Articulate Storyline?

Hi Jeanelle, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

We recommend adding slides directly in the .story project file and re-publishing. You have a couple of options:

• If you have Storyline and the vendor can send you the .story file, you can add it yourself and then republish.
• You can send the information needed for an introduction slide directly to the vendor to include it in the SCORM Package sent to you.

Hello, Buildbase Training, I wonder about the same thing. I have what I think is a NEW question, or needs some clarity.

What if I don't want to edit the course. I just want to import the SCORM packaged file as is and then publish it online so other employees can take the course who may not have access to the LMS. Is that possible? If it helps one of the creators used ARTICULATE to create this SCORM packaged file. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi ToriShana,

If the published output is a SCORM Package, you could upload this .zip file to another LMS  environment if needed.

If you're wanting to host the content on a web server for more employee access, the .story file will need to be re-published for the web:

Storyline 360: Publishing and Sharing Content

We do not support modifying the published output, but someone in the community may be able to help.

I'm keen to the know the answer to this too (as per Buildbase Training recent query). Can I upload Scorm files back into Articulate? If not, do I have to have the .story files to make this happen. I'm pretty new to this, so clarity would be helpful as some of the posts on this chain are old now.

Hi Peggy,

No, you cannot upload SCORM files into Storyline. As Lauren shared above just a few days ago, the published output folder doesn't include the source file.

Yes, you need the .story files. There is no way to edit a Storyline course without the .story file. 

I hope this clarifies what has been previously shared here.

HI,

This is a very interesting thread yet I think the question has not been understood, or maybe I am misunderstanding myself ..:o)

The idea is to add an existing content from a SCORM package and not reverse engineering it.

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?

if not, is this something we can expect to come along soon?

This is a great opportunity of integration which would make storyline stand out from the competition: the capability to imbedding any SCORM standard packages into a storyline project.

YAY .. 

Hi, Exactly the same case. I suppose we can´t import SCORM packadge but only the source data in *.story format. But I am looking for the way how to do it now...

Is there a feature to embed a SCORM in a project then? So that the project is now hosting the old SCORM file?

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.