March 25, 2025
Product
Introducing Enhanced SCORM Support
Virtual training systems have come a long way. From the first "modern" LMS in the 1990's, to AI-driven systems like Basewell, virtual training systems have been a staple in organizations for decades.
During that time, progress has been made. Yet outdated standards still persist. Standards that, unless reconfigured, will continue to hold teams back, require tremendous manual effort, and decrease the effectiveness of organizational training efforts.
As the market leader for modern learning management, we feel a deep responsibility to charge forward and bring learning tools into the modern era. Achieving this goal through updating, streamlining, and consolidating outdated requirements is our north-star.
One persistent industry standard is Sharable Content Object Reference Models, or SCORM for short. Created in 2000, SCORM is the outcome of the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Two and a half decades ago, the United States military needed a standardized way to communicate trainings between military branches. SCORM was developed to accomplish that goal, expanding beyond the public sector, becoming a cornerstone of early virtual training platforms.
There's just one problem: the last major update to SCORM was in 2004. That means this prolific industry standard was defined before breakthroughs in cloud computing, distributed server systems like AWS, or artificial intelligence technologies. Things today are different than just 5 years ago (not to mention the dawn of the century). It just doesn't make sense to build modern companies on prehistoric standards.
That's SCORM today: one of the largest bottlenecks in a company's training flow. Even just updating content requires editing SCORM Manifest XML files, downloading from an authoring tool, re-uploading into an LMS, defining distribution patterns, and more. It's a brutally slow, technical, manual process. There has to be a better way.
Now, with Basewell's enhanced SCORM support, there is.
Evolving Beyond Legacy Standards
We recognize many organizations have heavily invested in SCORM-based training content. Our customers commonly bring thousands of previously-created lessons, often representing decades of work. Asking companies to abandon these resources is unreasonable and wasteful.
So how then do we move the industry forward, while still conforming to legacy standards? Basewell’s enhanced SCORM support is our answer to this question. This update transforms how organizations interact with pre-existing SCORM content in two critical ways:
Intelligent Content Extraction: Basewell Intelligence automatically processes SCORM packages on your behalf. Extracting training information, parsing content across Basewell pages, and keeping information consistent through AI-driven quality-control checkpoints happens automatically, behind the scenes. That means your content is extracted, converted, structured, and prepared for distribution from a single click, saving your team hours of manual work.
Intelligent Synchronization: Content is easy to update and share because SCORM packages convert to native Basewell pages. This is a critical step, ensuring companies can leverage Basewell’s real-time, fully-multiplayer editor, integrations, intelligence, and analytics, even when starting from legacy standards. Additionally, Basewell intelligence routes updates across the entire organization in real-time, based on each user’s context and permissions.
Meeting Teams Where They Are
Like our other integrations, our enhanced SCORM support represents our commitment to meeting teams where they are, rather than forcing disruptive changes to established workflows.
If your organization has invested in SCORM-based content, you shouldn't have to choose between keeping that investment or modernizing your learning and development efforts. With Basewell, you get both—preserving existing content while gaining the benefits of modern, conversational learning.
This approach eliminates friction in three key ways:
For L&D Teams: Leverage pre-existing SCORM-based content as a foundation for your Basewell training library, while gaining powerful authoring, distribution, analytics, and AI capabilities by adding those SCORM files to Basewell.
For Employees: Train and access critical information in one place that matches how you learn and work. Use natural language to find answers, and train in a platform built to be accessible the moment you need to learn or have questions.
For Management: Consolidate your L&D tools, accomplishing in seconds what previously took days. Additionally, leverage Basewell's proprietary, fully-comprehensive analytics engine to gather insights far beyond traditional SCORM tracking, revealing actual knowledge gaps and learning patterns—not just completion.
What This Means For Your Company
Smart teams are thinking about the next decade. How will they achieve their goals and remain market dominant? How will they conform to an AI-native world? How will they maintain employee training standards across an ever-remote workforce?
Sustainably answering these questions isn’t possible without tools that conform to how people learn and work today. That’s why our focus on streamlining, modernizing, and consolidating SCORM workflows is so important; the impact of our enhanced SCORM support extends beyond technical improvements. It represents a fundamental shift in how training content can be accessed, updated, and utilized across your organization.
Teams receive critical updates instantly, as changes publish in real-time.
Information silos disappear, as content is consolidated in a single source of truth.
Boundaries between “training” and “work” fade, as information is delivered in an accessible, contextually-relevant way.
Most importantly, information that was previously locked inside rigid SCORM packages becomes available exactly when and where employees need it—through formal training or real-time answers through Basewell intelligence.
Experience the Difference
Our enhanced SCORM support is available to all Basewell customers starting today. To get started, simply head to your manage section and upload your SCORM file—Basewell handles the rest automatically.
Achieve in seconds what took days, automate your manual processes, and build highly-effective teams with Basewell. Click below to book your demo and see how Basewell's enhanced SCORM support can transform your approach to employee learning.
