Advanced eLearning courses are courses whose content can communicate directly with the platform, allowing tracking of user activities during consumption.

Within lessons, it is possible to attach different types of content:

• .pdf
• .mp4
• URL
• SCORM
• Tin Can (xAPI)
• cmi5

.pdf, .mp4 and URL content

Content in .pdf, .mp4 and URL formats, once uploaded to the platform, is automatically converted into cmi5 content.

SCORM content

It is a file, generally in .zip format, which may include videos, slides, quizzes, and other learning materials.

It allows sending information to the platform such as:

• progress (% completion)
• time spent
• test scores
• status (completed / not completed)

Tin Can (xAPI) content

It is an eLearning content based on the xAPI standard, usually uploaded in .zip format.

In addition to standard information (progress, time, score, and status), it allows more detailed tracking of user activities, such as:

• interactions
• views
• specific actions performed during consumption

cmi5 (xAPI) content

It is a standard based on xAPI, specifically designed for LMS integration.

It combines the flexibility of xAPI with a more defined structure, similar to SCORM.

It allows tracking of:

• progress
• completion
• scores
• time spent
• specific user actions

Course settings and consumption modes

Three options are available in advanced eLearning courses:

• Allow access to lessons only in the predefined order
• Allow reviewing completed eLearning lessons
• Transform all eLearning lessons into SCORM content

These settings define how lessons are consumed within the course.

The options can also be modified while employees are already taking the course.

The third option, Transform all eLearning lessons into SCORM content, instead controls how content is tracked on SCORM Cloud:

• when enabled, content that is not natively SCORM (PDF, MP4, MP3, URL links) is packaged as SCORM and uploaded to SCORM Cloud, so its consumption can be tracked automatically;
• when disabled, the same content is delivered directly, without uploading to SCORM Cloud; completion is detected only once the content has been fully consumed, or through manual confirmation by the employee using the Mark as complete button.

Real SCORM, xAPI (Tin Can) and cmi5 packages (.zip files with their own manifest) are instead always uploaded to SCORM Cloud, regardless of this option, because they cannot be run without their own runtime.

Content import into SCORM Cloud

When you save a lesson with eLearning content, the platform uploads the package to SCORM Cloud. The import takes from a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on the file size.

While the import is in progress

• Enrollments: it is not possible to enroll employees in the course or edition — when saving the enrollment, a message appears indicating that the content import is still in progress. Wait a few minutes and try again. The block applies both to enrollments made by administrators and to self-enrollment from the catalog.
• Preview and consumption: when opening the lesson preview or the lesson itself, the same informational message appears instead of the content.

Non-eLearning lessons (classroom, online meeting) are never subject to this wait.

When the import completes

• Enrollments, preview and consumption become available again automatically, with no action required on your part.
• Employees already enrolled in the edition are automatically linked to the new lesson. This is useful when you add an eLearning lesson to an edition that already has enrolled employees: once the import completes, all of them can immediately take the new content.

Example: you create an edition with three SCORM lessons and, the next day, you add a fourth lesson. You do not need to unenroll and re-enroll the employees already enrolled: as soon as the import of the new lesson completes, they find it available in their course.

If the import fails

• Enrollments, preview and consumption show a message indicating that the content import has failed.
• An import that stays in progress for more than one hour is automatically considered failed.
• To fix it, edit the lesson and upload the package again: the import restarts and, once it completes, the lesson unlocks normally.

eLearning content behavior

When a lesson includes content of type SCORM, cmi5 or Tin Can, it may contain:

• slides
• tests
• links to external resources

Consumption modes (such as mandatory completion, test passing, or slide sequencing) are not configured on the platform but are defined directly within the eLearning content.