How to Export a SCORM Package from Articulate Storyline 360

Articulate Storyline 360 is one of the most popular tools for building interactive compliance training. Once your course is complete, publishing it as a SCORM package takes a few minutes. Here's how.

Before you start

• Your Articulate Storyline 360 project is complete
• You know which SCORM version your delivery platform supports (if unsure, use SCORM 2004 — see our comparison)

Step-by-step: Publishing to SCORM

1. Open the Publish dialog

In the Storyline ribbon, click Home → Publish. The Publish dialog will open.

2. Select "LMS" as the publish destination

In the left panel of the Publish dialog, select LMS. This is the option that produces a SCORM-compatible output.

3. Set your course title and folder

Enter a title for your course (this appears in the package manifest) and choose where the output folder will be saved on your computer.

4. Choose your SCORM version

Under Output Options, click the LMS drop-down list. Select SCORM 2004 (we recommend the 4th Edition). This ensures you have enough data capacity for course progress without hitting the older SCORM 1.2 limits.

5. Set your reporting and tracking options

Click the Reporting and Tracking Options button to configure how your course communicates with the LMS.

• Reporting Tab: Choose how Storyline reports completion. For most compliance training without a graded quiz, Passed/Incomplete or Completed/Incomplete are the most common choices.
• Tracking Tab: Choose what triggers completion. You can track based on the number of slides viewed (e.g., 100%), a specific quiz result, or a completion trigger.

6. Publish

Click Publish. Storyline will build the package and save it to your chosen folder.

What the output contains

After publishing, the Publish Successful window will appear. The easiest way to get your SCORM package is to click the Zip button directly in this window. Storyline will automatically bundle the required files, including the crucial imsmanifest.xml file, into a single ZIP file ready for upload.

If you close this window and need to zip the files manually later:

1. Open the output folder (click Open Folder from the Publish Successful dialog, or navigate to where you saved it)
2. Select all files inside the folder (not the folder itself)
3. Compress them into a ZIP file

Warning: If manually zipping, do not ZIP the output folder itself — ZIP the contents of the folder. The imsmanifest.xml file must be at the root of the ZIP. If it is buried inside a subfolder, most platforms (including Ethica) will reject it.

Test before you upload

Before distributing to your team, it's worth verifying that completion tracking works as expected. See: How to test a SCORM package before you upload it.