Where to Get Compliance Training Courses for Your Team
Short answer: most options come down to licensing ready-made courses from a training provider, either as a SCORM file they run in their own system or as an online course on the provider's website. A few build their own from existing slides. Whichever you choose, keep delivery and records in a system you control, so changing providers never costs you your proof.
Finding a course is only the first step. Someone still has to send it to the right people, chase whoever hasn't finished, and produce a record when an auditor, inspector or client asks. This guide covers both: where courses come from, and how to keep the delivery and the record under your control.
Option 1: License a course from a training provider
Training providers sell courses on the common compliance topics, such as harassment prevention, workplace safety and data privacy. They usually come in one of two forms.
- A SCORM package. A ZIP file containing the whole interactive course. SCORM is a standard format, so any system that supports its SCORM version (1.2 or 2004) can launch the course and record completion and scores. What is SCORM?
- A hosted course. The course runs on the provider's own website and gives the learner a certificate at the end. You don't get a file, so your record depends on collecting each person's certificate. How to track certificates and renewals
When comparing providers, ask:
- Does the course meet the specific rules where you operate, such as required length or topics?
- Can I export it as SCORM, or is it locked to the provider's own platform?
- Is the license per learner, per year, or unlimited?
- How often is the content updated when the law changes?
Option 2: Use courses that are already set up
Some platforms include courses for specific mandates, ready to send without sourcing anything yourself. Ethica, for example, has the official harassment prevention courses for California, New York, Illinois and Connecticut ready to assign, along with Ontario's mandatory training: the AODA accessibility modules, the Ministry's health and safety awareness modules, and a workplace violence and harassment policy acknowledgment. Each launches in a couple of clicks, and each employee's certificate or sign-off is kept on their record.
Option 3: Build your own
If your training is specific to your own processes, an authoring tool turns existing material into a SCORM course without an instructional designer.
- iSpring Suite works inside PowerPoint and exports your slides as an interactive course. How to create a SCORM course from PowerPoint
- Articulate Rise 360 is a web-based tool for building mobile-friendly courses from simple blocks. How to export SCORM from Rise
The trap: buying content and delivery as one locked bundle
Many providers also sell the learning management system (LMS) their courses run in. For a small business that often means a heavy system where every employee needs an account and a password, and a 45-minute course turns into a support queue.
It also ties your records to that provider. If you switch, your completion history can stay behind in a system you no longer pay for, which is exactly when an auditor tends to ask for it.
Keep content and delivery separate
A setup that stays flexible looks like this:
- Get the content from whichever source fits each requirement: a licensed SCORM file, a hosted course, a ready-made course, or your own.
- Deliver and record it in one place you control, so every completion lands in the same exportable record no matter where the course came from.
That is the job Ethica does:
- Every kind of course. Upload SCORM files, send employees to courses hosted elsewhere and collect the certificates they earn, or launch a ready-made course.
- No employee logins. Training arrives by email with a private link.
- Automatic reminders and renewals, including for people you hire later.
- One record you own. Completion dates and certificates for every course, exportable whenever someone asks, and independent of any content provider.