Identifying when to use each product
Content Controller, Rustici Dispatch and Rustici Cross Domain are each great products for helping you centrally manage and distribute content.
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Content Controller
Content Controller is an enterprise, web-based application that allows you to centrally host eLearning content and seamlessly deliver it to hundreds of LMSs. The Content Controller application makes it easy to update versions of a course across platforms, enforce content licenses, view automated reports, access in-depth content analytics and easily manage multiple languages. If you want to centralize your training content and distribute it to multiple 3rd party LMSs from a single, dedicated platform, Content Controller is a fit for you.
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Rustici Dispatch
Rustici Dispatch connects with your application via an API to help you share existing standards-based content with 3rd party platforms. Rustici Dispatch is a fit for those looking to add distribution functionality to an existing application. Dispatch works by allowing your application to create a proxy file of the eLearning content hosted in your platform (whether SCORM, xAPI, cmi5 or AICC) and share that proxy file with third-party LMSs.
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Rustici Cross Domain
Rustici Cross Domain (RXD) helps content providers whose content is best housed on their servers share it with third-party systems. Like Rustici Dispatch, RXD works by generating proxy files that point back to the original content. Unlike Rustici Dispatch, RXD is a better fit for content providers whose content does not easily, or already, conform to SCORM, xAPI, cmi5 or AICC.
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Comparing Content Controller, Rustici Dispatch and Rustici Cross Domain (RXD)
The descriptions above provide good context into when you would use one of these applications over the other. This chart, on the other hand, provides side-by-side comparison into each product’s features.
| Content Controller | Rustici Dispatch | Rustici Cross Domain | |
| Deployment | |||
| Managed hosting available | ✔ | ✔ | |
| On-premise hosting available | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Web application | ✔ | ||
| Content | |||
| Share content as a SCORM 1.2 package | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Share content as a SCORM 2004 3rd Edition package | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Share content as an AICC package | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Share content as an LTI tool provider | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Import content in SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, xAPI and cmi5 | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Import MP4 videos, MP3 audio files and PDF documents | ✔ | ||
| Supports custom, dynamically generated content served from your servers | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Provide preview links to content | ✔ | ||
| Upload WebVTT files to add subtitles and closed captions for video content | ✔ | ||
| Content usage | |||
| Access to usage data (learner counts, launch counts, etc.) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatically generated reports regarding usage | ✔ | ||
| Account and license management | |||
| Limit access to content | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Use to add extended enterprise support to an existing application | ✔ | ||
| Organize by creating folders in the content section or inside an account | ✔ | ||
| Equivalents | |||
| Dispatch multiple language variations of a course at once, allowing user to choose language of preference | ✔ | ||
| Usage data by language variation (count of learners taking each course) | ✔ |
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