Identifying when to use Content Controller vs. SCORM Cloud
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Content Controller
Content Controller is a web-based application created to help content creators easily manage and distribute their eLearning courses. Content Controller features robust license management tools, makes it easy to deliver multiple languages and provides question-level detail in reports. The application is managed either on-premise or we can help you with hosting through managed hosting services.
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SCORM Cloud
SCORM Cloud is a SaaS application that helps you manage all of your eLearning needs via one hosted platform. One of its features is SCORM Cloud Dispatch, which allows you to deliver courses to third-party platforms while maintaining ownership and control over your content. SCORM Cloud allows users to take advantage of a free trial and includes the basic features available in Content Controller. As such, SCORM Cloud makes a great testing tool for some of the more robust capabilities of Content Controller.
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SCORM Cloud Dispatch vs. Content Controller
| SCORM Cloud Dispatch | Content Controller | |
| Deployment | ||
| Privately managed hosting available | ✔ | |
| Self-hosting | ✔ | |
| SaaS | ✔ | |
| Content | ||
| Import content in SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, cmi5, xAPI | ✔ | ✔ |
| Import LTI courses | ✔ | |
| Import MP4 videos, MP3 audio files and PDF documents | ✔ | ✔ |
| Import YouTube, Vimeo and Zoom Content (Coming 2026) | YouTube Only via API | ✔ |
| Import non-standard-based content using Rustici Cross Domain (RXD) | ✔ | |
| Test and configure content | ✔ | ✔ |
| Manage distributed content at the Account level | ✔ | |
| Provide Preview links to content | ✔ | |
| Upload WebVTT files to add subtitles and closed captions for video content | ✔ | |
| Versioning | ||
| Import new versions of a course | ✔ | ✔ |
| Change version accessible to course destination without resharing to LMS | ✔ | ✔ |
| Maintain version history | ✔ | ✔ |
| Leave in-progress learners on previous version | ✔ | ✔ |
| Change log for each version | ✔ | |
| Republish previous version | ✔ | |
| Count of in-progress learners in a version | ✔ | |
| Count of total learners who have launched a version | ✔ | |
| Content usage | ||
| Access to usage data (learner counts, launch counts, etc.) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Quick snapshot of usage data by course, account or dispatch | ✔ | |
| Access to Question Level detail in reports | ✔ | ✔ |
| Account and license management | ||
| Create accounts for each customer | ✔ | |
| Set license limits by dispatch | ✔ | ✔ |
| Limit access by expiration date | ✔ | ✔ |
| Limit access by launch count | ✔ | ✔ |
| Manually disable all access | ✔ | ✔ |
| Manually disable new launches and allow in-progress learners to continue | ✔ | ✔ |
| Limit access by learner count | ✔ | |
| Set license limits by account | ✔ | |
| Allows for the creation of reusable licenses | ✔ | |
| Allows for easy license renewals | ✔ | |
| License Alerts – show all accounts nearing their license limit, including when they exceed a license | ✔ | |
| Organize by creating folders in the content section or inside an account | ✔ | |
| Dispatching/Sharing | ||
| Export content in SCORM 1.2 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Bundles – Dispatch multiple courses at once (.zip of .zips) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Export content in SCORM 2004 | ✔ | |
| Export content in AICC | ✔ | |
| Export content in LTI | ✔ | ✔ |
| Support for LTI Deep Linking | ✔ | |
| Export content in cmi5 | ✔ | |
| Provides a shareable dispatch package download link | ✔ | |
| Content Portal – Share account content in a self-service web portal | ✔ | |
| Share playable content links for learners with no LMS | Invitations | Launcher |
| Reporting | ||
| Reporting of Big Four data (status, pass/fail status, score and total time) by course and dispatch | ✔ | ✔ |
| Reporting of interactions by course and dispatch | ✔ | ✔ |
| Send Big Four data to Host LMS | ✔ | ✔ |
| Send interaction data to Host LMS | ✔ | |
| Big Four data reported by version | ✔ | |
| Share reports with people who do not have Administrative access | ✔ | ✔ |
| Interactions reported by version | ✔ | |
| Available Course Summary, Learner and Multi-Course Learner reports | ✔ | |
| Content analytics | ||
| Identify hard/easy courses | ✔ | |
| Identify hard/easy questions | ✔ | |
| Identify questions that are good or bad predictors of success | ✔ | |
| Equivalents | ||
| Share multiple language variations of a course in one course package | ✔ | |
| Allow equivalent course learner to choose their language | ✔ | |
| Limit course language options by account | ✔ | |
| Usage data by language variation (count of learners taking each language) | ✔ | |
| Customization and APIs | ||
| RESTful API | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automation API | ✔ | |
| Reporting API | ✔ | |
| Webhooks | ✔ | |
| Custom IDs for versions, courses, content, bundles and equivalents | ✔ | |
| Lead-in pages – web pages shown before a course is launched in an LMS | ✔ |
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