SCORM distribution, licensing and hosting platforms
Getting a course into someone else's LMS without giving away the course.
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If you sell courses, you have the publisher's problem: the client wants the content inside their own LMS, and the moment you hand over a zip you have handed over the asset. Every update becomes a redistribution exercise, and you cannot tell how many people took the course or when the licence should end.
The tools here solve it the same way. The client installs a small proxy package — a few kilobytes, a manifest and a launcher — which streams the real content from the platform at run time and reports tracking back. The course never leaves your control, updates take effect without anyone re-importing anything, and licences can carry seat counts, expiry dates and domain locks.
The vocabulary varies: dispatch, distribution, licensing, content delivery. What differentiates them in practice is narrower than the marketing suggests — whether the proxy works in restrictive LMSs that block cross-origin access, what happens when the licence expires mid-session, how tracking is reconciled if the connection drops, and whether you can white-label the whole thing for your own clients.
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What is SCORM dispatch?
A small SCORM package that acts as a pointer rather than the content. The LMS imports and launches it normally; the package fetches the real course from a hosting platform and relays tracking back. The client's LMS sees an ordinary course; you keep the file.
Why not just send the client a zip?
You can, and for a one-off it is fine. What you lose is control of updates, any visibility of usage, and any ability to time-limit access — which is precisely what a licensing arrangement needs.
Does dispatch work in every LMS?
Not quite. Some LMSs sandbox course content in ways that break the proxy's connection back to its origin, and some corporate networks block the content domain. Any serious platform in this category publishes a tested-LMS list; ask for it before committing.
What happens when a licence expires?
Platform-dependent, and worth testing. The good implementations fail politely with a message; weaker ones leave a blank frame and an LMS recording an incomplete attempt.