eXeLearning
Free authoring tool from the Spanish education ministry, exporting SCORM, IMS CP and EPUB
The facts
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Pricing
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Platforms
- Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
- Vendor
- Ministerio de Educación, Formación Profesional y Deportes (Cedec-INTEF)
- Headquarters
- Spain
Standards support
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| Standard | Supported | Provenance | Checked | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCORM 1.2 | Yes | editor-checked · 24 Aug 2026— source, opens in a new tab | — | |
| SCORM 20044th edition | Yes | editor-checked · 24 Aug 2026— source, opens in a new tab | The manifest generator writes '2004 4th Edition' as the schemaversion, with the imscp, adlcp, adlseq, adlnav and imsss namespaces declared. | |
| xAPI | No | editor-checked · 24 Aug 2026 | The exporters directory covers ELPX, EPUB3, HTML5, IMS Content Packaging, SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004. There is no xAPI or cmi5 exporter. | |
| cmi5 | No | editor-checked · 24 Aug 2026 | — | |
| AICC | No | editor-checked · 24 Aug 2026 | — | |
| LTI | Not stated | — | — | — |
- Claimed
- — the vendor states it. We have not confirmed it.
- Checked
- — an editor confirmed it on the date shown.
- Verified
- — an official registry lists it, and we link to the entry.
Editor's notes
eXeLearning is the rare open-source authoring tool with an institution behind it. Started in New Zealand, maintained since 2010 by Spain's education ministry through Cedec-INTEF and now developed jointly with the regional administrations, it exists to produce open educational resources and it exports to the formats schools actually use: HTML5, EPUB3, IMS Content Packaging, and SCORM 1.2 and 2004.
The current codebase is a rewrite, not the Python desktop application people may remember. It is a web application built on Bun and Elysia with real-time collaborative editing through Yjs, database support for MySQL, Postgres and SQLite, and CAS and OpenID Connect authentication. That makes it deployable as shared institutional infrastructure rather than something each author installs — which is clearly the point.
Who it suits: schools, universities and public bodies producing structured, accessible content who need SCORM output without a per-author licence. Who it does not suit: teams wanting slick custom interactions, branching simulations or video-heavy microlearning. The iDevice model is structured and pedagogical rather than free-form, and there is no xAPI or cmi5 path at all, so anything beyond course-level completion tracking is out of scope.
Development is active and public — v4.0.3 in August 2026, commits within the day, codecov reporting — and the funding model means it is unlikely to disappear.
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