Forma LMS
Corporate-focused PHP learning platform with its own SCORM 1.2 and 2004 player
The facts
- Licence
- GPL-2.0-only — OSI approved
- Pricing
- Open source Price source for Forma LMS, opens in a new tab
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Platforms
- Web · Linux
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 20043rd, 4th editions | Yes | editor-checked · 24 Aug 2026— source, opens in a new tab | The player dispatches on the manifest schemaversion and accepts "1.2", "2004 3rd Edition" and "2004 4th Edition"; anything else is rejected as an unsupported version. | |
| xAPI | Not stated | — | — | — |
| cmi5 | Not stated | — | — | — |
| AICC | Not stated | — | — | — |
| 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
Forma LMS is a self-hosted PHP platform aimed at corporate training rather than schools: catalogues, classrooms, certificates, competency and reporting, with an e-commerce module for selling courses. It descends from the community edition of Docebo 4.0.5, forked in 2012 when that product moved to SaaS, and remains largely an Italian-speaking community project.
For this directory the relevant part is that it ships its own SCORM player rather than embedding someone else's. The run-time adapter reads the manifest's schemaversion and instantiates a 1.2 or a 2004 API object accordingly, storing tracking in dedicated learning_scorm_* tables, so both content generations run natively. There is a class named for xAPI in the same file, but no evidence of a working statement pipeline, so no xAPI or cmi5 claim is recorded here.
Where it fits: an organisation that wants a conventional, ledger-style corporate LMS on its own servers and does not want to run Moodle. Where it does not: anyone needing a modern deployment story. The install documentation still specifies PHP 8.0–8.1 and MySQL 5.7, and PHP 8.1 reached end of security support at the end of 2025 — a real consideration for a system holding staff records.
Maintenance is steady but small: commits through 2026, roughly forty stars, and this GitHub repository is described as a mirror, so issues and discussion happen on formalms.org rather than here.
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