Which SCORM version does each LMS support

Export SCORM 1.2 unless your course needs a SCORM 2004 feature and your client's LMS names, in writing, the 2004 edition you would export. All 6 LMSs whose own help pages were read for this guide accept SCORM 1.2 (Canvas and Blackboard once the administrator has switched SCORM on), and so does SCORM Cloud. They split on SCORM 2004: Canvas lists 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition¹, Docebo takes 3rd Edition only and says sequencing is not supported², Brightspace lists no edition³, Blackboard's administrator page says SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 up to the 4th Edition⁴, and Moodle and TalentLMS do not support it⁵⁶.

The latest release is SCORM 2004 4th Edition, from 2009, and ADL, which created SCORM, now recommends xAPI and cmi5 for new e-learning acquisitions⁴.

Cornerstone, Workday Learning and SharePoint are not in the table. On 9 October 2026, Cornerstone's and Workday's documentation asked for a customer sign in, and a Microsoft Learn search turned up no Microsoft page stating SCORM support for SharePoint. If your client runs one of them, this page cannot tell you whether it supports SCORM, or which version.

Which SCORM versions does each LMS support?

Every row below accepts SCORM 1.2; Canvas lists the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition, and Blackboard's administrator page says up to the 4th. Each row comes from the vendor's own help page, read on 9 October 2026, except the Blackboard administrator page, read on 15 October 2026. "Not stated" means that page does not say.

If your client's help page says 2004 with no edition, treat the edition as unknown until you have tested it.

If your client is on Moodle, the Moodle upload guide has the upload steps and the settings that decide completion.

Which SCORM version should you use?

Use SCORM 1.2, and switch to SCORM 2004 only when 2 things are true: the course needs something only 2004 does, and your client's LMS names the edition you would publish. SCORM 1.2 vs SCORM 2004 compares the features themselves.

Run the decision in 3 steps:

1. Find your client's LMS in the table. If its SCORM 2004 cell says "No" or "Not supported", you are done: export SCORM 1.2.
2. If the page names editions, match yours. Canvas takes 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition¹. Docebo takes 3rd Edition only², so a 4th Edition export sits outside what Docebo documents.
3. Check the feature you need. Sequencing is one reason to pick 2004, and Docebo says sequencing "is not supported by this version"². At upload, Docebo can turn simple sequencing with linear navigation into platform prerequisites, but it does not manage packages with complex sequencing².

If your client's LMS only takes 1.2, Rustici documents a workaround: upload the 2004 course to SCORM Cloud, create a Dispatch package, and upload that to the LMS, which Rustici says keeps the 2004 sequencing rules and data tracking⁹. TalentLMS urges caution with dispatch files, which point to content on an external server: "If any part of this connection fails, learners may experience loading errors or incomplete tracking"⁶.

What do the vendor pages say, LMS by LMS?

Each vendor attaches conditions that matter as much as the version number. Raise them with your client's administrator before the first upload.

Moodle. Native SCORM 2004 development has stopped, and Moodle's FAQ points instead to a Rustici Software plugin that connects Moodle to the commercial SCORM Cloud service⁵. Your upload size is not one number: the server, the site, the course and the activity each cap it, and no level can override the one above⁷.

Canvas. Canvas plays SCORM through an LTI tool that must be enabled in External Apps at the account level; once it is, a SCORM link appears in Course Navigation and packages come in as External Tool Assignment submissions¹. Plan your test around 2 lines: SCORM "is not available in beta or test environments of Canvas", and the import type you choose (graded assignment, ungraded assignment or page) "is permanent and cannot be changed in Canvas"¹.

TalentLMS. "Currently, TalentLMS only supports SCORM 1.2", with xAPI and cmi5 alongside and no AICC⁶. To confirm a package is 1.2, the TalentLMS help center says to open imsmanifest.xml and look for the 1.2 schema version⁶. If your update changes a SCORM unit's structure, stored resume data may no longer match, and learners can land on wrong pages or blank screens until an administrator resets their suspend data⁶.

Docebo. Docebo is the only LMS here whose page puts a number on upload size: 1,024 MB for a SCORM package, with no more than 15,000 files suggested, and 2 GB for xAPI². A replacement package "must have the same SCORM version as the previous one", so a course launched as 1.2 cannot become 2004 3rd Edition in place². For 3rd Edition, Docebo reports the score from cmi.score.raw, not cmi.score.scaled²; check the recorded score on a test attempt.

Brightspace. D2L's page names no 2004 edition³. The newer SCORM solution needs the Content Service; without it you stay on the legacy solution, and if you also use the Brightspace Learning Repository, it "does not support publishing SCORM 2004 content directly from your computer"³. In the newer solution, xAPI packages play as SCORM objects, but their statement data "is not accessible from Brightspace"³.

Blackboard. The institution decides whether the SCORM Engine is enabled; the engine plays SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC and xAPI packages, with no xAPI Learning Record Store and basic data in the gradebook⁸. Anthology's instructor page mentions 4th Edition once, in a progress bar setting⁸. The administrator page on the SCORM Engine, read 15 October 2026, says the Building Block "supports content that conforms to the SCORM 1.2 standard and the SCORM 2004 4th Edition standard" and that it does not matter "which SCORM 2004 Edition (up to the 4th Edition)" the content uses⁴. Grading options cannot be changed after import, so set them on your first upload⁸.

Whether that administrator statement covers Ultra courses, Original courses or both was not found in the pages read for this guide, so if your client runs Ultra, ask the administrator to confirm the edition in writing before you export 2004.

SCORM Cloud. Rustici's hosted player imports SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, xAPI and cmi5⁹. In the steps below SCORM Cloud is your test bench, and Rustici states its limit: "Cloud does not check for strict technical conformance"¹⁰.

Which is the latest SCORM version, and is SCORM outdated?

The latest SCORM release is SCORM 2004 4th Edition, from 2009⁴. ADL encourages content developers and producers of distributed learning products who must use SCORM, rather than xAPI or cmi5, to conform with that edition⁴. SCORM.com dates 4th Edition to March 2009 and calls xAPI and cmi5 "the latest version/next generation of SCORM"¹¹.

SCORM.com says SCORM 1.2 "was VERY widely adopted and is still the industry workhorse"¹¹, and the site's comparison page calls 1.2 "the most widely adopted eLearning standard"¹². The table points the same way from your side of the upload: SCORM 1.2 is the only version all 6 vendor pages accept.

SCORM.com adds that SCORM 1.2 had no sequencing specification, so most 1.2 content was produced as "a single monolithic SCO" instead of granular, reusable SCOs¹¹. Sequencing sets the order in which SCOs are delivered⁴, and a course built as one SCO has no order to set. Neither page says why 1.2 has stayed on top.

ADL says SCORM "is being overtaken by newer, more capable e-learning specifications", and elsewhere on the same page that SCORM solutions "are still in wide use"⁴. ADL, and the Defense Department instruction DoDI 1322.26, recommend xAPI and cmi5 for new acquisitions⁴. xAPI vs SCORM covers when that difference matters for your course.

What does "SCORM compliant" on a vendor page mean?

On its own, the phrase means the vendor says so. ADL defines conformance per SCORM version, and the test needs no ADL involvement:

The only criteria for claiming SCORM conformance (to a specific version of SCORM, i.e., SCORM version 1.2) is to pass the corresponding test within the ADL Conformance Test Suite, or the Army-developed conformance test for SCORM 2004 (3rd Edition). These tests are done on an honor system and require no ADL involvement.

ADL Initiative, "Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)", Internet Archive copy of 13 December 2025⁴

ADL lists 2 stronger labels. A product is a SCORM Adopter once its passing test logs are submitted to ADL and found correct. SCORM Certification came from ADL testing centers and "is no longer offered"⁴.

If your client's vendor page says "certified", ask when, and by whom.

Moodle names its test: SCORM 1.2 passes the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7⁵. D2L's "Brightspace is SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 compliant" names no edition and no test³. The 2 TalentLMS pages read make no conformance claim for the LMS and send you to SCORM Cloud to check packages⁶.

Your content has the same gap. Rustici says "The CTS is the only definitive way to prove that your content is SCORM conformant", and that SCORM Cloud does not check strict conformance¹⁰.

How to do it yourself

This takes about 20 minutes of your time, plus the administrator's reply. You need the LMS help center, the administrator, a free SCORM Cloud trial account¹⁰, and 2 test packages, 1 SCORM 1.2 and 1 SCORM 2004 4th Edition. You can find free ones in sample SCORM packages to test an LMS.

1. Find the vendor's own page. Search the LMS help center for "SCORM" and copy the sentence that names versions, with its date. A university page or an authoring tool's chart is someone else's reading of the vendor page.
2. Ask whether the switch is on. Canvas needs the SCORM LTI enabled at account level¹. Blackboard needs the institution to enable the SCORM Engine⁸. Brightspace's newer SCORM solution needs the Content Service³. Ask your client's administrator, in writing, whether that switch is on.
3. Run both test packages in SCORM Cloud. Import, launch, and read completion, pass or fail, score and time¹⁰. Rustici's rule of thumb: "If your content doesn’t work in SCORM Cloud, it is probably not going to work in your LMS either"⁹.
4. Run the same 2 packages in your client's LMS. Ask the administrator for a course learners cannot see. On Canvas, do not plan this for a beta or test instance, because SCORM is not available there¹.
5. Read the record. Compare completion, score and status in the LMS report with SCORM Cloud's. Docebo warns that checkers like SCORM Cloud implement parts of SCORM that Docebo may implement differently or not at all². If the records disagree, log the mismatch as a finding about the LMS.
6. Write it down. Record the version, edition, vendor sentence, its date and your result next to the course source file.

Working estimates for 1 LMS and 2 short packages, not vendor figures; a course with several SCOs takes longer.

The mistakes that cost the most

1. Reading "SCORM 2004" as every edition. Docebo takes 3rd Edition only²; Brightspace lists none³; Blackboard's administrator page says up to the 4th Edition⁴.
2. Trusting a 2004 package that seems to work in Moodle. Moodle's FAQ says some will "appear to work", and bugs reported against SCORM 2004 are closed as won't fix⁵.
3. Changing the version or the structure on an update. Docebo will not take a replacement in a different SCORM version², and TalentLMS warns that a changed structure can strand learners' resume data⁶. Pick the version before your first upload.
4. Treating SCORM Cloud as the client's LMS. SCORM Cloud does not check strict conformance¹⁰, and an LMS can implement SCORM differently². Only your client's LMS shows what its report will say.

Questions people also ask

Does TalentLMS support SCORM 2004? No. The TalentLMS help center says the LMS "only supports SCORM 1.2", plus xAPI and cmi5⁶.

Does Canvas support SCORM 2004? Yes: SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition, once the SCORM LTI is enabled for the account¹.

Which SCORM version does Brightspace support? D2L says Brightspace is "SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 compliant"; the page names no 2004 edition³.

What is the Docebo SCORM size limit? 1,024 MB per SCORM package, and 2 GB per xAPI package².

Should you use SCORM 1.2 or 2004 in Moodle? SCORM 1.2. Moodle's FAQ says SCORM 2004 is not supported in Moodle⁵.

Which is the latest SCORM version? SCORM 2004 4th Edition, released in 2009. ADL now recommends xAPI and cmi5 for new acquisitions⁴.