From documents · SCORM to video

Give old e-learning a second life.

Upload a SCORM or xAPI package, or an Articulate or Captivate export. Lecture Studio pulls out the content and remakes it as modern video lessons, with the quizzes kept.

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What you put in

Old e-learning

  • SCORM 1.2 and 2004 packages
  • xAPI (Tin Can) packages
  • Articulate Storyline and Rise exports
  • Adobe Captivate exports

What you get back

A finished video lesson

  • Each module remade as a video lesson
  • Your existing quiz questions kept
  • A new SCORM package with the videos
  • Captions and caption files

How it works

Three steps. No timeline to edit.

  1. 1Upload the package

    The .zip you would upload to your LMS.

  2. 2We extract and rebuild

    Text, images and questions are taken out and rebuilt as narrated scenes.

  3. 3Get the new course

    Video lessons plus a fresh SCORM package for your LMS.

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Every effect in the engine

51 effects, applied for you.

Everything below is part of a SCORM to video conversion. You can switch any of it off before the video is made.

Layouts and presenters 4

  • Teacher LedA talking teacher in a small frame on the right while the lesson material plays on the left.
  • Teacher-Student ConversationThe lesson taught as a conversation: a teacher and a curious student side by side, the speaker's name lit.
  • Automatic scene designEach slide is turned into the best scene type (slide, diagram or story picture) by readable rules.
  • Scene editorChange any slide with plain commands like 'slide 7: make this a table' and see a preview.

Teaching visuals 16

  • Camera that follows the voiceThe view moves in on each part of the slide as it is spoken and pulls back at the end.
  • Highlighter on spoken textA highlighter stroke runs under the line being spoken.
  • No crowded screensA busy slide is shown a few items at a time instead of as a wall of text.
  • Big statementA statement in big type, its key words lit as they are said.
  • Number revealA number that counts up on cue; a percentage also fills a ring.
  • Flow storySomething travels from one place to another, like a document into a public tool.
  • StepsNumbered steps arriving in order.
  • Two-column comparisonTwo columns compared side by side.
  • List sceneNumbered rows arriving one at a time.
  • Lesson timelineA line draws across and events drop onto it.
  • Traced flow diagramNodes and arrows drawn in turn, with dots travelling the route.
  • Labelled illustrationA picture with leader lines drawn out to its named parts.
  • Mind mapThe main idea in the middle with branches growing as they are named.
  • Data tableRows arrive as they are spoken; a row, column or cell lights on cue.
  • Code walkthroughThe line of code being explained is lit, the rest dimmed, with a note on what it does.
  • Self-drawing iconsLine icons that trace themselves on when they arrive, then gently move.

Classroom board 3

  • Classroom Board - WhiteboardA whiteboard that writes itself, stroke by stroke, on the words you say.
  • Classroom Board - BlackboardThe same board in chalk on a blackboard, used where the screen around it is light.
  • Classroom Board - Template StyleShort drawn scenes written in your course's own typeface and colours, with no board frame.

Pictures and footage 5

  • Story pictures and clipsFull-screen pictures or clips for stories and scenarios in a lesson, slowly pushing in.
  • Slow zoom and pan on picturesStill pictures drift gently so the screen never freezes.
  • Image B-RollsA picture made for your exact sentence, shown with a slow zoom or pan.
  • Video B-Roll (Animated)Short drawn illustrations of the idea, free and unable to invent facts.
  • Stock B-RollsReal free footage of places and things, used only where the sentence plainly names them.

Learning and quizzes 7

  • Learning Objectives and Key TakeawaysOpens with what students will learn and closes with what they should remember.
  • Get the most / Make it stickTips at the start and end: take notes, say it in your own words, practise, tell someone today.
  • Key insightAbout every 1.5 minutes, a key line from the lesson's own summary with a chime.
  • Quick CheckFive multiple-choice questions after each concept, with a countdown and the answer explained.
  • Read-aloud quizThe ebook's own questions read aloud with every option, a 10-second countdown, then the answer and why.
  • Quick revisionAbout every 3.5 minutes, the points taught so far, with its own music.
  • Takeaways sceneThe lesson's takeaways arriving one by one.

Voice, sound and music 5

  • Narrator voice-overYour lesson script read aloud by a natural narrator, slower and expressive, word-timed to the screen.
  • Teacher and student voicesTwo distinct voices for a conversation-style lesson.
  • Talking teacher and studentLifelike presenters whose lips follow the voice and who never freeze after speaking.
  • Background music under the lessonSoft music under the whole lesson, dipped at each chapter change.
  • Quiz music and clockLow game-show music and a soft clock while learners answer.

Captions and access 2

  • Transcript and CaptionsBurned-in captions that light each word as it is said.
  • Caption files (VTT, SRT)A separate caption file for your LMS or video player.

Cleanup 1

  • Checks on every filmRe-listens to the finished film, checks lip sync to one frame and refuses mismatched files before delivery.

Branding 5

  • Logo (eight corner styles)Your crest in the corner all the way through, as a watermark, bug, glass badge or one of five other styles.
  • Intro and outro video logoYour institution's video logo at the start and end of every film.
  • Welcome and end-note cardsA welcome card naming the course and topic, and a closing thank-you card.
  • Lesson end cardA closing card with the course name and what comes next.
  • Team CreditsA closing credits card for the faculty and production team.

Delivery 3

  • SCORM exportPackages lesson films for your LMS with captions, resume and 90%-watched completion.
  • Chapter to seriesTurns every chapter of a module into a series of films and one SCORM package.
  • 1080p full-length filmThe finished film at 1920x1080, full length.

Made for

Who uses SCORM to video.

Questions

Before you start.

Do we lose our quiz questions?

No. They are kept and placed after the idea they test.

What about audio already in the module?

We can keep it or replace it with a new narrator.

Will the new package work in our LMS?

Yes. It is a standard SCORM package.

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