About

Course authoring, built the right way.

SCORM Blocks began with a simple frustration. The tools that make good courses easy to build tend to lock away your content, your data, and your budget. The tools that set you free tend to make you fight the software. SCORM Blocks refuses that tradeoff.

Mission

Keep the ease. Keep your data. Keep your craft.

A course author should spend their time on the lesson, not on the tool, and should never trade ownership of their work for a polished editor. SCORM Blocks is built so the easy path and the principled path are the same path.

The gap

Two kinds of tools, one missing option

Commercial course suites are polished and fast, and they are also expensive, cloud-locked, and quiet about where your data lives. Open tools are free and self-hostable, and authoring in them often means editing JSON, retrofitting accessibility, and standing up a stack of services. SCORM Blocks takes the ease of the first and the ownership of the second, with accessibility built in from the first block.

  • Commercial-grade authoring and preview
  • Self-hosted from a single compose file
  • Accessibility enforced, not retrofitted

What we believe

Principles the platform is built on

Every design decision traces back to one of these. When two paths compete, the principled one wins.

  1. 1

    Easy by default, deep on demand

    Sensible defaults carry a beginner to a finished lesson. The depth is there the moment you reach for it.

  2. 2

    Blocks are the material

    Every piece of content is a typed block with its own settings, so authoring means composing, not configuring.

  3. 3

    Accessible by construction

    Keyboard, ARIA, and contrast ship inside each block, and the publisher will not release a course that fails the check.

  4. 4

    Preview equals delivery

    Editing and delivery run the same components, so learners get exactly what you built, on every device.

  5. 5

    Own your data

    Content is portable JSON, analytics live in your own database, and nothing about your learners leaves your instance.

  6. 6

    Your words, your work

    You write the content and you own it outright. Speed comes from reusable templates and saved blocks, so each lesson builds on the work you have already done.

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Lewis Heuermann

Builder. Teacher. Learner.

I build the tools I teach with. By day I help students take their first steps into networking and security; the rest of the time I build the platforms, labs, and challenges I wish I'd had starting out. SCORM Blocks came out of that same itch: authoring should stay easy without asking you to hand over your work. I learn in public, ship what I actually use, and keep the constraints honest.

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