Eliminating Manual Technical Work for Learning Designers

Business Goal

Learning designers using Articulate Rise were spending hours, sometimes entire days, writing and debugging JavaScript by hand just to add xAPI tracking or package content for an LMS. That time wasn't going toward designing better learning. It was going toward technical overhead that repeated on every single project.

Problem Statement

Every time the team needed to track learner behavior outside an LMS in Rise, someone had to manually write dozens, sometimes hundreds, of lines of JavaScript, paste it into the published file, and hope nothing broke. One missed comma stopped everything. Fixing it meant starting over. The same problem existed with SCORM packaging, a process that could take four hours per file. These weren't one-time challenges. They were recurring costs on every project.

Solution

Built a suite of six free tools for Articulate Rise creators, removing the most time-consuming technical tasks from the design process entirely. Designers typed plain language describing what they wanted to track. The tool generated the code. The SCORM Packager converted HTML files in minutes with no manual setup. The tools were free, publicly available, and used by the broader learning community.

As an estimation: across an organization of 1K learning designers, each packaging roughly five HTML modules a year, SCORM packaging at four hours per file and $50 an hour adds up to approximately $1 million annually. With the SCORM Packager, that same work took under five minutes per file, dropping the cost to around $16,000.