You’ve invested in professional eLearning built in Articulate Storyline, Rise, Adobe Captivate, or iSpring. The hard part shouldn’t be getting it into your site and reporting on it. Tin Canny makes LearnDash a first-class home for authored content: upload the package, embed it in a lesson, and get detailed reporting — no external LMS, no separate LRS subscription.
The usual headache
Authoring tools export SCORM or xAPI packages. Out of the box, LearnDash can host a course — but it can’t ingest those packages or read the rich data they produce. Teams end up either:
- paying for a separate SCORM-capable LMS, or
- standing up and maintaining an external Learning Record Store, or
- losing the data entirely and tracking only “lesson complete.”
Tin Canny removes that trade-off.
What Tin Canny gives you
Upload packages straight into lessons
Use the Tin Canny Uploader (or the Tin Canny block) right in the lesson editor to upload a SCORM or xAPI zip and embed it. Content is hosted on your own site. See Tin Canny Uploader.
Broad authoring-tool support
Tin Canny works with almost all standards-compliant SCORM and xAPI/Tin Can modules. Primary testing covers Articulate Storyline, Articulate Rise, Adobe Captivate, iSpring, and H5P, across SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and xAPI. See Authoring Tools Supported by Tin Canny for specifics and publishing tips.
A built-in LRS — nothing external to run
Every statement your modules send is stored in a Learning Record Store inside WordPress. No third-party LRS account, no data leaving your server, no extra monthly bill.
Unified reporting, even for SCORM
SCORM modules don’t speak xAPI natively — so Tin Canny automatically converts SCORM 1.2 and 2004 statements into Tin Can/xAPI behind the scenes. The result: your SCORM and xAPI content show up together in the same Course, User, Tin Can, and Quiz reports.
Completion that reflects the content
Tie the LearnDash Mark Complete button to module completion, so finishing the lesson means finishing the module — your reports stay honest. (Set this in the lesson/topic’s Tin Canny tab, added in v5.1.3.3.)
A typical migration
- Publish your course from Storyline/Captivate/iSpring as SCORM or xAPI.
- In the LearnDash lesson, open the Tin Canny Uploader and upload the package.
- Embed it and require it for completion.
- Watch scores, question responses, and time-in-content flow into your reports automatically.
Updating later? Use Replace content on the Manage Content page to swap in a new version while keeping the module ID and historical data.
Why this matters
- No second platform. Your authored content, hosting, and reporting all live in one WordPress + LearnDash site.
- No external LRS bill. The Learning Record Store is included.
- SCORM and xAPI, unified. One set of reports, regardless of how each module was published.
Related Articles
- Authoring Tools Supported by Tin Canny — supported tools and publish formats
- Tin Canny Uploader — uploading and embedding modules
- Managing eLearning Content — replacing content without losing data
- Getting Started with Tin Canny Reporting — install to first report