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Smartcat’s SCORM translation software translates the text, quizzes, images, video and attached PDFs inside an exported SCORM package into 280+ languages. Your reviewers approve every language, and you get one multilingual package back, with navigation and tracking unchanged.
More than 80 of the world’s largest companies have chosen Smartcat
SCORM translation adapts a SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) course for learners who speak another language. The text, quizzes and media are translated, while the package still launches and reports progress in your LMS. Smartcat translates the exported package itself, so you don’t rebuild the course, and every language keeps the same layout and interactivity.
15K+
eLearning courses localized
Smartcat has localized more than 15,000 eLearning courses.
280+
languages
Translate one course into 280+ languages, including right-to-left languages, in a single project.
80+
file formats
Beyond SCORM packages, translate the XLIFF exports, slide decks, PDFs and videos around a course.
Translating a SCORM course used to mean a chain of hand-offs between tools and vendors, repeated for every language. In Smartcat it is one project, from the uploaded package to a course that is ready to publish.
Strings leave the authoring tool without the slides around them.
Add the published SCORM package as it is.
Images, subtitles and audio go to other tools and vendors.
Fix the original in context and choose which media to localize before you pay to translate it.
Translators see sentences, not the course, so layout and meaning problems surface late.
Smartcat AI translates with your translation memory and glossary, and linguists see every segment in the live course.
Reviewers mark up screenshots, round after round.
Reviewers edit the real course in its own player, and every edit writes back to translation memory.
Translations are imported back, layouts are fixed and the course is tested again.
Download it in the original format, as Dynamic SCORM or as one package with every language.
The course, its design and its player stay intact.
Managers, linguists and reviewers all work in the real course.
Every edit grows your translation memory and glossary.
Smartcat translates the exported SCORM package, not text copied out of it, so nobody rebuilds the course afterwards. Six steps take a course from your authoring tool to every language in your LMS.
Your SCORM .zip
SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004, exported in one source language.
One Smartcat project
AI translates with your glossary and translation memory, and your reviewers approve every language.
One multilingual .zip
Every language in one package for your LMS, with navigation and tracking unchanged.
Export the course as a SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 .zip. Smartcat translates packages exported from Articulate® Rise® directly; for iSpring Suite, Adobe Captivate and other supported tools, use SCORM Studio.
Upload the .zip and select every target language in one project, with no separate upload per language.
Fix the original in context first, so you only pay to translate approved text. Smartcat detects the images, videos and attached PDFs inside the course, and you choose which ones to translate.
Picking assets in Smartcat
The asset preview lists every SCORM package you upload with the images, videos and attachments inside it. Include or skip each one before translation starts, so handouts and videos ship in the same languages as the lessons.
The Content Translator Coworker translates course text, quiz questions and feedback with your glossary and translation memory.
Your reviewers or Smartcat Marketplace linguists edit the real course in its own player, and every edit writes back to your translation memory.
Download the course in its original format, as Dynamic SCORM or with every language in one file, and upload it to your LMS. See how multilingual SCORM packages work in your LMS.
Without SCORM translation software, every new language brings back the same three problems:
Smartcat keeps the package, the translation and the review in one project, as part of its training translation platform for L&D teams.
Upload the SCORM .zip you already export and pick every target language in one project. Smartcat translates packages exported from Rise without the authoring files and returns one multilingual package for your LMS. For courses from iSpring Suite, Adobe Captivate and other tools, or courses whose source files are gone, use SCORM Studio.
Course text, images, videos and attached PDFs stay in one project instead of being split across vendors and tools. Your glossary and translation memory apply to every course, and on current plans 100%+ translation-memory matches use no Smartwords, so content you reuse across courses isn’t paid for twice.
The Content Translator Coworker translates each course with your glossary and translation memory, and the Reviewer Coworker prepares every language for review. Your trainers, subject-matter experts or Smartcat Marketplace linguists approve each version before export. 92% of words translated by Smartcat AI are accepted without a single human edit.
Translators and reviewers keep the tools they rely on, next to the live course. Comment threads and edits stay in sync with Smartcat’s translation editor, and every change grows your translation memory and glossary, so the next course is faster and more consistent.
Translation memory
Matches appear next to every segment, and reviewer edits write back to memory.
Glossary in context
Terms show where they are used, and you can add a new term straight from the segment.
QA checks
QA warnings and tag errors show before a translation is saved.
Find and replace
Change a word or term across the whole course translation at once.
Repetitions and history
Repeated segments are marked, and every segment shows who changed what.
Point and find
Click text on the course page to open its segment, and jump from the segment back to the page.
Smartcat translates what learners read, see and hear: course text, quizzes, images, video and attached PDFs. It writes the manifest and tracking settings back unchanged, so the course still launches and reports to your LMS. Where support depends on how a course was built, the table says so.
| SCORM element | What it includes | How Smartcat handles it | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course text | Lesson titles, body text, headings, lists and image captions | Translated with AI using your glossary and translation memory, then reviewed by your team or Smartcat linguists | German and French run longer and can overflow buttons, tabs and fixed-size blocks, and Chinese, Japanese or Korean need a font with their characters. Preview each language and shorten in review rather than redesign the screen |
| Quiz questions and feedback | Questions, answer options, correct and incorrect feedback, knowledge checks | Translated with the course text; scoring and answer logic stay as you built them, and reviewers preview each question as learners see it | Questions that rely on wordplay, alphabetical order or a term defined elsewhere may need rewriting; your glossary keeps those terms consistent |
| Buttons and navigation labels | Continue, Next, Submit, menu and progress labels | Check with us: some labels come from the authoring tool’s player settings rather than the course content | Preview every screen, including the menu and the completion screen |
| Images with text | Diagrams, infographics and screenshots with words in them | Detected in the package; you choose which images to translate | Software screenshots may need a localized screenshot instead |
| Video and audio | Embedded training videos, narration and voiceover | Videos are detected and you choose which to translate. For standalone audio files, check with us | Text burned into video frames is out of scope, so plan new graphics or captions. For videos you also use outside the course, see Smartcat video translation |
| Attached files | PDF handouts, job aids and other downloads inside the package | Attached PDFs are detected and you choose which to translate, so handouts ship in the same languages as the lessons. For other file types, check with us | Files linked from outside the package are not part of it |
| Right-to-left languages | Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages | Translated in the same project as your other languages | How much of the layout mirrors depends on the course template and player; see right-to-left SCORM delivery in your LMS |
| Multi-SCO packages | Several sharable content objects in one .zip, each tracked separately by the LMS | Check with us before you scope the project: every SCO and the manifest that ties them together must come through intact | Book a demo with a sample package to confirm how it comes through for your LMS |
| Tracking and manifest | imsmanifest.xml, the SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 version, completion and scoring settings | Not translated: the manifest, version and tracking settings are written back unchanged, so every language launches and reports like the source | Export the source in the SCORM version your LMS expects, then run a completion test for each language before rollout |
Smartcat translates SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 packages exported from Rise without the authoring files. Courses from iSpring Suite, Adobe Captivate, Easygenerator, Absorb Create or CEGID go through SCORM Studio. Using another authoring tool? Export XLIFF, and Smartcat returns the translated file for re-import: see course file translation. Book a demo to check a package with custom interactions.
The table above covers each part of a SCORM package. These three jobs come up once the first translation is done: adapting a course for one market, keeping every language current, and serving regional variants.
Translation changes the words and keeps the course’s tracking intact. Localization also adapts the course for one market. Smartcat does both in one project.
AI translates the course, you choose which images, videos and attachments inside the package to translate, and regional reviewers adapt the rest.
Re-translate only what changed instead of the whole package. Nothing reaches learners until your team approves it.
The Content Update Coworker helps you find the courses a change affects and prepares updates for review.
Smartcat handles each regional variant as a separate target language in the same project. Route each one to an in-country reviewer, and their edits are saved to translation memory for the next course.
Each gets its own version of the course
for Intradiem to translate 20 Rise courses into Canadian French, with a publication-ready first pass
Each coworker handles one step of SCORM translation, from the first draft to the final check. Your reviewers approve every language before export.
Chief of Staff
Tell your Chief of Staff which SCORM courses and languages you need, and it coordinates the coworkers that translate and check them.
Content Translator Coworker
Translates the text, images, video and attached PDFs inside a SCORM course into 280+ languages with your glossary and translation memory.
Content Update Coworker
Helps find the SCORM courses a source change affects and re-translates only the new or changed sections.
Reviewer Coworker
Pre-reviews every language for fluency, tone and terminology, so your trainers approve a strong draft instead of starting from scratch.
Quality Assurance Coworker
Checks each translated SCORM course for terminology, formatting and accuracy errors and gives it a quality score before export.
Translate and review content where your teams already work, from Google Drive and Figma to your help center and CMS. See all integrations
Google Drive
Translate the training docs, decks and sheets your team keeps in Drive.
Google Docs
Send job aids and SOPs from Google Docs and get them back in every language.
Google Sheets
Translate quiz banks and glossaries kept in spreadsheets.
Figma
Localize course visuals and catch text expansion before designs ship.
Contentful
Keep learning content in your headless CMS current in every language.
Zendesk
Translate the help-center articles that support your training.
ServiceNow
Keep knowledge-base articles accurate in every language.
Salesforce Service Cloud
Keep service enablement content current in every language.
WordPress
Publish multilingual learning portals and resource hubs.
Sitecore
Keep intranet and portal content aligned across locales.
Enterprise L&D teams translate courses with Smartcat to cut editing time and agency costs. Each number below comes from a named customer case study.
70%
lower translation costs
Stanley Black & Decker cut translation costs by up to 70%.
4x
faster turnaround
Smith+Nephew reduced editing workload by 70% and turns courses around 4x faster than its previous 10‑day agency SLA.
298
translation projects
Topcon ran 298 projects in two years across 29 countries and 31 languages, and cut one 10-language course from 13 h to 11 h.
“With Smartcat, we’ve found the optimal balance between automation and local expertise, allowing us to accelerate translation while improving quality and consistency. Beyond the operational efficiencies, it has helped us build stronger relationships with our global affiliates and create a truly scalable model for global content delivery.”
Training often covers unreleased products, internal policies and compliance rules. Smartcat protects that content at every step; see how on the Smartcat security page.
Role-based access controls
Set who can view, translate, review and approve courses by team, role or region on enterprise plans.
Single sign-on (SSO)
Sign in through your existing identity provider on enterprise plans.
SOC 2 Type II compliant
Smartcat is SOC 2 Type II compliant and isolates every workspace.
Never used to train public AI models
Your course content is never used to train public AI models.
Audit trails
See who changed what and when across translation and review on enterprise plans.
Encryption and deletion on request
Content is encrypted in transit and at rest, and deleted or returned within 30 days of a written request.
Guides from the Smartcat blog on SCORM files, SCORM translation and keeping translated courses current after an update.
Export the course as a SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 .zip, upload it to Smartcat, choose your languages and the media to translate, and have reviewers approve each language before you download the package for your LMS. For a step-by-step walkthrough, see the guide to SCORM translation with AI.
Smartcat suits L&D teams that translate exported SCORM packages into many languages and update them often, but the best SCORM translation software depends on where your courses come from and how often they change. Whichever tool you test, check that it works without the authoring files, keeps tracking and quiz logic intact, handles media and attachments, and re-translates only what changed.
Yes. Smartcat offers a free trial rather than a free plan: 15 days and 15,000 Smartwords, with no credit card required. That is enough to translate a short course into a few languages and test it in your LMS. Free machine translation tools work on text copied out of the course, so you would rebuild the package yourself afterwards.
Most course text needs little editing: 92% of words translated by Smartcat AI are accepted without a single human edit. Your glossary and translation memory keep product names and policy terms consistent, and reviewers check the rest in context, previewing each screen as learners will see it. Plan a full expert review for regulated or safety-critical training.
No. General-purpose translators and AI chat tools work on text you copy out of a course, not on the SCORM package. Smartcat translates the exported package itself. With a chat tool, you would paste the translation back into every screen, rebuild the quizzes and re-export the package for each language, and that manual rework is where errors creep in.
Smartcat translates SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 packages exported from Rise directly, without the original authoring files. For courses published from iSpring Suite, Adobe Captivate, Easygenerator, Absorb Create or CEGID, use SCORM Studio. If your authoring tool exports XLIFF, Smartcat translates that file and returns it for re-import. Check with us before scoping packages that hold several SCOs.
It depends on course length, the number of languages and how much review you add, so Smartcat doesn’t promise one turnaround for every course. Most of the elapsed time goes to review and approval, which you control. As a reference, Smith+Nephew turns courses around 4x faster than its previous 10‑day agency SLA, and Intradiem translated 20 courses into Canadian French in six weeks.
Smartcat charges by Smartwords, its single usage unit: translating one source word into one target language uses one Smartword, so a 5,000-word course in four languages uses about 20,000. Plans include a Smartwords allowance shared by unlimited users. After a source update you pay mainly for new or changed text, because 100%+ translation-memory matches use no Smartwords on current plans. See Smartcat pricing for plans.
Yes. Smartcat is SOC 2 Type II compliant, encrypts content in transit and at rest, and isolates every workspace, with role-based access, SSO and audit trails on enterprise plans. Course content, including unreleased product and compliance training, is never used to train public AI models, and it is deleted or returned within 30 days of a written request.
No. Smartcat is an independent platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise associated with Articulate Global, LLC. Articulate®, Rise® and Storyline® are trademarks of Articulate Global, LLC. All product names and trademarks on this page belong to their respective owners and are used only for identification.
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