Sparkium is a standardized schema for structuring eLearning materials, enabling materials to be managed consistently and migrated across LMS platforms through Sparklink.

How does Sparkium work?

Sparkium organizes eLearning materials in a structured file system using text-based, human-readable formats. This makes content easier to access, transfer, and reuse across systems, while reducing vendor lock-in and enabling better change management, quality assurance, and automation.

Who is Sparkium for?

Sparkium is made for anyone working with eLearning materials:

For individuals

Instructors Independent Educators Learning Administrators

Do you want to update your course materials without going through the hassle of editing inside LMS?

Sparkium allows you to edit your eLearning materials locally, and deploy them to your LMS when ready, making it easier to keep your courses up-to-date.

Have you ever been asked to share your course materials with others, but found it difficult to export or share them from your LMS?

Sparkium allows you to export your eLearning materials, modify them on your local device, and share them with others in a compatible format.

Do you need to manage and set up courses for your institution, but find it difficult to keep track of changes and updates?

Sparkium allows you to track, compare, and manage changes to your eLearning materials using version control tools like Git, making it easier to maintain and update your courses.

For organizations

Publishers Schools Universities Training Centers Corporate Trainings

Do you miss the days when schools bought textbooks directly from you?

Sparkium helps you bring that model into the digital era. Create eLearning materials once and deliver them to different LMS platforms like Moodle, making your product easily be sold and launched on customers’ LMS.

Did you ever had a broken link in your course materials or lost track of proposed changes?

Sparkium allows you to automatically check the quality of your eLearning materials, and helps you to receive and manage proposed changes from your colleagues, making it easier to maintain high-quality course materials.

Ever felt like you need to reinvent the wheel when creating courses and wish you could reuse and adapt existing modules?

Sparkium allows you to reuse and customize existing courses quickly to deliver tailored eLearning materials for different clients and use cases. So you can focus on creating unique and exciting tasks and activities for your students.

Do you want to create and maintain a large number of courses, but find it difficult to keep track of changes and updates?

Sparkium allows you to track, compare, and manage changes to your eLearning materials using version control tools like Git, making it easier to maintain and update your courses.

Do you wish to onboard new employees and train teams more efficiently?

Sparkium helps corporate trainers to create, adapt, and reuse eLearning materials, even across teams and roles, making internal training easier to scale.

Does this sound like you? Have a try and see how Sparkium can help you to create, manage and distribute your eLearning materials more efficiently!

Why use Sparkium?

Sparkium is designed to tackle your pain points of building eLearning materials.

Human-friendly text-based file formats

Use human-friendly text-based file formats to store your eLearning materials, making it easy to read, edit and maintain. You can use any text editor to work with your eLearning materials, and you can easily track changes and collaborate with others using version control tools like Git.

• Use Markdown to write your course content
• Use YAML or JSON to define your course structure and metadata

No need to learn complex XML or proprietary formats and waiting for Microsoft Word to load!

Support for multiple languages

Provide your eLearning materials in multiple languages and reach a wider audience.

• Supports as all languages and dialects
• Assist translation and localization by being able to use machine translation tools

No need to fiddle around with complex localization features in your LMS or create separate courses for each language!

Modular, portable and reusable design

Design your eLearning materials in a modular and reusable way, so you can easily reuse and adapt existing courses for different clients and use cases.

• Reuse parts of your materials across different courses
• Share and collaborate on course modules with others

No need to copy and paste content across different courses or create separate courses for each use case!

Change management and quality assurance

Track, compare, and manage changes to your eLearning materials using version control tools like Git, making it easier to maintain and update your courses.

• Track changes to your eLearning materials over time
• Collaborate with others to review and improve your materials iteratively

No need to worry about losing track of changes or having broken links in your course materials!

Platform agnostic and interoperable

By separating your eLearning materials from the LMS, Sparkium allows you to export, modify and re-upload your eLearning materials to different LMS platforms that support Sparkium, giving you more flexibility and control over your content.

Vendor and platform lock-in prevention

Having your eLearning materials stored in a structured file system and text-based formats allows you to avoid being locked into a specific LMS or platform, giving you more freedom and control over your content.

Assistance and automation possibilities

Due the nature of Sparkium’s file formats, you can easily use AI tools to assist you in creating and maintaining your eLearning materials, and automate parts of your content workflow.

Sparkium, what else?

We are not the first one with this ideas, but we believe that Sparkium’s approach is superior and more practical than the existing solutions.

Comparison of schemas

SCORM and xAPI are the most widely used standards for eLearning materials, but they are complex. Their focus is on packaging and data tracking, which can be limiting and inefficient for content creation and management. Sparkium, on the other hand, focuses on content creation and management, making it more intuitive and user-friendly for educators and content creators.

Comparison of eLearning material creation approaches

Most eLearning materials are created directly inside LMS platforms, which can be limiting and inefficient. Sometimes also just file-distribution platforms like Google Drive or Dropbox are used to share course materials.