From video to e-learning: full tracking in AlonLearn

Video is the easiest training content to create, and the hardest to follow up. A recording from a seminar or a webinar can hold exactly the knowledge your employees need. But as long as it is just a video, nobody knows who watched it, how far they got, or whether they understood any of it.

That is why we offer a service that turns video into e-learning you can track in full inside AlonLearn. The speech is transcribed with NB-Whisper, the Norwegian speech recognition model from the National Library of Norway. AI then cuts and adapts the content to your audience, and the result is delivered as a SCORM package that goes straight into AlonSCORM. There, every learner is tracked on the four data points that matter: completion, success, score and time.

This article is written for course administrators. We briefly cover how the course is produced, and then look in more detail at what happens once it is published.

Production in brief: from recording to SCORM

Production is a service we deliver. You send us the recording, and we do the rest in close dialogue with your subject matter expert.

1. We agree on the framework

Before we start, we ask the questions that shape the course: Who is the audience? How long should each lesson be? Which language, and should the course have subtitles in several languages? What should learners be able to do afterwards, how many questions should the knowledge check have, and what is the pass mark?

2. Norwegian speech becomes text with NB-Whisper

NB-Whisper was developed by the AI lab at the National Library of Norway and trained on Norwegian speech. It handles dialects, technical terms and spoken Norwegian far better than general-purpose models. Every sentence in the transcript gets a timestamp, and we check it against a second model to catch passages that could otherwise drop out. Transcription runs on our own hardware.

3. AI cuts and adapts

With the transcript as a map, AI can read the whole recording and suggest what is content and what is noise: pauses, restarts, repetition and digressions. It splits the rest into short lessons, suggests chapters and writes questions based on what is actually said. Each question is linked to the point in the video where the answer is given.

4. The expert approves, we produce

The script, cuts and questions are approved by your subject matter expert before production. We then cut the video, zoom in on screen recordings where a system is shown, add subtitles and build the knowledge check into a SCORM package.

When the package lands in AlonSCORM

AlonSCORM is the player and e-learning library in AlonLearn. The package from production goes into your organisation's library, and from there you can link it to one or more courses.

One package, many courses. The same e-learning can be used in an open course, an internal onboarding programme and a course for a specific department. Results are recorded on each course.

Versions without losing history. If the expert changes something, we upload a new version. Earlier attempts stay linked to the version the learner actually took.

Completion rules on the course. You decide what counts as complete: finished, passed, or passed with a minimum active time.

Content stored in the EU. The e-learning is played from AlonLearn's own infrastructure.

The big four: four data points that document competence

In e-learning, the four most important tracking points in SCORM are often called "the big four". Together they answer the question every manager, auditor or regulator asks: Has this person completed the training, and did they understand it?

1. Completion

Completion tells you whether the learner has gone through the whole course or only started it. In SCORM 2004 this is a separate field (completion_status). In SCORM 1.2 it is part of the lesson status (lesson_status). The courses we produce only report completion once every lesson has been completed.

2. Success

Success tells you whether the course was passed or failed (success_status in SCORM 2004). This is not the same as completion: a learner can watch everything and still fail the knowledge check. For documentation, that distinction is exactly what matters. Our courses report both passed and failed, so you can see who needs to retake the test.

3. Score

The score shows the share of questions the learner answered correctly (score). It is measured against the pass mark you chose at the start. Because the questions are linked to specific points in the video, the expert can see which topics learners struggle with, and whether a lesson needs a better explanation.

4. Time

Time shows how long the learner has spent in the course across all sessions (total_time). In AlonSCORM, active time is also measured by the platform itself, so the figure is not only what the course reports about itself.

Tracking you can trust

The big four are only worth something if the numbers are right. That is why AlonSCORM has built-in controls that make it hard to click through a video:

Seek guard: learners cannot skip past content they have not watched.

Speed limit: the video cannot be played so fast that completing it becomes meaningless.

Measured active time: the platform measures time itself and can require a minimum active time before the course counts as complete.

Attempt history with readable answers: for each attempt you can see the question text, the answer options and what the learner answered. This is essential when competence has to be documented after the fact, for example after an incident.

Resume where you left off: learners can take a break and continue later without losing their progress.

What the course administrator sees

For you as a course administrator, the e-learning becomes a normal part of AlonLearn:

• status for every learner on the course, with completion, success, score and time

• attempt history per learner, with the option to reset an attempt

• export of results to Excel

• learner status updated automatically on completion, which can trigger a course certificate

• the same registration, payment, reminders and reports as for every other course in AlonLearn

In other words, you do not need a separate system for e-learning. Video, knowledge checks and documentation live where your learners, courses and the rest of your training already are.

Examples of use

System training: screen recordings of a new ERP or business system become short lessons, zoomed in on what is shown, with a test that documents that users understand the workflow.

Webinars and seminars: a one-hour recording becomes a course that takes a fraction of the time, without pauses and technical interruptions.

Continuing professional development: talks by experts become documented learning activities with recorded time and results.

Onboarding: introduction videos become an onboarding programme where managers can see who has completed it.

Frequently asked questions

What does "the big four" mean in e-learning?

They are the four most important tracking points in SCORM: completion, success (passed or failed), score and time. Together they document whether a learner has completed and understood a course.

Which SCORM version are the courses delivered in?

We deliver SCORM packages that report all four data points. The version is adapted to the platform the course will be used in. In AlonLearn, the package plays in AlonSCORM.

Why NB-Whisper rather than a standard transcription service?

NB-Whisper is trained on Norwegian speech by the National Library of Norway and is more accurate on dialects, technical terms and Norwegian names. An accurate transcript gives better cuts, better subtitles and better questions.

Can we change the course after it has been published?

Yes. Changes are uploaded as a new version in the e-learning library. The history of earlier attempts is kept.

Can we use our own video?

Yes. The service is built for the recordings you already have, whether they are webinars, screen recordings, talks or interviews.

Turn your videos into courses

Do you have recordings that should be training with documented completion? Get in touch, and we will show you how one of your recordings can become a course in AlonLearn, with full tracking from day one.