SCORM troubleshooting

SCORM course not reporting a score?

Troubleshoot missing or incorrect SCORM scores by checking assessment settings, runtime score values, mastery rules, commits and LMS reporting.

Updated 26 August 2026By Lumeo Learning Ltd

A completed course does not necessarily have a score

First confirm that the course is designed to report a score. A completion-only course may legitimately send no assessment score. If a quiz exists, confirm it is marked as the tracked assessment and contributes to the published result.

Check assessment and publish settings

  • Is the correct quiz selected for tracking?
  • Is a passing score configured?
  • Are multiple quizzes combined or is only one reported?
  • Does the publish profile send a score to the LMS?

Republish after correcting the source configuration rather than editing generated JavaScript.

Inspect the score sent to the LMS

SCORM runtime communication includes score fields. Check debug logs to see whether the course sends a raw/scaled score and whether that value is committed. If the course sends the expected score but the LMS report is blank, the problem has moved from course logic to LMS interpretation or reporting.

Watch for scale and mastery mismatches

A course might think in percentages while an LMS expects a different representation for a particular SCORM field. SCORM 2004 also supports a scaled score. Test values near the pass threshold, not only 100%, so rounding or mastery-rule problems become visible.

Test attempts deliberately

Use a fresh learner attempt and record the answers, expected score, displayed score and LMS score. Then test a fail and a pass. Retake rules can preserve, replace or aggregate results depending on the LMS, so do not diagnose from an old attempt with unknown history.

Check commit and exit timing

If the score appears in the course but disappears after closing, verify that the final score is sent and committed before the window closes. Test the intended exit button as well as browser-close behaviour.

Use a two-environment test

Run the same package in a standards-focused SCORM test environment. If the score is correct there, inspect the target LMS settings and report mapping. If both environments miss the score, return to the course publish configuration.

Also verify status separately with our completion troubleshooting guide.

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