How to embed a SCORM course in Wix.

The portfolio lives on Wix because Wix is what you already knew how to use. The course is a SCORM package you just published out of Storyline. So you open the Media Manager, drag the .zip in, and wait for the magic. There is no magic. Best case, Wix files it away as an attachment nobody can open. Worst case, you spend an afternoon convinced the export is broken when the export is fine.

Here is the part the “add SCORM to Wix” tutorials bury: Wix can’t run a SCORM course any more than it can run a video codec. What it can do — beautifully — is show a button or a frame that points at a course running somewhere else. That’s the whole job.

/01How Wix and the player split the work.

A SCORM package is a .zip that expects to talk to a JavaScript runtime — the thing that answers LMSInitialize() and stores completion, score, and resume state. Wix doesn’t ship that runtime. So the division of labor is clean and it never changes: the host extracts the package and serves the player; Wix owns the header, the footer, the responsive layout, and the link that launches it.

Publish from Storyline, Rise, or Captivate. Upload the package to a host that serves the player — on Training OS the module plays on your public portfolio at /portfolio/<handle>, and Pro adds an embed URL at /embed/<courseId> and private share links — and then, before you touch the Wix Editor, paste that URL into a fresh browser tab. If audio, completion, and resume work there, they’ll work behind a Wix button. If they don’t, fix it at the host; no amount of editor wrangling rescues a broken launch.

This split is also why updates stay painless. Re-publish in your authoring tool, re-upload to the host if the URL pattern is stable, and your Wix button keeps pointing at the same place. You almost never re-touch the page.

/02Two ways to put it on the page.

Once that URL is solid, Wix gives you exactly two good patterns. Ranked by how rarely they break across the Editor-versus-live gap:

<iframe
  src="https://www.trainingos.com/embed/your-course-id?creator=your-handle"
  width="100%"  height="760"
  allow="fullscreen"
  title="Onboarding module — interactive course"
></iframe>

/03The Wix mobile editor will lie to you.

Wix keeps a separate mobile layout, and it is where embeds quietly go to die. Three failure modes, in the order I actually hit them:

1. The mobile section collapsed your frame.

Wix stacks sections tightly on phones, and a fixed-height iframe inside a short strip gets clipped to a sliver — or to nothing. Bump the section height and padding in the mobile editor, or, far simpler, fall back to the new-window button for phone visitors.

2. The Embed HTML element ate your attributes.

Wix’s embed sandbox sometimes rewrites or drops iframe attributes on publish, so the frame that worked in the Editor renders empty live. Strip your markup down to the minimum iframe above, republish, and re-check — don’t debug against the preview.

3. You changed the domain or SSL and forgot to re-test.

Swapping a connected domain or SSL setting in Wix can quietly turn a working HTTPS embed into a mixed-content block. It’s rare, but it’s a thirty-second pass: after any domain change, reload the launch URL on the live site and confirm it still fires.

/04Before you hit publish.

Run this once, from a logged-out window on the live site — phone and desktop both:

• The button or iframe launches the module, not a download prompt or an empty strip.
• Audio plays, completion fires, and resume works if your package relies on them.
• On a phone, the frame isn’t clipped — bump the section height or fall back to the button.
• After any domain or SSL change in Wix, reload the launch URL and confirm no mixed-content block.

Wix is one of several builders that hand the runtime off to the host — the same split applies if you ever move the portfolio. If you’re weighing where to host the package in the first place, start with how to host a SCORM file so it plays in the browser, and if the client site happens to run WordPress instead, the moves are nearly identical in embedding SCORM in WordPress.

/05Frequently asked questions.