Our Commitment to Standards

Desire2Learn is unwavering in our commitment to all applicable industry standards. We are proud to be the one of the first academic CMS/LMS to be SCORM certified.

We believe in open enterprise architectures to ensure we have the ability to integrate with other tools and systems, and to ensure our clients' content is stored in a format that is portable and readable by other technologies and systems.

Desire2Learn adheres to the following standards:

• First LMS vendor to be Common Cartridge v1.0 compliant
• SCORM 1.2
• SCORM 2004 Certification
• IMS: IMS-CP, IMS-Enterprise IMS-RDCEO, IMS-LIS, IMS-QTI, IMS-CC, and others)
• IEEE: IEEE-LOM, Learning Object Standards for Metadata Profiles
• Dublin Core
• CanCore
• GEM (metadata)
• OAI-PMH - Open Access Initiative protocol for metadata harvesting
• HTML, XML, SOAP, REST

Our Dedication to Accessibility

Desire2Learn is dedicated to making our products accessible to all. Desire2Learn's approach to accessibility is through both standards adherence and functional accessibility assessment. Our accessibility program is well-integrated within our engineering lifecycle - so you can rest assured that the system will evolve in an accessible manner.

Desire2Learn strives to adhere to the following:

• Section 508
• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2
• W3C Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) guidelines
• W3C Accessible Authoring Tool Guidelines (ATAG) version 2

>> For more information on how we build Accessibility into our technology visit our Accessibility page