The purpose of the Learning Technology Lab is to provide the ADL Community with access to products that are used in the creation and/or management of SCORM-compliant e-learning. ADL recognizes that it is important to provide a way to demonstrate portable and interoperable content across different systems.

You are encouraged to upload and test your own content into any of the compatible Learning Technology Lab systems. When you upload content into these web-based systems, please keep the following in mind:

• Your content is not permanent on these systems.  The availability of these systems is for demonstration. The implementation of these systems is not optimized for personal or enterprise learning management. The ADL Learning Technology Lab team will work to maintain your LMS access, but cannot guarantee that your content and your progress information will be maintained, even from one day to the next.
• Use the tools wisely. Refrain from uploading content that you would not want everyone else in the world to have access to. Follow the directions listed in each product’s information page to register, login, upload and view content within each tool. These systems can, without notice or frequency, be made unavailable for any number of reasons.  See the list of systems.
• Be a good community citizen. Your account username and password, which grant you access to these systems, are for your use alone. These products are made available through the generosity of the vendors that created them. Please respect their Intellectual Property, as well as the ADL resources that implement and maintain these systems.

As a U.S. Government entity, ADL is required to avoid any semblance of partiality. In the process of facilitating and supporting your use of the systems in the Learning Technology Lab, we will not make recommendations of products. Product citations or descriptions in lab documentation do not constitute an endorsement by ADL. All vendors and products are listed in a way that avoids implicit judgment, ranking, evaluation, etc. ADL will not demonstrate a platform which is unstable, to avoid negatively influencing impressions of it. ADL may make comparisons between different systems, but solely for the purpose of differentiating features and characteristics, not rating quality. ADL will not describe or discuss any system in such a way as to use it as an example of what not to do in application design, system architecture, technical implementation, etc.

ADL allows use of the systems subject to the following restrictions and conditions:

• The systems will be used for information, testing, and demonstration purposes only.
• Software will not be removed from the lab without express written permission of ADL.
• Permission for lab visitors to use the systems can be revoked at any time by ADL.
• It is ADL policy to neither endorse nor deprecate any content or vendor.

ADL makes all attempts to request that contributors provide maintenance updates to ensure compatibility with content and standards, and to best showcase the system’s modern, unique features. However, ADL does not guarantee that the systems are current.

To use the Lab, visitors must request an appointment to visit (it is preferred that they do this at least three days in advance). The request must list the systems to which the visitor desires access (chosen from the list of available systems). The Lab Administrator will initiate an approval process and set up logon accounts on the desired systems before the visitor arrives. Currently a separate logon is required for each system. In the future, a single signon and portal page to the Lab systems may be available.