eLearning development services take a learning design — storyboards, scripts, media plans — and build it into a finished, tested, accessible course running in your LMS. Artha Learning develops custom eLearning in Articulate Storyline and Rise, in custom HTML5 when the experience demands more than authoring tools allow, and natively inside LMS platforms like D2L Brightspace, Canvas, and Moodle when that serves the project better. We are an award-winning learning design firm in Toronto, founded in 2017, and every course we ship is engineered to WCAG 2.1 AA and AODA accessibility standards.
Design and development are different crafts. If you are still deciding what the learning should be, start with our instructional design services. This page is about the build: tools, media, quality assurance, and publishing.
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Expert builds in Articulate Storyline 360 and Rise 360, plus fully custom HTML5 development for interactions, simulations, and AI-driven experiences that authoring tools cannot produce.
Illustration, animation, video editing, audio narration, and graphic design in your brand — produced in-house, so visual quality does not depend on stock-asset luck.
Keyboard navigation, screen-reader behaviour, captions, contrast, and focus order built during development and tested before release — not retrofitted after an audit.
Functional testing across browsers and devices, editorial QA, accessibility QA, and LMS testing against a documented test plan.
SCORM 1.2/2004 and xAPI packaging, upload and configuration in your LMS, completion and reporting verification, and launch support.
Storyline 360 for interaction-rich courses; Rise 360 for clean, responsive content-forward learning; custom HTML5/JavaScript when the experience is the product — branching simulations, gamified paths, and AI-enabled builds such as roleplay practice and intelligent coaching. We recommend the lightest tool that fully serves the design, because lighter tools are cheaper to build in and cheaper to maintain.
A typical course moves through alpha (complete build, first full review), beta (all alpha feedback applied, QA complete), and gold (final, LMS-verified). Two structured review rounds are included and usually enough, because reviews happen against storyboards and prototypes earlier in the process — surprises at alpha are a design-phase failure we work hard to avoid. Typical development timelines run 4–10 weeks after storyboard approval, depending on media volume and interactivity; a full project including design typically runs 8–16 weeks.
When we quote a finished hour of learning, the price includes development, media, project management, two review rounds, accessibility engineering, full QA, SCORM/xAPI packaging, and LMS testing. If you are comparing vendors, ask each one this question — the cheapest quote is often the one that made QA and accessibility optional extras. Honest market ranges are in our custom eLearning cost guide.
Yes — and for many projects we recommend it. Not every course needs to be a SCORM package dropped into a player window; sometimes the best build is native content created with your LMS’s own authoring tools:
Course content built with Brightspace’s native HTML templates and Creator+ tools — interactive elements, accessible layouts, and media that look and behave like part of the platform, with progress and analytics flowing straight into Brightspace’s own tracking.
Pages, Modules, and New Quizzes built natively, including designs using Cidi Labs DesignPLUS where your institution licenses it — so courses match your Canvas theme and your instructional designers can maintain them after handover.
Native Book, Lesson, and quiz activities, plus H5P interactives embedded directly in the course — open-standard content your team can edit without special tooling.
Most modern LMSs have native authoring worth using well; if yours does, we will tell you honestly whether native, SCORM, or a mix serves the project best.
Building in the LMS has real advantages, especially for higher education and organizations with in-house teams: content is easier for your staff to update (no republish-and-reupload cycle), it inherits the platform’s responsive behaviour and navigation, learners stay in one coherent environment, and reporting uses the LMS’s native analytics rather than a SCORM completion flag. The trade-off is portability — native content is married to the platform — which is why the decision belongs in the design phase, not after the build. We regularly deliver hybrid structures: native LMS content for the readable, maintainable layers, with Storyline or custom HTML5 embedded only where the interaction demands it.
At Artha, QA happens at every stage of a build, not just at the end. Every course moves through the same defined QA process, and a senior owner signs off before anything reaches you.
You’re part of it, too. You review and approve at each stage: prototype, alpha, beta, and gold, so there are no surprises at the finish line, and you stay in control the whole way through.
By the time a course is ready to hand off, it’s been checked for accuracy against the storyboard, tested for functionality and cross-browser stability, verified for accessibility against WCAG 2.1 and packaged and tested to your LMS standard.
If the course is translated, there’s a dedicated translation and localization gate as well; reviewed by someone proficient in the language, making sure the user experience stays the same as in the original no matter the language
All mainstream platforms — Moodle, D2L Brightspace, Cornerstone, Docebo, SAP Litmos, TalentLMS, Absorb, Workday Learning, and others — via SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, or xAPI. If your platform is unusual, we test in a sandbox before committing to a package format rather than discovering surprises at launch. No LMS? We can advise on lightweight options, or deliver courses on the open web with xAPI tracking.
Courses live in changing environments: policies update, systems get new interfaces, browsers deprecate features. We hand over clean source files and documentation with every project, so you can maintain courses yourself — and most clients also keep a lightweight maintenance arrangement with us for annual refreshes. Either way you are never locked in; that is a deliberate design decision, not an oversight.
Yes. Through our AIReady toolkit and custom AI development, we add conversational roleplay, AI coaching, and adaptive practice to custom courses — the learner doesn’t just read about the skill, they rehearse it against a realistic counterpart. Explore AIReady or our AI training programs for the standalone versions.
The production side of custom learning: building courses from approved designs, producing media, engineering accessibility, testing quality, and publishing to an LMS.
Development alone: typically 4–10 weeks after storyboards are approved. End to end including design: typically 8–16 weeks.
Yes — Storyline 360 and Rise 360 are our primary authoring tools, alongside custom HTML5 development for experiences beyond their reach. You receive source files; you are never locked in.
Yes. We build native course content in D2L Brightspace, Canvas (including Cidi Labs DesignPLUS builds), and Moodle — often the right choice for higher education and for teams who want to maintain content themselves after handover. We will recommend native, SCORM, or a hybrid based on your project, not our habits.
Yes. WCAG 2.1 AA conformance is our default build standard, which satisfies AODA obligations for Ontario organizations. Accessibility is engineered during development and verified in QA.
Usually, yes — if source files exist. Course rescues, updates, and accessibility retrofits are common engagements for us.
The fastest way to evaluate a development team is to look at its work. Browse our portfolio — 14 case studies — or book a call to walk through examples close to your project. For the full picture of how design and development fit together, see custom learning design and development.
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