Something I meant to complete when I last blogged about this free SharePoint add-on.

Microsoft provides Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5f4f9c7-1a6a-484b-99fd-c231442deaa4&displaylang=en

With Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office, educators and students can get started, stay organized, and successfully complete high-quality work using the templates and tutorials provided. Educators can also create effective instructional resources, complete administrative tasks, and implement new teaching strategies.

I found this under "Office Genuine Advantage Offers" but when you get to the download page it says that it is a free download for schools that license Microsoft Office. The EULA when you install the product is even more specific and makes it pretty clear that this is not for government or commercial use.

All is not lost; Learning Essentials includes a cut down version of a commercial product called Thesis from http://www.getthesis.com/thesis_professional.htm which is the key to creating SCORM compliant packages for the SharePoint Learning Kit. Thesis supports using a normal SharePoint document library to manage the Office artefacts making up your training module so any SharePoint users can maintain the content and only one person needs Thesis to create the SCORM file and upload it to the learning site.

Using Learning Essentials, it took me less than 5 minutes to take a PowerPoint slide and publish it into the learning kit hosted on WSSDemo.com.