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Case Study
Clarion Events: Enabling Secure Content Distribution Beyond the LMS
Clarion is an eSkillz client and a Docebo customer that sells and distributes training content to external audiences. Historically, access to Clarion’s content required customers and partners to fully adopt and operate within Clarion’s Docebo LMS environment.
As Clarion began exploring new partnership and content distribution opportunities, this model became a constraint. In one specific scenario, a partner wanted access to Clarion’s content but did not want to use Docebo and already had their own LMS. This created a strategic and technical challenge that Clarion had not previously been able to solve.
At a glance
Challenge
Clarion needed a way to deliver its training content to partner organizations using their own LMS platforms without requiring full Docebo adoption or losing control over tracking, reporting, and content security.
Solution
eSkillz designed a custom headless learning solution using Docebo that enables Clarion to securely package and distribute content to external LMS platforms while maintaining centralized learner tracking, reporting, and content control.
Number of users
17,500+ and growing
In partnership with:
Docebo
Client challenge
Clarion’s existing delivery model required any organization consuming their content to also adopt Clarion’s LMS environment. This led to several challenges:
- Partners who only wanted Clarion’s content, not their LMS, could not be supported
- Clarion was forced to turn away potential content-only opportunities
- Delivering Clarion content into third-party LMS platforms would typically require an additional system or content distribution tool
- Managing multiple systems would increase cost, complexity, and administrative overhead
Clarion needed a way to securely deliver their training content into external LMS platforms while still maintaining learner tracking, user identification, completion data, and control over their proprietary content, without requiring full LMS adoption.
eSkillz Solution
eSkillz partnered closely with Clarion in a consultative role to evaluate multiple possible approaches. Together, the teams explored several options before identifying the most efficient and scalable path forward.
The final solution leveraged Docebo’s headless learning capabilities combined with a custom process designed and built by eSkillz specifically for Clarion. This approach extended Docebo’s native functionality beyond its standard out-of-the-box use case.
eSkillz designed and implemented a solution that allows Clarion administrators to:
- Package Docebo content into secure, shareable SCORM files
- Deliver those packages to external organizations using a different LMS
- Allow the external LMS to import and launch the content locally
- Track learner identity, participation, and completion seamlessly
- Synchronize completion and tracking data back to Docebo
From the learner’s perspective, the training experience takes place entirely inside their existing LMS. Behind the scenes, Docebo remains the system of record, ensuring Clarion’s content stays secure while maintaining centralized reporting. This approach removed the need for an additional content management or distribution system, which would traditionally be required for multi-LMS delivery.
Clarion was the first eSkillz client to implement this approach, and the solution was developed in direct response to a real partner opportunity.
Results
The solution unlocked new commercial and operational opportunities for Clarion, including:
- The ability to offer content-only access without requiring LMS adoption
- Access to partners and audiences that would previously have declined Clarion’s model
- A lower-friction path for distributing content into third-party LMS platforms
- Reduced system complexity by avoiding the need for an additional delivery platform
- Continued security and control of Clarion’s proprietary content within Docebo
From a broader business perspective, the solution opened a new revenue path by allowing Clarion to support multiple delivery models, including full LMS adoption or content-only partnerships. The approach went beyond standard Docebo functionality and introduced capabilities that had not previously been implemented in this way.
The solution has been successfully prototyped, is live in practice, and continues to evolve through ongoing refinement and roadmap enhancements.
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