Welcome to Adapt Learning

Adapt is a free and easy to use e-learning authoring tool that creates fully responsive, multi-device, HTML5 e-learning content using the award-winning Adapt developer framework.    

Responsive e-learning

Adapt creates HTML5 e-learning courses, which work on any device

Responsive e-learning design takes its inspiration from responsive web design; an approach that ensures a single version of a website or an e-learning course can provide a viewing experience optimised for different devices, from desktop to tablet to smartphone.

Authoring tool

Create responsive e-learning courses without programming knowledge

The Adapt authoring tool allows you to quickly build content using the Adapt Framework. You can create an account, log in, create courses, add interactive elements then preview and publish your content.

Want to build your own e-learning course?

Adapt Framework

An extensible HTML5 e-learning framework for developers.

The Adapt Framework creates HTML5 e-learning courses. They may be delivered with a web server or a with SCORM compliant learning management system. The Adapt framework powers the Adapt authoring tool, an easy to use design tool for creating Adapt courses.

See the Adapt Framework in action

Community

Forums and resources for the Adapt community

Our community is at the heart of this open source project.

We’re inspired by being completely open and everything is discussed in the open from the start. This is where these discussions take place. Everyone is welcome and free to ask anything related to the Adapt project or responsive e-learning design, suggest developments and share experiences.

Technical forum

This forum is the central place for all discussions in the Adapt Learning Community in English. Everyone is welcome to ask related questions, make suggestions and leave comments.

Visit Technical Forum

Responsive e-learning forum

In this forum we are discussing best practice for creating responsive eLearning. This includes learning design, creating art directions with impact and sharing ideas, examples and tips and tricks. These discussions will inform the future roadmap of the Adapt project.

Visit Responsive Learning Forum

Adapt projects and jobs board

This forum is for people running Adapt projects to advertise Adapt related jobs & projects on which they are seeking (paid-for) help and for community members to advertise their Adapt-related services.

Visit Projects and Jobs Board

  • “We’ve explored many eLearning development platforms and none of them addressed our needs and vision quite like Adapt. We wanted a tool that was collaborative and extensible, and addressed the needs of today’s modern learner. Adapt provides us the ability to deliver on our promise: learning for anyone, anywhere, anytime, and in anyway.”

    Mark D’Aquin
    Learning Solutions Architect, SAP
  • “As an open source platform, Adapt gives us the possibility to expand functionality way into the future, as well as the flexibility we need to collaborate with colleagues from all over the world in creating highly-interactive, mobile-friendly, and accessible content.”

    Enzo Silva
    Learning Strategist, SAP
  • “Community is an essential part of how Adapt does open source. We share in return for what has been shared with us. We know little improvements lead to big changes. If you can’t find a place for your contributions, call me!”

    Chuck Lorenz
    Chair, Adapt Learning Steering Group
  • “Adapt has proven ideal for creating engaging cross-platform courses within our requirements. Support from the community is phenomenal and my own technical skillset has significantly expanded thanks to them.”

    Helen Maffin
    eLearning Developer, University of Cambridge
  • “Adapt is truly ground-breaking for elearning – responsive, open-source, flexible and constantly developing. It’s been great to collaborate with other industry leaders on such an innovative project.”

    Louise Pasterfield
    Managing Director, Sponge
  • “Our team is a group of experienced training instructors/developers that grabbed the opportunity to create a new approach for self-paced learning based on the Adapt-Authoring tool.”

    John Niezen
    Senior Training Instructor Home Appliances, LG Electronics
  • “Using Adapt, we’ve redeveloped our ready-made Compliance and Health and Safety courses (30+ hours) into modern, cross platform eLearning. We’ve gained a real competitive advantage and our clients love the new courses.”

    Darren Hockley
    Managing Director, DeltaNet International
  • “I have been testing elearning for accessibility for ten years plus, and I can honestly say that Adapt content works better with screen readers than any other elearning I have ever tested.”

    Sam Cook
    Head of Testing, Kineo
  • “Delivering to multiple devices is a must for anyone producing e-learning today. Considering the free, award winning and innovative Adapt toolset before proprietary alternatives should be a no-brainer for all.”

    Sven Laux
    Adapt Project Lead
  • “Adapt is changing the face of e-learning and users love this modern learning experience. The growth of Adapt hasn’t gone unnoticed by several big corporates and as momentum builds I expect Adapt to become even more recognised and adopted.”

    Paul McElvaney
    Chief Executive Officer, Learning Pool