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It is a standard that works for classical "here you got some text to read" and "here is a quiz" kind of online courses. If you want anything more like say interactive programming exercises, forget SCORM.

> Is it one of those checkboxes that would be required or heavily weighted while doing an evaluation/bidding process?

It might be, yes. But only heavily weighted by those entities, who peddle such very basic learning material and don't have interactive components, except for maybe some very basic quiz. When you develop a new LMS and try to make a business out of it, you will probably sooner or later get in contact with such entities, who would like to push their content into your newly developed platform and have some SCORM artifact. So they ask you whether your platform is SCORM compatible.

But anyway, mostly it will not be worth it, if you want modern courses with nice interactive features. SCORM will only slow you down.