How do I create a menu in a course that launches sections of the course in a new window??

It's possible to build what you want but not practical given that you want them to be able to select a lesson from the menu and also just go to the next lesson from within a lesson. You would need to structure the course with a custom manifest and custom JavaScript.

SCORM does have a way to do what you want, but not through Captivate. You can set objectives in the menu SCO's manifest and the lesson can set those objective to true when hey are complete. When all objectives are satisfied, the course will go complete.

Your best bet is just to package as multiple SCOs and then the LMS creates the menu, but you cannot navigate between SCO's the way you are describing as they would be treated as the same SCO, or they would not communicate with the LMS.

In a similar vein to David's reply....your wish-list has several issues, unfortunately.

1. Since you're using SCORM, I suspect you need to track a variety of things about the course. Even if it were possible to setup a course the way you outline...once a SCORM project is launched from the LMS, it is considered one single SCORM object. A SCORM object can only have a single overall score associated with it.

So if you did manage a setup as you describe, you would not be able to track quiz results for each section. You could only track the overall, combined score for ALL quiz objects in the piece.

There are sub-options (i.e. track interaction data and depends on LMS reporting) but they can get real complicated.

2. Whether what you describe is possible, in regards to "When the users selects the course from the list in the LMS, it will open in a page where it is embedded.  Only the menu/TOC would appear. The user would select the first menu item... This would open in a new (popup) window." depends on what your LMS allows. Will it open a SCORM piece 'embedded' on the same browser window?

3. In agreement with David's reply, is there a benefit to opening the TOC selection in a new window?

You could set this up all as one large CP project; custom navigation that chunks a set of slides into each topic, then use Captivate's TOC feature to move between the sections....but all within the one CP window.

And not only is that just easier, but launching another CP project from a SCORM-compliant CP-based TOC...if that doesn't break the SCORM communication between the piece and the LMS, at best you won't get any tracking data back from the secondary-launch (as that's outside the SCORM API's capabilities).

So what you want is possible, but designed to be one overall piece developed within a single CP project.

(you could look at Captivate's Multi-SCORM Packager, but for that to do what you want, the LMS has to support higher-level SCORM 2004 pieces. I've not seen an LMS that utilizes a multi-SCO package the way you'd like, though I suppose it's possible)

Although I don't know about your LMS which I guess is your issue that is an unusual behaviour.  I know that you can build the navigation that you talk about right in Captivate. You don't need to be popping up windows all over the place which would be very confusing and not an efficient UI . Your first slide in your project could be a TOC slide with links to different slides in your project with appropriate navigation back to the TOC slide.