What is the size limit of a project (number of slides)?

RodWard‌'s advice is critical:

Captivate CAN create huge courses with hundreds of slides.

I tried it once, it wasn't good.

I'd like to ask, aside from a large scope, what are the design parameters?

Audience: Location? Experience?

Content: Linear, Minor branching, extremely complex?

Quizzing & Assessment: Knowledge checks throughout, Lesson quizzes, final exam, all of the above?

Delivery Platform: LMS or web hosted?

Network setup: Intranet, Extranet, Public Internet?

User access: Desktop, web, mobile, generous mix?

justint14083881 wrote: If I want to create a massive course (300 plus slides), would Captivate be able to do that?

It can do that, but you probably wouldn't build it that way, not twice anyway.

This leads me to ask:

What is your experience level with other versions of Captivate?

Other courseware authoring tools?

LMS & web hosting?

I'm sure hoping the 300+ slide project isn't going to be your first experience with Captivate.

(Forgive me on this, but your profile is not very complete, you've provided little background and not linked to LinkedIn or other portfolio pages.)

First off, the LMS standard for SCORM only allows one quiz per file. If you publish a 300+ slide course, you would be limited to a single quiz over the whole course.

Second, as RodWard‌ pointed out, if you want to enable mobile device access, your project size would be unmanageable for delivery to mobile OSs. You'd need to break it apart after the fact, which is challenging, frustrating, and rework.

Third, if there is any desire to reuse the content, as reusable objects, the single course approach means your audience can take the whole course or not take it. You could copy slide by slide to another project, but then you'd have multiple variations to manage. If a single slide changes in this approach, and you've reused the slides ten time, you'd need to make ten changes to keep one slide current.

Captivate can create links to other projects, web pages, or content back in your LMS. Breaking '300 plus slides' up into smaller bites is much of what we do.

My advice is to learn about Captivate, well before starting this level of effort, by taking some training, getting some experience on smaller projects, publishing to your companies LMS, gathering feedback on the finished courses.

Additionally, you should spend time reading these forums, researching issues for interactions you'll want to use, LMS issues you'll need to tackle, and ensuring that the tracking and reporting systems are in place to support your organizations needs.

Then you'll be prepared to begin designing for your platform, with a good understanding of the capabilities of Captivate as a tool, your LMS and your network.