course is 60 pages how to organize

Thanks for the info I found out that we are using an LMS called SumTotal. Does that mean I need to build the course differently? Does having an LMS make things easier or harder? Does the LMS have a menu system we can tap into?

This course doesn't have any quizes or anything like that its just a straight forward course. Allot of what you all talked about was over my head with LMS and SCORM I'm very new to this never built a course in Captivate before and being tasked with pretty large course off the bat. I messed around in captivate for a while and build some test runs its seems pretty simple like powerpoint, and I've taken all the tutorials Adobe give you. Whats LMS and SCORM and what would they be used for?

As Lilybiri‌ details above, there are lots of design considerations.

The best approach I've found is to consider the assessment & evaluation strategy: if you have quiz questions for each of the 6 sections, and want to combine them for a cumulative exam, you'll need 6 question pools.

Option 1, managing the questions in Cp:

Captivate allows multiple pools in a single file, but it won't allow multiple quizzes or exams. Just one per Cp file, this is a limitation of SCORM that often is blamed on Captivate. Based on needing 6 pools, and one cumulative exam, you'd need 7 Cp files.

Now, I'd point out that I mentioned assessment and evaluation, so if you want a scored pre-test, you'll want another set of 6, boosting the total to 13.

Finally, and you'll want to build it last, you may want a single menu file to manage jumping into the other files, and track and report completion, that would be file #14.

Option 2:

Plan to manage questions, quizzes and exams in an LMS. This avoids much of the complexity described above.

With the diverse team you describe, I'd still recommend a 6 Cp file approach, as you can divide the work effort into lessons. You'll need to plan as a team how to manage file versioning, current and pending assignments and status reporting.

In Either case:

AND, most critical, make some procedures for check out, update, and check in of files mandatory! The Cp files do not survive well when being edited over a network. Corruption is a likely result, and may appear without warning.

So every author must enable backups, and download working files to a local drive! They should edit on the local drive, close the file from Cp, and upload to a network share as separate processes.

All depends on the real size of that course and the bandwidth being used by the trainees later on. The number of slides is not telling a lot about filesize: slide duration, audio, video, graphical assets, resolution play a much more important role.

The functionality to limit navigation by TOC to visited slide only is available if you have everything in one file. You can have several levels in the TOC to indicate the sections (you can group the slides in the Filmstrip as well). It is pretty easy to build a menu slide to let the user navigate to sections, and with indicators of already visited sections as well. If you use multiple files you need the Aggregator, or in case of a LMS, use the LMS functionality, or use SCORM packager.

Each slide (I think that is what you mean by 'page') has no sense at all.

Do not use a playbar if you want to prevent users of jumping ahead, at least if you keep the progress bar. Custom navigation buttons (and buttons for other functionality) are a much better choice.