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.
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