Greetings,
I am building SCORM based lessons for a saba LMS. I am struggling with the process of making individually loaded/unloaded lessons that act as divisions of a course.
The ideal functionality is to have a course that runs 60-90 minutes, made up of roughly 20 minute chapters, and 2-5 minute individual lessons. Ideally, I would like to load and unload the lesson files with a brief loading screen. Loading chapters would be less ideal, but still an improvement over captivate's entire course as 1 project. From what I've seen with larger e-learning production companies, there is often a nested table of contents that allows learners to jump to previous lessons for review. Jumping ahead is prevented and navigation is disabled entirely during quizzes.
Multi-SCO Packager won't work for the situation because it doesn't have a proper table of contents within the lesson and disjoints the course into SCO modules. Aggregator and the captivate skin interface work well, but I've read this is not viable for LMS packaging. Although I haven't tested with version 7 yet, the manual does reference this process. http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/captivate_reference.pdf page 262 Publish #4. While this may divide up the files, I'm not sure how streaming is handled for the final aggregator file. Has anyone tested this out with success?
All things considered, I am looking for some advice on which paths I can pursue to acquire the TOC and individual lesson file streaming and unloading. My team works with Captivate 7 to generate e-learning course. It looks like Captivate alone may not work well for longer courses. Do I need a custom course shell or API built? Can this be done once and repurposed for other courses?
Any insight on the matter is much appreciated.