Can I get Captivate to do somthing similar to a project I created in Director?

I am new to Captivae. I have been given the task of learning this software and doing this project. Most of my experience is in older software (Director 7).
Here is some background information on my project.
I am teaching a 9 subject class. I have each subject as a seperate Captivate project. Each one of thoes seems to be working great. They will be exported to a LMS (Moodle). Any thing I should look out for sending them to Moodle?
To Finish off this class I wanted to set up a 80 question practice test (just like the state test they will be taking). So I Figured I could import the questions from the 9 subjects to one project so they would have a random 80 question test just like the state test. The question bank for this project is 584 questions. I have a title slide and 80 random question slides and a result slide. The size of the slides is 800x600 no audio. Cp4 seems to not like this, it wont export. I did read a post on the size of CP4 projects. Is there anything I can do to make it work? This is a key part of the class,I really need to get it working. Any help would be great thanks.
Thanks
Ryan Marshall
3-SC Company

Hi Ryan
Interesting. Thanks for sharing that as I'm sure it will help others. By chance do you know what the number of questions is that the pools restrict you to?
I heard the Captivate team say we could have hundreds of slides in Cap 5. But nothing was ever mentioned WRT Question Pools and Question Count.
Cheers... Rick
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