Captivate 7 and the Aggregator Project

I would like to know if I can build an aggregator project consisting of 7 modules in Captivate 7. Each module has its’ own quiz. Each quiz is scored seperately and reports score to the LMS seperately.
I tried this in Captivate 4 and 5, but could not get the individual scores to report to the LMS, only a score for a single test would report. Because my users are nurses, they have very limited amount of time available to take these courses. Currently, I build indiviual courses and post them requiring the nurses to access each course and registar seperately. If there are 7 modules, they have to make sure they registar for all 7, take all 7, and get all 7 results posted to their transcripts for continuing education credits. If I can combine them into 1 aggregator project, but still be able to have 7 different quizzies that all report to the LMS apon completion, this would lower the amount of time that our nurses have to spend finding, registering for, and taking multiple courses in our current environment. We can do it in Lectora, but the cost of the software and yearly license fees is very costly. To be able to do this in Adobe Captivate would allow us to keep our costs down in software, licenses, and human capital. Any help is greatly appreciated.

You need to build this course as a multi-SCORM package. The Aggregator tool is not for building SCORM courses for an LMS. Use the Adobe Multi-SCORM Packaging tool instead.

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