Captivate & SABA

The company that I’m doing some work for wants to use SABA as the delivery LMS for the E-Learning packages I’m about to embark on creating.
If anyone has any experience with SABA & captivate could you let me know if there are any problems with SCORM or AICC compliance?
Tip and tricks to creating packages that covert well would be great – do I separate quiz elements into another package for example?
The conversion to SABA will probably happen in 12 months, with delivery through Moodle in the interim – again, any experience or thoughts that can offered on this are gratefully received.
Thanks
Gav

I have found that publishing content to SABA is interesting to say the least. From my (limited) experience with SABA here are a couple of pointers:
- Make sure that you know exactly which revision of SABA they are running and which pathes / updates they have. I was assured that my clients system could run all SCORM 2004 content so the E-learning module was built with sequencing and took advantage of that. Of course it didn't work at all when uploaded in their SABA LMS because although it was SCORM 2004 compatible it only supported SCORM 2004 1st and 2nd edition - Not SCORM 2004 3rd edition (which allows sequencing and was released in 2006). My client asked the SABA guys about updating to SCORM 2004 3rd edition but apparantly the price was pretty steep so instead they requested to have the E-learning course redesigned and reprogrammed.
- Be 105% sure that your content is following the SCORM standard 110%. Use the ADL SCORM test suite or similar to test your SCORM package. In case it doesn't work when you upload it to SABA then atleast you know that your work is following standards.
We tried to upload a test course produced and published to a SCORM package from Captivate, but it didn't work. We never really figured out why. This was with Captivate 3 so perhaps Captivate 4 is doing better. Also I seem to recall some issues about SABA having difficulties accepting some of the SCORM packages (custom built) but it was some setting in regards to unzipping that needed to be changed in SABA.
I never had some many problems with a course before as the one we had to upload to SABA. Perhaps it's just me or perhaps we were just unlucky. This was also a little over a year and a half ago so perhaps things are different now.
/Michael
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