How do you Combine separate LMS Tutorials into one Long

Question

I have created a 55 minute tutorial with audio. It is 6
captivate projects (~400 slides). I have created a stand alone
package so the user can view the entirety and jump to each chapter
using the menu in the skin. I have published the same taking out
the menu in the skin as separate LMS tutorials. Up to now everyone
has been happy to add each project as a chapter to their LMS
system. One of my clients wants the class to be one long tutorial
instead of the separate modules, much like the standalone version,
but does not want to install that on each users machine. How do you
do that? Given the limits of the software, I cannot just make it,
one Captivate project. I tried linking the project and having all
the files in one directory but that doesn't work. There must some
sort of way to change the html or xml needed to run in the LMS, but
I'm not sure where to begin.

Answer 1

Short of some very fancy Javascript hacking, you cannot make
separate projects appear as one long continuous project to an LMS.
Even with some Javascript modifications, the fundamental
reporting process is not designed to work that way so there's no
guarantee you'll ever get it to work.
The idea would be to link one project to the next using daisy
chaining while suppressing the API.LMSFinish("") command (or
whatever one tells the LMS that the user reached the end of the
content) until the end of the last project is reached. It gets much
more complicated if you're also wanting to track scores of
individual interactions in each file.
If you've got some Javascript skills, or just want to try,
you can edit the scorm_support.js file in:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate
3\Templates\Publish\SCORM_supportxxxx
where xxxx is the version of SCORM you're publishing to.
If you're using another form of reporting, then the various
other publishing templates can be found one level up in the Publish
folder.
The hard part will be figuring out which command Captivate is
sending to the LMS (via the communication functions in
scorm_support.js) that tells the LMS the user has completed the
content. You then need to add logic that only passes on that
command if it's coming from the last file.
Do be sure to make a backup before editing any of the default
files. By making changes in the Captivate install directory, you're
changing how all files get published. You want to be able to go
back to the default behavior once your special functionality is
either working correctly or you decide it can't be done.
Best of luck,
John