SCORM and multiple SCOs

I've worked so much more with AICC than SCORM, but a friend had an interesting question. He's creating courses in Adobe Connect and Captivate for a client and he wants to break the course into multiple SCOs.

It seems that all the main courseware vendors these days just create single unit courses and basic manifest files and AICC course descriptor files. I guess it's easier and it makes it easier on the LMS.

Anyways, we manually edited the manifest file. For each SCO, we added a new record and the associated records. There is a tool called Dreamweaver Manifest Maker that will also help create these manifest files.

Apparently SCORM 1.2 doesn't support linking from one SCO directly to another. Only the SCORM runtime can launch another SCO.

SCORM 2004 supports this - it's referred to as "sequencing". One SCO can issue a "navigation request" to the runtime environment.