Articulate 360

Pros

Even non-developers can unleash their creativity to create e-learning content.
The interface is similar to MS PowerPoint, making it easy and quick for anyone to learn.
By using the software, users can develop logical thinking through the trigger wizard.

Cons

It is not compatible with MacBooks; a virtual machine is required to use it on a Mac.
The speed of the created content is not very fast and feels somewhat heavy.
As a Korean, I find that support for the Korean language is lacking in areas such as text input, font compatibility, and TTS provision.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Articulate 360

Pros

The incorporation of Rise, a rapid and simple content creation tool has enabled me to create almost instant courses with little effort, which frees me up to do more sophisticated interactions in Storyline and incorporate them into the training courses.

Cons

Rise does not have image descriptors, making it impossible to match images in courses without guessing the search term and hunting through pages of images. It can also be extremely slow to e.g. save block templates or move between courses.

Pros

Articulate is easy to use and solced our simple lms problems.

Cons

Bugs and crashing when using it. Very slow in large courses.

Pros

I like that Articulate 360 provides access to both Articulate Storyline and Rise, which enables me to develop eLearning content to suit a wide range of budgets.

Cons

It is difficult to think of any serious negatives that have cropped up during my use of Articulate 360. If I was to ask for one improvement I think I'd ask for reverse transitions to be added as a feature, so that when one of my learners clicks back on a screen, the animation reflects that they are moving backwards through the course.

Pros

Love all of its application under 360. Storyline is still my favorite to use.

Cons

Which for a simpler way to sync the usage of all applications under 360.

Pros

It makes it really easy to create your own e-learning modules. The premade interactive elements like quizzes, card sorts etc make it really easy to turn your content into interactive training

Cons

The pre-made course templates are hard to find and hard to navigate to see what is available. If you want to build of an existing course it is quite hard to find some that you need as there isnt an easy search function and the categories are hard to follow

Pros

Articulate is easy to learn and has excellent learning tools.

Cons

I would of liked a more comprehensive overview of the differences between Rise, Story, etc.

Pros

Multiple different ways to pose questions, create learning tools, and run tests.

Cons

Can be a slight learning curve at the beginning when using the desktop app

Pros

Easy to build and create content
Good stock image library to choose from
Shareable preview links to external people

Cons

Search function could be improved to search for a word within the content in a course. At the moment the search function just searches the titles of courses

Pros

How creative you can get. It is like PowerPoint presentation x100.

Cons

Nothing. It was very easy to understand.

Pros

Articulate 360 suite has all of the tools I need to create the best e-learning possible and then some. It's intuitive to figure things out and takes very little time for a new user to learn.

One feature I recently discovered and now LOVE, is the translation function. One simple button allows me to print out a word document to send out for translation. Once the translator updates the word document, I just upload it back into the training and within minutes, the entire course content is translated; all on-screen text, notes text, buttons, everything. It places the text right where it needs to be with all the same font settings. Even better is the text to speech functionality allows you to insert audio in many languages and dialects with closed captioning. Great for companies that need training in multiple languages.

Cons

I really cannot think of anything that I dislike about this software.

Alternatives Considered

Switched From

Reasons for Switching to Articulate 360

Pros

Articulate Storyline is the one we use and like the most. It's easy to start producing e-learning content thanks to the familiarity the interface has in regards to PowerPoint. One can easily find and edit anything they might need.

Cons

There are some things that need to be researched to get done on software and that they get discussed on Articulate's forum. I wish they added new features often, with more updates. For example, there's no specific "timer" option on evaluations. This could easily be added, but it has to be programmed. That's the way I've gotten around to having that done, at least.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Articulate 360

Pros

It's very easy to use, almost intuitive. Basically, if you understand how to use powerpoint, you'll be very comfortable with this software. It has a lot of built-in functionality, as compared to Captivate. You can publish nice courses with little effort. Put some effort to learn it's advanced features, and you can craft stunning courses. I've used this since version 1, and Studio before that. It gets better and better.
They have a great, useful user forum, and attentive support.

Cons

I've had a couple instances where upgrades broke our lessons, the most recent being with Update 6. It was crashing the lessons if there was a quiz or survey. It was a SCORM issue. Our LMS toes the line, hard, on SCORM and the incompatibility caused me misery. I had to revert. Previous to that, upgrading courses from version 2 to version 3 caused the LMS to stop tracking and send warnings. The solution ended up being not to upgrade, but import the content in a new course. Not totally Articulate's fault, but rather a compatibility issue.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Articulate 360

Pros

Ease of use, very complete, good support, vast library, continuous updates, several Scorm formats, simple and organized programming interface, 360 image.

Cons

Breaks when use many triggers (especially on Objects interseptions), still not well prepared for gamification, some bugs (minor things, all softwares have), not content responsive (although it's window responsive), few effects.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Articulate 360

Pros

I use the standalone Storyline 3 having upgraded from version 2 - whilst this would come as part of 360 it proves more cost-effective to buy the product once rather than a never-ending monthly subscription just to get access to features that we can create ourselves.

Cons

That there is no spell checker within the subtitle option to videos and audio. Have to cut and paste into another product to check sometimes.

Pros

We use these for self-paced learning as well as guiding classes in-person. The courses allow you to track completion as well.

Cons

It can be a bit of a recipe in the sense that they start to look the same. Options are somewhat limited in terms of what you can actually do.

Pros

Ease of deployment. Templated lessons. Quiz customization.

Cons

Tracking user engagement is lacking. A/B testing built in would be beneficial.

Pros

The user friendly interface is great for getting up and running quickly. There is a wide range of templates available to sense check against and get ideas from.The regular e-shot learning tips are super helpful and give us lots of ideas

Cons

Sometimes the restriction on the size of media files has been something we needed to navigate as we oftent have longer video content which exceeds the allowed file size.

Pros

Ready Made templatesCloud based Integration Scrom compilant Easy to Storyline

Cons

Pricing is highGroup based user pricing should be introduced.

Pros

I used the trial version of Rise and loved it. It is so easy to create a publish an eLearning through Rise. It also has a huge library of stock images. I would highly recommend Rise 360.

Cons

It is restricted. I wish I could customize the blocks more. But I still like it!

Pros

Layers is one of the most powerful features of Storyline. An entire slide of content can be placed on another layer and manipulated with triggers. The ability to give objects multiple states helps in creating engaging content. The option to add a variety of sliders without programming is a nice bonus. Adding animation effects should come naturally to anyone with PowerPoint experience.

Cons

The interface that displays slides as tiles gets very confusing on a large project. The built-in player gets in the way and must be removed for custom projects. Creating master slides like in PowerPoint makes it difficult to inherit objects throughout the course. There is no access to individual files in a published course, so if one image changes you have to edit the course.

Pros

The platform is easy to use and it’s a great overall authoring solution.

Cons

It seem to have minor bugs and crashes frequently.

Pros

Allows to create e-Learning games and enrich training material with multiple HTML5 interactive features. Its Rise 360 feature for creating online courses meet the Agile work demand of our organization and its web-based interface is responsive and allows to create courses with simple drag & drops. On top of all of that, it offers plenty of templates.

Cons

It's lacking LMS functionalities, the scoring and reporting have limitations, the characters animation is a little bit static/lack movements, and no voice-overs options. Some JavaScript coding does not works well.

Pros

- Articulate's community is just a click and email away...support when you need it. The amount of free templates, storyboards, ideas, and graphics is absolutely amazing. We all share information, issues, and resolutions together, making for a true "community" of e-Learning professionals.
- Articulate's Storyline 360 tool enables you to import a PowerPoint and add engagement through built-in interactions, or you can start from scratch and build the same look and feel.
- Easy enough for beginners, robust enough for programmers.

Cons

This is harder to define because Articulate is amazing at taking feedback and requests from its community and adding it to the roadmap for the product. We are awed by the sheer number of enhancements provided in their updates to the product.

Pros

This is a great instructional design product that allows for seamless communication throughout the iterative process with all involved. The product makes designing online learning easy and opens up tons of possibilities for the creatively minded.

Cons

While there are many options and flexibility when it comes to adding in Java scripting, I have found that the support in this area is lacking. Also some simple and useful feature requests have been ignored across various versions despite long lists in the discussion forums requesting such logical feature upgrades. Other issues that I have with the product are really issues with SCORM which has its own limitations and issues.