Articulate 360 vs Articulate Storyline

• Articulate 360 has lots of options: Rise is for simple, HTML-based course content delivery. Storyline is an animation/interactive eLearning designer that is robust yet easy to learn.
• It totally simplifies the review process. When I want to have my boss look at a course I made, I create the Articulate Review link and he can make comments at any point in the course for suggestions/corrections, and the program takes a picture of where he is looking so I know exactly what he is talking about. I can also comment back.
• The content library is high quality and professional. You can search images of people, backgrounds for Storyline projects, or entire project templates that you just plug your content into. It allows you to create content really fast and good looking.

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• It is a versatile tool that can create a wide variety of eLearning experiences.
• It interfaces well with SCORM Cloud, which is what we use for dispatching eCourses to clients.
• It is fairly inexpensive for a single user license.

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• Storyline is a bit heavy for some computers to handle—both the design side and even the viewer side. Outputs can occasionally be glitchy.
• In Rise I would like to see more customizability, like choosing different fonts and locations of images and things like that. It's very cookie-cutter, which is actually great for newbies because it is difficult to make it look bad.
• It would be cool if Rise had a "page logic" option so you can jump to different pages based on button logic. Pretty pie-in-the-sky.
• The quiz functionality in Rise leaves a lot to be desired, but the quiz function in Storyline is SCORM compliant.

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• Precision is a sore spot when it comes to developing in Storyline. Much like trying to be precise with items using PowerPoint, it is a frustrating prospect. I'd imagine it has something to do with the product being rooted within the MS Office/PowerPoint format.
• While I'm familiar with the ribbon in Office, it's flawed for sure. I've found this to be the same within Storyline. Again, I'd imagine it has something to do with the similarity.
• There are never enough animations/transitions. Though I've managed to mix multiple animations, etc., It's never enough.

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• Quicker turnaround on course reviews. I don't have to fight with multiple documents and QA forms.
• Cheaper overall costs - media content is available and needn't be produced externally or using other software
• Better overall customer satisfaction. It feels like a better offering to customers when I can show both them the content, and then QA it, immediately.

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• We have been able to bring our training development in-house with Articulate Storyline. This has reduced the cost substantially of module development from about $120,000 annually to less than $50,000.
• It is now possible for the subject matter expert to work directly in Articulate Storyline rather than have to work with a third party and try to explain what needs to be developed as far as content.
• Articulate Storyline has a bit of a learning curve and not everyone takes to it quickly, so although the training development has been brought in-house, there is now a back-log of work for those who use the software!

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