Articulate 360 vs Brightspace

• 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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• File sharing capability between users is largely unparalleled in the LMS space (from my experience).
• The user interface has continued to receive valuable updates that have created an incredibly efficient platform to navigate.
• Brightspace offers a single source of truth for standardized learning outcomes based on company objectives.

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• There could be more intuitive buttons in many places. Without a "getting started" training, it might be tough to just try and figure out how to do things in the software.
• The software has been known to be a little buggy (all versions). It is known that you should save your work often in case it crashes.
• I wish the the vendor would build in more integrated instruction and tips withing the interface, so you can be reminded or clued in to what you are looking for if you are not an expert yet.

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• D2L should find a way to allow markup of student writing directly in the review panel of the dropbox. Blackboard and Canvas do this.
• When you set the number of points an item is worth in the dropbox, it doesn't carry this value over into the grade book automatically, which means you have to be careful to enter the same information in two different interfaces.
• The rubric function needs a wider range of options. It should be possible to upload rubrics from external files and make them usable within D2L.
• The discussions are hard to reorganize. Grading discussions using a rubric is not possible inside D2L, as far as I know.
• When using the Record audio function to provide student feedback, the audio quality is too poor to be used in many situations.

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• I spend less time developing courses, and more time engaging learners with Articulate 360. Not only has our development timeline shortened because of Articulate Review and Rise, but we are also putting out better, more engaging content.
• The subscription model of Articulate 360 paid for itself almost immediately by providing access to some awesome stock content in the Content Library. We used to spend hundreds of dollars buying content that is now included in our membership to a tool we were already paying for.
• The greatest return on our investment has come in the form of time. Stakeholders love Articulate Review. It's easy to check the progress of the course creation, see what issues have been addressed by the development team, and provide feedback-- cutting back on everyone's least favorite thing: MEETINGS.

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• D2L has allowed us to create master courses that are regularly updated and then copied over from semester to semester. The copy process is very quick and easy so this have been a time saver for us.
• Sometimes the learning curve for end users has been a little difficult as the recent upgrades (9.4 to 10 to 10.1) have had some very significant changes. In the end I think the changes are an improvement but sometime faculty and students get nervous because "things look different".

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