Articulate Storyline vs HealthStream

• The UI closely resembles the general UI that is used by Microsoft Office products. It is instantly familiar, decreasing the learning curve.
• Storyline is very powerful. If you can imagine the design, you can develop it in Storyline. The built-in templates and player skins offer a wide variety of page layouts. I particularly like how Storyline organizes slides by scenes and provides a visual map to help you see the course navigation.
• Storyline is not a resource hog. You can't simply install it on any machine, but you do not need a tricked-out rig with gaming specs to run. It runs very smoothly on an Intel i5 with 8gb of RAM with plenty of system resources available for Microsoft Office and Adobe applications to run in different windows.
• Storyline output HTML is very clean. With other authoring tools, bad Javascript and poor CSS output really had a negative impact as you had to devise workarounds and implement patches for them to work with your LMS. Storyline is the closest authoring tool that I've found "just works."

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• Designing elearning tutorials and assessments is very intuitive in HealthStream. This benefits the designer, but also the end user or employee who will ultimately take the test since the layout is also very user friendly.
• Tracking statistics for employees; it is very easy to pull reports in HealthStream that detail scores for students on assessments, length of time it took to complete training, questions that were often answered incorrectly, etc.
• Searching different user and employee groups for tracking is very intuitive, which saves quite a deal of time in the long run when needing to access these employee populations.

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• Although the professional content library is available, it is still pretty easy for new users to make overly cartoonish looking pieces of training.
• The program is very heavy load so you have to have a pretty powerful computer to run it effectively.
• Final projects can be played by anyone but they can sometimes be glitchy because they are a bit heavy for users to run on their computers.

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• Class Building - very tediouos to build hundreds of classes, users do not get notified when added to a class
• Reporting - this something they are working on. Reports are very tedious to run with all the parameters.
• Administrators - not intuitive to be in the system. Although over time it does all make more sense.

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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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• It has increased our ratings with JCHAO and not being caught off guard because someone forgot to take a certain class.
• It has worked well when we are sending new software and want people to learn how to use it they are able to do it at there own time.
• It has worked well for me because we don't have to spend money sending trainers to different facilities, it has really cut our cost down.

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