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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• All employees are educated when they begin employment on how to sign into Healthstream and that it is the source of training for the organization. So everyone knows where to go to complete their required training for their position to remain compliant. Puts responsibility in the employees' hands.
• Immediate knowledge of whether you passed/failed.
• If used correctly provides excellent transcript for an employee, concise and accurate.

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• I wish that you could customize the UI ribbons to bring features you use frequently to the front and to hide options you rarely use.
• It would be great if there was a way for non-technical collaborators (SMEs, management, etc) to be able to open a *.story file directly and provide comments. You currently have to publish the course, load it to the LMS, update the LMS, and then hope that users can find it in the LMS. A Storyline Viewer/Previewer standalone application would be awesome.
• The price is too high for freelancers to purchase and use. I no longer contract and work exclusively for the firm, but even with our resources, the high price limits the number of licenses available to use.

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• Very difficult to run any type of report using Healthstream. It would be more beneficial if you could run a report indicating who finished set assignments
• Very difficult to search for classes. If you do not put in exact titles for particular assignment you will not find it.
• Cannot print out any listing of upcoming classes on a certain topic or email a list if requested, the product really falls short
• If an employee is not in Healthstream and you must complete their testing and you must use a "place holder" the product is not very good. If the tester does not go back into the Healthstream record once the individual is registered and enter a learning event then you do not have an accurate transcript.
• Not really user friendly for all managers, if an older manager is not computer literate. then training can be painful and you will find the product is not used.

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• Tremendous ROI- a team of 7 redeveloped a suite of 60 courses in under 6 months with Storyline for very highly regulated environment. The prior tool that we used did not see that level of production after 5 years of use.
• Enhanced analytics- the level of data we were able to get out of this tool was superior than our prior tool, which allowed us to better analyze elearning outcomes and improve programs.
• Speed to competency- the team came up to speed on the tool in a very fast period of time, and they used Articulate Community resources to leverage templates that allowed them to create elearning interactions that they would not be able to develop from scratch, so the shared assets actually increased capability

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• Increased employee awareness of clinical workplace protocols.
• Better reputation and acceptance in clinical setting.
• Better customer service.

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