Articulate Studio vs Brightspace

• Easy learning curve. Just some button clicks for recording narration, syncing animations, and adding annotations.
• They made some fairly recent improvements to how you sync animations and add annotations. With the timeline, you can manually move the timing around. Much better than the earlier task of having to just re-do it from the beginning and hope you get the timing right.
• If you're using Studio in the Articulate 360 subscription, you can easily review the course before it publishes.
• The included Quizmaker program is just great. Simple to use, but you can make a varied mix of questions, and the customization options are great.
• You can add background music in slides, which is pretty great in certain situations.

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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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• It's icing on the cake. It provides a lot of usability with its quiz-maker and presenter. The presenter can sometimes feel like an unnecessary add on. If it didn't come apart of a package, I don't think we would have purchased it outright.

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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 only see positive impact since it is a very easy to use tool for rapid learning. The only point is to know what is possible to develop using this tool to avoid any kind of frustration afterwards.
• Another positive impact is that we don't need a diversified development team. There is no need of technical professionals, and a creative instructional designer is enough to develop effective learning content using Studio.
• The third positive impact is that Studio makes possible to realize short-term projects, mainly when there's already a PowerPoint presentation.

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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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