Articulate 360

Score9.3 out of 10

812 Reviews and Ratings

What is Articulate 360?

Articulate 360 is an e-learning platform for creating workplace training. Users can build engaging courses with AI-enhanced authoring, simplify collaboration, and quickly share content. A subscription includes robust onboarding resources and access to a community of 1.5M pros.

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Screenshot of creating a course in Rise

#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

14.3%

1,262 installations of 8,802

#2 most frequent

Educational Services

13.6%

1,196 installations of 8,802

“Articulate 360 is a powerful suite of tools for authoring E-Learning at my company.”
— Senior Instructional Designer, Dish (1001-5000 employees)

#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

11.1%

974 installations of 8,802

“Accessible course creation”
— LMS Administrator, Flowserve (10,001+ employees)

Frank Casso View profile

Instructional Design Manager in Corporate at Whataburger (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Articulate 360 to build, review, revise, and publish courses to our restaurant level leaders. We focus on training for various leader levels to prepare them for their roles, help them perform tasks correctly and consistently, and deliver great guest and employee experiences. There’s a lot of collaboration that we use Articulate’s features for.

Pros

Consistency
easy of learning the tool
Makes collaboration easy

Cons

Creativity - more options to deviate from the standardized options and try new things.

Return on Investment

We have trouble measuring ROI, but it certainly cuts development time down. Especially now that we have AI features.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Captivate

Other Software Used

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Premiere Pro

Cameron Miller

Creative Services Manager in Corporate at Echostar (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My team and I (along with 6 other teams spread across the company) use the Articulate suite to create engaging content for learners ranging from external general contractors, to engineers in manufacturing facilities to corporate employees and executives. Our content ranges from increasing the engagement of simple Job aids, construction standards, and tool walk-throughs, to complex 360 degree immersive simulations of dangerous environments to reduce risks during training.

Pros

Unrivaled Power and Customization. After 15 years in the training industry, Storyline 360 remains my favorite tool because it is, simply put, the most powerful authoring tool I have ever used, giving me complete creative control.
Advanced Interactivity. I love being able to 'overengineer' content using Triggers, Variables, States, and Layers, which allows me to build the most sophisticated and deep functionality.
Superior to Basic Tools. Storyline's capability to build detailed branching scenarios and realistic simulations sets it leaps and bounds apart from basic tools like PowerPoint, which is essential for high-impact training.

Cons

The 360 image activities in Storyline have limited features, but the limitations are mostly avoidable. I just like to over-engineer!
The Storyline block integration in Rise can be temperamental depending on your window size, small being too small, and full width requiring scrolling up and down. Again, easy to adjust, by zooming, full screen, etc.
Question banks cannot be accesses more than once without possibly repeating questions, unless you tie variables and triggers to them to remove answered questions. (again, resolvable as is, just extra steps)

Return on Investment

The immersive 360 image activities allowed us to train our field engineers on dangerous topics and environments like electrical safety and on-site safety without even putting a hard hat on.
The new AI outline features have decreased our time-to-product by at least 30%
The use of a single suite of tools, (along with the creative cloud) led to decreased annual costs over alternative piecemeal solutions.

Usability

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop

Randall Polliard

Senior Instructional Designer at Dish (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Articulate 360 is a powerful suite of tools for authoring E-Learning at my company. Rise allows me to create engaging trainings that present extremely well visually, but with rapid production times. Storyline allows me to create E-Learning with very sophisticated activities and technical animations. We choose Rise or Storyline based on a training's parameters and production time. Rise, being cloud-based and templated, looks great and development time is shortened. It has a big enough feature set to be engaging for the learner. We turn to Storyline when we need custom features or a more involved project (animation, branching, gamification, etc. )

Pros

Flexibility of e-learning production environments
A suite with focused tools that integrate extremely well
Industry standard software with some of the best training content by user groups and Articulate staff

Cons

Feature suggestions take a long time to be added to the software
Would like to see deeper options for some of the learner engagement activities (Drag and drop, sliders, etc. )
Occasionally will not save as expected, and you have to create a copy to keep working on a project

Return on Investment

The addition of AI authoring tools in both Storyline and Rise saves us approximately 20% of production time when building trainings.
Rise is used extensively throughout our company for its accessible interface and cloud based delivery.
Our Learning and Development team objective to deliver targeted trainings to a specified audience is greatly enhanced by the feature set of Articulate 360, and are considered indispensable authoring tools for what we do

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Captivate

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop, Camtasia, Snagit

Andrae Farquharson View profile

Content Developer II in Corporate at Moss and Associates (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to design engaging learning experiences and track the SCORM data it produces using my LMS.

Pros

Localization tools helps me translate my courses into Spanish and Creole with a few clicks. I can’t wait for the audio and video translation capabilities to be added.
Produce engaging elearning content.
Track learner behavior using SCORM.

Cons

Integration with MAC.
Ability to zoom in on pictures on layers.
Use cue points to fade assets out automatically.

Return on Investment

Less joined by hip training, so it is scalable
We can track learner behavior, completion using SCORM
More learner engagement

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Captivate

Other Software Used

Synthesia, Vyond, Camtasia

Jenny Briganti View profile

Multimedia Designer in Corporate at United Airlines (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Articulate 360 to create and publish all our e-learning courses in Tech Ops’s Training at United Airlines. It is easy to use and it is SCORM compliant with our Cornerstone LMS. It has the interactive features and options to create blended curriculums as needed.

Pros

The use of triggers to create interactive learning
The ability to use java script to customize special functions
Easy to use and learn
Easy to publish to review sites and to LMS

Cons

I wish it has compatibility with MAC devices
The audio tool could have some more realistic voice options
The feedback site could have more advanced markup tools

Return on Investment

Reduced Risk
Decreased training costs by elearning production
more accessible course creation

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Premiere Pro, Camtasia and Adobe Acrobat

Other Software Used

Camtasia, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Acrobat

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