Overview
What is Articulate 360?
Articulate 360 is an e-learning course development subscription offering. It includes every Articulate authoring tool, including the latest version of Storyline and Rise, a web-based app for creating inherently responsive courses. The vendor offers a 30-day free trial.
Use Articulate 360 for making clean, polished, engaging courses for your customer training.
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Robust learning design suite. Great for intermediate/experienced users, but relatively easy to learn to use for new practitioners of
My thoughts on Articulate 360
Perfect for new and experienced Instructional Designers alike!
Articulate 360 is the new standard in eLearning development. All hail the new king!
Articulate 360 Makes eLearning Development Quick & Easy
Articulate 360 makes elearning creation easier
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Rise First
A good all-round learning creation tool with a little training
Articulate 360 is a Learning Managers Right Hand
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Articulate 360 for eLearning
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$549.00
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$699.00
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$1,099.00
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- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Articulate 360?
Articulate 360 is an annual subscription designed to give course creators everything they need for course development. The vendor describes its content as including:
Authoring apps—Storyline 360 and Rise 360—for creating courses available on every device.
A library of more than 10 million course assets, including stock photos, templates, characters, icons, and videos to help create beautiful courses faster.
A web-based project review app for collecting consolidated feedback from stakeholders.
And live and on-demand training webinars to help them get up to speed on Articulate 360 and grow their skills as course developers.
Articulate 360 Features
- Supported: Storyline 360: a authoring app that lets e-learning developers create a variety of customer interactions that will engage learners.
- Supported: Rise 360: a web-based authoring app used to build fully responsive courses.
- Supported: Content Library 360: a library of course assets for creating courses quickly.
- Supported: Review 360: a simple web app that lets users gather and share feedback on all Articulate 360 content.
- Supported: Articulate 360 Training: training on the topics desired from e-learning gurus.
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Articulate 360 Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English, French, German, Spanish |
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Articulate 360 has gained popularity as a reliable alternative to the Adobe suite, reducing users' reliance on multiple software tools. Customers have found value in its comprehensive suite, utilizing various tools like Studio, Replay, Storyline, Rise, Peek, and Preso for e-learning development. The software has been widely adopted across different sectors ranging from K-12 education school districts to large customer service organizations. It is used for a multitude of purposes such as ongoing training, onboarding and development of internal corporate employees, and creating SCORM learning modules on compliance, leadership training, product knowledge, and soft skills.
Instructional designers recommend Articulate 360 for its speed and ease of use, particularly with tools like Rise and Review. The ability to efficiently gather feedback within courses is also a standout feature that allows learners to make comments directly within the course and track them at the slide and layer level. Additionally, the software's integration capabilities make it easy to package webinars into on-demand formats and implement components onto websites. Users appreciate Articulate 360's mobile device support, collaboration through Review, and the extensive Content Library available for creating well-designed e-learning solutions. While occasional crashes have been reported by some users attributed to compatibility and memory issues with their computers, overall, Articulate 360 streamlines the e-learning development process and makes client reviews efficient.
Users have provided several recommendations for Articulate 360 based on their experiences with the program. The three most common recommendations are as follows:
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Try the trial version and watch tutorial videos: Many users suggest taking advantage of the trial period and watching tutorial videos to assess the capabilities of Articulate 360. This allows users to get a feel for the platform and its quality before committing to a subscription.
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Start with Articulate Rise for easier course development: Several reviewers recommend starting with Articulate Rise for simpler course development. They find it easier to use and appreciate its flexibility and responsiveness in creating web-based training and robust e-learning content.
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Join the online community and explore all the available resources: Users highly recommend joining the online community for Articulate 360. This provides access to valuable resources, trainings, and free webinars that can enhance one's understanding of the program and help maximize its potential.
Overall, users find Articulate 360 to be a powerful program worth the investment. It is considered easier to use than its competitors, especially for creating engaging presentations, high-quality e-learning content, and interactive materials. The collaboration and administrative functions are also praised for their convenience. However, some users note that it may not meet all classroom and educator needs, so it is recommended to evaluate if the full suite of Articulate 360 is necessary before subscribing. Additionally, users suggest keeping an eye out for improvements in Storyline 360 and new content or functions in Rise. While there may be a few bugs that need to be worked out, Articulate 360 is regarded as the best tool on the market for rapid e-learning development, offering an integrated solution that streamlines training development processes.
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(1-17 of 17)Use Articulate 360 for making clean, polished, engaging courses for your customer training.
- Rise is clean and professional. It looks polished to users and is easy for learners to follow.
- They have outstanding support.
- Storyline allows you to create some very engaging intricate interactive learning.
- Generally, their products are user friendly.
- They are considered the Gold standard in elearning authoring.
- Their courses can be read on phones, tablets computers. etc.
- They also have a powerpoint add in for making really nice slides.
- Their review tool, allows you to easily send the courses to reviewers who can update in course.
- Although you can do a lot with Storyline, it does require a bit of a learning curve and a new designer would not easily be able to get started. Sometimes, if you don't design it correctly, your users might get stuck such as with a "submit" button that doesn't work, etc. The program files can be big and clunky.
- Rise is easy to use and looks nice but can use a bit more functionality. After you have made a few courses, you wish you could have more functionality and design, although Articulate does keep adding to it.
- Being a market leader, Articulate has just reaped the benefits of its stellar product. But they haven't done much to introduce newer products into the market. Soon other companies may come up with something that could cause them to lose their unique position.
Ease of use capabilities for all - Articulate 360
This software allows us to create engaging and interactive courses that even our employees that are computer challenged can take and succeed using.
- It is a program that is going to be kept up to date and the user will automatically have updates available.
- It has some graphic capabilities that are extra in Articulate's other programs.
- It has some new fast development tools that will assist with creating mobile training. (Our company currently doesn't have any plans for mobile-based training.)
- provides lots of graphics including video that saves a lot of money for small businesses
- Annual Cost. Most commercial software is going this direction, so it is to be expected. It allows the user to have new updates quickly, but can be a budget buster for small organizations.
- Annual cost is still a problem
You cannot beat the industry standard
- Full suite of software
- Industry standard
- Expensive subscription program
- Some basic features are still being develops while complex ones have been already.
Articulate 360, one to rule them all!
- Multi-device authoring.
- Super easy review cycle.
- All tools you need to create awesome e-learning.
- Super HTML5 output.
- The subscription model is annual, would be great to see a monthly payment plan.
- The subscription model is all or nothing. It would be great to be able to select the tools you want to use.
Why I will never stop using Articulate products!
We create e-learning for our clients using the Articulate 360 suite of products. Our clients include small and large companies, not-for-profits and universities. We also provide Articulate software training for corporate clients.
- The addition of tools like Rise, a web-based, fully responsive e-learning course creator, Review and Content Library make it a fantastic suite of products. I no longer need to purchase any other tools to do my job--it's all included in Articulate 360!
- Storyline's HTML5 output and flexible publishing options are awesome.
- I love that responsiveness and multi-device support was paramount in developing Articulate 360, while keeping the robustness of amazing tools like Storyline.
- Articulate Review is such a big win! No longer are big and messy spreadsheets necessary to get your projects reviewed, Review does it all in one place, super organised and works great!
- The folks at Articulate bring out updates and upgrades to the software regularly, and it's so great! So many new features every year, and incredibly fast response to bugs and issues.
- While I quite like the subscription model, monthly payments would be great, with a discount for those who choose to pay yearly, like 12 months for the price of 11.
Articulate 360 makes everything simple!
- Ease of use/ability to learn how to use features
- Clean and simple design output makes it easy for learners to navigate through courses
- Freedom to create what your imagination can dream up
- Community Support from e-learning heroes is great! Any issues are normally resolved with the community within a day and articulate staff still follows up.
- 360 is always being upgraded and improved with character bundles, image/video content, and new feature roll-outs.
- When there is a bug, sometimes you have to live with a workaround for a bit before it is resolved.
A Complete Package for eLearning Development
- Online collaboration with plenty of storage. You are able to share your projects easily and collaborate with others, even if they do not have a license for Articulate 360.
- Responsive design for mobile. The Rise product is amazing. Accessed through a browser, you can build eLearning on any computer and it looks great on every screen.
- Regular updates. Articulate 360 has been great about making regular improvements to the platform. They are really fulfilling the promise they made when they moved to a subscription model.
- A complete package. Every tool in 360 makes sense and seamlessly works with each other.
- A plethora of content. With the subscription you get access to Articulate's library of templates, people, images, video and icons. This library continues to grow and is high quality.
- Subscription renewal. Although Articulate does a good job at attempting to make renewal and online subscription management painless, there are still some bottlenecks in the process. Working with their sales team and your billing can take some time. Just a minor thing that could possibly be approached differently.
- Again the content library is a particularly good feature that will provide graphic resources, which can be vital for work statements they require a fast turn around, reducing the effort and cost to produce or source relevant supporting content.
- The ease of content creation in Rise.
- The Publish options allow users to publish without Flash.
- Subscription based software model are something I'm not a fan of.
- There are limited options for editing the player, it would be nice to see more design option here.
- Hosting content on a tablet without using articulate servers.
Our organization purchased a content package from an LMS provider a few years ago, so my job for the next two years is to develop in-house content to replace some of the highest-priority courses in our learning plan.
Articulate 360 solves a number of problems, but none is clearer than the problem we used to have gathering feedback on courses in an efficient manner. With prior versions of the product, the only real way to submit comments on a course was to print it out in Word format and send it back to the developer. With Articulate Review (part of the 360 platform), learners can make comments directly from within the course, and they will track to the slide and layer level. Developers will receive email notifications every time a new comment is posted, and they can comment back. To top it off, you can even view prior versions of the course with a single click of a button!
- Articulate Review is the single greatest addition to the Articulate set of tools in the 4.5 years I've been using the product. It makes course review a cinch, and eliminates all of the headaches that come from reviewing courses on an LMS or via a hacked together Google Drive/Dropbox solution.
- Rise is an incredibly quick, easy way to build quick, beautiful, content driven courses that are mobile friendly and responsive. It's drag and drop, which makes it fun to use, and web-based, which allows developers to build content on the go without needing access to their primary machine.
- Peek (the screen recorder tool) is a big improvement over Articulate Replay from a simplicity perspective. It records the screen as a discreet taskbar icon, rather than a full program, and then allows you to edit and use that content in your software package of choice. I love it.
- I occasionally have issues with the launcher in 360, and can't get the program to open. It seems to be an intermittent bug on my computer that has to do with being enterprise-locked. The first time this happened, I reached to Articulate's world-class support, who helped me get up and running again. I've been able to fix the issue subsequently by following the instructions provided by the Articulate folks, so I'm happy with that!
- I would like to see further integration with TinCan API (xAPI) in the platform. Right now, I believe that TinCan is only supported in Storyline, and that the statements it is capable of sending to an LRS system are limited to 6 canned verbs. While that is fine, there is no native support for sending variables directly to an LRS without doing some XML tweaking behind the scenes. I'd like to see Articulate lead the industry in xAPI use cases and support, since I hope that's the direction that the industry is headed.
- I say this every time I have an opportunity, but I'd love to see Articulate develop a native version for the Mac. I've had some success running Storyline 360 on my Mac with Parallels and VMWare Fusion, but I'd like to free up my system resources to edit video AND develop courses, which is difficult to do when you're running a virtual machine.
Loving the new 360... except the price
- The addition of Articulate Review is a huge bonus for us. We have been struggling with the best way collaborate with faculty on eLearning, so this solves a big problem for us.
- As always, the support from Articulate is stellar. They have already put out several new updates to 360 that we are excited about. In particular, they listened to users and made it so that folks do not have to sign in to 360 to review a course.
- Articulate products are incredibly user friendly. This has not changed with 360. In fact, I think they added even more user-friendliness with some of the new apps.
- We are in education and the price point will continue to be an issue for us. ISDs in other parts of campus are negotiating a contract with Adobe for Captivate licenses for under $200. While I believe that Articulate is a good buy, it is difficult to justify the cost to administration. I also am frustrated with the way pre-purchased upgrades were handled when switching to this new subscription based service. I think that the new pay structure will make this package pf products unattainable for many contractors, non-profits, small businesses, and education institutions.
- I think some of these apps are redundant... do we really need Peek, and Studio, and Replay? I would like things to be a little more consolidated.
- Enhances support for mobile devices with the move away from primarily relying on Flash. The HTML5 engine has been rebuilt and now offers the option for specifying which type of output is published (HTML5 Only, HTML5/Flash, Flash/HTML5, Flash Only).
- The new Review tool makes it possible for reviewers to provide feedback which also shows exactly what was on-screen at the time they post each comment. This will greatly help alleviate confusion from vague bits of feedback now that developers can see exactly what happened.
- The lightweight screen-casting tools Peek and Preso help to better support our developers and answer client questions whenever an email simply isn't enough. Having the ability to quickly record my desktop screen, or annotate screens with my feedback, and upload it to Articulate 360 to share nicely streamlines my workflow.
- Having access to high quality templates, characters, and images (coming soon) will streamline the process for sourcing stock media in a way that better manages costs, since it's included in the price of the subscription.
- With the move from Flash to HTML5, there are a few bugs that still need to be worked out. But I think they'll be resolved quickly with the frequent release of updates.
- Currently, there is only a 1-size-fits all subscription that includes all of the tools at an annual lump-sum price point. It feels a little steep if you aren't actively using all of the tools, or compared to other subscriptions with monthly fees (e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud).
- Some of the issues reported in SL2 continue to be present in SL360, but there is a clear trend towards resolving even the peskiest of these legacy issues.
Articulate 360 is AMAZING!!!!
- Easy to learn and use "out of the box." Quick and easy to create basic to very elaborate eLearning experiences.
- Powerful tools and elements built into the software to create engaging eLearning with very little programming effort.
- Highly engaging and supporting community to get advice, help, and resources like templates. Articulate 360 increased the bar with access to development library to download assets like stock images.
- Articulate developers really seek feedback and listen to recommendations from the daily users. I attended an Articulate supported conference and the development team actively sought out volunteers to give feedback (+/-) and really listen to us.
- There were some weird quirks with converting files from Storyline 2 to Storyline with Articulate 360. I image the bugs will be worked out over time. I downloaded the trial the day of the release.
- Many of the delays in updates and patching with SL2 will probably not be an issue with Art360/SL and the all inclusive subscription-based pricing. I imaging Art360 will be around for many, many years with ongoing updates and enhancements.
Articulate Steps Up Their Game
- One of the biggest for me is Review which solves one of the biggest challenges of developing and getting feedback from sponsors/SMEs.
- Rise is an easy to use, fully responsive design that makes for quick and elegant presentations that work and look beautiful on any kind of device.
- We can now leave Flash completely behind. You can publish to HTML5 only now and the HTML5 engine in Storyline is greatly improved. The new responsive player for Storyline is also very slick.
- While the subscription model allows for more frequent updates I wish there was an ala carte where you could choose which applications you want similar to how Adobe CC works.
- At this point there aren't a lot of new flashy features in Storyline, a lot of the work is under the hood, so some may not appreciate all that has changed.
- The output for mobile elearning in Articulate 360's Storyline is fantastic. It's a piece of cake to create on my end as the developer, and users just see a gorgeous course that works beautifully on any device.
- Articulate 360's Articulate Review is a HUGE help in managing review cycles during development. I'm able to gather feedback from stakeholders in a way that is incredibly simple, effective, and painless for everyone involved. Love it bunches.
- I honestly haven't come across any downsides to Articulate 360 so far. Some people are concerned that it's currently only available via subscription pricing, but that's such a common model now that it's not even a blip on my radar.
Great product & great company
- Rise app - New way to create an "eLearning course". It's not a traditional looking eLearning, and that's what I love about it.
- Review app - Ability to collaborate with others in providing feedback about a course.
- Responsiveness - Ability to publish a course and have it available for computer, tablet, and smartphone.
- Subscription based model - must pay fees every year
- Cloud based - not beneficial for my company
- Rise is not compatible with IE11, and my company will not be moving away from IE11 any time soon
Even though it does not fit well with my work group, it may be a great solution for others. Articulate is definitely moving in the right direction. They are trying to give eLearning developers and instructional technologists everything they need in one location. If I were a freelancer and could afford the yearly subscription, I would purchase Articulate 360 in a heartbeat.
Right now, we are going to stick with Storyline 2 and wait for the next version of it. For others considering the purchase of 360, I highly recommend downloading the free 30-day trial just to make sure it meets all of your requirements, especially if you work for a company/organization.
Try Articulate 360!
- Easy to learn
- Scales well to user's ability
- Lots of resources available
- The new subscription model comes with some less popular products bundled in, adopting a one-size-fits-all package.
Articulate 360 - A one-stop-shop!
- Articulate Review makes client reviews a whole lot less painful, and being able to publish individual scenes or slides in Storyline 360 helps contribute to this painlessness.
- The Content Library is comprehensive and takes the guess work out of locating appropriate screen styles by providing a wide range of pre-built options...with triggers already built-in!
- Articulate 360 is a one-stop-shop. With 9 amazing applications, I don't have much reason to go elsewhere!
- With a subscription-based model, it would be nice to at least have the option to go month to month instead of only providing an annual option.
- Some new feature adds for Storyline 360 would be a nice-to-have. For example, developers have been finding work arounds for closed captioning and JavaScript coding in Storyline for years...it would be nice to have some built-in functionality for these elements.