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Articulate Storyline

Overview

What is Articulate Storyline?

Articulate Storyline is a learning content creation platform. It provides prebuilt and customizable content, along with gamification capabilities. Articulate emphasizes user-friendliness, including mobile accessibility. It is offered on a perpetual license.

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10 out of 10
January 03, 2024
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Articulate Storyline is utilized to create operations skills and knowledge training as well as transform current in-person training into …
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$1,398

On Premise

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

A Simple Animation Engine in Articulate Storyline 2

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Add Custom Background Images to HTML Pages in Articulate Storyline

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New Elapsed Time Variables for Articulate Storyline 360

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Articulate Storyline 2 - Overview of new features!

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How to create animated buttons in @Articulate Storyline

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Product Details

What is Articulate Storyline?


Articulate Storyline is software for creating interactive courses. It's designed to be simple enough for beginners, yet powerful enough for experts, enabling users to create virtually any imaginable interaction, in minutes. The vendor further provides that with their new perpetual version of Storyline, users can deliver mobile and accessible courses with enhanced interactivity, faster.

Articulate Storyline Features

  • Supported: Get started building courses right away, without any training. Storyline is so intuitive to use, even beginners ramp up quickly.
  • Supported: Create engaging interactivity, easily. If you can imagine an interaction, you can easily build it with Storyline. Let learners click, hover over, or drag any object to trigger any action. Build engaging interactions in minutes with buttons, sliders, markers, and hotspots. And create dynamic, personalized interactivity with intuitive variables—no programming required.
  • Supported: Build immersive, engaging learner experiences with video and simulations. Record screen activity, add screencasts from Articulate Replay, and import any type of video. To create software simulations simply record your screen once, then edit whenever and however you want.
  • Supported: Assess learners any way you want. Turn objects on your slide into a decision-making activity–or use 25 different question types to create quizzes quickly. You can test throughout your course to get a clear view of performance, and combine results from multiple quizzes for a final score.
  • Supported: Make it easy for every learner to access your content. Storyline supports right-to-left languages and double-byte character sets and includes Section 508 and WCAG support.
  • Supported: Reach learners on virtually any device with HTML5 and Flash publishing options (Storyline 2) and a fully responsive player (Storyline 360 only).
  • Supported: Publish for learning management systems with Tin Can API 1.0, SCORM, and AICC support.

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Articulate Storyline Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Articulate Storyline is a learning content creation platform. It provides prebuilt and customizable content, along with gamification capabilities. Articulate emphasizes user-friendliness, including mobile accessibility. It is offered on a perpetual license.

iSpring Learn, Adobe Captivate, and Lectora are common alternatives for Articulate Storyline.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Articulate Storyline are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 16, 2016

Storyline before all

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My organization uses Articulate in order to meet two important aspects of the employee training process. Those are: quick effective training that is cost saving. Articulate is perfect for this because eLearning saves money and time in respect to classroom training.
Jackie Van Nice | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Articulate Storyline to create e-learning for my clients. It's the one development tool I've chosen to specialize in. It's relatively easy to use; yet gives me enough depth to create a wide variety of effective training pieces.
Guido Roessling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Articulate Storyline for training my students in various areas - using the editor they will be using for developing software, explaining basic programming concepts, and others. Another somewhat different and highly interactive course addresses how a teaching assistant or teacher can deal with a case of plagiarism.
Ryan Byrne | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

We are using Articulate Storyline 2 to develop eLearning modules for our staff and other stakeholders. This includes compliance based modules and modules focused on building knowledge and awareness on products and services.

We have recently been implementing a non-linear learning methodology which allows learners to access the information they need as and when they need it.

February 08, 2016

Articulates storyline2

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I love Storyline 2. It is powerful and easy to use; it has a quick learning curve and Articulates’ support and community are fantastic. It is a wonderful product and a wonderful company. The use of variables, takes rapid e-learning to another dimension.
February 08, 2016

Storyline review

Josh Hill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

As a multimedia developer I use Storyline every day. It has become my go to tool because of the ability that it gives me to be able to create the eLearning that I want. We use it at Pure Learning because it is so simple to use. It may take awhile to get your head around it, but once you get into it it is really simple and it allows you to create the nice simple interactions that you want the leaner to go through. At Pure learning it is used throughout the entire organization. It is used by our writers to mock up their ideas and by our multimedia developers to create the entire projects. It is also sometimes used by our graphic designers to work out the best animations to have and how we will mock up the user interface and how intuitive it will be to the user.

Storyline addresses the problem that there are not that many other tools out there to make eLearning and what is out there is pretty crap to be honest. They are either cloud options which are slow and have limited storage or they are like Captivate which can get overly complicated to make the most simple of interactions.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've been using Storyline since a few months after it was introduced. It is the eLearning development tool we use 90% of the time. I've found it easy to use and it lets me create almost any interaction I can imagine.

It helps us create eLearning courses quickly with an amazing amount of learning interaction. I especially appreciate the fact that I have had very few issues with it and when I do, Articulate usually has an answer and a workaround.
Egor Semenikhin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Articulate Storyline to produce eLearning modules on many aspects of the company's business. Recently I accidentally found a new application. I could create an interactive menu and fit it into corporate SharePoint site.
Tim Hillier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The professional development department uses Articulate Storyline to develop high quality online continuing medical education for 130 paramedics. The software allows for professional results from non-programmers. The online continuing medical education (CME) that is developed allows education to be delivered consistently with a lower cost per person.
November 16, 2015

A Captivating Storyline

Jason Adaje | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
E-learning presents an exciting opportunity to meet the evolving training and development needs of an ever changing and diverse workforce. Storyline is showing itself to be a powerful and reliable tool for doing this, allowing the for the production of courses that meet and exceed customers expectations.
Louisa Fricker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Articulate Storyline to deliver learning material for flipped classrooms in a post secondary institution. The purpose is to deliver content in an interactive and engaging way online, then bring students into the classroom for group work and hands on activities. This reduces the amount of classroom time needed, and makes that classroom time more productive.
Ionut Marin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Articulate Storyline was chosen to be used in our company, after we tried several softwares to create eLearning content that was easy, fast, cheap and compatible with our eLearning platform. This tool is used by a single department in our organization. This software covers all kind of requests from business lines, product presentations, software simulations, and quizzing.
Heidi Matthews | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Storyline is the authoring tool the training team uses to create eLearning for our organization. Our employees are spread out across the country so like many others, eLearning is a method of training that helps keep costs down. Safety is an important part of our work and our culture. The courses I design in Storyline allow the user to make choices just like they would in the field so training has engagement, not just a reader for a screen full of words. Being able to engage the learner, makes them remember more and in the end may keep them safer on the job.
Meg Bertapelle | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Storyline in the Clinical & Product Education Department, and I believe our HR training group is also using it. We are now able to develop more complex e-learning projects within our fixed timelines because Storyline makes it easy to do. Instead of deciphering coded IDs and actions, just read the trigger in plain English, love it.
David Glow | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have used Articulate Storyline with many clients. At one client, we decided to move all of our elearning from another (competing) elearning tool to standardize on Storyline. The reasons for this were twofold. First, the support for the product was vastly superior to it's competitors. The second reason was that the team of 7 could become much more productive in Storyline in a few months than after 3 years with the competing product.

As an elearning tool it is very capable and offers highly valued features. It exports to Word for creating documentation for SME reviews and/or print alternates to online learning. For learning departments using Powerpoint, it has a very good import utility, but it should be clear that the use of Powerpoint is not required for the tool. For high-level developers or programmers, the tool allows custom Javascript to be written to extend the tool's functionality to the ideas and capabilities of the user. It publishes to all major standards, including the emerging xAPI standard.
June Ganes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
About four years ago at the suggestion of one of our learning facilitators we purchased Captivate, due to the difficulty in learning this software it was not used efficiently. After researching other software I discovered Articulate. We began by purchasing Studio and used it for about a year until Storyline was introduced. This was the smoothest transition ever, it's so easy to use and if there is ever an issue you have the E-Learning Community and E-Learning Blogs. Since our purchase we have consolidated a large amount of training into eLearning courses saving money and time employees have used traveling to classes (we have branches all over Atlanta). Now we are getting into mobile courses so we have the option of training on the go. We could not be more excited on the direction we are going thanks to Articulate!
October 07, 2015

I Choose Storyline 2

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used by one department to create modules for the entire organization including associates in over 600 stores. The bulk of the modules are used to distribute product knowledge and enhance selling skills. Additional modules address the use of our various business software programs. We also use it to create informational modules that address issues specific to franchise and retail organizations.
October 06, 2015

Love Storyline!

Montse Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

I use Articulate Storyline every day to create courses for my clients. I appreciate the bright interface and the many tools available to help me with creating interactive and engaging courses. In particular, trigger options. Triggers allow me to design and create interactions that are just not possible in other popular elearning programs. I enjoy creating custom drag and drop activities outside of the freeform and default quiz options. The change state triggers make this easy and fun. Another great feature I love using are sliders. Sliders are incredibly versatile. They can be used to show before and after changes, data processes, interactive timelines, step by step progressions and so much more. The good news about sliders is one can add multiple “steps” not just two steps.

In a nutshell, engaging elearning is not only possible with Storyline but easy too. Storyline helps course designers to push the limits of what’s possible with course design. It helps designers bust out of the tell me-tell me and bullet trap into creating innovative elearning. Working in Storyline is a real joy and it’s fun. I love discovering ways of developing really cool elearning courses! I can’t say that about other applications.

Kristin Savko | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Storyline to create eLearning modules. Storyline allows us to create quality eLearning quickly and easily. It provides us with the customization that we need to achieve our quality standards and guidelines. The customer support team is great, and the product is always improving. Two to three people in our department use the tool, however I am the primary user/developer.
September 30, 2015

Why I like Storyline 2

Teg Griffiths | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Articulate Storyline 2 is used by the training and development team. It is a flexible tool that helps develop not only technical training but also soft skills. It is important that we develop proficiency with a single tool as opposed to trying different tools for different scenarios.
Mike Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

It is used to write eLearning in house for compliance and some technical learning sessions. It is also increasingly being used for developing softskills - i.e. embedding knowledge after a face-to-face event. We have topics including: grammar, anti-money-laundering, pensions, information security, sales etc.

It is used by our learning and development team here and then made available to all staff for reference.

Phil Mayor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are a agency that produces content for other clients. We meet clients needs by building highly interactive solutions using Articulate Storyline. Our business is built on Articulate Storyline without it we would not be successful.

Articulate Storyline is an intuitive, software package and you can develop immersive eLearning very quickly. We use it to meet any and all of our clients needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In a multi-state healthcare organization, eLearning is essential for training and compliance needs. Frequent updates to the electronic health records software demand quick turnaround of technical information and interactive practice; medical standards and guidelines must be communicated to clinical professionals in accessible and engaging ways; HIPAA and OSHA regulations require annual review. Staff can complete these requirements as their busy schedules allow.
Mark Cooper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Articulate Storyline is used in my company's learning and development department. It is used to create courses that train our retail employees and company leadership in areas of safety, customer service, product knowledge, and leadership development.
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