Articulate Storyline: An Ideal Combination of Reliability + Ease of Use + Depth
Updated March 16, 2016
Articulate Storyline: An Ideal Combination of Reliability + Ease of Use + Depth
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Storyline
Overall Satisfaction with Articulate Storyline
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.
- Easy to learn. The learning curve to get going with Articulate Storyline and produce something usable is very short. But once you're ready for more depth - it's there.
- It's stable. I can rely on it to be there when I need it and don't spend time having to deal with support issues.
- It's a product that comes with its own community of users who are always offering up great ideas, free course assets, and great peer interaction. Is the community built into the software itself? No. Does using the community help you make far better courses in Storyline because it helps you be a better designer? You bet.
- It would be great to have more than one Storyline file open at once. You can technically do it, but it involves opening an additional instance of the program for each additional Storyline file you want open simultaneously. Not a big deal, but it would be a nice feature to add.
- As an e-learning consultant and instructional designer it's had great positive impact on my business. I've chosen to only work in Articulate Storyline and it has helped me to easily and confidently develop and deliver solid, well-made courses to my clients.
The only other e-learning development tool I've used is Adobe Captivate. I abandoned it right about the time they dragged their feet on making it compatible with Windows 7 - so they effectively abandoned me as a user at that point. Adobe support has never been good, but this was a truly egregious moment for them. I had no choice but to find another product. Happily, that's what led me to Articulate and ultimately to Storyline.
Articulate Storyline Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Using Articulate Storyline
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Anything to do with animating objects on and off the screen, revealing additional information, layering information, etc., is a breeze.
- Using the timeline to manage elements can make the most complex slides easy to handle.
- Creating custom functionality with triggers is quite simple.