Common E-Learning Development Challenges

I'll buy it now! :)

I'll buy it now! :) :) :)

And with the details today comes the sadness and slumped shoulders. Subscription-based and cloud integration will mean an uphill battle for approval.

Wow, it looks so pretty and it sounds so good that I want to jump in and download that trial...But I concur with all those who have suddenly realized that while they can fight like anything and finally persuade leadership in our companies to spring for a ?one-time? upgrade for software (I have done this twice in two years), a yearly subscription expenditure of $599+ could be the deal breaker for many of us who are in small/micro (just me) e-learning shops. It makes me wonder if all of the great support, downloads, examples, training, etc. we have received and come to depend on and the wonderful community we have been so much a part of will now only be available to subscription-paying customers. (Deep sigh) I can't take much more bad news today.

I'm not sure I see the big difference between the 'new' responsive player in 360 and what's on offer currently in SL2, in the player option menu. Browser Settings > Browser Size & Player size? When I publish courses now in SL2 and allow my course to 'Display at current browser size' & 'Scale player to fill browser window' it seems to have the same results as what 360 is offering? Obviously minus the gesture control options. Sorry if I've missed something glaringly obvious, but it seems like 360 just 'shrinks' the published content like SL2 does?

Already downloaded and starting publishing test content. Click preview and you will see layout and options galore!

https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/storyline-360-restricting-which-mobile-device-orientations-learners-can-use More on responsive Playback...

"64% of course creators said budget was the biggest challenge when purchasing e-learning development tools.." So, we'll put everything together and charge annual fees. Sorry to keep going on, just feel very disappointed in the whole set up.

I look at ROI and i feel the new toolset has a huge ROI. Especially with the addition of RISE

I agree Steve, If the Desktop Apps is what you are looking for extensive improvement on you're not going to get much except the bundling and adaptation. The value is in the SaaS like RISE which looks beautiful and easy to author. However, it's still in it's infant stages in features and price is a bit high. I guess it would be used to rapidly develop RISE, where you'll get lots of feature updates monthly if not weekly.

Hi everyone, When you click on the 'watch video'...nothing happens, doesn't play. https://articulate.com/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpJMFpHTXlZalUzTVdGaSIsInQiOiJoS2thdTNPc1ZiWXZPRGMzQWZ4NzREcEN3XC9YRTVEWEdlR2c4cXJkK29HYkVSb2Y0cXl0bjJjd2xaZ0I4T0ppYzNGQThMZFA4VmdCNlJFXC9tXC9vTnltOTdmT3BUQlhyXC9razZLRU1FYzA2aDQ9In0%3D#articulate-360-video

WoW!!!! I love AS360!!!

The price is a joke! Is it time to move to other solutions?

Mark Schwartz, staff member, wrote: "We haven't announced Storyline 3, but will be happy to contact you when available." So there is still hope for non-subscription-based version?

Does anyone know if the published HTML5 product works flawlessly wuthout the assistance of the Articulate downloadable player on mobile devices?

How many Storyline developers work for organizations that receive federal government funding? How many developers work in higher education? How many developers public education? Any developer that fits the previously described situation, by law, must adhere to ADA 508 compliances. This is a large contingency of users, yet is so many examples shared here are not compliant. Drag and Drop, hot spots, audio without transcription, and other examples are not 508 compliant. But these are issues that are in the hands of developers and are not dependent on the software. However the software needs to be more responsive to working with screen readers, allowing developers to control screen focus, and tab navigation for more seamless integration with screen readers and other adaptive technologies. I'm anxious to try 360 to see if this software will address compliances for the educational community.

Hello Keith! Storyline 360’s superior HTML5 output and new responsive player give learners the best viewing experience on tablets and smartphones, making Articulate Mobile Player (AMP) output unnecessary, unless learners need to download content for offline viewing or your course includes FLV videos with alpha-channel transparency, both of which are supported in AMP. Here are some FAQs on our Responsive Player: https://articulate.com/support/article/Articulate-360-FAQs-Responsive-Player Check out this post by Arlyn about our new responsive features in Storyline 360 and Studio 360! https://360.articulate.com/review/content/d23cfad6-1ebf-4b68-8909-38e2a4e45b14/review

Speechless. Seriously Articulate? smh

Articulate new version of Storyline 360 was announced as a big thing. In went through the so called innovations and I am quite disappointed. I think the real innovation is the new pricing and licensing model (Most pro and cons are pointed out already – so I don’t comment on that). The real innovation of responsive content we won’t see in Storyline. Instead it was separated in a new tool called rise which is missing the most functions of Storyline. Despite Storyline claims to be responsive, the content is not! More follows below. In detail: I went through the list of new features. Here are my thoughts: Responsive Player for Tablets and Smartphones => The content only is scaling to 100% (which is possible in SL2 as well) but beside that is simply not responsive. Responsive in Storyline means: Getting an error message to switch to landscape modus. Responsive Preview Toolbar => If the content is not responsive it is hard to preview responsive content. Great that we will have a toolbar to preview the “switch to landscape modus”-message. Responsive Playback Restrictions => If the content isn’t responsive a restriction becomes a feature. Your marketing guys are great! HTML5 Gesture Support => Great. This is a real innovation. But there are no trigger for gestures. So what we can do with it? Navigate through the Storyline player? Sorry, this is way behind my expectations. Superior HTML5 Output => Probably the most important new feature is. Didn’t check it out in detail. But improvement in HTML5 Output are great and really necessary. Some things there a disaster in SL2 (for example: textfields with margins and variables are messed up in html5) and should have been fixed much sooner in one of the minor updates. New feature are mainly in regards of animation of objects. Good job. It seems that the developer team worked on topics to create a real benefit for the users: * Orient Objects to Motion Paths * Rename Motion Paths * Trigger Action When Objects Intersect * Trigger Action When Object Intersection Ends * Trigger Action When Object Enters Slide * Trigger Action When Object Leaves Slide There are some feature which we will never use, but I acknowledge that they are quite helpful for some user groups: * Publish to Articulate 360 for Articulate Review * Articulate 360 Content Library Integration * Content Library Templates * Content Library Characters * Best Right to Left Language Support Some are so small, that I wondering why they mentioned it * Publish to HTML5 First/Only (Minor thing but nice to have. If I wanted a real html5 out in SL2 I just grabbed the story_html5.html) * Publish Scenes or Slides Just to complete the list. Helpful, but not a big deal: * Square Corner Button Styles * Broadcast Level Audio Optimization * Enhanced Picture Placeholders * New Design Elements for Result Slides Beside that it seems to me, that many critics of the community were not acknowledged. Bugs are not fixed. So let’s hope that Articulate is still aware of it and works on it for the update of the perpetual Licenses. All in all the new version is a step back for us. Only the improvement on HTML5 Output and the new animation features are counted as real improvements. Certainly there will be user which needs you met better. this comments simply reflects the opinion of our small team. Last but not Least: What are “Dial Interactions”? Couldn’t figure out that.

We finally have an answer on this and Articulate 3 is available to purchase. Its $1398 for a full license or a mere $699 to upgrade! No glad I got a full license for Storyline 2 in December now :(

Hi Kevin, You can see the comparison of our Storyline products in this chart: https://articulate.com/p/storyline-3#compare I would encourage you to reach out to our team if you'd like to discuss your recent purchase: https://articulate.com/company/contact

So is Articulate 3 a stand alone version? Its not clear. And if so, is it just PC based or is it a Mac version as well?

Hello Yvan - It is a perpetual product, so yes a standalone, as you can see here: https://articulate.com/p/storyline-3#compare-360 It is PC based at this time and all of our system requirements can be found here: https://articulate.com/support/article/System-Requirements-for-Articulate-Storyline-3

Great post/details here: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/sl3-roadmap-or-release-dates?page=2#reply-425509

Well, it seems rather expensive. On the other hand, at least they give you the option of either doing the subscription or buying Storyline 3 outright. Personally, I prefer buying it outright, because, at least for me, it's easier to control my costs in the long run being self-employed. As many of you know, there are those lean times, from time-to-time that require some budget cuts and unhappiness is being caught during a lean spell with several annual contracts that you're locked into; think Adobe, for example. In any event, choice is always a good thing, even if it's comes at kind of a high price, initially.