Selling Articulate to my Organization
Jan 30, 2020
Hi
I am trying to pitch Articulate Storyline to my company. I am getting blowback because of the annual subscription and the past experience of some staff with very poorly designed Articulate presentations. In order to seal the deal, I need to show the decisionmakers a complete course designed using Articulate. I am not talking about some quick and dirty procedural training but rather a multi-week course with all kinds of different media (video, audio, text, images, etc.) and learning activities (quizzes, case study scenarios, surveys, etc.) in it. Ideally, it should be a course that is designed to help learners achieves outcomes at the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy (analysis, synthesis, creation, etc.) not just rote memorization of facts or concepts.
Any suggestions where to find such a thing?
Thanks.
Todd
5 Replies
I can't point you to any complete courses. Instead, I suggest you show some samples from the weekly eLearning challenges to demonstrate what Storyline is capable of.
IMHO, the cost of an annual subscription is a reasonable investment if the company needs to create and maintain a lot of courses. Otherwise, you could get a license for Storyline 3. But consider the time/cost saved with 360 if you can use their media resources instead of searching for on your own for copyright-clear characters and images. Plus, Rise might be a good option for some courses.
Hi Todd,
I agree with Judy that providing some of the eLearning challenge examples is a good way to show what Articulate 360 is capable of in its many guises.
The other thing I would recommend, if you have a suitable example to work with, is to find one of your company's current courses (preferably one of the worst looking) and reproduce part of it using Rise and/or Storyline to show how much of an improvement can be quickly achieved using Articulate software. The before and after effect can often be very persuasive.
Hi Todd,
I wrote an article on this exact topic awhile back that talks about some key selling points and points to some pretty cool examples. Here's the link: How to Sell Your Boss on Articulate 360.
I hope that's helpful! :)
Hi Todd,
Here are some of my own examples created with Storyline. Hopefully these demos show that if you put the effort in to design you can get good results with Storyline.
Coronary Heart Disease (demo)
Sports Coaching (full module)
Spinning Wheel Game
I greatly appreciate all of your responses. They have been very helpful to me.
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