Testing Storyline Capabilities vs. Other E-Learning Software

Hello!

My company is deciding whether to go with Storyline as our primary e-learning software, go with another e-learning software, or perhaps go with both. Although we've adopted new software in the past, we haven't really had a systematic, well-thought-out process we've used to select software.

My thinking was perhaps it would be helpful to have a small group of testers from the target audience become familiar with the basics of Storyline and the other software, then re-create the same small e-learning sample using each software. And while using each software, capturing their thoughts on where they had issues, what worked well, etc.

When you tested Storyline vs. other software, how did you conduct the user testing? Did you ask users to give feedback on specific questions, or did you leave the questions more open-ended? Or both?  

And if anyone has an example of documentation (checklist, etc.) they gave to users when testing software that I could perhaps model, that would be helpful.

Thanks!

David