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Developing SOP's
Hi Team. I am new to Articulate 360. We currently use SOP's (paper based) that show Operators how to use our manufacturing equipment. We are migrating to online learning through an LMS. Is it better to use Rise360 or SL360 to develop these SOP's? Our users are both existing and new employees and our aim is to ensure that everyone follows the same manufacturing procedure as per the SOP's. Therefore, the online learning will include different types of assessments and quizzes. thanks for your help.
Hi RajN007. I suggest trying to put some samples of various types of content from your SOPs into both Storyline and Rise, publishing the resulting (tiny) sample courses, and uploading them to your LMS. That'll let you compare the results from Storyline and Rise for your specific use case, and will probably lead to some specific questions about issues you come across.
Some benefits of Storyline:
- Far more flexible than Rise (for example, you can choose the dimensions of your slides, the dimensions of photos or diagrams you include, and whether your slides automatically resize to fit the user's browser window).
- Can import PowerPoint slides, which could let you (for example) have a team of people create draft slides in PowerPoint, ready for import into Storyline. (Also, Word is getting a new AI-powered Export to PowerPoint feature, which could be really handy here too.)
Some benefits of Rise:
- Typically much quicker to get started than with Storyline.
In particular, if your SOPs contain photos or diagrams, it might be hard (or impossible) to get them to display at a usable size in Rise.
Some questions to consider:
- What software was used to create your paper SOPs?
- How many graphics do your SOPs contain? SL is much better (more flexible) at handling graphics than Rise is.
- Will your courses require translation into multiple languages? (You can do that in SL and Rise, but the process differs. So if your content will need to be translated, again it'd be worth trying out the steps to get an idea of what's involved.)
Alternatively, it might be better to keep the content of the SOPs in a system that's designed for easy reference, which LMSs usually aren't. Then, just create quizzes and assessments in (say) Storyline, and upload those to the LMS.
More questions to consider:
- Which LMS do you use? (e.g. Moodle, Cornerstone)
- How often will the content of the SOPs change?
In general for SOPs in a manufacturing setting, Rise will be easier for users and easier for you to create and update.
Storyline is ideal for timeline based media, but also gives you more control if there are specific interactions you want to create.
For manufacturing training and SOPs in the past we have used a mix of Rise with some Storyline interactions (you can embed Storyline interactions in Rise after publishing to Review).
