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Team capabilities in Articulate Review?
Hi all
Just wondering if this is in the works, and will be possible anytime soon...and if anyone else out there shares the same desire to see these features?
The Articulate 360 Teams concept makes lots of sense, and Articulate Review is a terrific step forward in simplifying the project development process...now it would be great if you could marry the two together, and extend the team account concept/capability to Articulate Review.
The Teams idea is predicated on the idea that multiple folks may be involved on particular projects, and as such, quick & convenient access to all review comments by relevant team members is major convenience . With this in mind, I love to see the following:
- As part of the process of posting a project for review, we should be able to select other team members who will then have immediate access (instead of having to email a link to each person, in addition to the client).
- Any team member associated with the project should receive the emails indicating new comments posted to Review for that project. This prevents the current potential for bottlenecks on a project, whereby the account owner is the only one to receive these update emails. If they are away (or miss the email)progress can easily come to a halt, as other team members are unaware that new comments are posted, unless they are continuously checking.
- Also, as I've seen posted here previously, the ability to organize projects in Review into folders would be a Godsend. With numerous projects, each involving potentially dozens of modules, the site gets enormously cluttered. Scrolling thru all of the projects can be brutal, as there is currently no means to sort these projects (which would also be a nice feature...sort by date, alphabetically, etc.)
- Lastly, as I mentioned this in a previous post, the ability to archive projects would also greatly improve the organizational aspect of the site, enabling us to keep the site cleaned up, without have to completely delete projects that we may need to refer to later.
Thanks for a great product, and continuously looking to improve...hopefully these suggestions are helpful.
Cheers, Dave
Hi, everyone!
I have some great news to share!
We’ve just released an update for Review 360 which includes cool new features:
New: Create shared team folders in Review 360 to organize your content, assign permissions, and invite collaborators. You can even allow multiple authors to publish new versions of a course to the same Review 360 project.
And because Review 360 is a web app, there's nothing to install! New features and fixes are available immediately.
Please let us know if you have any questions by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Have a great day!
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Hi Dave. Really well thought out feedback...thanks so much for sharing. 😊
Improving collaboration and organization with Articulate Review is definitely under discussion! We'll be sure to update you with new features.
I'd love to hear what other community folks think here, too!
Dave - I second ALL of your feature requests. I couldn't have summarized it better. I would also add the ability for everyone on the team to have the ability to publish for review or export for LMS (or whatever).
Thanks for taking the time to craft this message.
All the points above are not only valid, but actually critical for businesses with multiple developers and clients.
This is really bringing into question the suitability of Storyline as our preferred tool.
I absolutely agree!!
Crystal, I'm glad you value our feedback. However, it's becoming more and more frustrating to hear "under discussion" and "in the works" from Articulate staff for months in regards to critical updates that are desperately needed, and that have been voiced by numerous users. Some of these requests have been "in the works" for well over a year, yet no results.
As I tell my kids, "actions speak louder than words"...where is the action relating to these much needed Articulate Review improvements? Also, Where can we find the list of improvements that HAVE been made to Review in the last 12 months? Is this published somewhere? I want to be fair and give credit where it's due...and not overlook key changes you've made a response to customer feedback.
My consternation stems partly from a current firestorm we're mired in with a client. We have wasted dozens of hours (both ours and the clients) - due to the Review shortcomings I listed in my post above. Our designer could not see updated comments the client had posted...resulting in edits not being done...the client reviewing modules that didn't include his latest comments...bottlenecks getting new versions posted... etc. etc. etc.
Can you please offer some kind of timeline as to when we'll see any improvements? Something more concrete than simply "under discussion" or "in the works"? It would mean a lot.
Thanks for listening... DaveHey Dave,
We are listening.
Just a few examples I'd like to share that were directly related to user feedback:
- Hitting <Enter> was not intuitive for Review comments (posts such as here and here), so we added a Post button
- Request for Slide Numbers in the Review feedback tab (posts such as here and here), so we added this for ease of use
- Ability to publish Rise to Review was a big one (posts such as here and here), so we added this
We do have documentation of the fixes and improvements made to Review as we do with our other products.
Did you know that you can subscribe to comments for individual projects? Check out this documentation here as that may be helpful for you.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful as well. If I had a timeline to offer, I would.
The What's New page is a great resource for many of the popular newly released and upcoming offerings of Articulate 360.
I agree with all of Dave's feature requests and wanted to add that it would be beyond helpful for teams be able to upload courses to a team review page, instead of an individual review page so whoever is assigned course maintenance can implement the feedback and upload the file back into the review tool instead of having to email it to the owner of the review page through several revision cycles.
Initially I thought this was a capability of Review and was disappointed to find out it wasn't, as it would speed up our workflow considerably and possibly cut down on the corrupted files that seem to arise out of swapping files back and forth. Thanks!
Ready to organize your Review courses? I hope so - as Folders are now available!
Take a look at this quick video here on how to get started.
I echo Dave's original feedback (noting that folders are now available) and Beth's suggestion of a team review page. A use case just from today, my colleague and I have made edits to the same source file. If we want stakeholders to view the updates, we have to send a new link as one version is in my Review space, the other in hers. I don't think it's reasonable that I expect my stakeholders to keep track of multiple links if updates are published by a different team member.
As per Dave's suggestions, not being able to tag team members until they've made a comment is frustrating so the ability to choose team members who would have access would be great.
Thanks for sharing your use-case, Christina. I've added this to our report.
