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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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This is truly unacceptable. What good is having a very expensive Team license, if the team can't store and share their work in a central repository? I can't tell you how many times a team member has left, and all his/her work has gone with them. This is a show stopper. I'd rather go a year without any new features in SL 360 whilst you work to make this happen. Thinking you don't have any competition in this space is a really bad strategy. First of all, the trend in eLearning is video and many folks in the ID world are going to Camtasia or Adobe to fill this need.
Please, please give us an ETA as to when this feature will be in the product.
Hi everyone,
The nature of this feature set has a very broad scope and involves a number of complex factors as you’ll see outlined in Bret’s earlier message. This makes it difficult to predict the amount of time it will take to complete until we are closer to a release date. What I can assure you is that the enhancements for Review 360 are already underway and work is continuously being put in towards developing this feature set currently.These feature enhancements will revolve around more functionality for Review 360 team folders where users will be able to share Review items with other members of the team for example. Other features we’re targeting will be for more notification preferences and security.
I understand that not knowing when this feature will come out is frustrating, and I’m here to assure you we’re listening to your concerns and working on those enhancements.
Michael Marcos
Customer Support Product LiaisonThank you, Michael. You've stated exactly what we users are frustrated over.
I really do appreciate all the improvements made to Review. Clearly you were listening to user feedback. But we're still waiting for some sort of Team Review site where we can see all projects posted by team members. How is that coming along?
Hi Linda,
We're still tracking this feature request and this conversation is linked so that we can share updates with you here.
I would like everyone to take note of the date of the posts on this thread that I started FOUR YEARS AGO, and despite promises of addressing this issue (including a cheery commitment early last year), NOTHING has been done.
I once again have to express my extreme frustration and dissatisfaction with Articulate's lack of response to much-needed & requested improvements...especially since our annual renewal is fast approaching, and I will be forced to pay many thousands of dollars so my designers can continue to use a product that continues to have the same shortcomings, and offers minimal improvement year over year. Shameful.I was just thinking this morning as I read yet another Articulate Review email notification and searched for whichever slide it related to in a course with hundreds of comments, "Gee, I wonder if Review will EVER be updated." I decided it won't be. At least not with the features we've requested for years. Here they are, AGAIN:
Include the slide number on email notifications
Include a link from the email notification to the specific slide on AR.
In AR, allow the reviewer to click the thumbnail image in Feedback view and be taken to the correct slide in Review mode.
I for one have stopped holding my breath when it comes to waiting for features from Articulate. Unfortunately, I have had to lower my standards even when it comes to dealing with bugs.
Sometimes I feel badly for the front line staff - they are watching the user base become more and more apathetic, and they can't do anything except reply with a chirpy "thanks for your feedback."
That is assuming that it's the development team that are digging in their heels and refusing to do the work. I don't really know.
Hello again everyone,
Stepping in to share an update to increase the transparency of the developments regarding the upcoming enhancements to Articulate Review which should solve some of the problems related to sharing and folder management.
As this enhancement gets closer to completion we are now able to estimate a target release date for it generally in Q2 of this year.I can assure everyone that the development team is working and has been working hard on this. It has been even more challenging last couple of years and we appreciate the patience that everyone has exercised throughout these trying times.
All the best,
Mike MarcosI just received notification this morning that pricing will increase in July. Will any of these Review features that have been requested for the past 4 years come to fruition? Or will we just see a bump in cost for what we're using today?? And, if I read the calendar right, Q2 is definitely here.
Hello Duane!
Thanks so much for your response and for following up on the feature request you shared. We prioritize adding new features by researching our customers’ needs and assessing evolving technology trends. Ultimately, we focus on features that will be most helpful to the largest number of folks. Unfortunately, that means we can’t address all the feature requests we get.
We appreciate your business, and we’ll keep you posted on your feature request. Thank you for creating online learning with Articulate 360.
Hi Lauren
I'm not sure if you're new to the Articulate team, however I'd strongly suggest reading this entire thread before offering the typical, canned response. I started this thread nearly 5 YEARS AGO...and still, despite the occasional cheery response from Articulate staff making hollow promises that are never fulfilled, we have not see ANY progress. Reading this thread will (hopefully) alert you to the mounting frustration and annoyance of your user base. What you see here is just a small sampling...in short, a lot of people a very mad at how lousy a job Articulate does at addressing updates and improvements. And now you have the nerve to increase prices, despite barely improving the product, and still not addressing desperately needed updates. Please save us the energy of platitudes, and tell Lucy Sauros and others that your customers are pissed off, and it's time to do something.
