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How to Use Articulate Storyline on a Mac (with Videos!)
Here’s a question we get a lot: “Is there a Mac version of Articulate Storyline?” Lots of folks like to use Apple-built hardware such as iMacs, Macbook Airs, and Macbook Pros to create, desig...
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Hi Petre,
While I believe Storyline 2 to be a very solid eLearning tool I will disagree with your assessment of Captivate! I have been using Captivate since it was Robo Demo and can tell you it does things Storyline cannot. I don't denigrate these tools as I use all 3 (Captivate, Storyline and Lectora). IMHO a developer needs to be fluent with these tools to be successful and considered an expert.
Only the best,
Ivan
While I believe Storyline 2 to be a very solid eLearning tool I will disagree with your assessment of Captivate! I have been using Captivate since it was Robo Demo and can tell you it does things Storyline cannot. I don't denigrate these tools as I use all 3 (Captivate, Storyline and Lectora). IMHO a developer needs to be fluent with these tools to be successful and considered an expert.
Only the best,
Ivan
I agree totally with Ivan on this. Every e-learning producer should strive to have expertise on as many tools as they can, with Captivate being right up there as far as priority.
Adobe did re-design the user interface a few versions back to simplify it/cater to the "I'm not a techy!" crowd, but even before, with just a little effort, it wasn't too difficult to grasp. I often use Cp9 on a Mac via Parallels and there is no slowdowns or issues whatsoever. It feels native in terms of performance, which is pretty surprising given the virtualization layer.
And it's mobile support is far superior to anything Articulate has provided thus far, including Rise.
Adobe did re-design the user interface a few versions back to simplify it/cater to the "I'm not a techy!" crowd, but even before, with just a little effort, it wasn't too difficult to grasp. I often use Cp9 on a Mac via Parallels and there is no slowdowns or issues whatsoever. It feels native in terms of performance, which is pretty surprising given the virtualization layer.
And it's mobile support is far superior to anything Articulate has provided thus far, including Rise.
- Hi Mark,
I am using a lot of Instructional Videos in my training programs, therefore I need to master different video editing apps as well (from Screenflow & Camtasia to Final Cut Pro & Adobe After Effects). That was the reason behind my need for prioritisation in what I am learning. Of course, is a matter of my context: I don't have requests from clients to work in a specific program (Cp, Sl, Lectora, Zebra, etc) but I have the pressure of "time to competence" and reliability regarding the tools I need. My option is to stick with only one authoring tool.
I am curious: why do you use Windows version of Cp9 on your Mac instead of the native app?
Yes, indeed. The mobile support is definitely one of biggest advantages of Cp9. Pity that I can't manage to find what is the problem with Cp9 on my iMac ... (considering your comments). The Adobe support team was unsuccessful too.
Cheers.- Hi Petre, i presume Mark hasn't bought the mac version of captivate and only owns the PC version.
- Correct. Unfortunately, Adobe licenses the Windows and Mac versions of Captivate separately.
- I have a Windows version of Captivate and they use separate licenses for each.
In addition to my full-time employment, I take on freelance e-learning projects from time to time. Last one was for converting a very large library of old desktop-based (think early 2000's "CBT") courses, with local database storage for tracking, etc. They wanted it converted to the web.
In bidding for the project, I was up against mostly web agencies. They didn't specialize (and I suspect have any experience) in elearning, and when they realized they were bidding against e-learning developers they immediately put in the client's ear the anti-Flash talk and to make sure whatever anyone proposes be fully cross-browser capable HTML5. Had I been restricted to using Presenter or Storyline I would not have been able to get that contract or, worse, been able to honestly complete it, as SL's browser support is poor with regards to HTML5.- Hi, Mark.
I don't want to take this conversation too off-topic, but I noticed your mention of Storyline's browser support for HTML5.
I wanted to let you know that the HTML5 engine in Storyline 360 is a complete rewrite when compared to our HTML5 output from Storyline 2. This has allowed us to expand our browser support, achieve 508/WCAG compliance, accomplish feature parity, and generally produce the best possible content from our authoring tools. We'll continue to support Flash for organizations running legacy browsers, but we're laser-focused on our HTML5 output which, for us, is absolutely the present and future.
