Articulate 360Reviews of articulate.com

I have been using Articulate almost every day for the past year, so I'm a moderately advanced user. It has some great features, but lately very frustrating. There are too many bugs. Crashes without warning. Crashes on publishing to xAPI, SCORM, Review 360. Takes up to 30 minutes to compile and publish a large project. Am using 2 laptops with it. Crashes randomly on both. (One has 16 GB RAM, the other 32 GB RAM) The auto-save feature doesn't work properly! You need to save manually every 30 minutes. Sometimes it changes your variable settings. I have lost hours of work. After I finish my project, not likely I will continue using it but am tied to it until completion. Overpriced. Not recommended. 3 stars at best. I think 14 bug fixes this year so far !!

Using SL2 is a fairly decent process, with some friction points when getting into the nitty gritty of using the software. I do like that you can import translations directly and that makes building courses anew in another language must faster. I do like the versatility of layers, states and triggers. As well there are many valuable templates created by community users that can be gleaned and updated for your own needs. When working with a module that is large, the SL2 file can become unstable and corrupt - which is no fun - and in my experience not recoverable. It does not create a good mobile user experience unless you build a course that is specifically designed for the mobile experience, so that means multiple courses for the same content.

In almost every respect, Storyline 2 is a great piece of software. It makes it easy to develop compelling interactive e-learning content quickly and easily. It has a wide set of features and the online community is excellent and supportive. I particularly like the fact that it's not just easy to use out of the box, but also has a lot of power under the hood. So why the three stars? Simply put, Storyline 2 is unusable on high DPI monitors. The software ignores the system DPI setting and defaults to a low DPI setting. Which means that everything on the screen – text, icons, graphics – is absolutely tiny. There are workarounds, but the workarounds seriously impact my workflow to the point where I find myself doing more and more work in other tools. I can't wait for the DPI issue to be fixed, but this doesn't seem to be a priority for Articulate, which is a real shame as high DPI monitors are becoming more and more common. If you don't have a high DPI screen, then Storyline 2 is excellent. If you do, it's worth three stars only until the issue is fixed.