Literally the WORST program I have ever… Literally the WORST program I have ever used. It seems like such a wonderful program then, WHAM, "This project is invalid or corrupt and cannot be opened. It may have been created in an earlier version of Storyline." error message appears and EVERYTHING you have done is lost. I've lost so many projects, weeks of work, only to start over. So, make backups, you say, Yup, made 4 of them and they are now all corrupted. There are no backup files, though it is set to save automatically, which is useless as the file is corrupted. Literally, saved the project. Closed it out. Opened it back up to make a correction and the error message popped up. And guess what, there is NOTHING I can do about it. Search the community, it's like oh, sorry, sucks to be you, sort of attitude. This is NOT a product for professional usage, especially when you have deadlines and all your work gets corrupted. Note: I had no other programs working. I've been saving versions 1, 2, 3, so I have additional copies. Today, after making additional copies, from a version that worked mere seconds before, all of the files came up with the corrupted message. I have contacted Articulate and opened a case. EVEN if they can get my projects back, I'm stuck sitting here writing a review of how horrible the product is, instead of working on my projects.

Hyped, but Buggy and Expensive 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 !!

Articulate Just Gets It! Articulate creates products that solve problems we, the consumer, have. They don't push a "this is what you need" mentality on us. They find out what would make our jobs easier, and then they deliver. Don't we all wish every software company would do that? Storyline lets us get training to the field quickly. In a world where technology is changing at a fast pace, we need to be able to get learning content to our people as quickly as possible to stay ahead. With Storyline, we've created a host of solutions: soft-skills selling, CRM software training, scenarios on customer engagement, etc.

PowerPoint on Steroids! Being a non-techie and in the early stages of adding rapid elearning to my face-to-face instructional skills I was attracted to Articulate Studio, Engage and Quizmaker because of their relative similarity to, and integration with, PowerPoint. Then came Storyline and I decided that this was my go to tool. I like the flexibility and usefulness of variables and triggers to engage the learner with interactivity and the ease with which amendment is possible. Most importantly I love the ability to confirm learner improvement with the use of tests, quizzes and checks that are only limited by my imagination and which may not appear to be collecting results to the learner. I would like to see improvement to the printing of triggers and variables because this is difficult to do on the screen. There are work arounds but since this is where the magic happens and it would improve workflow. But Storyline is only the tool. What really keeps me with it is the Community which supports and inspires improving my knowledge of the software and introducing innovative ways to extend its capability. Despite the minor frictions mentioned, I recommen Storyline 2 to everyone who shows an interest (and even those that don't!).

Well-rounded software package Articulate has really stepped up their game with the new 360 launch. The Articulate Review service is brilliant and has greatly reduced the amount of annoying tasks we have to go through to review Storyline files internally. Rise is an excellent way to quickly and easily build e-learning projects, while Storyline remains a strong, much more complex partner. The content library is full of great stuff that can easily be used in projects.