#ADOBE CAPTIVATE 8 REVIEW TRIAL#

So here they are in no particular order.Īrticulate Storyline comes with a variety of different clipart people with each person available in different poses and moods. I have only written down the main highlights and downsides here because otherwise the post would become way to long. It’s much much better than Articulate Studio and after working with it for a couple of hours I was actually having fun trying to think up weird ways of creating content and scenarios. If you do spot something wrong then please leave a comment so I can correct it.Īrticulate Storyline is a great program. Now please note that when I list something as missing or not being possible in Articulate Storyline then it may very well be that it is actually possible, but I just haven’t found the right way to do it yet. So for the next day and a half I messed around with Articulate Storyline creating some small sample projects, interactions, scenarios, drag and drops, publishing courses to HTML5 and iPad and basically trying the program out in every way I could think of.īelow here are my observations on my Articulate Storyline test run.

#ADOBE CAPTIVATE 8 REVIEW TRIAL#

Apparently there was a bug in the CRM system at that time causing my local Articulate partner to not get notified about my trial download.Īnyways the tutorials and the well known interface make it easy to get started working in Articulate Storyline. com email and therefore the “Coach email” should have been sent to me from Articulate’s partner in my country. I am not based in the US so I didn’t use a. We also found out why I didn’t receive the original mail from Articulate. After writing this post I was contacted by an employee from Articulate offering to be my personal coach and help me out with anything I needed. However, I didn’t receive an email from Articulate after downloading the trial but maybe they know I am a Adobe Captivate fan or maybe they have had so many trial downloads that they have run out of coaches o)

I read that when downloading the trial you would receive an email from your “Dedicated Articulate Storyline Coach” that would help you get started and that you could direct any questions to. The interface works pretty well in Articualte Storyline and is easy to find your way around. The interface of Articulate Storyline is more or less a clone of Microsoft PowerPoint, which also helps you feel at home pretty quickly if you are used to working in the newer versions of the Microsoft Office applications. There are plenty of tutorials and resources available for you to play around with that will get you going in no time. Articulate did a good job on making it easy to get started with using the program. Next step was to go through a couple of the “Getting Started” tutorials to get the general idea of how the program works and the tutorials were very good. The only thing missing was that little annoying paper clip guy saying “How can I help you today?” (I think MS phased that one out in PPT 2000 but you get my point). Articulate Storyline was like PowerPoint in new clothes. I had read that Articulate Storyline was a stand-alone product that wasn’t depending on Microsoft PowerPoint so when I installed and launched the trial version I almost fell of my chair. I am by no means a “purist” or “elitist” but I do think that Microsoft PowerPoint is best used to bore people to death with slide after slide after slide. I simply can’t imagine myself creating eLearning courses in PowerPoint (and that goes for Adobe Captivate as well!). In my opinion the main drawback of Articulate Studio ♀9 is that it is based on PowerPoint. One of the main drawbacks was the lack of possibilities to modify the design of the Engage Interactions, but I really liked the Articulate Quiz Maker functionality. I only really used it once or twice, because I found it to be limiting and not really suited for my purposes. I own Articulate Studio ♀9 and that was more of an impulse purchase to be honest. Now this product has generated a remarkable buzz in the industry and according to many people it’s the third best thing in the world after chocolate and red wine.Īrticulate Storyline has been called a Game Changer and the question is if it can win a die-hard Adobe Captivate fan like me over. I finally got the chance (read time) to take the new product Articulate Storyline for a spin.

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