Articulate.com
Articulate is slightly different from the other product reviews we’ve put up so far. For one thing, Articulate isn’t the kind of open-source, free platform that Siminars and Udemy are. It has the same kind of community for eLearning platform materials, but isn’t the same sort of website. Not just anyone can come in and create a course.
What Articulate.com is a fantastic software package. It is available fairly cheap, and has a great 30-day trial period where you can try it out to see if you like it. Storyline, the Articulate.com software package, is a fabulous alternative to older, clunkier materials used to create classes.
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If you like working with software to create a course, this is probably the best one you’re going to find.
If you’re a technological whiz who has a great time creating courses from scratch, you’re probably going to be better off at Siminars. However, if you’re really not sure what to do software-wise, Articulate is a fantastic alternative to Siminars and other like companies.
- Articulate.com eLearning Tool: Summary Overview?
In our Articulate review, we tested out the Storyline software. Honestly, we were blown away by the tools they used to create their courses. They’re intuitive, reactive, very interactive, and come with some of the best customer support we’ve ever seen. In fact, the customer support is so important to the course it’s essentially a design feature.
The tool is easy to use, even if you’re extremely new to the computer. This is very, very important to a lot of the teaching community. Some of the best teachers we know are getting up in years, and have more and more issues making use of technology. Finding a technology that’s easy for them to use to create and share their knowledge can be invaluable. This way, anyone who has the free trial (or pays for the actual software) can make absolutely certain that they create a stunning, unique, lasting course that everyone will be able to enjoy for years.
- Articulate.com: Who It’s For
Articulate.com is for people who know they want to create a course, and have some great ideas for how they want to do it, but are at a total loss as to how exactly they want it to happen.
Whether this is those who are great at coming up with courses and bad with technology, or those who have good ideas but have never actually taught anyone before, this is Articulate’s core audience. These are the people who have great ideas, but aren’t sure how to structure them into courses for other people to digest.
With the help of the offered technology, Articulate.com creates a fabulous platform for people from all walks of life to share their classes and views with the world.
- Articulate.com: Core eLearning Features
One thing we love dearly about Articulate.com is the community that comes with it. This community is strong and thriving, and it is constantly adding new and interesting people. The Articulate.com community is extremely active.
Unlike other sites like SkillShare, Articulate.com offers teachers a lot of ways to connect, rather than simply focusing on the ways that students can interact with each other. By doing this, and focusing on other methods of connection, Articulate.com stands ahead of the pack in community.
For example, Articulate.com has a thriving community on social media, especially on Facebook and Twitter. There are also hundreds of blogs related to the Articulate community to go through, and a community showcase. These features make it so that people who teach classes rarely feel as if they’re making the journey alone; again, it’s a great website for those that want to teach classes online, but just don’t quite know how yet.
- Articulate.com Review: What’s Great About Articulate.com
Most companies that offer online courses are heavily focused on making sure the students are happy. They’re all about connecting students with great teachers, connecting students with other students, and making certain that every student gets the most out of their education.
While Articulate.com does have a thriving and exciting community of students available, the primary focus is on the teachers.
Because of this, all of the effort is spent on the continuing education and aid of teachers. While other sites tend to sort of assume that teachers are certainly familiar enough with courses to be able to teach them at any time, Articulate gives many tools to teachers that help out with creating those courses for consumption.
For example, in the Articulate.com blog, there are always downloadable tips and tricks available to learn, so that teachers never make the mistake of not being able to properly fulfill a teaching obligation. There’s also the e-Learning Heroes blog. This includes tutorials and downloads for free, as well as providing a lot of advice for the first-timer (and anyone else as well).
- Articulate.com Review: What’s Not So Great About Articulate.com
The Articulate.com website is a bit clunky for us. It’s not very intuitive, and we often found ourselves in a domain we didn’t really want to be in. There are many links that look innocuous enough, but take you to a partner site instead of another page on the Articulate site, which we had wanted.
Because of this, we did get sort of annoyed by the website.
The other thing about the website is that it’s very difficult to find the classes you may want to take. Anyone looking for classes may have a difficult time finding pricing, proper courses, and the rubric completely explained. The most annoying thing is that it’s very difficult to find prices. Any time that’s true for us on a website, we get very nervous about what it’s going to charge us.
- Articulate.com Pricing / Cost Explained
While there’s no cost to create a course on Articulate.com, the software used to create it is pretty pricey. For a single upgrade, the Storyline feature costs several hundred dollars.
In order to actually find out the prices of Articulate.com’s products, you need to contact customer support to find out absolutely anything about billing and pricing. The 30-day free trial, which we used and loved, was extremely comprehensive. However, it makes us very cagey to find that there’s no pricing plan available without calling to find out.
The Final Word: Articulate.com Conclusion
Articulate is a great website for creating courses. The sharing and disseminating of courses isn’t so easy as it is in our two favorite picks for eLearning platforms, Siminars and Udemy, but the actual creation of courses is unparalleled.
If you know you want to create a fantastic course but don’t know where to start, this is a fantastic website and product. This might, in fact become the only one you want to use, in the long run. If that’s the case, then you’ve probably found the website you’re meant to be on.
However, as good as Articulate is, for ease of use, better pricing, and more clarity of product, Siminars and Udemym continue to be our favorite two eLearning tools.
i have done a review of a few different articulate services and i am just not impressed by any of them. i think a lot of other elearning sites do it better
COMPARED TO EVERYTHING ELSE…THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT TO USE! I AM REALLY SATISFIED WITH MY RESULTS AND WILL BE BACK TO USE IT AGAIN
not the best elearning software that you can pick. it just doesn’t really do anything that anything else can, and i am annoyed that there are TWO different programs??
articulate is an ok platform if you want to get off the ground and give elearning and coursework a try. that being said, it can be bulky and generally slow to get used to.
a good rating from me! i liked this program because it is easy to tailor it specifically to what i want. i can make my courses quiz heavy or not, that sort of thing!
I read up on a lot of reviews before i ended up deciding on Articulate. I am very satisfied with how my courses turned out and i think that overall i will have a lot of traffic.
a FANTASTIC tool that generates a LOT of customers for me! i have been able to push out my content in spades since i started using this and love the results.
i just tried this as a test and it ended up being great. when i use this more extensively in the future i will have to see but i think it is a pretty good program.
platforms are a dime a dozen and articulate is nothing special. i dislike it because it does not generate as much traffic as other elearning websites seem to.
NOT the best elearning tool out there and there are so many other that do what this can and WAY more. save you cash and go with a more popular program.
when i found out about articulate in a review, i had to give a try. i’m glad i did, as it is one of the biggest boosts to getting my information content out there so far!
COMPARED TO ALL OTHER LEARNING PROGRAMS THIS ONE IS AMAZING. I WILL NEVER USE ANOTHER ONE AGAIN, THIS GENERATES A TON OF TRAFFIC, EASY TO CREATE COURSES, AND IN GENERAL IS VERY SOLID
I have used a lot of elearning software and this one is pretty good. I think at times it can be a bit bulky for what it is, and that can be a little bit troublesome to use.
far from my favorite platform. i think that articulate is overhyped and can make things far too complicated…why are there two programs? just put them in one package.
LOW rating from me because it takes two of this things products to do what other elearning platforms can do in one fell swoop. just annoying for the most part…
I don’t usually leave reviews but for articulate i will because it’s just consistently really awesome!! a great program that has helped me in push out a lot of courses
a good tool and one i will keep using!! it’s consistently great and i have never had a single problem with it or its customer service reps!!
WENT AFTER THIS ON A TEST AND I AM PRETTY SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS. I THINK THAT IT PERFORMS WELL AND WITHOUT ANY HITCHES, WHICH IS ALL I CAN ASK.
elearning platforms are a dime a dozen and articulate is NOTHING new. that being said, it does perform ok and i will consider using it from time to time.
as far as elearning goes this is just average…there are so many other programs out there that perform better in my opinion and this one is just buggy all over the place
HAPPY to leave a review when articulate is so consistently awesome. i have generated a lot of revenue from these courses and it’s all thanks to this program.
when compared to everything else i am fairly certain that NOTHING else is better. this program has made my ebooks into coursework venture so much easier to do
a great sotware that can sometimes be a big buggy. it also has a steep learning curve in my opinion so you have to read all the help files if you get lost…
A GREAT PLATFORM BUT REALLY NOT THE BEST OUT THERE. I THINK THAT ARTICULATE COULD USE SOME UPDATING AND MAYBE CONSOLIDATE BOTH OF THEIR PACKS…
happy to give this one a positive rating. i am so thrilled with the amount of traffic my new courses have been getting and i will consistently use this in the future!
so many reviews RAVE about articulate and i am just confused by that. honestly it is the exact same as every other elearning platform out there and it takes TWO programs to do their jobs
AN AWESOME TOOL!!! i can’t think of anything better than this if you are trying to push out your information content to the masses. this really does the trick
tried this just as a test run and i was pretty satsified with it. this program isn’t inclusive of all of my favorite elearning tools but for the most part it covers all the bases.
I have used a lot of elearning platforms and i think that articulate MOSTLY gets it right. That being said, I am still not entirely satisfied with it and i will probably keep looking.
for elearning there are a ton of options and this does not need to be the one for you. just try a bunch of other ones and you will see the big difference.
I love being able to review products that I love and articulate is definitely one of those now. it is just so easy to tailor it to exactly what i want!
compared to other programs this one is very easy for me to use. i love being able to use powerpoint with it so much as it just makes all the content fly by.
for an elearning software i think i just expected more, but otherwise, this is pretty simple and easy to use. i learned powerpoint in order to tackle this!
NOT my favorite platform and i feel like articulate is just kind of dated compared to everything else. it does the trick in a pinch but i much prefer other elearning platforms.
a low rating from me because who the heck even uses powerpoint THAT much anymore? i think it’s kind of a cop out to just utilize that as your program so much.
reviews raved about this so i HAD to give articulate a try for my ebook content. i was not disappointed! i am thrilled to see my courses being taken now!
for an elearning tool this is DEINITELY my favorite! i have never had anything so easy to use in churning out my content and i really love the traffic it all receives!
went and tried this as a test and i am not disappointed. i just wish it didn’t utilize powerpoint so exclusively but i guess that’s just the easiest thing for it to do!
PLATFORMS LIKE THIS ARE A COP OUT. articulate is NOT good, it is a waste of your money and you can do this all in powerpoint yourself without its help!
for the basic elearning that i want to accomplish with my courses, this is fantastic. i have a great userbase that love my courses because of this program!
REALLY GLAD TO SLAM THIS IN A REVIEW BECAUSE ARTICULATE IS RIDICULOUS. it is literally just power point all over again and all of those added features REALLY don’t mean much.
When I compared this to a bunch of other programs, i still really enjoy it! I think that it is simple and easy to use, and great for the easy going elearner.
one of the best software i have used for elearning because it is super easy and doesn’t have much of a learning curve. i wish it had more features at times though!
just another elearning platform that falls short. i think articualte relies far too heavily on being simple and that is its downfall overall, needs more interesting features.
A+ rating from me! i think that it is a solid elearning program and that you can use it for your simple coursework without any issues. also they have great support!
Raving reviews about articulate make me laugh. Honestly, it’s just POWER POINT ALL OVER AGAIN. Seriously, you can do this already without paying another dime.
A GREAT AND EASY TOOL TO USE. I WILL BE USING THIS FOR ALL OF MY ONLINE COURSES NOW AND I AM SO HAPPY WITH THE AMOUNT OF ATTENTION MY COURSES RECEIVE!
this was a great one to test drive! i am very happy with the way that my ebooks converted into online courses overall and i am looking forward to seeing the results.
as far as elearning platforms, articulate is just another out of many. i am not impressed by it, especially because it just seems like glorified powerpoint. it might be okay for simple courses.
NOT a good elearning software and it is all because it is way too simple and divides up tasks oddly into two programs. there are so many better sites.
this gets a great rview rom me!! articulate has never failed me and i really think that it consistently covers all the basis in a good elearning course. i will use it again!
went and compared this to a bunch of other platforms and i still think this rises to the top! i will be using this from now on for all of my ebooks that i want to see as online courses!
a pretty good software even if it is confusing at first. i am satisfied enough that i will continue to use this with the rest of my products and courses from now on.
this REALLY isn’t a good platform…articulate has a minimum number of uses to be honest, because it is so simple and utilizes power point as its backend…not great
can’t give this one a high rating either. i was disappointed and i really wish this had more features. i am also confused why it is split into two different programs.
for all the bad reviews i really have to say that i liked articulate. it is simple compared to some but i think it is all you need in order to make a good online course!
a GREAT tool. i think that this is one of my favorite elearning softwares so far and i will continue to use it for the rest of my coursework that i want to put out.
this was mostly a test run but i am ok with what i am seeing so far. i think it is simplistic and that i wish it had more features but it is also extremely easy to learn!
as far as platforms go, i really think articulate is just average. it is too simplistic for me to really get a good course going but the traffic seems decent.
FOR ELEARNING THIS JUST MISSES THE MARK. you cannot make a good course with something this simple, and why is it split up into two programs??
WOW i wish i could give this one an F- in every regard. articulate just does NOT meet the mark, it is sluggish for how simple it is and it does not generate enough money for me.
when compared to all the other elearning products that i tried, i really thing that this is fantastic. it is super easy to use and i love being able to spit out a ton of content at once!
a decent enough software for my purposes. i think the courses are simple and easy and that is what i want, something easy for everyone to learn.
not the best platform out there and articulate really needs to step up their game. it is okay for simple online courses but for the more complicated materials you need more.
all around just falls flat. i think that there are a dozen more websites and programs that can be used for much better elearning experiences.
for all of the reviews i have given, articulate gets the worst one because it is honestly just LAZY. it uses powerpoint and all of the additional features really aren’t that great at all.
A REALLY SOLID TOOL TO GET YOUR FEET OFF THE GROUND!!! I WILL BE USING THIS OR ALL OF MY ONLINE COURSES IN THE FUTURE AND PUSHING OUT AS MUCH CONTENT AS I CAN AS IT IS SO EASY!!
meant as a test and turned into something more! i really enjoyed using this program and think it does a great job of getting my information content out there.
I have used a ton of elearning materials and this is just another one of those platforms that isn’t that great. articulate really needs to step up their game and add more features…
NOT A GOOD ELEARNING PROGRAM AT ALL. PASS ON THIS ONE, IT IS BARE BONES FOR YOUR MONEY AND YOU WILL NOT MAKE ANYWHERE NEAR THE MONEY YOU NEED TO JUSTIFY IT.
went over to see a review on this and i was pretty stoked to give articulate a try. it is so easy to use and i really love it for being able to easily turn my ebooks into web courses.
I LOVE THIS PROGRAM. i compared it to so many others before deciding on it and i couldn’t be happier. this is a great decision for my ebook business to get courses out!
decent software and i do like how simple it is. that being said sometimes it is TOO simple and it could use a few more bells and whistles to be more interesting.
SAY NO TO THIS PLATFORM. there are so many better elearning tools out there that will really get your courses going but this is not one of them.
D- rating, this is just kind of sad, i would rank it even lower but at least it might be good for simple coursework, it just falls short for most everyone