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Articulate Rapid E-Learning Studio contains three powerful yet easy-to-use products - Presenter, Engage and Quizmaker, each of which can be purchased separately. These three tools are rapidly becoming the de facto standard tools for creating rapid, interactive learning content. 

  • With Presenter you can add a narration and convert a PowerPoint presentation into a Flash-based tutorial
  • With Engage you can add interactivity
  • With Quizmaker you can create Flash-based quizzes, tests and surveys
Website Articulate
Cost Commercial tool
Free trial Yes
Availability Download
Platform Windows
2007 ranking 22=
2008 (Spring) ranking 22=

Comments from those who selected Articulate as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

  • "still the easiest way to make SCORM-compliant (trackable) eLearning courses with a beautiful interface. A bit pricey for some (around 1k for the whole suite, which I recommend), but worth it, for what you get."  Bonni Stachowiak

  • "This is my favourite tool for rapid design, although I would like Presenter, Engage and Quizmaker to sit a little more comfortably together aesthetically. It’s now working comfortably with Vista/ Office07, which is a relief."  Clive Shepherd

  • "Along with it's big brother, Articulate Presenter, Engage is rapidly becoming a key part of my content development strategy. With Engage, I can quickly produce good-looking Flash-based materials with embedded media navigated using one of a set of pre-defined interfaces. These interfaces include (among others) a timeline, concentric rings, image hotspots, pyramids with layers and FAQs. Yes, you are limited to the interfaces available. But they pretty much cover most situations. I use Engage when I need to deliver something that looks good and covers a small amount of content. As a component part of a content strategy it's ideal."  Mark Berthelemy

  • "A great tool for creating engaging elearning quickly and cost-effectively. See the free rapid elearning course created by Clive Shepherd at 60 minute masters to see what is possible."  Steve Rayson

  • "Articulate Presenter - for online narrated slide shows"  Patti Shank

  • "ok for building rapid learning content"  Laurent Janolin

  • "This sets the standard in rapid e-learning, now well supported by frequent blog tutorials."  Patrick Mayfield

  • "Presenter - Great tool for PowerPoint conversions, especially for quick turnaround compliance course creation. Quizmaker - Just plain works when you pair this with Articulate Presenter.  Need standard knowledge checks in your presentation?  Works well all the time.Ed Lamaster

  • "To spice up PowerPoints for delivery online - this is a nice tool in my arsenal for publishing pre-existing online content. We are keenly aware of the limitations of over-use, and try to have these presentations as content support/reference rather than the main thrust of my courses."  Seaghan Moriarty

  • "Presenter: I will rate this tool as the best tool for developing rapid e-learning courses. I use this tool to convert the PPT file to an SWF file, customize an e-learning template of my choice, and publish the course for LMS" Sathish Narayanan

  • Quizmaker: I always use this tool for creating quizzes. It is such a useful tool for creating innovative quizzes"  Sathish Narayanan

  • Engage: I am sure that the e-learning professionals will use this tool extensively in years to come. Without any help from graphic designers and multimedia programmers, I can include compelling learning interaction with stunning visual quality in my e-learning courses. Amazing tool!

    " Sathish Narayanan
  • "For the clients I work with, a tool like Articulate is like a gift from heaven. Combined with Quizmaker and Engage, you can transform PowerPoint into a pretty incredible production tool."  Jeff Cobb

Comments from those who selected Articulate as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

Rapid e-learning Studio/Presenter

  • "very easy to create engaging elearning quickly and cost-effectively"  Steve Rayson

  • "Quick and easy way to create e-learning presentations and assessments. The only downside: it requires PowerPoint. Would be very nice to have a version that supports OpenOffice Impress. One of the few proprietary software I use."  Guy Boulet

  • "a quantum leap for lecturers in their ability to deliver multimedia lessons"   David Flanders

  • "To spice up powerpoints for delivery online - this is a nice tool in my arsenal for publishing online content of the one-way narrative type."  Seaghan Moriarty

  • "Excellent elearning tools that allow SMEs to work in PowerPoint and developers to quickly produce high quality online learning content" Mike Taylor

  • "Our products – the Studio desktop offerings along with Articulate Online – are an amazing way to create compelling online content -- be it elearning, a customer survey, a performance quiz, an online fundraiser for a non-profit, or a party invitation (all actual ways I've leveraged our tools)." Gabe Anderson 

Engage

  • "I had to choose a couple of authoring tools and this is the one I use for rapid stuff. I particularly like the Engage module, which creates sexy looking materials with just a few clicks"  Clive Shepherd

  • "nice animated interactions make it easy to create an information-rich item all in one small swf file for insertion in Dreamweaver, or any other tool that will import a swf" Wendy Phillips

  • very easy for anyone to create flash animations and include these in their elearning"  Steve Rayson

  • "impressive for quickly developing interactions and has help to improve a variety of learning programs which I have encountered"  Karl Kapp

  • "Makes it easy to produce basic Flash interactives in Windows"  Cathy Moore

Quizmaker

  • "Very flexible quiz tool"  Wendy Phillips

  • a good quiz tool though hopefully we will see better integration with Articulate Presenter in the next releases"  Steve Rayson

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