Top Tools: Articulate

Comments from those who selected Articulate as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009

• call me biased, but I love these products!Adam Schwartz
• A great elearning author tool, we now use this for many projects as it means our clients can edit the content. It doesn’t do ‘everything’ but what is does it does well. Rob Hubbard

• Of course, I’m biased, but our new products are more powerful and easier to use than ever. Here’s a blog entry I wrote outlining some of my favorite features. It’s a great set of tools that’s helping people around the world learn every day. Gabe Anderson

• This is my favourite tool for rapid design, particularly in it’s better integrated and more versatile 09 version.   Clive Shepherd

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 its 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