We’ve talked about eLearning tools in previous articles while focusing primarily on LMS’s. But, when it comes to all of the tools out there, LMS is just one in a sea of many. In this mini-series, we’ll discuss the best eLearning tools for education. This week, we’re focusing primarily on Articulate 360.
In this article, we’ll talk about Articulate 360, including what it is, some of the programs it offers, and how it can help you take your eLearning environment to the next level.
What Is Articulate 360?
Articulate 360 is responsible for building online training apps for all 100 Fortune 100 companies. While you may not be familiar with the company name, Articulate 360 is everything you need and more when it comes to course development. Articulate 360 is a powerful tool that includes:
Exclusive training webinars by industry experts
An online tool for review and collaboration
An ever-growing library of course assets
Screencasting apps
A new responsive-authoring app
Award-winning authoring tools
Articulate 360 Programs
Articulate 360 has the following programs that create courses that all support Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG):
Storyline 360 allows you to view any course imaginable from any device. Once you publish within Storyline 360, you don’t have to worry about formatting on carrying devices. Courses will play everywhere seamlessly.
Even for beginners to eLearning development who are helpless with a computer, Storyline 360 makes it easier than ever. Integrating seamlessly with Content Library 360, Storyline 360 is familiar and intuitive.
Storyline 360 has countless features, with new improvements happening regularly. Some of the features you can look forward to when working with Storyline 360 include:
Intuitive user interfacing
An ever-growing library of photographic and illustrated characters
Motion paths
Slide layers
Triggers
Software simulations
Multimedia support
Rise 360 helps you create beautiful, inherently responsive eLearning using the latest web technologies. Give your learners the optimal eLearning experience with courses that adapt effortlessly to any device in any orientation.
Using simple web browsers, you can build courses online without requiring additional software downloads. Use one of the available course outlines, or build yours from the ground up. Drag and drop and rearrange to make the course your own. Once you’ve completed it, you can preview your lessons or entire course before publishing.
Easily create PowerPoint-based courses with the help of Studio 360. Never worry about display on various devices, as you can quickly deliver your presentation-based courses without having to tweak anything. Once you’ve created your course with Studio 360, you simply push publish, and you can view your course on any device beautifully.
Quizmaker 360, another aspect within Studio 360, allows you to test your learners with decision-making activities and quizzes. Create any assessment you like.
Through Replay 360, students and instructors can easily record screencasts with their webcam. Capture screen activity along with the face of an educator on a webcam, allowing them the power to walk students through on-screen content. Alternatively, students stuck on a particular project can also utilize Replay 360 to send feedback back to instructors.
Best of all, you can use your screencasts anywhere since Replay 360 publishes in MP4 format. You can easily upload your MP4 into your LMS or import it into:
Storyline 360
Rise 360
Studio 360
Instantly create professional-looking screencasts with a personal touch with the help of Replay 360. Features within Replay 360 include recording, highlighting, editing, mixing, and adding media.
Recording - Easily record your webcam or screen activity together or separately.
Highlighting - Emphasize important information by adding text to the lower third of the screen.
Editing - Tell the best story by separating, trimming, and deleting sections. Finally, a program allows you to silence unwanted “uhs” and “ums.”
Mixing - With picture-in-picture mix effects, you can easily show two video clips at once or flip between two.
Adding Media - Get your screencast just right by adding still images, importing audio, or integrating video clips.
Peek 360 allows you to quickly and easily record screencasts on your PC or Mac. The convenience of Peek 360 will enable you to click and record, launched directly from your Windows system tray or the Mac menu bar.
Customize your view for your screencast by choosing what to capture. Drag the frame to select the app you want to record with one click. You can just as easily customize your sound by selecting your mic from a drop-down menu. See your voice coming through loud and clear by checking out the volume level.
Not surprisingly, Peek 360 makes sharing your screencast easier than ever. With a single click, you can upload your screencast to Articulate 360, download it to load into your LMS, or share it with a unique link.
ryco.io and Articulate 360
At ryco.io, we focus on developing eLearning courses and applications accessible to all learners, following WCAG, for businesses and schools worldwide. We focus on social and emotional development among students of all learning needs by seamlessly integrating data and learning analytics.
To help us achieve some of our eLearning goals, we use an authoring tool called Articulate 360 to build some of the interactives within the ryco.io courses.
Articulate 360 completely transforms how the world learns, rather than relying on traditional programs, like PowerPoint and Word Documents for learning. Articulate 360 develops custom and interactive courses formatted for any learning device and learner with the help of their award-winning authoring apps, which we utilize here at ryco.io.
Final Thoughts
ryco.io prioritizes making our eLearning courses the most effective form of education out there for both students and educators. That’s why we want to help you by identifying some of the best eLearning tools for education out there today.
Now that you have a better understanding of Articulate 360, which is just one of many incredible eLearning tools, you can determine whether or not this tool sounds like something you might be interested in integrating into your eLearning.