eLearning Content Development: Is Articulate Storyline 360 Economical?

Articulate Storyline 360 is a powerful eLearning tool. Using this tool we can create interactive, engaging, gamified and eLearning content development compatible with mobile devices supporting touch screen gesture.

So, why Articulate Storyline 360 is a cost effective tool?

To develop an effective eLearning course, the ingredients required are Content, Avatar, Images, Audio and Video. Obviously you need to own the content but other assets can be purchased/ outsourced. As soon as you think of outsourcing, it means adding cost to the project.

Articulate Storyline 360 provides these assets from its content library without any extra cost. Let’s look at each asset which Articulate Storyline provides as a package.

Avatar/ Characters:

Characters are also known as teacher, avatar, learning assistant or an instructor. Articulate Storyline 360 provides free characters. We can download from content library and use it in our eLearning content/ courses without any extra cost.

Photos / Illustrations / Icons / Images:

Images help the learners to understand concept, ideas and facts in an effective way. Articulate Storyline 360 offers free photos, illustrations and icons which Articulate users can implement them in there eLearning solutions.

Videos:

Articulate Storyline 360 provides free videos which can used in eLearning development to enhance the user experience.

Text-to-speech:

Recently Articulate Storyline 360 introduced a new feature which is “Text-to-Speech”. To eliminate the cost involved in Human voice recording, a machine generated audio can be used. Just need to add the audio text or the Closed Captions and machine generated audio is ready.
Text to speech in Articulate Storyline 360 provides 25 languages with different narrators.

Templates:

Articulate Storyline 360 provides free templates for subscribers. Here are the few advantages of using templates:

Templates are easy to use and it will save lot of development time increasing productivity.
Templates reduces the development cost.
Templates have variety of design layouts to choose from.

Community Support from organization and stakeholders:

Articulate Storyline 360 have world’s largest e-learning community. It is a place to connect with eLearning professionals and developers. This community will give you everything to improve the skills in elearning courseware development.

That’s why Articulate Storyline 360 is a cost effective tool for eLearning content development.