Different capabilities for different needs.

With the release of Storyline, Articulate now offers two options for authoring e-learning content:

  • Articulate Studio. Use the Articulate Studio suite if you want to author courses primarily within the PowerPoint environment. With Studio, you create quizzes, courses, and interactive content using various products within the suite.
  • Articulate Storyline. Choose Articulate Storyline if you want to author courses with a single standalone product. With Storyline, you create virtually any type of quiz, course, interactive content, or software simulation using one authoring tool.

Studio and Storyline have different strengths. See the table below to view the primary differences.

Capabilities
Studio ’09
Storyline
Author slides

Author slides

With Studio, you author slides in PowerPoint. With Storyline, you author slides in Storyline.

Narrate slides

Narrate slides

With Articulate Studio, you narrate slides in PowerPoint. With Articulate Storyline, you narrate slides in Storyline.

Annotate PowerPoint slides

Annotate PowerPoint slides

With its PowerPoint-based authoring environment, Articulate Studio includes an optimized workflow for annotating PowerPoint slides.

Author pre-built interactions with Articulate Engage

Author pre-built interactions with Articulate Engage

Create interactions by filling in Engage templates.

Create virtually any type of interaction

Create virtually any type of interaction

Only Articulate Storyline includes slide layers, triggers, and states—the revolutionary features that let you create virtually any type of interactivity.

Use variables

Use variables

Create conditional interactivity using variables.

Add built-in interactive objects

Add built-in interactive objects

Storyline includes pre-built interactive objects, including buttons, hotspots, data entry fields, mouse objects, markers, and lightboxes.

Create screen recordings

Create screen recordings

Start recording your screen with just a few clicks.

Create software simulations

Create software simulations

Record your screen session once and insert view, try, or test slides without re-recording.

Publish to iPad and HTML5

Publish to iPad and HTML5

Publish to HTML5 or to the Articulate Mobile Player app so learners can view content on their iPads and other non-Flash devices.

In PowerPoint
In PowerPoint
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Studio ’13
In Storyline
In Storyline
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Storyline, Studio '09, Articulate Online

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