Articulate 360
E-learning authoring suite built around Storyline 360 and Rise 360
Founded
2002
Starting Price
$1,449
Category
Learning & Development
Last updated September 21, 2026
About Articulate 360
Articulate 360 is a subscription suite for building workplace training and e-learning courses, sold as a single per-seat plan rather than as individual licenses. The subscription bundles the two flagship authoring tools — Storyline 360 for slide-based, deeply interactive courses and Rise 360 for fast, responsive web courses — alongside Review 360 for stakeholder feedback, Reach 360 as a built-in LMS, a stock content library, and localization into 80+ languages. Articulate has since folded AI generation, an AI tutor, and analytics into the plan and rebranded the L&D tier as Articulate 360 AI.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Storyline 360 and Rise 360 cover both ends of the authoring spectrum — deep custom interactivity and fast responsive courses — in one subscription rather than two purchases
- Storyline's trigger, state, and variable model handles branching scenarios and software simulations that block-based builders cannot produce
- Review 360 replaces email-and-spreadsheet SME feedback with threaded comments pinned to specific slides
- Publishes to SCORM 1.2/2004, xAPI, AICC, and plain web, so courses drop into virtually any existing LMS
- E-Learning Heroes is one of the largest active instructional-design communities, with free templates and troubleshooting answers for almost any Storyline problem
Key Features
Storyline 360
Slide-based desktop authoring tool for custom interactions, branching scenarios, software simulations, and quizzes with full control over triggers, states, and variables.
Rise 360
Browser-based authoring tool that assembles courses from prebuilt blocks and produces fully responsive output, designed for speed over pixel-level control.
AI course generation
Drafts complete courses, assessments, and alternate formats from source material such as documents, slide decks, and existing policies.
Review 360 collaboration
Publishes a shareable link where SMEs and stakeholders leave threaded, slide-level comments that consolidate into one feedback queue instead of email threads.
Reach 360 distribution
Native lightweight LMS for assigning courses, tracking completion, and issuing certificates, plus SCORM, xAPI, AICC, and web exports for third-party LMSs.
Localization into 80+ languages
Exports course text for translation and reimports it, with AI-assisted translation and validation available through purchased credits.
Pricing
Articulate 360 AI — Personal
$1,449/user/year
- Rise 360 and Storyline 360 authoring
- AI course generation from source material
- Review 360 stakeholder review
- Flexible distribution: trackable links, LMS export, Reach 360
- AI tutor for learners
Best For
Compliance and onboarding training at scale
L&D teams build required annual training in Rise 360, publish SCORM packages to a corporate LMS, and track completion for audit purposes.
Branching scenario and soft-skills simulation
Instructional designers use Storyline 360 variables and triggers to build decision-tree conversations where learner choices change the outcome and score.
Software and product rollout training
Storyline's screen-recording and step-by-step simulation modes turn a workflow capture into try-it and test-it practice modes for a new internal system.
Freelance and agency course production
Independent instructional designers deliver client courses with Review 360 links for approval rounds, then hand off publish-ready output in the client's preferred LMS format.
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