Articulate 360

Articulate 360 is a large panel and multi-app manager that installs the tools, the required components, sends notifications based on user- or admin-configured parameters, and helps update existing Articulate software solutions on your machine.

Installing and gaining access to Articulate's authoring and workflow management apps is done through Articulate 360.

More precisely, Articulate 360 enables access and authenticates your admission, via tokens, when you try to initiate 'Storyline 360,' 'Studio 360' (that includes three different tools — 'Presenter 360,' 'Quizmaker 360,' and 'Engage 360'), 'Replay 360,' and 'Peek 360.'

There is the web application section from where you can launch Articulate apps, such as 'Articulate Training 360,' 'Content Library 360,' 'Review 360,' etc.

The Articulate 360 toolkit includes an extensive amount of utilities. The in-browser apps come with different pricing schemes and are suitable for training employees and creating training systems for enterprise, online, employee instruction courses.

However, the desktop applications this current suite gives you access to (and their focus) are: Storyline 360 (to build and edit mobile or online courses with dynamic interactions), Replay 360 (to record and customize training videos), and Peek 360 (to conduct short screen recordings or screencasts).

Another app that Articulate 360 gives you access to is Replay 360. This tool includes on its end other three programs, such as Presenter 360 (to enhance PowerPoint content and get it ready for publishing), Quizmaker 360 (for creating laborious form-based interactions), and Engage 360 (suitable for assessment and quiz creations).

The suite gives you access to many applications. Because this program lets you download one or multiple Articulate desktop applications and also is a launcher and authenticator for the browser apps, you can configure a global environment suitable for the proper functioning of all the programs offered by this developer.

What does that mean? For example, the smart Articulate 360 installer will add, if you don't have them yet, components such as the .NET framework and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable package. Although you can skip this step, you must take into account the network access.

Secure networks and your Windows firewall or antivirus might block certain network ports and communication channels, which could result in the improper functioning of your Articulate apps. If you encounter issues or abnormal program functioning behavior, restart your machine, and proceed to check if the needed components have properly been added to your environment.

Next, if you encounter other issues, make sure to whitelist the required endpoints; you can find them here, with a brief description.

You've probably understood by now a bit of what Articulate 360 is all about. The answer to that would be: learning and training! As such, this suite is an attractive instrument for all types of developers and designers, as well as for trainers who want to create learning material for others.

Moreover, the tool is suitable for corporations and enterprises that want to create, update, and enhance training material, onboarding content, and new-skill-adoption guides for their employees or collaborators.