Articulate Online Shut Down December 31, 2021

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We shut down Articulate Online on December 31, 2021, after 15 years of service. We didn’t make this decision lightly, and we sincerely appreciate you choosing our legacy learning management system to deliver and track your training content. We firmly believe it’s time to focus our resources on the products that provide the most long-term value—Articulate 360 and Rise.com.

This article describes how to prepare your content for another online training system, such as Rise.com.

Upload Content to Another System

To host your Storyline and Studio courses in another training system, republish your project files as LMS packages.

Locate Your Project Files

You'll need your Storyline and Studio project files to republish them. If you're not sure where they are, search your computer and your file storage locations for the following file extensions:

  • *.story (Storyline courses)
  • *.ppta (Presenter presentations)
  • *.quiz (Quizmaker quizzes)
  • *.intr (Engage interactions)

Republish Your Content

Publish your projects for LMS distribution. If you’re not sure how to do that, refer to the following user guides.

Since Adobe discontinued Flash, Storyline 1, Storyline 2, and Studio ’13 no longer work. If you’re using these legacy versions of Storyline and Studio, we recommend upgrading to Articulate 360 (which includes both Storyline 360 and Studio 360) so you can publish HTML5 content that works beautifully in all major browsers on computers, tablets, and smartphones.

Try Rise.com, the Online Training System Employees Love

As you evaluate your needs, we hope you’ll consider Rise.com. Like Articulate Online, you can host, deliver, and track SCORM content in Rise.com. Unlike Articulate Online, you can also create training in Rise.com and get access to tons of prebuilt, fully customizable content. In short, Rise.com is an all-in-one training system. It makes training easy to create, enjoyable to take, and simple to manage all in one place. You can start a free, 30-day trial of Rise.com or contact a member of our Rise.com team to learn more.

To track your Storyline and Studio courses in Rise.com, publish them as LMS packages and choose SCORM 1.2 or any edition of SCORM 2004 as your LMS standard. Then import them into Rise.com. Watch this video demonstration:

FAQs

Was my Articulate Online data deleted?

Yes. We deleted all Articulate Online data directly after it shut down on December 31, 2021.

How does Rise.com compare to Articulate Online?

Great question! Check out the following comparison and take a look at the Rise.com FAQs to learn more.

 

Rise.com

Articulate Online

What is it?

Rise.com is an online training system that makes training easy to create, enjoyable to take, and simple to manage.

It's an all-in-one, enterprise-class system.

Articulate Online hosted and tracked content created with Storyline and Studio authoring apps.

What can it host?

Easily create courses, guides, and other training content right in Rise.com.

Transfer content from Rise 360 with the click of a button.

Import SCORM content from Storyline, Studio, and third-party apps.

Articulate Online hosted Storyline and Studio content only.

Delivery & Enrollment

SupportedSupported

Tracking

SupportedSupported

Learning Paths

SupportedNot supported

Training Library/Catalog

SupportedNot supported

Authoring Capabilities

SupportedNot supported

Prebuilt Business Content

SupportedNot supported

Sample Courses

SupportedNot supported

Templates

SupportedNot supported

Public Access

Not supportedSupported

User Profile

Business users who want to create formal and informal training

Instructional designers and e-learning developers

Organizations that wanted to track Storyline and Studio content only

Billing Options

Monthly, annual, multi-year

Monthly, annual

Pricing Model

Tiered plans based on number of people (in price bands) added to the system

Each person can assume multiple roles, including learner, author, reporter, and admin

Tiered plans based on the number of learners, publishers, and content items

Can I transfer my Articulate Online data to Rise.com?

There isn’t a direct migration path from Articulate Online to Rise.com. However, you can republish your Storyline and Studio projects as LMS packages (SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004) and then import them into Rise.com. Check out this video tutorial.

Although you can’t transfer your users from Articulate Online to Rise.com, you can import users into your Rise.com team all at once or even synchronize your organization’s user directory with Rise.com via single sign-on (SSO).

Which versions of Storyline and Studio do I need to publish content for Rise.com?

To import content into Rise.com, you need to publish SCORM packages. Since Adobe discontinued Flash at the end of 2020, you also need to publish HTML5 output. Therefore, you can use Storyline 360, Storyline 3, and Studio 360, which support both SCORM and HTML5.

HTML5 output from legacy versions of Storyline and Studio (i.e., Storyline 1, Storyline 2, and Studio ’13) works in Google Chrome and Safari. However, it won’t work reliably in other browsers. We recommend that you upgrade to Articulate 360 (which includes both Storyline 360 and Studio 360), as these apps don’t have any Flash dependencies and their HTML5 output works in all major browsers. Let us know if you want to discuss upgrade options.

Can Rise.com courses be public or must users sign in?

Rise.com training isn’t public and doesn’t support anonymous or guestbook participation. Each learner must be a member of your Rise.com team. You can make courses visible to your whole team by publishing them to your training library.

Does Rise.com Have Reports Similar to Articulate Online?

One of the great things about Rise.com is having access to detailed statistics about your users and their interactions with your Rise.com content.

To help you get your bearings, we created a list of Articulate Online reports and their analogous Rise.com reports, as well as where you can find the data in the Rise.com interface. To find out where the info is in Rise.com, check the tables below. We arranged them so the reports that have 1:1 parity are at the top, followed by reports that need a little more development, and finally, those that don’t apply to Rise.com. We’ll update this list as new reporting options become available in Rise.com.

Available Now

These Rise.com reports provide the same functionality as Articulate Online.

Articulate Online Report

Rise.com Report

How It Compares

Activity

Course

Find each learner's activity in a course in the individual course reports on the Rise.com course report tab. Individual course reports are sortable by learner, duration, the number of lessons viewed, quiz score, and due date. Groups are also available in the exported CSV file.

Answer Breakdown

Question Level Reporting

Rise.com provides question-level reporting for quizzes tracked for course completion as well as individual learner answers. This report is available for individual course reports with tracked quiz data and can be accessed by clicking Report under the average quiz score.

Attempt Detail

Question Level Reporting

Question-level reporting provides historical data on quizzes tracked for course completion for individual learners. This report is available for individual course reports with tracked quiz data and can be accessed by clicking Report under the average quiz score.

Active Users
(When was the last time users logged in?)

Users list

Use the Last Activity column under Manage > People > Users to see when a user was most recently active. If you manage your users with single sign-on (SSO), check with your identity provider for additional tracking options.

Similar Data Exists

These Rise.com reports provide info similar to their Articulate Online counterparts.

Articulate Online Report

Rise.com Report

How It Compares

Score Results

Course

Find quiz scores for each learner in a course in the individual course reports on the Rise.com course report tab. You can sort each course report by quiz score (with red and green values for failed and successful attempts). We’re tracking demand for a course-level average score, overall pass/fail rate, and the number of questions answered. Let us know if you’d like to see these features.

User Activity
(What content did a user view?)

Course or Learner

You can sort course reports by user and expand each entry to see a user’s activity in a course.

You can also view individual learner reports to see the activity of a learner in all courses. This report doesn’t track lesson counts the same way Articulate Online tracks slide counts.

User Activity
(Who hasn't viewed a particular course?)

Course

Sort the course report by status to quickly see who’s completed the course, who’s in progress, and who hasn’t yet started the course.

Under Consideration

We’re exploring options for adding more reports to Rise.com.

Articulate Online Report

Rise.com Report

How It Compares

Active Users
(Who were my most active users?)

Activity

The activity report provides a record of all activity for your Rise.com account. The activity tab is also available for individual learners, courses, and learning paths. It provides raw data but not qualitative info. Export the activity report to a CSV file for easy data analysis.

Traffic

Course (dashboard)

View the total number of lessons learners have completed and hours spent on each course dashboard. We’re tracking demand for more granular metrics. Let us know if you’d like to see this feature.

Progress

Course

Individual progress can be found in the course reports on the Rise.com course report tab. Currently, you can track three learner statuses: Completed, In Progress, and Not Started. We’re monitoring demand for adding more progress metrics. Let us know if you’d like to see more progress data.

Active Groups

Course (exported CSV file)

Exported course reports contain a group field that’s not available in the Rise.com report interface. Use this field in each CSV file to tabulate active groups. We’re tracking demand for adding the group field to the Rise.com report interface. Let us know if you’d like to see this feature.

Group Activity

None

Rise.com doesn’t have group-level reports. However, you can find group information in the CSV files created when you export a course report.

Popular Content

None

Rise.com lessons are analogous to slides in Articulate Online. Rise.com doesn’t track the number of views for individual lessons. Let us know if you’d like to see this data or have other reporting ideas.

Custom Reports

None

Customizable reports aren’t available in Rise.com, but we’re tracking demand for this feature. Let us know if you’d like to create custom reports.

Not Supported

We have no plans to support these Articulate Online reports in Rise.com.

Articulate Online Report

Rise.com Report

How It Compares

Guestbook Responses

None

Rise.com doesn’t allow public viewing of courses, so a guestbook report isn’t applicable.