Alternative to Articulate 360

Over the years, Articulate 360 has established itself as a reliable eLearning authoring tool and a solid solution, especially for small to medium-sized companies with limited training needs. With its ready-made templates and user-friendly design options, it enables you to create courses quickly and easily. However, as soon as the requirements increase—for example when creating international, multilingual eLearning content that needs to be displayed perfectly on all devices—Articulate 360 reaches its limits.

For companies looking for a more flexible, scalable, and future-proof solution, Knowledgeworker Create is a powerful alternative. This cloud-based authoring tool not only offers extensive customization and internationalization options, but also integrates advanced AI features that make creating and managing eLearning content even more efficient.

In this article, we’ll look at why it might make sense to switch from Articulate 360 to Knowledgeworker Create, and what specific advantages this tool offers in comparison. Find out how Knowledgeworker Create can optimize your eLearning strategy and make your training projects more efficient and effective.

As we said above, Articulate 360 is undoubtedly a powerful eLearning authoring tool that provides valuable services for many organizations. But as eLearning requirements rise, it reaches its limits in certain areas.

1. Flexibility and design

Articulate 360 is based on a PowerPoint-like structure with rigid slide layouts. This may be sufficient for simple training courses, but it significantly limits flexibility when it comes to creating dynamic, engaging, and fully responsive eLearning content. Knowledgeworker Create gives you freedom from these rigid layouts, and allows you to create fully responsive courses that display perfectly on any device. Plus, all of your design customizations in Knowledgeworker Create are based on templates, meaning that design changes are made centrally and all courses that use the same template are updated automatically.

2. Efficiency in course creation

Both Articulate 360 and Knowledgeworker Create offer features that facilitate rapid course creation through templates, assets, and AI support. However, Knowledgeworker Create goes further by using the integrated AI to automatically generate not only content, but also translations into a lot of languages. This saves an enormous amount of time and resources, especially for large, internationally oriented projects. Plus, existing PDFs and PowerPoint presentations can be run through the AI, which automatically generates an online course from them.

3. Accessibility and responsivity

While Articulate 360 only creates partially accessible and responsive eLearning courses, Knowledgeworker Create offers fully accessible, automatically responsive courses. This is an clear advantage if you want to ensure that your eLearning content is accessible to all users and can be viewed on any device.

4. Collaboration and translation management

Articulate 360 supports collaborative working, but lacks integrated functions for translation management and review processes. Knowledgeworker Create, on the other hand, offers a comprehensive range of collaboration, task management, and multilingual translation functions, making it ideal for international teams. Everything is integrated directly into the tool, so no additional programs are required.

5. Reusability and management of content

With Articulate 360, customizing designs and content can be time-consuming, as each slide has to be edited individually when changes occur. Knowledgeworker Create, on the other hand, offers a central database for media, course content, and questions, which makes reusing them a breeze. Once created, content is stored as sharable content objects and can be linked to an infinite number of online courses. Changes are made centrally and all linked courses automatically receive the updated content. This significantly increases the efficiency of creating and managing eLearning courses.

6. Linked translations

Articulate 360 creates separate language versions each time you translate an online course. If changes are made, all these different versions have to be adapted manually, which can quickly become confusing and time-consuming if there are several languages. Knowledgeworker Create solves this problem by linking all your translations to the original course. The integrated translation management system indicates which text passages need to be adapted in the other language versions when changes are made to the original.

The decision to switch authoring tool is often easier if you have seen concrete, real-world examples. Companies that have already made the switch report significant improvements in the efficiency, quality, and user-friendliness of their eLearning content. Here are some success stories and case studies that show how Knowledgeworker Create can make a real difference.

Articulate 360 offers support from an extensive online community as well as forums and training resources. For specific or more complex problems, however, support can sometimes be time-consuming.

The team behind Knowledgeworker Create, chemmedia AG, offers comprehensive consulting services and personalized support tailored to the specific needs of each company. In addition to comprehensive training courses, the Knowledgeworker Create support team is always on hand to ensure that all your staff can use the tool efficiently and without issue.

At first glance, Articulate 360 comes in at an attractive price point for what it offers, especially for smaller companies or those with limited training needs. The license costs are comparatively low, and the extensive template library enables you to create courses quickly at no additional cost. However, as complexity and training requirements increase, costs can rise rapidly as additional customizations, external tools, or manual translations become necessary. Plus, the limited content reusability and automation options can lead to a higher workload and therefore additional costs in the long term.

Knowledgeworker Create may have higher licensing costs at first glance, but it offers much better value for money for companies with extensive, international training programs. The integrated AI-supported translation, centralized content management, and reusability functions save time and resources, which leads to significant cost savings, especially for larger projects. Plus, its comprehensive integrated collaboration, task, and review management functions eliminate the need for additional expenditure on external tools. This makes Knowledgeworker Create a cost-effective long-term solution for companies that value flexibility, scalability, and internationalization.