Articulate Studio ‘09 Has Arrived!
October 1, 2008
After what seemed like an endless wait, my favorite eLearning development apps have finally been refreshed. Articulate Studio ‘09 was released last night, including all-new versions of Presenter, Quizmaker, and Engage, as well as a new app, Articulate Video Encoder.
In addition to fixing the niggling flaws with the previous versions that bugged me (for one, notes text can now be formatted - something users have been pleading for forever), they’ve added some amazing new features (branching, yay!) that, in concert, simply leave other eLearning development apps I’ve seen in the dust. In the coming weeks I plan to look at some of these new features in detail, so stay tuned.
Quizmaker, once the ugly duckling of the Articulate family, got the most extensive makeover of all. I was once somewhat embarrassed to include the inevitably janky-looking Quizmaker quizzes with my beautiful Presenter and Engage-based courses, but no more. Quizmaker now provides complete control over the look and feel of your knowledge checks, allowing visually seamless integration with the rest of your content. Quizmaker, girl, you look good all growed up!
These are slick (and fun!) apps to work with, the learning curve is minimal, and they produce beautiful output. Win, win, and win. The new versions are more gorgeous and easier to use than ever. And the price (for eLearning development software) can’t be beat. What more can one ask for?
If you’re already an Articulate user, get your upgrade orders in. Trust me. And if you’re not, what are you waiting for?
Articulate apps are about the only reason I fire up Windows in VMware on my Mac any more. Now if only we could get a native Mac version…
Guys?
Disclaimer: I’m Chris of eQuixotic, I am not paid in any way by Articulate, and I approved this message.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
[...] As you’ll see in the demos, there are so many new and exciting features in all of the products that it’s impossible to outline everything here, but I’ll highlight a few of the features that “simply leave other eLearning development apps I’ve seen in the dust,” as Chris at eQuixotic put it (Articulate Studio ‘09 Has Arrived!). [...]
November 1st, 2008 at 1:39 am
Hi Chris,
downloaded trial version of quizmaker ‘09 and I’m somehow disappointed.
I’m a teacher and really (I mean really) need gap fill exercises with more than one gap! It seems that it cannot be achieved with quizmaker.
Come on - I can do that with HotPotatoes which is free software. Do you know a workaround to solve this problem?
So I think I’m not going to buy quizmaker.
Best,
kurt
November 1st, 2008 at 11:50 am
Hey Kurt,
What do you mean by “gap fill exercises?” Are you referring to fill-in-the-blank questions where the answer contains multiple words, thus the need for multiple blanks?
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 am
Hi Chris,
yes - Text with multiple blanks:
The capital city of Australia is ___________________.
The most famous building in Sydney is the ______________ house.
….
Can’t do that in quizmaker?
-kurt
April 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
No Doubt Articulate is the best Rapid Tool available and with latest reslease quite a few issues have been resolved. Here are some workarounds for a few that still remain.
http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/?p=309