Storyline 2 is a brilliant authoring tool A brilliant eLearning authoring tool that's easy to pick up and use - even if you have limited techy skills. Publishes automatically to SCORM, and is cross-platform ready with loads of built in features meaning you don't need to understand coding, HTML, flash etc to be able to produce great, engaging learning. THe support is amazing with elearningheroes.com and fast response to any queries. It's also well-priced against its competitors

Articulate 360 I left a review about the Articulate suite of goodies about one year ago. Since then, Articulate have moved to the Cloud and introduced new products such as Rise and Review. They have also greatly improved the number and library of templates and characters. Rise and Review are exceptional additions to the Articulate family. My only concern is the pricing strategy. I understand moving to the Cloud with all of the benefits that provides in terms of stability and upgrading applications. But at a projected annual subscription of $999 and no projected facility to pay for individual applications, I wonder whether this might be off-putting for those, like me, who create eLearning for charities and seek no payment and for those who do not use every application this might cause hesitation in commiting to products that could not later be amended. For me, at the moment, the suite of applications and the most exceptional community are benefits that would lead me to persuade she who holds the purse strings that I could not live without them!! But my task would be made much easier if there was a more flexible pricing strategy.

SL2 - It's good Using SL2 is a fairly decent process, with some friction points when getting into the nitty gritty of using the software. I do like that you can import translations directly and that makes building courses anew in another language must faster. I do like the versatility of layers, states and triggers. As well there are many valuable templates created by community users that can be gleaned and updated for your own needs. When working with a module that is large, the SL2 file can become unstable and corrupt - which is no fun - and in my experience not recoverable. It does not create a good mobile user experience unless you build a course that is specifically designed for the mobile experience, so that means multiple courses for the same content.

Should be five stars, but ... In almost every respect, Storyline 2 is a great piece of software. It makes it easy to develop compelling interactive e-learning content quickly and easily. It has a wide set of features and the online community is excellent and supportive. I particularly like the fact that it's not just easy to use out of the box, but also has a lot of power under the hood. So why the three stars? Simply put, Storyline 2 is unusable on high DPI monitors. The software ignores the system DPI setting and defaults to a low DPI setting. Which means that everything on the screen – text, icons, graphics – is absolutely tiny. There are workarounds, but the workarounds seriously impact my workflow to the point where I find myself doing more and more work in other tools. I can't wait for the DPI issue to be fixed, but this doesn't seem to be a priority for Articulate, which is a real shame as high DPI monitors are becoming more and more common. If you don't have a high DPI screen, then Storyline 2 is excellent. If you do, it's worth three stars only until the issue is fixed.

Storyline 2 is a fantastic piece of software needing only a few tweaks I've been using Storyline for over a year and have created some excellent content, it's easy to use and there is tonnes of online support available as well as access to templates and resources. The only things I think it could improve on is the animations and transitions which are nowhere near as slick and smooth as PowerPoint.