One of the biggest challenges in corporate training and development is the rapid pace of technological advancement. Even modern training programs become outdated quickly, and traditional learning distribution solutions often cannot meet mounting reskilling needs — especially for hard-to-reach learners.
This can make it challenging for learning and development (L&D) professionals to quantify training effectiveness while ensuring training programs are suited to diverse, multigenerational workforces, skills are learned and applied in the real work environment, and that programs are implemented over the long term.
From a learner perspective, employees are looking for personalised and engaging training methods that don’t disrupt productivity at work and that can be accessed regardless of their location. This emphasises the need for flexible, scalable, online learning platforms that learners can access anytime, anywhere.
Enter Articulate Global, LLC (Articulate), New Leaf Technologies’ partner in eLearning technology. Articulate is widely regarded as a game-changer for L&D in the local business landscape and has the potential to transform EdTech in South Africa.
What Is Articulate and What Are Its Star Features?
Articulate Global, LLC has helped organisations worldwide change the way their employees learn by making it super easy to create, distribute, and manage online training.
Central to the platform’s success are the award-winning apps Articulate 360, used for course creation, and Reach 360, used for course distribution. But that’s not all; the Articulate package includes a host of industry-leading tools, templates, and training that bring learning to life.
Articulate 360’s two content-authoring apps, Storyline 360 and Rise 360, allow users to easily create interactive, branded courses that look great on any device. Rise 360 allows anyone to quickly create responsive courses right in their web browser, while Storyline 360 allows learning experience designers and beginners alike to create custom interactions, making exploring eLearning content easier than ever before.
Reach 360 is Articulate’s easy-to-use distribution tool. It integrates seamlessly with Articulate 360 and complements existing learning management systems (LMS), enabling you to deliver training to more learners. You can effortlessly publish your training, and track and analyse learner activity with exportable reports.
Another top feature of Articulate’s suite of products is Articulate 360 Teams, which includes exclusive product features that make it easy for team members to collaborate on Rise 360 and Storyline 360 projects. For example, they can build a shared collection of templates, scenes and slides in Storyline 360 that all team members can access right from within the app.
Articulate 360 also offers a content library of over 12 million course assets, including royalty-free content like photos, templates, and characters, integrated into the authoring apps.
Rounding out the product are Review 360 –– a user-friendly project review app where L&D managers can gather stakeholder reviews and feedback –– and Articulate 360 Training, which provides access to exclusive live and on-demand training webinars with industry experts.
Articulate 360 –– A Global Leader in Workplace Training
Articulate is the world’s leading creator platform for workplace learning. Over 125,000 organisations in 187 countries use Articulate products to train their teams in every industry imaginable.
Articulate 360 has won more than 35 product awards, including Best Customer Support, Best Feature Set, and Most Loved, from TrustRadius. In 2024, it won a Training Magazine Network Choice Award for its authoring tools, and a gold (2023) and silver (2022) award from the Brandon Hall Group for Excellence in Technology.
Here are some of Articulate.com’s well-deserved bragging rights:
- All 100 of the Fortune 100 companies use Articulate products to train employees.
- The 20 top-ranked U.S. universities all use Articulate’s learning design software.
- Four million courses and over 23 million lessons created in the last 12 months.
- 96% of customers say Articulate 360 makes it easy to create more engaging courses that deliver better outcomes.
- 71% of customers say that by switching to Articulate 360, they’ve reduced the cost of training.
- 90% of customers say creating courses with custom interactivity is much easier when using Storyline 360.
How Global Customers Use Articulate
Articulate has helped numerous companies with eLearning content development, including building eLearning courses from scratch, creating microcontent, developing blended learning journeys, adding gamification elements (learn about these learning and development buzzwords here), migrating existing content, and distributing it to global audiences. Here are some examples:
GP Strategies Corp., a global talent transformation service provider, needed to convert large volumes of learning content into HTML5 after the phasing out of Adobe Flash. They also needed to build new modules, secure sensitive content, translate content into multiple languages, and bridge collaborative skill gaps between writers and instructional designers. The company chose Storyline 360 to rapidly and securely create eLearning content, converting thousands of hours of learning from Flash to HTML5.
SEIU 775 Benefits Group, which provides training to over 50,000 care workers, needed to streamline course creation and reduce development time. They transitioned content into Rise 360, allowing them to update existing courses easily -— and create new ones — while ensuring a consistent experience across devices and lesson content.
Supergoop!, a luxury skincare company, needed an effective, scalable way to train employees as it expanded into the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. It used Articulate products to quickly create virtual onboarding and revamp its customer service and product training across the company.
The New Leaf Technologies + Articulate 360 Partnership
Although Articulate 360 has been South African instructional designers’ preferred learning design software tool for some time, the New Leaf Technologies partnership is bringing this game-changing tech to a wider market. As one of only three companies licensed to distribute Articulate 360 in the country, our experienced team of learning experience designers and customer success heroes is ready to help organisations make the most of Articulate’s award-winning platforms.
Our services include eLearning content development, strategic management, and training in intelligence analytics. We also offer all our clients free training and workshops to upskill their instructional designers in the many facets of the Articulate 360 suite of products.
Get in touch if you’re eager to see how Articulate can help you deploy your workplace training program.
