pluralsight.com

Quality Knowledge

Pluralsight is a great site that provides high quality, on demand IT video courses. I learn a lot from great instructors. Please update your Android app so it can play the videos in full screen mode and also to be Chromecast capable. This is the reason why I am rating you with 4 out 5 stars.

Date of experience: Oct 06, 2015

Perfect!

No regrets, Pluralsight is a great resource for learners, hobbyists and professionals. Have recommended and will recommend Pluralsight to anyone.

Date of experience: Oct 06, 2015

I have learned so much!

Date of experience: Oct 06, 2015

Personal Thought of Pluralsight

In my candid opinion, there is not any other satisfaction one can gain on any LMS site than the unequal Pluralsight! It is simply incomparable when you talk about quality of updates, new courses and acquisition of other training companies. All the certifications that me and my wife has today, is simply through Pluralsight trainings.

Date of experience: Oct 06, 2015

Technically Professional & Well-Presented Courses

The variety of informative courses offered by Pluralsight are technically professional and educationally well-presented. Keep up the good service.

Date of experience: Oct 06, 2015

Good mix of courses, let down by missing basic features.

First the good news:
There are A LOT OF GOOD QUALITY COURSES on Pluralsight.com, mostly for technical training. Some of their course leaders are experts in their field, and adept at making dry topics interesting enough for you to remain interested for (sometimes) 10-12 hours of course content.

I have found some great courses on .NET, which have helped refresh my technical knowledge, and making development interesting again.

There are some good 'business professional' courses too, e.g. the PMP Project Management courses, which allow you to count the hours spent on Pluralsight.com towards your certification. That is a great help.

Downsides:
Some of the tutors are not good, and make no attempt to engage the audience. Some just read exactly what it says on the slides. This is pointless. These courses need to be removed or re-done, as it appears some professionals just use Pluralsight as a way to self-publicise.

I have not found a way to look at my course history, beyond the 10 'most recent' courses. This is useless. I can do 10 courses in a few weeks, but I cannot see beyond that.

Some of the technical courses are useless if you are not on the Plus subscription. To me, this is like a bait-and-switch. You'll see technical courses where the leader will say "I'm not going to cover all the code here, you can see what I've done in the exercise files" - but you cannot get the exercise files unless you are a Plus subscriber. All the poor Normal subscribers are out of luck... You might not realise you're missing fundamental information until you've spent hours on a course. Then you cannot complete it. This needs addressed.

The 'assessments' are like an afterthought on some courses, hardly worth bothering about.

There doesn't seem to be a way to 'report' a course which is particularly bad. You can rate it, and comment on the discussions, but that's about it. You can tell how proud of their course the tutor is by their interaction with subscribers - some are great, providing extra info, going the extra mile. Some don't bother to respond at all.

All in, it's the best of the bunch for CBT at your own pace.

Oh, their iPad app is terrible - don't expect to use it for anything, you'll go mad. And you cannot download more than 30hrs of content for offline viewing. Which is unfortunate. They should really have designed their infrastructure a bit better before growing so large.

Date of experience: Oct 06, 2015