Pluralsight: Learn Tech Skills Reviews

Am I missing something? So far, both the website and Pluralsight are really frustrating. If I do a search for Cinema 4D, I get a message saying that nothing is found. If I do a google search for “this app Cinema 4D” quite a few courses pop up, although they are mostly outdated. With Pluralsight and website if I do a search for related courses, I get a long list of search results that have NOTHING to do with Cinema 4D or 3D design. The player doesn’t work, either. I can’t skip ahead to the next class or watch anything other the first video. I know this is a free trial, but I can’t watch anything because I get a message saying I’m not authorized to watch the video. I received the confirmation email saying I have access 200 minutes of courses; so what gives? Plus, when I click on almost anything in the entire app or website, I’m logged out and majority of the time it won’t let me log back in. I’ve never felt the need to write a bad review over a free trial, but this is too frustrating to continue any further. Clearly it wouldn’t be worth paying for the service when the trial ends; at least for me. However, it does seem that most people like this app. It just seemed better when it was “digital tutors.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

I normally access the site thru the web. And I have many classes saved in bookmarks and I also continue where I left off my classes by using the course history. Since Pluralsight does not offer either view. I had trouble finding the last class I was taking. Please fix this! Thanks!

UPDATE: I received a response from the developer for this issue. I later realized that my LTE connection was slow when I launched Pluralsight which caused the history and bookmark not showing up. A suggestion for the dev - if bookmarks and history cannot be launched on the “home” tab due to network issues, please add some UI hints so that users would know that these are not available due to network. And thanks again for the quick response!

I love the small feature that Pluralsight adds to the learning I receive with my subscription like the transcripts on learning modules, ability to download courses for offline watching and the ability to airplay my courses. Being a single parent my time is very limited to sit in front of a desktop to just learn, so Pluralsight is just handy as I transition my career. My favorite way to learn is to project my course on my tv and get my biking in at the same time. Thanks for creating such a flexible and easy platform.

In my original review I outlined the many frustrations I was having with Pluralsight, however, it seems like a recent update has made Pluralsight much more stable.

The this app concept is great and there is enough material for multiple lifetime’s worth of learning as they cover a wide range of topics (database, IT, software, etc). I do wish the software development materials had a bit more variety at times though. If you’re a corporate business developer then there is plenty here, but outside of that there seems to be some fairly wide gaps or the materials that do cover said gaps are often out of date.

Overall I do feel I get good value for the service.

Library is extensive. Content is top notch. And even if Pluralsight were to be lacking it would make up... and it isn’t!!! So makes the experience fantastic. I expect that from any paid service.
Most important for me is the ability to stack up my reading for offline viewing and the ability to change playback speeds.
Two features I wish they offered (and this is not related to Pluralsight but the service overall) -
1. Ability to perhaps play/download just audio content
2. Better way of managing playlists. (Maybe with an additional tag or flag) to better manage viewed/not viewed/revise content flags.

I like Pluralsight very much! But why did i rate it 3 stars though! It’s the download courses. When I download a course, then watch a couple of videos in Pluralsight (offline) and return back to Pluralsight on windows they don’t sync! Even if I turned the wifi on after finishing. The same thing on the website it doesn’t sync with Pluralsight either. So what i had to do is to watch the downloaded course on Pluralsight while being online, otherwise videos won’t sync. So basically my progress is gone and i had to open every video again while being online to keep my progress updated. I didn’t try writing notes using Pluralsight (offline) yet. Put I hope they don’t have the same problem.

I was a user of CodeSchool and switched to this app when they were absorbed. The content is high quality and it seems they are expanding the interactive courses, which is my favorite way to learn.

However -
iOS 12 broke Chromecast streaming for me. I have multiple Chromecast devices and I can stream from other apps to them. The this app app at first did not have the cast button, now it does, but it prompts me for a pin each time and does not connect. I’ve rebooted all the things, uninstalled and reinstalled Pluralsight , but no joy.

I train people to play new roles and use this app as a reference in ALL my training. I use the application on my phone anywhere and everywhere.

this app has changed the way I work! I used to spend forever creating my own training and finding references, then do several live trainings with users. Now I add courses to Channels that I’ve created and assign a task related to the course or a module within. It has enabled my teams to work more efficiently almost overnight!

This is a starting point, middle point and growing point for everyone in your organization. Excellent information! Brilliantly picked instructors. Passion is high in this organization. this app is a pioneer in its field. I really don’t rate anything but this is so important I absolutely must recommend this. You will fall behind if your organization does not have access to such an incredible learning platform. I can’t emphasize it enough how important this can be for your organization or personal journey.

Am not the one to write reviews, however I was inspired to leave a positive feedback. I looked for different websites to help me learn coding. This was the only ONE that was as good as sitting in class and working step by step with a professor. Coding is hard learning by yourself, but Plural-sight made me love coding. Easy to follow through, exercises included, pdf files and my favorite part, a video that is a pre-recorded lecture.
Thank you Plural-sight community for such amazing work!

this app is an amazing place to keep yourself updated with latest tech with the help of experts. The best way hinge I like is the 'consistent experience' in all the courses. It greatly reduces the cognitive load as we go through the courses.
App works great. No issues so far. Really love the download feature. The only issue I have seen is it prompts that Wi-Fi is required to watch, even though the course is fully downloaded. Keep up the great work 👍

this app is a great learning source. However when I’m on the go I would like to use it on my iPad or iPhone. For my iPhone X it crashes each time I open it, on my iPad it crashes about 75% of the time. I’m fine with paying $30 a month, however it’s a bit pricey for a app that’s not working. If there isn’t a update soon I’ll have to cancel being I’m not able to use the service due to all Pluralsight crashes.

A worthy content and authors delivering the details. Never missed my needed courses here. If I were to choose between LinkedIn leaning vs this app, this is always and ever be my go to preference. You pay either monthly or yearly or enterprise, but that will enable access to all the courses unlike sites like udemy, where even though the course cost is cheaper, it’s per course.

Critique applies to iOS app, not course content:

1) Courses downloaded to device for offline viewing are not eligible for casting (iOS to Google Chromecast). What is the business purpose of this? I download the content so I don’t burn through my data plan while commuting, then must deselect the download option to cast it once I get home to continue studying. Then, before I leave the next morning, I must download the content again.

2) App becomes unstable when Chromecasting. Anything more than 2 ten second rewinds in a row will cause Pluralsight to encounter casting disconnect, syncing, or create a non-responsive environment, requiring app force close and restart. I also encounter other misc failures and I’m willing to provide logs, if applicable.

I appreciate any help with these issues. All apps and iOS updates current as of today’s date.

Thanks!
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As a cloud security atchitect this app has been a necessity for continuous research. I have been a subscriber for over two years and have seen it keeping pace with the insane velocity of cloud, infrastructure, frameworks, and development. Wide range of content and varied levels of depth, consistent in providing new and relevant courses. Best value of any educational resource I have used.

If casted to Chromecast it will not automatically forward to next video in playlist. If casted to Apple TV it will simply stop casting after the video. If played on the device play controls won’t go way unless you manually tap them away and they pop up for EVERY VIDEO in your playlist and when they do go away you still are distracted by the progress bar and top icons when in full screen. If you want to scrub to a certain spot you need to grab the progress bar by the dot instead of just tapping on the location you’re trying to skip to.

I’ve been using this app for years for both personal and professional use. The videos are up-to-date and easy to follow.

The biggest issue with learning new technology is figuring out “where do i start?” Learning Paths give you a specific set of classes to follow to take you from beginner to advanced.

I highly recommend this software.

I can’t say how much this has helped me with my career and academic studies. I can maintain my skills and knowledge up to date. If there is something I am not familiar with I always check it out on plurasight or linked in learning. One thing that I like about plurasight that makes it different from others is that it gives you an assessment of your knowledge on a subject.

I was learning continuously for months and was retaining my streak. One day, I watched a pre-loaded video, thinking that It would have continued my streak. But I lost my 72-day streak! When I requested to restore my streak, they took well over a month “looking into it.” Eventually, after keeping on asking them, they simply said that it’s impossible for them to restore the streak. I am a software engineer, I KNOW that they can restore the streak. Yet they refused. And they took A WHOLE MONTH to say they cannot do that. What an awful support! The support person that did this is “Garrett L”

this app is a IT training company and ironically lacks the ability to create a stable iOS application that can be a backbone to their revenue stream. The current inexplicably deletes all the videos that I download once the application is garbage collected by iOS. I filed a ticket citing the problem, and after a couple of instances of communicate from this app, they went silent. No response whatsoever.
I am proud to say that we deliver better service to more than a dozen line of business applications. this app really need to wake up to the competition and bring sincere improvement to their services and support.

Love the content. We use this app for work and it’s been a great resource for learning new skills.

Some of the quirks I’ve found with Pluralsight while using it quite a bit so far:

1. Auto playing videos while the phone is locked (audio only) and on a cellular connection (e.g. driving in the car). The videos will almost always NOT auto play, forcing me to unlock my phone and choose the next one (not good if you’re driving).

2. Auto rotation to landscape now when you play videos. Makes it hard to see other information about the course while you’re watching.

3. App refreshing/logging me out when left running in the background. If I change apps and then come back to this one (if it was paused or something), Pluralsight sometimes will have to refresh or even log me out, making me sign back in.

Overall it’s a decent app, but I’ve found for the best experience you really need to pre-download the content you want to watch for the smoothest viewing.

UPDATE:

Thank you for your reply. Sorry, I should have been more clear. I’m casting the videos using a chrome cast to my tv. When I’m casting, the only active button is the air cast (rectangle with wave looking things), but the button for speed, changing video destination and the button for speed are all disabled and I can’t use those options. So I am stuck at watching videos at 1x.

Is there a way to speed up the video while casting to a tv?