Wednesday 8 January 2014

PluralSight - Improved reporting

The other day I posted my thoughts on PluralSight.  One feature that I really wanted to see was the ability to see a list of all videos that I had watched, not just a transcript showing which assessments I had passed.

Browsing around the PluralSight website today, I was really please to see the feature is now available under on the 'Profile' page (Select 'Your Profile' from the drop down menu below your user name).



Thursday 2 January 2014

Are you using PluralSight? We are.

As part of our company training, all developers working at my company have been given access to PluralSight. In my view this is an awesome resource for developer training.

PluralSight provides online video training for a wide range of IT skills. The videos are presented by experts in their fields and are generally of a very high quality. At the moment it appears that PluralSight is leading the field as far as online IT training is concerned.

There is however still room for improvement.  Here are a few things I'd like to see being addressed.

  • A number of courses currently don't have assessments.
  • On the courses that do have assessments, the quality of the questions and the length of the assessments in my opinion aren't thorough enough to give them any real credibility. I would like to see assessments with at least 10 questions per hour of online content.  
  • There doesn't appear to be any way to view a list of courses that you have watched (unless you have completed the assessment as well).


So what courses did I manage to get through in 2013. Note the transcript below only shows the list of courses where I completed a assessment. I must have watched at least another half a dozen courses that don't have assessments.