Show Record Dates

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I think it would be a great idea for the record dates for each show to be shown beside each course/episode. It will enable us to see how current and up to date the information is and whether information may need to be supplemented from elsewhere when doing certs. In this fast pace world of IT, I appreciated it can be a struggle to prepare fresh content as technology changes.

What do you guys think?

@rahim-mawani,

At this point, the dates would be confusing to post beside each episode. There are a couple of reason for this:

• One, sometimes episodes are shot out of sequence and the dates may make people studying focusing on why recordings were done out of sequence instead of the content. We normally leave both the previous iteration of the material on our site as well as the current iteration that matches up to the most current version we can.
• Two, there are times when shows are produced before the vendor is ready for the exam to be released. We are not allowed to publish those shows before the vendor is ready to announce the new exam. So dates attached to those shows would again lead to confusion if they are prior to an official release date from the vendor.

Those are just two of the many reasons that dates wouldn't be of any help to the ITProTV membership.

I can you tell from actually doing some of these shows. I've completed shows, just to have the exam provider release new objectives within 2 weeks of my completion. It doesn't mean that member is getting out of date information but that the exam can change whenever the provider chooses. So dates are problematic as a gauge.

I will bring it before our team and see if anyone has anything else they would like to add to this.

Thanks Ronnie, Makes sense

Although maybe the Month and year when the show was released may be a way around that. So that it give us an indication of how current the shows is.

eg. for the AWS exams released in April 2018, the show whether it be recorded in december 2017 or March 2018 will have an release date of April 2018. Just a thought.

Also worth mentioning, If and when the objectives change perhaps it could be noted in the lecture notes at the bottom of the video any changes to the exam and any whitepapers the shows are based on. That way the membership can be assured that the information has been amended and referenced to it. That way the site is always relevant and as updated as it can be. Just another suggestion to make ITPRO.TV the best platform out there.

@ronnie-wong Rahim's suggestion should be implemented - I'm coming over from the CBT Nuggets side; there's things I like more about ITProTV and things I like less; not having the course release date readily available is definitely one of the things that I like less. As an example, the "PowerShell Basics" course was obviously recorded sometime in 2016 - I was expecting to be learning more about PowerShell 7 and instead got PowerShell 5; this isn't to say that I didn't learn something, but it's hard to consider this content as "up to date" with a record date of 6 (or more) years. As a subscriber, it makes me wary that content isn't being updated as regularly as one should expect, and as Rahim points out, the pros defiantly outweigh the cons for publishing a general release date so viewers can make informed decisions about where to spend their time; time is precious and with as many courses as ITPro has to offer, a release date is helpful information. I see that some of the courses already have update dates in their titles, so it doesn't seem to far a stretch to publish release dates as well