Feedback on ITPro TV's course library page redesign

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I like the slightly redesigned Course Library page. I especially like that Project Management has been separated from Service Management. The combined category had too much stuff in it. I also like that CompTIA Project+ is listed under Project Management now, when before it wasn't.

Improvement recommendations:

"Legacy" really isn't an intuitive name for that category. I think it should be changed back to "Legacy Courses".

Given the growing popularity of DevOps, I recommend creating a DevOps category. List Accredited DevOps Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Docker, Git, and Ansible under that category. Puppet and Chef are two of the most requested courses on the Course Request page. If you ever get around to recording those courses, they could get listed under DevOps as well. Right now, someone interested in DevOps has to hunt all over for the relevant courses.

By the way, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional is missing from the AWS category.

My Recent Courses should list more than just three courses — perhaps 10 or so. I jump around examining the various courses so much that a listing of only the last three courses I visited is pretty much useless.

I think an important design opportunity was missed. Right now there are 35 categories (including "My Recent Courses"). That's a lot to look through. I think there should be three tabs at the top of the page titled something like "Certification Provider," "Skill Category," and "Job Role." A course like PMP would then get listed under PMI under the cert provider tab, Project Management under skill category tab, and Project Manager under the job role tab. This would reduce visual clutter while allowing users to search for courses using the categorization system (cert provider/tech skill/job role) most relevant to them. Each course should be allowed to be associated with a single certification provider, multiple skill categories, and multiple job roles.

Example:

Certification Provider tab

• CompTIA
  -- Project+
• PMI
  -- PMP

Skill Category tab

• Project Management
  -- Project+
  -- PMP

Job Role tab

• Project Manager
  -- Project+
  -- PMP

@James-Parsons THANK YOU for such great feedback! This is why we have the best members. You make us better without doubt. I have added the AWS tag to DevOps Engineer so that is fixed. I'll get with out product lead Ryan about adding Courses to Legacy and adding more courses to My Recent Courses. That is a really great suggestion. This is just the first update you will see in our interface. We are open to all feedback so we really appreciate you taking the time to tell us what you think.

Would it be helpful to have "In Progress" courses section separate from "My Recent Courses"? My recent courses could be me poking around and looking at other courses from being curious, but not actually studying it. Where as in progress courses are the ones I am focusing on.

In the same vein as Styo's comment above, I think it'd be great to have a way of removing or archiving a course out of the "My Recent Courses" view. Even after completing the course, it still sticks around in the list..? Eventually with enough completed courses, navigation through the Recent Courses list would become unmanageable....

It would also be helpful to show the duration of the course in the description. Otherwise you have to click into the course and it will add it to your "Recent Courses" which you're actually not watching. Sometimes when you have 10 minutes, it's when you want to watch short quick courses.

Is it possible to include feature in course library that would show new courses that have just been created/uploaded or and in production?

Also. ability to save courses to favourites or playlist would be great feature as well.

Thanks!

Hi @Oskars-Naumanis,
Thanks for sending your feedback. We are developing a better logged in experience in Q2 that will focus on providing the exact things you just asked for: completed courses, in progress, new content, and some sort of playlist/queue/wish-list. In the meantime, the most recent content is announced in our newsletter. We appreciate you sending feedback and your specific feedback helps confirm we are on the right track. We exist for our members. Happy viewings!