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Pluralsight

Score9.4 out of 10

67 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Pluralsight?

Pluralsight is a skill development solution that enables employees to build in-demand skills in a way that’s personalized to their current knowledge and preferred way to learn. The course library includes content on software development, DevOps, machine learning, security infrastructure, and cloud, as well as certification practice exams, hands on learning experiences and cloud labs, and skills assessments.

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Pluralsight Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Pluralsight has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Structured Learning

    The content is provided in a structured way that builds upon itself as users progress through the material.

    Category average: 9.2

  • Player/Portal

    Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Course authoring

    Users can develop and assemble online learning content.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Historical Metrics

    Centralized learning history where users can track their progress and learning goals.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Social learning

    Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Gamification

    Presents course material in a game-like format to increase engagement and enjoyment.

    Category average: 7.6

Who Buys & Uses Pluralsight

Pluralsight Reviews

What users are saying about Pluralsight.
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Pros

  • Robust skills assessment capabilities before training
  • Flexible and customizable learning paths for users
  • Hands-on labs and virtual machine sandboxes for practical application

Pluralsight Review

Tamara RosserView profile
IT Technical Training Manager in Human Resources at Genworth Financial (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Genworth uses Pluralsight to establish a skills inventory and grow core skill proficiencies across the IT organization! I’m excited about Skill IQ Applied to assess and drive learning transfer through practical application and using MCP to provide learning in the flow of work!!!

Pros

  • Pluralsight does a great job of identifying core skills across the IT organization.
  • PluralSight offers practical application through the usage of sandboxes and labs which drives learning transfer!

Cons

  • Pluralsight could improve on providing specific audiences that Foundation Skill IQs target.
  • Pluralsight could provide a catalog if Slill IQ descriptions for easy access and viewing without having to click into each Skill IQ within the tool to see what it covers.

Return on Investment

  • Not sure yet. Too new to rate.

Usability

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

Vital Tool and Partner

Victoria Slavic
Principal Program Manager in Engineering at American Airlines (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Pluralsight to upskill our people and drive development, experimentation, and innovation. All IT team members have a full license and we include usage in our leadership dashboards. We use SkillIQ to encourage upskilling and development

Pros

  • Responsive support team
  • Up to date training and videos
  • Assessment suites

Cons

  • Clearer distinction between paths, SkillIQs, and channels

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI

Usability

A great platform for upskilling tech staff

Verified User
Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Training and upskilling of IT staff as well as agency wide for AI readiness. Our technology team working a high change profession and skill development is essential for continuous development. Our strategy for implementing AI responsibly hinges on a well informed user community. AI Academy was an excellent match for what we were looking for and we could structure learning to match the need based on anticipated level of AI literacy to do different jobs across the organization.

Pros

  • Does a great skills assessment or knowledge check before training starts
  • Allows both the employer and employee to create learning tracks
  • Allows monitoring of progress and very recently enhanced the feature to not only capture screen time for video sessions but also labs. This gives a more complete picture of effort.

Cons

  • I would like to see more non IT content
  • I would also like to see better access to authors built into the base licensing

Return on Investment

  • Too early in my case to tell but hope to be able to asses in a year or so

Usability

Pluralsight

Verified User
Program Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Pluralsight as the primary platform for our technology learning for 1,600 employees. Without this tool it becomes much more difficult for our department to retain employees, and evolve our tools and technologies at the pace of market.

Pros

  • Intuitive interface
  • Easy to use administration dashboards
  • Flexibility in Learning academy
  • Hands-On labs and virtual machine sandboxes

Cons

  • Consistent assessments
  • Wider range of Technology tools and deep dives
  • Ability to create internal learning that aligns with the external learning already provided

Return on Investment

  • We are beginning to align Pluralsight content to career pathways
  • We were able to work with Pluralsight for a learning academy to upskill a large group of our technologists to change the way that we work

Usability

Alternatives Considered

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

Helpful tool

Verified User
Manager in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to upskill employees on topics related to our initiatives, especially Al... so things like assessing risk, building automations for code review, writing requirements documents, and incident management. We also have monthly “Pluralsight power hours” that are a calendar invite that includes all employees within our organization to use as standing development time.

Pros

  • Holistic assessments
  • Providing direction on where to go next in your learning journey
  • Depth and breadth of content

Cons

  • Analytics

Return on Investment

  • Creating a culture of learning
  • Opportunities to set a learning strategy

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Udemy Business

Other Software Used

Udemy Business, Atlassian Jira