As the final step in Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru’s integration journey, we’re migrating ACG customers to new-and-improved Pluralsight packaging. Your new Pluralsight experience preserves the hands-on features and cloud content you currently enjoy on ACG, and gives you access to everything else Pluralsight has to offer.
We’ve gathered answers to common questions to help you through this transition and point you in the right direction as you prepare for migration.
Migration
Why am I migrating from ACG to Pluralsight?
After Pluralsight acquired A Cloud Guru, we evaluated both learning platforms to determine which content and features provide the most value possible to our customers—including longtime Gurus. As a result, we’ve created new offerings that bring together the best of both platforms in an integrated experience on Pluralsight.
When will I be migrated?
ACG customers will migrate to Pluralsight in 2025.
Important: Precise migration timing for business plans depends on a few factors. If you’re an admin on an ACG business plan, you’ll receive further details from your account representative about your migration date.
For customers with personal ACG memberships:
- If your membership renews annually in March or monthly, you’ll be migrated on your renewal date in March 2025.
- If your membership renews annually in a month other than March, you’ll be migrated in April on the day of your next renewal. For example, if your renewal date is July 15, 2025, you’ll be migrated on April 15, 2025.
- If you have individual subscriptions on both Skills and ACG platforms, stay tuned for further communication via email about your migration.
What Pluralsight package will I migrate to?
All ACG Personal memberships will be migrated to the Complete subscription, and all ACG Business plans will be migrated to the Everything plan.
Tip: For business plans, see how your ACG plan and the Everything plan compare (PDF, opens in new tab).
Complete and Everything are all-in packages that include not just cloud content, but all content domains in Pluralsight’s library. You’ll also enjoy full access to hands-on features, assessment tools, and certification prep. See the updated plan comparison to learn what’s included in these offerings.
Note: If your organization has both a Pluralsight and an ACG plan, all users will be migrated to the Everything plan, regardless of whether they’re licensed on one or both platforms. You have the option to merge your two plans into one, or keep them separate as two Pluralsight plans after migration—speak with your account representative to discuss options.
What do I need to do to prepare for migration?
If you’re an admin on a business plan, reference the Admin migration checklist to prepare your plan to migrate and get your team excited about the journey ahead.
If you’re a learner on a business plan or you have a personal membership, use the ACG to Pluralsight learner guide to familiarize yourself with your new plan. You can find these and more resources in the ACG migration hub.
What happens during and after migration?
You won’t experience any platform downtime during migration. After your migration is complete, you’ll be redirected to Pluralsight when you sign in with your ACG credentials.
For business plans, not all plan data will be available on day one, but will continue to populate the week after your migration date—see Post-migration tasks for details.
What will happen to the A Cloud Guru brand?
We’ll continue to maintain the ACG platform until all existing customers are migrated to Pluralsight, at which time we’ll sunset the ACG platform and the overall brand. We appreciate the positive impact that the ACG brand and Guru community has on our customers, and we intend to honor that spirit moving forward.
Content, features, and data
What content is coming over from ACG to Pluralsight?
With a few exceptions, ACG video courses have been republished on Pluralsight. Retired or outdated content has not been brought over.
See the Legacy Course Crosswalk (PDF, opens in new tab) to see which retired ACG courses have replacement courses in Pluralsight, and see Differences between ACG and Pluralsight content for more about Pluralsight’s approach to content and curation.
What ACG features are coming over to Pluralsight?
Reference the table below for details on which features are coming over, which have equivalent experiences in Pluralsight, and which are being retired.
A Cloud Guru | Pluralsight | Description |
---|---|---|
ACG video courses | Pluralsight video courses | See Differences between ACG and Pluralsight content. |
Hands-on labs | These ACG features have already been recreated in Pluralsight. You’ll also gain access to 1000+ additional Pluralsight labs on core tech topics. | |
Hands-on playground (AI sandboxes, cloud sandboxes, cloud servers, instant terminal) | ||
ACG skills assessments (retired) | Skill IQ | Pluralsight offers 500+ skill assessments on various topics. |
Quizzes | Learning checks | Single-answer quiz questions will be migrated to Pluralsight as learning checks in select courses. |
Learning paths | Paths | Paths are content journeys curated by Pluralsight authors and experts. |
Custom learning paths | Channels | All users on Pluralsight can create channels. See Introduction to channels for details. |
Practice exams | Practice exams and Cybervista practice exams | ACG certification practice exam questions are in the process of being recreated in Pluralsight. |
Community forums (retired) | Discussion boards | Pluralsight’s discussion boards are found within video courses. |
Study groups and accelerator programs | - | Retiring feature |
Learning scheduler | - | Retiring feature |
What data is coming over from ACG to Pluralsight?
The following data will be migrated to Pluralsight:
- User account data
- Hands-on activity, lab completion, sandbox activity, and cloud servers
- Video course completion
- Practice exam and quiz completion
- Certifications entered on your profile
- Reporting groups and teams
For business plans, the above learner data will also appear in analytics—see Understand Skills reporting for details.
The following data will not be migrated:
- Historical Linux Academy course activity and completion
- Custom learning paths and reporting
- Study groups and reporting
Note: Individual progress in courses taken as part of a study group or learning path on ACG will remain captured as course data at the learner level.
- Accelerator programs
Note: If an accelerator program is in progress during migration, learners will continue to receive reminder emails after migration.
For admins on business plans, please reference Save historical data if you’d like to preserve this information.
Sign-in and platform experience
How do I sign in to my account after migration?
Migrated users will continue to sign in at learn.acloud.guru/login (opens in new tab). Use your existing ACG credentials on this page to sign in to Pluralsight.
Note: As customers migrate, we’ll continue to have a dual sign-in page. In the meantime, after you’ve migrated to Pluralsight, you’ll continue to use the ACG sign-in page and be redirected to Pluralsight when you sign in. In the future, all Pluralsight customers will use the same sign-in page. See Signing in to Pluralsight or ACG for step-by-step instructions, FAQs, and troubleshooting.
How does my billing work? Will my pricing change?
When you migrate to Pluralsight, your billing information and payment methods will migrate with you.
If you have an ACG personal membership, you’ll keep your current price and billing term when you migrate, and you’ll retain that price for as long as your subscription remains active on Pluralsight. See your current price in the Membership tab (opens in new tab).
For admins on business plans, any changes to your billing and pricing will occur at your next renewal—work with your account representative to discuss pricing.
Can I finish the ACG courses I’ve already started?
After your migration, you can find any in-progress ACG courses you’ve already started on your home page under Continue learning. That will link you back to the ACG platform for those courses only. You'll have 60 days to complete any of those courses, otherwise you will lose that course progress and will need to restart the course, from scratch, in the Skills platform. Your course progress will sync in the Skills platform.
How do I continue learning on my mobile device after migration?
Once you’ve migrated to Pluralsight, download the Pluralsight mobile app (opens in new tab) and follow the instructions to sign in with device authorization.
You’ll retain access to ACG on the web and mobile app for 60 days after your migration date so you can complete any in-progress courses. After the majority of customers have been migrated, the A Cloud Guru mobile app will be retired.
Learn more about learning with Pluralsight’s apps and offline viewing.
How are my business plan’s LMS integrations impacted?
You cannot transfer any existing LMS integrations you have with ACG over to Pluralsight. You must set up a new Skills connector after you migrate. Work with your account representative to work this into your migration plan.
How are APIs impacted by migration?
APIs for ACG Business plans will be replaced with Pluralsight’s APIs, which we’ve enriched to include ACG data. You’ll need to use the new APIs after migration. See Revisit integrations and automations for resources.
Who can I talk to about my business plan’s migration?
If you have additional questions or questions specific to your organization, reach out to your account representative.