When you migrate from ACG to Pluralsight Skills, you’ll notice that some elements of your learning experience feel familiar, while others are new to you. Watch the ACG to Skills: Learner Experience video, or read on to familiarize yourself with Pluralsight: how to navigate, curate content, and use other learner tools and features.
Navigation
When you sign in to Pluralsight with your ACG credentials, you land on your Home page with recent activity and recommendations, similar to your learner dashboard in ACG. However, whereas ACG has a top navigation bar, you’ll get around in Pluralsight via the navigation menu on the left side of the page.
The first portion of the navigation menu pertains to content in various technology domains. Click one of these domain pages to see customized recommendations for that topic. For a broader search, click Browse all to view and search all content in Pluralsight’s library. As in ACG, you can filter content by topic, content type, and skill level—with additional filters such as job role or certification.
The second section of the navigation menu gives you easy access to helpful features to pave the way for deeper learning:
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Iris is Pluralsight’s AI assistant. Use Iris to find courses, get in-the-moment learning help, curate content, and more.
Note: If you’re on a team plan, your organization must opt in to use this feature.
- Hands-on takes you to the Hands-on playground and to Hands-on labs—the same experiences you’ve come to know on ACG, plus 1000+ more Pluralsight-created labs on various topics. See Labs overview to learn more.
- Channels, Certifications, and Paths allow you to curate content yourself, or follow a path created for you—learn more in Content curation.
- Skill IQ and Role IQ are assessment tools that allow you to measure your proficiency in a skill or job role, get tailored recommendations for what to learn next, and re-measure to gauge your improvement. See Introduction to Skill IQ and Role IQ for learners.
- Click Help & support to quickly access the Help Center from within Pluralsight, or click Provide Feedback to reach out for assistance or suggestions on platform features or content.
Click your avatar in the navigation menu to access additional settings and account information through your profile, badges you’ve earned in your trophy case, courses you’ve bookmarked, and your learning history,
Tip: If you were a team coordinator or admin in ACG, you can click Learner navigation to switch to your leader tools. See the ACG to Pluralsight leader guide to learn more about what you can access in this view.
Watching content
With your migration, your access to ACG courses and cloud content has been supplemented with Pluralsight’s extensive library on a wide range of other topics. As you begin watching courses on Pluralsight, you’ll notice some differences not only in what content you see, but how it’s presented to you. See Differences between ACG and Pluralsight content to better understand how courses in Pluralsight are organized, what other content types you’ll encounter, and what ACG content has been migrated to Pluralsight.
If you started a course in ACG before your migration, you have 60 days from your migration date to complete that course in order for it to appear in your History (opens in new tab). To resume the course, click the course from the Continue learning section of your Pluralsight home page. This takes you back to ACG,, where you have temporary access to complete the course. Progress will sync to your Pluralsight learning history. If you don’t complete the course in ACG within the 60 days, your progress on that course will be lost.
Important: Your historical ACG course history has been brought over to Pluralsight. However, learning data from legacy Linux Academy courses will not be migrated.
Content curation
In Pluralsight, you have the flexibility to follow a learning path that’s already been created for you, or to design your own journey.
- Like learning paths in ACG, Pluralsight’s paths are collections of content curated by Pluralsight authors and experts around a particular topic. Certification paths (opens in new tab) will feel most like ACG’s certification courses.
- Channels are customizable playlists of content. While only plan admins can create custom learning paths in ACG, anyone can create a channel in Pluralsight.
- Some of the most useful applications of Pluralsight’s AI assistant tool, Iris, are around content curation. Iris can provide content recommendations, create channels, and more.
Terms to know
Features or content types you know by one name in ACG may go by another in Pluralsight. Reference the table below as you continue to grow accustomed to your new experience.
ACG | Pluralsight |
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Platform and navigation | |
Student | Learner |
Learner dashboard | Home page |
Video courses | |
Chapter | Module |
Lesson | Clip |
Quiz | Learning check |
Curation | |
Learning path | Path |
Custom learning path | Channel |
Certification course | Certification path |