ACG to Pluralsight leader guide

Leader hub

As a team manager or admin, when you sign in to Pluralsight with your ACG credentials, you land on the Leader hub. Similar to your business dashboard in ACG, the Leader hub shows at-a-glance information about your plan, including a checklist with setup tasks, a quick view of your licenses, and an overview of usage across your teams. You can also set up automated reporting to send custom reports to your email inbox.

See the Leader hub article to learn how to take advantage of each element of your new dashboard.

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Navigation

Whereas ACG has a top navigation bar, you’ll get around in Pluralsight via the leader navigation menu on the left side of the page.

Some of the options in the leader navigation menu will be familiar to you:

• Sandboxes (admins only) takes you to manage custom cloud sandboxes for your learners, as you did on ACG.
• Like Browse in ACG navigation, Browse all allows you to search and filter the content library.
• 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.
• Help & support takes you to the Help Center from within Pluralsight, and Provide Feedback allows you to send feedback or suggestions on platform features or content.

The next sections will cover the leader tools that are new to you.

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People page

Click People in the navigation menu to access the People page (opens in new tab), where you’ll manage your teams:

• The Directory tab is where you’ll view and manage users on the plan. Students in ACG are now learners in Pluralsight. Deactivated users in ACG come over as Free accounts, and their historical data will continue to appear in your Pluralsight reporting.
• The Teams tab is where you’ll view and manage teams on the plan. Any teams and reporting groups that were set up in ACG now appear here.
• The Pending invites tab allows you to track the status of any pending invites sent to new users.
• The Unassigned tab allows you to view and assign any learners who haven’t yet been added to a team.

Admins in ACG are still admins in Pluralsight, and can additionally manage user roles from the Admins tab and Managers tab.

By default, team coordinators in ACG are migrated as team managers with limited permissions in Pluralsight. Admins can manage permissions to limit or expand what team managers can do, including the ability to invite users to the plan.

If a team coordinator wasn’t assigned to any teams in ACG, they won’t be assigned the team manager role in Pluralsight. Be sure to assign team coordinators to teams before migration, or re-assign the team manager role to these users after migration.

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Analytics

Pluralsight’s analytics provide more advanced, customizable, and actionable insights than could be found on ACG, especially around usage and content engagement. Pluralsight gives you access to the following analytics reports for your teams (team managers) or all learners (admins):

• Skills inventory (basic and advanced): These reports take inventory of the skills in your organization and use engagement data across your plan to identify the most popular subjects and skill gaps among your learners. It also tracks how proficient they are in those subjects based on Skill IQ assessments they’ve taken.
• Users & Usage: This is similar to ACG’s Course Engagement report. It shows activity and engagement for learners across your plan, both at a high-level and for individual learners.
• Content: Similar to the Courses report in ACG, the Content report shows plan-wide and specific engagement by content type—such as labs and sandboxes—as well as by individual pieces of content.
• Certifications: Like the Certifications report in ACG, this report displays how many certifications learners have added to their profile while active on your plan.
• Channels (basic and advanced): These reports surface completion data for your company channels, including by individuals and teams—not unlike reports run from learning paths in ACG.
• Roles (basic and advanced): These reports give you insight into your team’s engagement with Role IQ, which assesses a learner’s skill proficiency related to a specific job role.

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Curation

As an admin or team manager, you have the flexibility to design a curriculum for your learners to follow, or point your learners toward a Pluralsight-created path:

• 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. Anyone on your plan can create channels—learners can create their own, and you can use channels to customize what content you want your teams to focus on. Channels aren’t just limited to courses—for example, you can include external links to a company intranet page, other training videos, or internal onboarding resources to assign to newly-invited learners.
• Some of the most useful applications of Iris, Pluralsight’s AI assistant, are around content curation. Iris can create channels, provide content recommendations, and more.

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Assessments

Skill IQ and Role IQ are assessment tools that measure learners’ proficiency and identify skill gaps in a topic or job role, then monitor improvement over time through learner retakes and associated analytics reports: Skills inventory and Roles.

Skill IQ provides learners with tailored content recommendations, and gives you useful insights to what skills already exist on your team. While ACG provided only two skills assessments for AWS and Azure, Pluralsight offers 500+ skill assessments on a wide variety of topics.

A Role IQ is a collection of Skill IQs that relate to a particular job role. Choose from a series of pre-made roles, or customize your own for your plan.

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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 leader experience.