As you move to Pluralsight from ACG, ensure you’re familiar with the leader tools that will help you keep your learners engaged. Watch the ACG to Skills: Admin Experience video, or read on to understand how to navigate, manage users, take advantage of richer analytics, and more. After your plan’s migration, you can use these features to continue thoughtfully guiding your team toward your organization’s overall goals.
Tip: Review the resources in Explore your admin toolkit and bookmark them for easy reference to common leader tasks.
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 plan. 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.
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 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.
Tip: If you also had Student access in ACG, you can click Leader navigation to switch to Learner navigation in Pluralsight. See the ACG to Skills learner guide to learn more about what you can access in this view.
People page
Click People in the navigation menu to access the People page (opens in new tab), where you’ll invite and manage users, create and manage teams, track pending and unassigned licenses, and manage roles and permissions.
In Pluralsight, students are now learners, team coordinators are now team managers, and admins are still admins. You’ll find any teams and reporting groups that were set up in ACG in the Teams tab.
More info:
- Watch these clips from the Pluralsight Skills: Admin Onboarding course to understand learner management tasks in more detail:
- Reference our Plan and team management articles for instructions on common team management tasks.
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:
- 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.
More info:
- See Understand Skills reporting for a list of ACG reports and their equivalent in Pluralsight.
- Watch Analytics (opens in new tab) from the Admin Onboarding course to learn more about each type of report and ideas on how to use them.
- Review our Analytics articles to dive deeper into these reports.
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.
More info:
- Watch Channels (opens in new tab) for a detailed look into how to create and maintain channels on your plan.
- Review our articles on channels and paths.
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.
More info:
- Watch Measuring Proficiency: Skill IQ and Role IQ (opens in new tab), and a deeper dive into Role IQ (opens in new tab).
- See our articles on Skill IQ and Role IQ.
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.
ACG | Pluralsight |
---|---|
Roles | |
Student | Learner |
Team coordinator | Team manager |
Admin | Admin |
Navigation | |
Learner dashboard | Home page |
Business dashboard | Leader hub |
Reporting groups and teams | Teams |
Video courses | |
Chapter | Module |
Lesson | Clip |
Quiz | Learning check |
Curation and assessments | |
Learning path | Path |
Custom learning path | Channel |
Certification course | Certification path |
Skills assessments (retired, Feb. 2024) | Skill IQ |