Hello, I'm Chris
Schunke, the product manager for the Red Hat Learning Subscription.
In this video, I'll be showing you the features of the Basic Tier
to help you maximize your learning experience.
Where we'll start is on the homepage.
Here you'll have access to see some of the newest courses
and features that you'll have access to in the subscription.
You'll also see your metrics regarding your use.
For instance: number of days remaining,
number of lab hours you've used out of four hundred,
and the number of student guides that you've downloaded.
The rest of the homepage
also includes the courses that you've most recently been working
on, so you can easily jump back in and continue your work.
For those starting off, though, you're going to want to access our catalog
to see the full list of offerings.
The catalog of our Basic subscription includes all of our course offerings.
You can use the filtering to find the right course that meets your needs.
For instance, if you're interested in Red
Hat OpenShift, and DevOps,
and courses in English,
you can filter out to see just those courses that meet your needs.
You can also click on each of the courses to see the details, audience,
and prerequisites.
Each of our courses contain
up to two modalities: read and watch.
Let's start by looking at the read version.
This is referred to as our ROL-based course, R-O-L, Red Hat Online Learning.
And this is a version that consists of text, images,
and some activities. If you download the student guide,
this will be the exact same information in that guide.
This version of the course allows you to use the progress bar at the top
to go between the different pages.
You'll see the content consists of text, some images and references,
and also some quizzes and other activities.
All of the courses are based around a lab
built on Red Hat technology with real Red Hat software.
I'm going to go ahead and create our lab
because it takes a little bit of time to spin up.
So we'll let that build while we talk through the lab experience.
If I go back to our course page, each of our chapters
have a lab or guided exercise that will take you
through the different steps of the lab environment.
This is how all of our courses are built.
They're built around performing within those Red Hat software labs.
At the end of the courses, we have a comprehensive review
that will take all of that knowledge you learn throughout the entire course,
and you'll put it into one long activity where you will work in the lab.
The table of contents is also accessible if you need to jump directly to a topic.
If I go back to our lab
environment, we'll see that these machines are still building.
There are three machines for this particular lab,
and we see the status on each of those.
An OpenShift lab will also include
some of these additional login information details.
I do want to point out that our labs have an auto-stop and auto-destroy timer.
A lab will auto-stop in order to protect your lab hours.
As long as a lab is running, it will count down from your 400 total lab hours.
Our labs are set to destroy in seven days.
You can also increase this if you need some more time.
Note that a destroyed lab cannot be recovered.
So make sure you leave enough days if you're still working in your labs.
And again, if you are complete,
make sure that you stop your labs so it does not count against your timer.
We're going to let these continue to build
and I want to show a few other things in the course.
We do have a tutorial that talks all about how to use our labs.
We also have an ebook for each of our courses.
It can be downloaded in various languages.
Not all ebook languages are available in all courses.
We also include different versions of the course, and these are based
on the software version.
This is version 4.6 of OpenShift, but you'll see
we do have other versions depending on what version you are using.
Some of our courses also come in various translations. Again, translations
will vary depending on the course.
Now notice our lab is now complete.
Our 3 virtual machines are now active
and our delete and stop buttons are now available for us.
Again, stopping the lab will stop our lab timer, but still make it available to us.
Delete will completely destroy the entire lab environment.
Throughout the course, you will have instructions on
which virtual machine to open.
Simply click open console and that will open the machine indicated.
I'm going to go ahead and close that tab and point out that each
virtual machine also has some additional actions.
So you may need to shut down a machine powered off or even reset
it, and those actions are all available to you on each of those machines.
I'm going to go ahead and delete this environment.
When you're done with your lab, again, make sure to delete it
so the lab hours do not count against your total time.
I'm going to now return to the catalog and talk about our second modality
in the subscription, and that is the watch modality.
This is referred to as our Video Classroom.
Video Classroom is the exact same content as our ROL-based version.
The difference is that these are built by recording our instructors
teaching this content.
So if you prefer to
listen to an instructor teach the content while they give examples
and show demonstrations, this modality is the right one for you.
The great thing is both of these modalities are available
in the subscription.
You don't have to choose, you get both of them.
A few additional things
I want to point out in our Video Classroom:
so we do include transcripts so you can follow along with the instructor.
There's also closed captioning, and this is available in various languages.
All of these languages are available
in all of our Video Classroom videos.
The lab environment is the exact same that we showed in the ROL course.
You can also search for various terms
inside the Video Classroom.
So you'll see if I search for Java that's found in many different pages,
and this points to the exact part of the video where that's located.
Lastly, you can download the ebook from the Video Classroom as well.
If you're not sure where to get started,
the Learning Subscription offers Skills Paths.
Skills Paths give a set of courses and exams
that lead toward Red Hat Certification.
You'll see that you can choose a certification path
based on product and categories.
And from the list remaining, you can see that all of these skills paths
lead toward certification.
Again, expanding any of these paths, will show you the course,
or courses, and exams that lead toward that path.
You can access any of the course content from within the path.
If you're interested in enrolling in the path to follow along with it.
Simply click, enroll, and it's available from your home page.
To unenroll, simply click unenroll from here and it's removed.
Now, you probably noticed that
in the Basic Subscription, the exams are locked.
Exams are not available as a Basic subscriber.
We do want to leave the exams noted here, however,
so you still know what is needed to achieve Red Hat Certification.
Each of these exams will need to be purchased offline,
but we still want to make you aware of what is upcoming
if you want to complete this skills path.
You will also notice in the catalog that we make Expert
Extras and exams available, but they are locked.
For Expert Extras, we do want to show you the full list as a Basic subscriber,
but if you would like access to this content, you will need to upgrade
your subscription to a Standard or Premium Tier.
Again, for exams, it's critical that you understand
what exams are necessary as you're completing a Skills Path,
and when viewing from the catalog, you can still see the full list of exams
available as well as some other details if you are interested in purchasing
an exam offline.
Your subscription comes with a dashboard
where you can track your progress and look at some of your metrics.
If you look at the top,
you'll see some of the various metrics within the subscription.
For instance, the number of videos you've watched, the number of pages
you've read, how many total hours you've spent within the subscription.
There's also track of the number of downloads and exams you've taken,
as well as lab hours and how many days you have left.
At the bottom, this is where you will track your progress in courses and labs.
We can use some filters in here to find just the courses
that are complete, for instance.
And you'll see those listed here.
Any complete course will also allow you to get your certificate for that course.
And this is done by going to our Red Hat Learning Community.
You can launch any course from here by clicking read or watch,
and also see the details listed with this course.
The latest version will be the one to show, so you may need to click
to a different version, for instance, if you selected a course that's complete.
So you'll see version 3.9 was completed, that's why it's listed here.
You can also show things like labs, if you want to see
how much time you've spent in the various courses in the lab environment.
And then you can jump right to that course to continue in the lab.
The subscription also includes Early Access.
The Early Access catalog consists of courses that are currently in progress
so you can see the progress of our course authors.
This lets you get a sneak-peek of courses that are coming, and also lets
you look at some of the content for those courses. So we see
there is some content that is in-progress, and some that's not ready yet.
Users can give feedback
about this content so our authors can fix these bugs
and fix these issues before the course is officially released.
And the great thing for our users is you can see what's coming.
RHLS Basic also comes with chat assistance.
If you click the button in the lower right hand corner,
it will launch a chat window where you can chat with our technical experts.
If you have an issue that requires
technical support, simply click the technical support chat item.
This will bring you to chat with one of our experts
to hopefully get your issue resolved as quickly as possible.
If you have an existing request that you've previously submitted
through our ticketing system, you can also ask for that status through this chat.
Thank you so much for viewing this demonstration of the Red
Hat Learning Subscription.