Hello, I'm Chris Schunke, product manager for the Red Hat Learning Subscription.
In this video, I'll be showing you the features of the Developer
Tier to help you maximize your learning experience.
The developer tier is a version of the Red Hat Learning Subscription
that provides a curated list of offerings specifically targeted for developers.
Where we're going to start is the homepage.
When you log into your subscription, you're going to see this on your homepage:
new features and new courses that are coming out,
as well as some information about what's remaining in your subscription.
For instance, days remaining, the number of lab hours you've used,
how many student guide downloads
you have left, as well as how many exams you've used.
On the homepage you'll also see the courses that you've previously
been working on so you can easily jump back in and continue your work.
You'll also see any skills past that you have saved.
We'll get into those a little bit later.
For now, let's move to the catalog, where new users are going
to want to start to look for courses and exams.
From the catalog we can see a list of all of the offerings available.
You can see that we have both courses and exams.
There's some additional filters that we can select to find the right courses.
For instance, if you're interested in Red Hat OpenShift,
DevOps, and even in English:
we're going to see all of the courses that meet all of those criteria.
Click the dropdown on any course to see a description, audience,
prerequisites, and other information that's going to help you
select this course to make sure that it's right for you.
Once you've determined the right course, they're then available in up
to two modalities: read or watch.
Let's start with the read modality.
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 also offers Skills Paths. Skills Paths
are a set of courses and exams that lead toward Red Hat certification.
You'll see that in our Developer Tier, we have four skills paths
related to four different developer-related certifications.
You can do further filtering if need be,
and also take a look at the details for each Skills Path
where we give an introduction and some prerequisites.
You'll see that any courses and exams are included.
And you can view the exam, read the course or watch it,
as we saw with our ROL and VC modalities.
To enroll in a Skills Path, simply click enroll and this will put it
on your homepage where you can follow along with the progress.
Progress for a Skills Path is made up from all of the progress
of the individual assets, and when you're through
with that progress, then you'll know you've completed the courses and exams.
Your Developer Subscription also comes with exams.
These are available both from the Skills Paths as well as the catalog.
If we filter by exams, you'll see a list here of all of those
related to the Developer Tier.
To see the details of an exam, simply click the dropdown
and view the introduction.
Further details are available if you click view.
You can see the audience, format,
score information, as well as next steps after you're done with this exam.
These are available on all of our exams and multiple versions
are also available to be scheduled.
After you've selected a version, simply click
enroll to be taken to our exam scheduler.
There you will fill out a date and time for your exam.
Note that many of our exams are now available remote,
so you don't have to choose an in-person proctoring location.
Many of these can now be taken from your own home.
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.
The Developer Tier also gives you access
to our chat feature for technical and exam-related questions.
Simply launch the chat window and you can ask about an existing request,
open a new technical support request, or ask about exam support.
Thank you so much for viewing this demonstration of the Red
Hat Learning Subscription.