The "Specialized" group was previously called "Advanced", but neither name accurately describes all courses within the group because some courses would be more appropriately labelled as "Specialized" and others would be more appropriately labelled as "Advanced".

Please reserve the "Specialized" label for courses about deprecated or uncommon PI programs. i.e.:
• RtReports (needed only in certain industries)
• PI ProcessBook (deprecated and needed only by organizations that have not yet migrated away from it)
• PI Integrator For Business Analytics (cost-effective only for large PI Systems or at the corporate level)

Any course that is currently in a "Specialized" group and that does not cover any of the above programs should be moved to either the "Standard" group or a new "Advanced" group.

The only obviously free course is PI System Basics because this is advertised on the home page of OSIsoft Learning. However, OSIsoft has much more free content that can help users get a broad overview of PI and earn certificates in the process.

This free content is especially useful if the designated PI person at an organization is not yet familiar with PI. Whether they will be an administrator or power user, they will need to have a basic understanding of all roles and of how to engage others with PI.

On the All Content page, please add a filter for free content. Currently, the free content is:

• PI System Basics (https://learning.osisoft.com/pi-system-basics)

• Introduction to Developing with the PI System
https://learning.osisoft.com/introduction-to-developing-with-the-pi-system

• All courses in the Project Manager learning path
https://learning.osisoft.com/page/project-manager-path

• [日本語/Japanese] PI DataLinkを使用した基本的なレポートの作成
https://learning.osisoft.com/japanese-pi-datalink

• Video Links for Blocked/Offline YouTube Access
https://learning.osisoft.com/video-links-for-blocked-youtube-access

• Asset Based (AF) Example Kits (https://learning.osisoft.com/asset-based-af-example-kits)

• OSIsoft Learning Guide (accessible from "Want a guided tour? Click Here" on the OSIsoft Learning home page) (https://learning.osisoft.com/osisoft-learning-guide/)

I included links above to help supporters of this suggestion while this suggestion is not yet implemented.

The All Content page (https://learning.osisoft.com/page/all-content) does not show all courses by default. Some of these courses are hidden because they are retired, and the retired courses do not allow users to register for them. However, most of the hidden courses are not retired and do allow users to register for them. Almost all hidden courses can still be found using the search bar.

If these courses are hidden for a reason, then this reason should be stated on the course page. If these courses are not meant to be taken by customers (maybe the courses aren't finished?), then customers should not be allowed to register for them.

However, if these courses are ready and intended for customers to take, then the "search-only" flag should be removed from these courses so that they will appear on the All Content page and be able to be easily found by customers.

It is a strange case where if these courses were not meant for customer eyes, then OSIsoft did a bad job at hiding them, but if they were meant for customers to take, then OSIsoft did a bad job at making them discoverable.

Please unhide any hidden courses that are ready for customers to take and disable registration for a course for any users that were not intended to take that course. I will list the hidden courses in the comments since the list may change over time.

All of the courses that are held in France contain the warning "Veuillez noter que les environnements virtuels et les manuels seront en anglais." at the end of the "About this course" section of their respective pages. Translation: "Please note that the virtual environments and the manuals will be in English.

However, the course workbook is available for download just above this note, and it is in French, so unless "les manuels" includes something else, the warning should be changed to simply say: "*Veuillez noter que les environnements virtuels seront en anglais."

Links to the courses held in France:
https://learning.osisoft.com/administration-de-pi-system-france
https://learning.osisoft.com/visualisation-des-donnees-de-pi-system-clients-france
https://learning.osisoft.com/le-cours-creation-dactifs-pi-system-et-danalyses-avec-asset-framework-af-france

Some courses have the same content but in a different language, and each instructor-led course contains the content of ≥1 self-paced course. However, it is not clear exactly which courses are equivalent to each other.

Documentation of this can let a customer know which self-paced courses they should not take if they have already taken the equivalent instructor-led courses. If a customer has already taken a few self-paced courses, this documentation can help them decide if they would like to continue taking self-paced courses or opt for an instructor-led course instead. Lastly, this documentation will reveal the self-paced courses that do not have an instructor-led equivalent.

Please document the equivalence between courses.

All of the courses that I have taken on OSIsoft Learning have been in English with the exception of "[日本語/Japanese] PI DataLinkを使用した基本的なレポートの作成", which is in Japanese.

On OSIsoft Learning, I log in, click on my picture in the top right corner, and go to My Profile. In the table, I see an "Hours" column, which is populated by the English courses, and a "時間" (Hours) column, which is populated by the Japanese course. There should not be separate Hours columns for each language. They should use the same "Hours" column, and the "Hours" title should be translated based on the selected language for the OSIsoft Learning website.

Currently, every column except for "Hours" and "時間" will translate to the selected language. These 2 columns never translate. Also, I haven't taken any courses in languages other than English and Japanese, so I do not know whether or not "Hours" columns in other languages appear.

Please fix this.

If a user purchases a self-paced course, they should be given access to all language variants of that course.
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This will:

• allow multilingual users to focus on finding the course with the correct content and not have to worry as much about language

• eliminate any regret due to a user purchasing a course in a language that they don't know as well, only to realize that a variant exists in a language that they know better; this may be due to poor research or the fact that some courses are hidden, cannot be filtered for, and/or cannot be searched for (i.e. some courses are hard to find)

• allow users to retake a course in a language that they know better if such a variant is later released

• help promote equality of language and help abolish language-based segregation, creating a more open, welcoming, customer-centric experience
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To prevent this suggestion from being "too good", the following restrictions could be put in place:

• Access to the Training Cloud Environment should not stack.
i.e. The access should apply concurrently rather than consecutively.

• Registration for a paid version of a course should give the user access to all language variants of that course, free and paid. However, registration for a free version of a course should give the user access only to all free variants of that course.

On OSIsoft Learning, when you click on your picture in the top right corner and click on "My Profile", you can click on the "Add to profile" button of any completed course to add that course to your LinkedIn profile.

One effect of this button is that the Issuing Organization is automatically filled in to be "OSIsoft Learning". I feel that this should be changed to "OSIsoft", partly because "OSIsoft Learning" is not a separate organization. More importantly, "OSIsoft Learning" will not show OSIsoft's logo beside the certification on your LinkedIn profile, whereas "OSIsoft" will show OSIsoft's logo. The logo is important for building quick trust before a person reads the certification, and it makes it easier to scan a list of certifications for those that are from OSIsoft.

If OSIsoft Learning is indeed an organization distinct from OSIsoft, then OSIsoft Learning should be added as an organization on LinkedIn so that OSIsoft's logo will appear when the Issuing Organization is OSIsoft Learning.

If this suggestion is implemented, the page linked below will need to be revised:
https://learning.osisoft.com/osisoft-learning-guide/547681

On the All Content page (https://learning.osisoft.com/page/all-content), the Location / Time Zone filter group currently lists 17 cities sorted in alphabetical order of city name. This is difficult to navigate and is akin to sorting numbers starting from their last digit.

Consider turning this filter group into a hierarchy where you have country on the top level and cities within each country. Ideally, the countries would be expandable to show the city, much like how each filter group is expandable/collapsible. Also, ideally, the countries would also behave like a filter item, allowing all cities within a country to be filtered by clicking on the country.

If a hierarchy is not feasible, consider listing the locations in the format "country, city" rather than "city, country". Even though "country, city" defies convention, it will allow the cities in the same country to be grouped together when the locations are sorted alphabetically and their country names will be visually aligned, making it easier to visually scan the locations.