The Great Courses Plus

Keeps dropping link to iTunes subscription. No instructions on how to restore the link. Shut out of an expensive subscription, not happy.

The lectures in The Great Courses Plus are superb. If I was rating the app on the course content alone I would give it 5 stars. The app itself though has many bugs. The main one is that it does not automatically play the next lecture in the course that you are listening to. This is annoying, particularly if you are listening while driving. I have turned Autoplay Next Lecture on in the settings and turned off Stream Only on WiFi but it makes no difference. I have also downloaded the latest version of the app (5.2.2) hoping this bug would be fixed but it is still occurring. Other bugs are it often loses track of where you are up to in a lecture and goes back to the beginning. It sometimes loses track of which lectures you have already listened to and marks them as unplayed. It doesn’t pause the lecture when a phone call comes in. And the Play Controls when your phone is locked don’t include the 15 second rewind button or the 30 second advance button. Hopefully this app will be improved soon. I love the actual courses.

The app interface looks clunky and very dated. Constantly freezes, then crashes and starts the course from 0:00, am unable to skip forward at all. Very unstable connection to Chromecast Ultra. Have very fast broadband connection, so that’s not the issue here. How such an expensive subscription service can release such a crappy app is beyond me. Invest some money in better engineers and coders, this is really not worth spending the money on when the app is so unreliable! Running latest iOS 13.4.1 on iPhone 7 Plus and iPad Air 2. Casting to TV via Chromecast Ultra. 2 stars for now until I see a major overhaul of the app.

Subscribed to do a free trial because i was excited to play some videos, but it always says “subscription failed”. Can you help me fix these?

I’m 80 years old and love to learn. The Great Courses Plus provide me with a plethora of quality courses with top class teachers in the comfort of my home. I’m currently writing my memoirs and the course on writing creative non-fiction has been inspirational and has enabled me to gain a new skill. Sincere thanks!

I own several of the older great courses on DVD. I no longer buy them as they were mostly overpriced for what was a staid old fashioned form of presentation. The new streaming service brings the whole breadth of the resources to me. I can roam and explore and dip into lectures and study in a more free fashion. The newly produced courses are invariably better presented, but some are a little light weight and magazine style in depth. The title ‘Professor’ is a little bit of hyperbole in some cases. ‘Professor of photography’ for example. Nevertheless a fantastic resource. Spend your monthly money on subscribing to Great Courses plus rather than Netflix - if you have to choose!

Great service to mankind and It should be free and interesting to learn more. So please make this happen soon

Just fantastic. Makes my drives to work better than ever - I’ve already learnt so much and am keen to learn more!

The teachers says all the things you want to ask!

Whether it’s history, languages, food, art, science or philosophy there’s something for anyone who wants to learn. It’s a terrific complement for my science degree, I can brush up on computer programming, Latin, Botany, Astrophysics (NdGT FTW). The Great Courses will also send out a ‘learning path’, courses that make up a standard minor, with the flexibility to choose something different if you want to go in another direction. Economics, Architecture, Gardening, Music... You’ll find something that will get you interested.