The Great Courses Reviews

Please add PiP

J2appuser

Please consider adding support for multitasking on the iPad. Picture in picture would be very useful for watching lectures while taking notes in a separate app.

Cutting out

Wilson719

From time to time during the playback, especially at the end of a lecture, the lecture cuts out. I’ve tried to replay to hear the missing pieces to no avail.

Well... it’s been about 3years since my last review so time for an update. The apps play button and screen menu keeps appearing and reappearing even if I am not touching the screen which is super annoying. I do love the great courses but there are major improvements to be made as far as sophistication, continuity, flow & ease of design, and navigation. It feels like they just took one or two design suggestions from a single millennial and just ran with that only one thing even after that millennial left. I know they’re trying to appeal to a certain audience and I respect that. But there is no harm in slight tweaking.

Not great

CDR Montgomery Scott

Like so many other battery hogging, screen mandatory apps, I am unable to stream audio in the background—WHY?!?? The addition of this single feature would differentiate this app to give it five stars in my opinion.

Should be called Amazing Courses!

Danielle Casioppo

I have been a customer since 2014 and own about a dozen courses. I always choose audio and have listened to most of them many times over. I always learn something new and can apply this knowledge in my life or work. I mostly use the app and am grateful for it. I rarely have trouble with it and I love that my new content shows up immediately. Thank you, TC, for making it possible to learn from renowned experts on the go. I now look forward to my commute!

Love it.

Thebee74

I love the content of "The Great Courses". We have purchased the CD and DVD forms for years now. I really like the download version to use on my IPad. I have an older IPad and have had no difficulties.

Not Great App

SStomper

The courses I have are very good, I learn and enjoy. The Learning Company does not allow a complete course download. Can’t drag and drop a course to a hard drive. Instead I have to download individual lectures in each course. It’s annoying. If my device sleeps download stops. To save bandwidth on my device I download courses, though it can take hours for one course. TLC needs to make this app easier to download courses by name not lecture number. To organize lectures files need to organized again by subject matter, more wasted time. Unfortunately TLC restricts playback method to their player. There are ways around this but it’s more disorganized than ever. I hope they upgrade this for customers, drop proprietary restrictions.

Great Lectuers. Mobile App could be better

Yid Army in TN

The app is made for young eyes or teenagers or perhaps on a big computer screen. I presume most people are at least in the 30s and if not older who use this app. So please make the buttons bigger. In fact, take a lesson from the audible app. The audible app has an automobile or car mode. That would be an outstanding an awesome addition to this app. Maybe this app works well on an iPad but it does not work well on an iPhone and certainly does not work very well when driving. But this is only because everything is too small. Make everything bigger and make an automobile or car mode like on the Audible app.

Great service!

Acbra74

Thank you.

Like the courses and convenience of the app

tchpsl1

App is a bit slow and would like the buttons to be larger and spaced apart so easier to control . Happy overall though.

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