The Great Courses

The Great Courses

Play Your Purchased Courses

Education
Lifestyle
54 reviews
⭐️4.2 / 5
Rating
🙌1.3K
Ratings
📼6 scs
Content
📦w/o updates
Updates frequency
🗣❌ unsupported
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All Versions of The Great Courses

8.2.3

March 28, 2023

Added new crash diagnostic code

8.2.2

March 9, 2023

Bug fix for video crashing associated with specific courses

8.2.1

March 2, 2023

Minor Bug Fixes

8.2

February 16, 2023

- Updated Player Screen Layout - Added Sleep Timer - Added Lecture List in Player - Surfaced Playback Speed on the Player - Added Closed Captions - Added Mini Player - Available on iOS 14+
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8.1.2

August 29, 2022

- Download improvements - Minor bug fixes

8.1.1

July 14, 2022

- AirPlay fixes - Screen Reader improvements - Minor bug fixes

8.1

June 18, 2022

- Fixed downloads for offline play

8.0

June 14, 2022

- Improved organization - Updated images - Refreshed Design - Bug fixes
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7.1

June 2, 2022

Maintenance

7.0

January 24, 2022

Welcome to The Great Courses app! The most recent update includes an improved search, updated design, and bug fixes. Enjoy the app and please send any suggestions to us at custserv@thegreatcourses.com.
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Price History of The Great Courses

Description of The Great Courses

The Great Courses App enables you to play courses you have purchased from us. The Great Courses brings the world’s greatest professors to millions who want to go deeper on the subjects that interest them most. No exams. No homework. No schedule. Just a world of knowledge available anytime, anywhere, via video or audio. Use this app to: • Stream any course you have purchased (Internet connection required) • Seamlessly toggle between video and audio versions of lectures • Download your lectures to enjoy later when not connected • Access course guidebooks included with most courses Your Digital Library includes digital editions purchased directly from The Great Courses, and does not include courses purchased from other retailers. More than 800 courses available at TheGreatCourses.com.
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The Great Courses: FAQ

Is the The Great Courses app compatible with iPads?

Yes, the The Great Courses software is iPad-compatible.
The The Great Courses app was launched by TEACHING COMPANY, LLC.
The The Great Courses app requires iOS 13.0 or later.
The Great Courses has a user rating of 4.2.
Education Is The Primary Genre Of The The Great Courses App.
8.2.3 is the newly released version of the The Great Courses app.
The date of the last The Great Courses update is June 30, 2024.
The The Great Courses app was initially released on February 6, 2023.
The The Great Courses app is rated TEACHING COMPANY, LLC: Contains no objectionable material.
The Great Courses currently features the following languages: English.
No, The Great Courses is not available on Apple Arcade.
No, The Great Courses does not offer in-app purchases.
Unfortunately, The Great Courses is not tailored for compatibility with Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of The Great Courses

  • Great content! Lackluster app.

    I gladly would give the Courses available here 5 stars! They will fascinate you and make you a more interesting, intelligent person. But the app is not worthy of their greatness. The promise of this app is that you can absorb a lot of courses, watching in multiple settings. It’s best feature is that you can switch between video and audio versions of the courses. However it frequently causes me to lose my place. It does not reliably sync with the Apple TV app so I have stopped using that. Also switching between video and audio occasionally restarts the lesson. Also some useful features for a listening app are absent such as a sleep timer or variable speed playback for audio. These are not necessary but the reliable syncing and keeping track of your progress is a must for the experience that this content deserves. Also the search feature oddly doesn’t always return courses that have the search term in the name of the course.
    MJMielloMJMiello

  • Unstable, poorly designed interface

    I have to drive occasionally through a five hour cell coverage dead zone so downloaded several courses to listen to. But the app randomly stops playing, showing up as “unknown” device” or just shutting down; once you plow through the steps to get back to the session, it doesn’t remember the session much less where you were; the selection buttons are minuscule (e.g. you can’t just click on the whole title in the play list but rather it a 1squate millimeter arrow to start playing)( the skip-forward button sometimes turns the app off. As much as I wanted to know more about Charlemagne, I gave up after ten attempts to listen to one lesson and listened to music. Worst app I’ve seen, and the great content Great Courses offers deserves better than a Windows 3.1 level experience. Get your act together, folks!
    mccgsmmccgsm

    Developer Response

    Hi there, please contact us at CustomerService@TheGreatCourses.com or call us at 1-800-832-2412 and one of our team members will be able to help you with this issue.

  • The Great Crashes

    You’d think it would be easy to create an app that can play a downloaded mp3 file from beginning to end without crashing. But it’s obviously beyond The Great Courses. On their app, you’re doing well if you can go three minutes without a crash. If you’re not doing so well, you’ll find yourself listening to parts of lectures three or four times before the app can manage to get past them… and also find yourself wasting endless time trying to find where the app last dumped you, since where the progress bar is when you return bears no relation to where in the lecture the latest crash occurred. Mind you, their website is no less useless. I’ve been trying for a month to get it to change my email address on it, and it keeps on erasing it and insisting that nothing happened. I’ve been using The Great Courses for over twenty years, but I’ve about had it.
    ChfhfnChfhfn

    Developer Response

    Hi, we are so sorry to hear about the issues you're experiencing with our app. Please contact our customer care team at CustomerService@TheGreatCourses.com or call 1-800-832-2412 and they will be happy to assist. Thank you!
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