ESRI Virtual Campus courses are awesome, but with limited time for learning and development, I find a lot of my time is taken clicking things to reveal tiny snippets of information and taking screenshots one by one to print the material so I can annotate it as I learn and create a resource for future reference. This is painful, time intensive and frustrating.
I would REALLY like it if when I downloaded the data for a course, I could also download a complete pdf for a course (with no hidden bits!). Then I could print it and work steadily through it, and my time would be spent actually learning and doing the exercises and using the software rather than making a "text book" screen by screen.
I see this being a value-added option ESRI could provide because not everyone learns the same way.
I don't envisage format issues:
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Where there are questions needing answers, I am happy to have the question, then a small space beneath so I can cover the answer and think, then see the answer given.
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If there are videos, the transcript could be provided in the pdf, I am happy clicking on a video to run it.
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Where there are several diagrams on the same topic, all could be included.