The Great CoursesReviews of thegreatcoursesplus.com

The course on the Crusades was damaged and suddenly skipped from lecture 1 to lecture 2. I wound up throwing the whole series away. The Math Whiz by Art Benjamin was geared toward advanced math people and not toward the rest of us, despite what the promo claimed. I wouldn't even consider buying from them again. Just buy books, don't waste time with DVDs that may or may not work and are not consumer friendly.

I wasted 5 tickets on Kanopy on the French course (that's a free library service). I can't believe how expensive those courses used to sell for. What a scam. It's awful. The professor from Denver University has a quite distinct American accent. The content is just silly. Also, seems like there's a certain agenda behind the content. Instead of focusing France, she keeps pushing Senegal, Marocco and their culture of eating with the right hand and such. Yuck. In this day and age there are so many free resources

Content great. Their app is absolute garbage. Nothing streams and always struggles to load.

I wanted a course they said they have that just for that course I paid them around 99$. They gave me a different account. When i contacted back to them theres no response. So yeah they are just simple scammers now.

I have no problem with the courses. Chess hasn't changed in my lifetime and the Bible hasn't in a few thousand years. My issue was customer no service for GC Plus autopay. After my credit card was hacked and I was issued a new card, GC never contacted me the next billing cycle. EDIT: They did contact me but I get so many emails, theirs was buried under a hundred+ in a few days. I found their email, replied, they contacted me and explained what I needed to do and it's all good now.

Just been introduced to Great Courses Plus. My concern is about how OLD the content is: no recent videos. Is it just my perspective?: Looks like a website with a bunch of OLD videos. So much has moved on since the filming of those videos. They really need to update content. It may be that I do not know how to access the latest additions to the Website... I do hope so... as I was disappointed, to say the least...

The Great Courses used to be excellent—high-quality lectures, thoughtful professors, and a genuine commitment to learning. Unfortunately, since being taken over by another company, the experience has deteriorated badly. The content feels watered down, customer service is unresponsive, and the overall integrity that once defined the brand is gone. What was once a trusted source of lifelong learning now feels like a hollow shell of its former self.

DO NOT sign up for the Great Courses. They rope you in by offering long-term promos such as paying for two years upfront and then require you to be on an auto-renewal subscription. After two years of watching one or two things (and not using it at all in the last year), they automatically charged me a full year subscription and refuse to refund it even when I tried to cancel the moment I saw the charge. I have never dealt with a company so unethical that they will charge you a year's subscription and not refund it when you haven't used it and don't plan to. They are unethical and deceptive.