Hi all! I wanted to provide an update on Retool Education and Digital Badging (think: badge icon on your LinkedIn profile) and share progress we have had underway since March.
There's been interest from the community in this area, so I'm excited to share more about what's coming in the future. In March we launched a Beta education portal where we invited various customers to access course content focused on Developers, Admins and Architects with supporting labs, curated videos, blogs integrated with a digital badging service. With the initial feedback we are working on improvements to help streamline onboarding, making the Retool education portal fully self-service and available for all Retool users in Fall 2024.
Stay tuned! We really look forward to offering this structured Retool learning portal later this year.
Retool University provides Credly digital badges upon successful completion of Developer, Admin or Architect courses. This is not a formal certification provided at a proctored facility such as a AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional Google Certification. Regarding the amount of content, the Developer, Admin and Architect paths take approximately 6+ hours to complete. Upon launch of Retool University there will be 30+ courses and 30+ labs.
Just curious, has this initiative stalled? I am just getting into retool and have been reading this and that, but really find the documentation spare, and scattered all over the place. And even when something specific has some documentation on it, just missing mentioning a few crucially important items can leave the user with a non-working project.
It seems to me that a simple and effective approach would be for the retool folks to develop a substantial (non-trivial) reference app that really shows off the platform's abilities, and then accompany that with written documentation or even just a YouTube video with a written outline and chapters where the developer walks you through how to build the app.
It seems to me that this would really differentiate Retool and drive sales also, as most of the low code tools I've looked at seem to have a "sell the sizzle, not the steak" strategy - vague promises backed by the occasional screenshot, but rarely much of anything that can get new users trained up and productive quickly.
Retool University is targeting a September launch. We will post in this forum all the details so that you can access / leverage it in your Retool education journey.
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