Build Your Own Labs

Create a new lab in three clicks

• Our template gallery allows lab authors to easily search for and select pre-created labs to use as the base for a new lab
• If your organization has more specific needs, we can help you create an organization-specific template that is only available to you and your team
• Easily access lab profiles, running and saved instances and lab details in the lab author dashboard

Build labs that run in the cloud or in a virtualized environment

• Keep your costs manageable and save time with features like Cloud Slice
• Use geolocation to automatically launch the labs in the data center closest to you using Hyper-V® or vSphere®

Build shared labs

• Enable multiple users to work cooperatively or competitively, individually or in teams, in shared labs with shared resources
• Use a cyber range environment to create and test strategies securely
• Create and execute team projects to perform complicated DevOps tasks, develop content delivery processes, or create and test different strategies, all within a secure environment

Assess learners’ skills with scored labs and code labs 

• Create your lab to focus on the skills a learner acquires, rather than just their knowledge of the subject with scored labs
• Provide a comprehensive development environment for learners to grow their coding skills with code labs

Go beyond virtual machines and networks

• Integrate a lab with other apps or services to dynamically extend the lab experience beyond virtual machines and networks
• Use Life Cycle Actions to automatically perform tasks such as invoking a web API, sending a notification message to a student, or invoking commands in the cloud or on a specific VM in a lab

Add labs to other learning platforms

• Use our API to integrate Lab on Demand features into external services or platforms
• Invoke Learning Tools Interoperability to embed labs in LTI consumer platforms such as Open edX and Moodle

Keep your labs secure

• Set restrictions, block sites and create an enhanced firewall, then increase or decrease restrictions as needed