Over the past weeks we've been working on several changes to the recently introduced Live Events feature. Your feedback on it has been invaluable so we're happy to share the following improvements.

Manage sandboxes during a Live Events

It's now possible to monitor and manage attendee's sandboxes from the Live Event dashboard. This lets you easily troubleshoot, inspect machines, extend time to live (TTL) and stop sandboxes that are no longer needed.  To do so, click an attendees name on the Live Event dashboard and switch to the 'Sandboxes' tab.

Anonymous access on Live Events

Additionally, we’ve enabled the ‘anonymous access’ option for Live Events. This is useful in case you simply don’t need or want to collect any personal information when running a workshop. Attendees will appear as ‘Anonymous attendee #X’:

Remove attendees from the Live Event dashboard

Ever wanted to clean up attendees from the Live Event dashboard, for example after you tried out the invite link yourself, or someone accidentally joined? It's now possible to remove an attendee from the list, by clicking 'Remove attendee' from the contextual menu on any attendee:

End date now optional for Live Events

Last, we've made the Live Event 'ends on' date optional, so that the Live Event remains accessible to anyone after the event has taken place, if you wish so. This can be useful if you for example want to publish a webinar recording after the event, with the invite link attached.

Questions, suggestions? Please reach out as always!

We've made it possible to easily schedule a Hot Start pool for any given Track Invite. This will save you time when planning a workshop for example. To do so, click ‘Create Hot Start’ from the Invites overview, fill in the number of instances needed and you’re done. We’ll make sure everything spins up on time. 

Additionally, we’ve added the option to duplicate Hot Start pools, so that re-using (expired) pools is now possible as well.

Do you use Instruqt to attract new customers by offering them a hands-on demo experience?

From now on, you can take advantage of our ‘idle time’, by adjusting it to your own pace and sales needs, with no maximum limit on the idle timeout.

Our new demo-geared functionality enhances ‘idle time’ and offers flexible timing for your sessions. This way you can rest assured that your demos continue to be powered by Instruqt - and without any extra costs.

For more information feel free to contact Customer Success.

Tired of having to recreate your challenge from scratch each time?

Now you can duplicate a challenge and edit it from there. It comes with all the tabs and settings you created before to speed up your create journey.

How to use:
- Head to a track and select it it see its challenges
- Click "Duplicate" on the challenge you want to copy
- A copy is made and you can now edit the details
- Save the challenge when you are ready
- Congrats you just saved yourself some time

We're always looking for ways to help our customers spend their investments cost-effectively. During the past few months, we have been rolling out changes that allow us to better monitor learner (in)activity and terminate track environments after a (configurable) idle timeout. We've gotten great responses from those who have tried it so far, and the feature is now generally available. 

The new Idle timeout feature will trigger a warning message to learners who sit idle through a session without interacting with your content. If they don't confirm they're still there within 2 minutes, the environment will be terminated automatically.

The idle timeout is configurable per track. For example, let's say that you've set the idle timeout on your track to 300 seconds (5 minutes). If the user has been idle for 3 minutes, a warning message will pop up and ask the learner to respond. If after 2 minutes there's no response, the environment will be terminated. So the user will always have two minutes to react. 

In the case of live events, it may not be desirable to have tracks time out after a short idle time (for example while you’re presenting at a workshop). In those cases, we recommend not setting an idle_timeout value, or duplicating the track without an idle_timeout value.

To learn more about the idle timeout functionality and how to configure it, check out this Instruqt Docs and search for Idle timeout.

We’ve updated our maximum time settings. Now you can set the maximum time allowed per track in the track details. No more need for individual times per challenge.


You can find this setting on track details page (the page where you set a tracks name and description)

For those running tracks on the Instruqt arcades, we still use the time limit per challenge

Happy making!

Do you use an LMS? Great news, you can now integrate Instruqt with your LMS using LTI!

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) is a standard that allows educational platforms to launch and embed tools and content. This means it is now even easier to embed Instruqt tracks directly into your LMS!

Here's how it works:

1. Log in to your Instruqt account and go to the track you want to embed in your LMS.
2. Go to the track's embed configuration page, and copy the LTI Configuration details.
3. Log in to your LMS and create a new lesson.
4. Paste the LTI configration into the lesson.
5. Save and publish the lesson.

Your students will now be able to access the Instruqt track directly from your LMS! And when they complete the track, their progress will be automatically tracked in your LMS.

Read more on our docs page. Got questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you.

Introducing our improved editor UI. You can now style your track descriptions, note screens and assignments all with the click of a button. No more needing to check cheat sheets or be a markdown magician.

And the magic doesn’t stop there…

- The editor now comes with more space and the ability to write in full screen mode.

- And best of all, a preview that shows you what your content looks like for your end users. 

We hope you enjoy the new UI editor! As always, please let us know if you have any feedback or questions.

It's now possible to craft custom commands, hostnames and more in the challenge assignment's markdown. This can eliminate kludgy "replace " substitutions.

For more information, please refer to our docs.

What makes live events great? Magic happens when your attendees are super engaged and can connect with the host. That’s why we’re launching Live Events to make your events more impactful for your business.

Many of you already use Instruqt for training. With this new capability, we’re taking it a step further - by enabling you to monitor progress and support attendees in real time.

Highlights of the Live Event dashboard:   

• Manage events from start to finish
• Follow how the group and each attendee are doing at a glance
• Over-the-shoulder access (inspect) lets you troubleshoot attendees when they need some extra TLC  

Why you’ll love it

• Engage and support your attendees in real-time at any distance
• Set attendees up for success with the guidance they need
• Keep your workshops fun and focused

Get comfortable with Live Events, here’s how to create your first event!

Got questions or feedback? We love to hear from you.