Reporting for tracks and labs now lives in one place. Instead of separate reporting sections per content type, you'll find a single Reporting section in the left menu that covers all your content.

🗂️See all your content in one set of reports

The Reporting section includes Activity, Users, Sessions and Logs. Each report shows tracks and labs together, so you can see how all your content performs without switching between pages. Use the Tracks and Labs filters to narrow the results to specific content.

The reports work the same way as before – the same metrics, filters and CSV exports. CSV exports include both content types.

⏱️Review your sandbox usage in the Usage report

The Usage report is now part of the Reporting section and available to all teams. Use it to see how many sandboxes your content started, how long they ran, and how much of your Hot Start capacity was used or left unclaimed. You can filter by date, track, invite, landing page, tag or author, and export the results to CSV.

The Usage report covers tracks only for now.

Learn more in our Reporting documentation.

We’ve released two new invite settings that let you decide exactly when end users can start your content and when their access ends. We’ve also added time zone selection to Hot Start scheduling.

🔒 Let end users start content only when your live event begins

Live Event invites have a new setting: Lock content until event starts. Until now, end users could start the content up to 24 hours before the event. With the setting on, end users can still open the invite, register and see the content. They can only start playing it once the event begins, based on the start date and time set on the invite. This keeps end users on your session plan, and your Hot Start pool isn’t used up before the session starts.

Team members with access to the invite (instructors, content creators and owners) can still play the content from the invite, so your team can troubleshoot and get ready for the session.

The setting is off by default, and existing invites stay as they are.

📅 Set the date when end users lose access to the content

In the content restrictions of any invite, you can now choose from three options to set how long end users have access to the content:

• Forever – end users keep access with no end date
• For a set duration – a period that starts when each end user claims the invite
• Until a specific date – one date and time, in the time zone you select, that applies to everyone no matter when they joined

This date is separate from the event schedule, so access can end at any point you choose. After that date, end users can no longer start the content.

🌍 Schedule Hot Start pools in your end users’ time zone

When you create a Hot Start pool, you can now pick the time zone you’re planning in. The selector starts on your current time zone, and you can search for any other one. The pool’s start and end times follow the time zone you select. A tooltip next to the scheduler explains how this works.

🎉 We’re excited to launch the AI Assistant for content creators in Labs 2.0! Start new content from a short description, or open the assistant on existing content and ask for changes – the sandbox, the instructions and the checks, built with you right inside the editor. ✨ The AI Assistant works with your team’s own Anthropic API key, so your team stays in control of your AI account, limits and spend.

Create new content from a short description
Go to Create lab → With AI, describe what you want, and choose a duration and audience level. The assistant opens on a new lab and starts building it while you watch. When it’s done, you keep chatting to shape it.

Improve existing content by asking
Open the AI Assistant next to the editor and ask in plain language: add a chapter, rewrite a page, add a quiz, tighten the instructions or refresh anything out of date. You can also ask questions about your content, like what it covers or where the gaps are.

Share screenshots and files to debug or build faster
Attach a screenshot, diagram, PDF or text file to your message. Take a screenshot of an error in your lab and ask the assistant what went wrong, or share an architecture diagram and have it build the matching sandbox. The assistant can also save an attachment into your content, for example as an image on an instruction page.

Set up the full hands-on environment
The assistant configures the sandbox for you: containers, virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, terminals, code editors, web app tabs and cloud accounts on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

Get tasks with automatic checks, plus quizzes
The assistant writes tasks with their setup, check, solve and cleanup scripts, so learners’ progress is checked automatically. It also creates quizzes with single-choice, multiple-choice, text and numeric questions.

Let the assistant test your content
Ask the assistant to play through your content. It runs a real session on your draft and reports which page, task or quiz broke, so you can fix it before learners ever see it.

Review every change before you publish
Everything the assistant does goes into your unpublished draft. After each request, you get a summary of what was added, updated and removed, with links to each change and a full before-and-after view. Nothing reaches your learners until you click Publish.

Connect your own Anthropic API key
To use the AI Assistant, your team needs its own Anthropic API key. A team owner adds the key once under Settings → API keys, and all AI usage is billed to your Anthropic organization. Your key is encrypted, tied to your team and never shown again after saving.

Read more about the AI Assistant and Anthropic API Key support.

Get the AI Assistant for your team 🚀
To have the AI Assistant enabled, contact your Customer Success Manager or our Support team 💬 – we’ll guide you through the setup.

🖼️ Image builder: your own VM images, built and versioned in Instruqt

If your content needs a VM with tools pre-installed, you no longer have to install them in a setup script every time a sandbox starts. With the image builder you start from one of Instruqt's base images, install and configure what you need in a live editor, save checkpoints along the way, and publish the result as a versioned image that's private to your team. Reference it in your sandbox config as your-team/image-name:v1 and your content boots with the work already done.

Already have an image? Import it from Google Cloud or upload a disk file and it lands in your catalogue ready to use. Read more

🔔 Webhooks for Labs 2.0

Webhooks are now supported in Labs 2.0. You can receive events in your own systems when a session starts, a sandbox is provisioned or a participant completes a task, without polling the API. Endpoints are configured under Settings, where you choose the events you want to receive and can verify deliveries in the Logs tab.

Read more

We've reorganized the left hand navigation. Nothing you rely on has disappeared, but a lot of it now lives somewhere more sensible.

Why we're doing this

As we build toward 2.0, the old navigation had grown into a long, flat list under Settings that mixed account level configuration with day to day content tools. The new structure groups things by what you're actually trying to do, and gives us room to keep evolving in a way that stays easy to navigate.

What's new in Content

You'll now see Labs 2.0 alongside Tracks in the Content section. This is where our new lab building experience lives while it's in beta.

Share now covers more ground

A new section: Building blocks

Reporting, split for now

Inside each, you'll also find a new Logs interface. This replaces the old Logs entry under Settings. See the labs documentation for more detail on what's changed there.

Integrations gets its own home

Version control, Webhooks, LTI, and CRM are no longer buried in Settings. They now live in their own Integrations section.

Settings, now just settings

Settings is narrower and more focused: Team, SSO, API keys, and Cloud providers. If it's a global account setting, it's here. If it's something you use while building or sharing content, it's moved elsewhere in the new structure above.

Help, all in one place

A couple of smaller things

From your profile menu, you can now choose a theme. Light or dark, for the night owls. Dark mode is still rolling out and not every page supports it yet, but the new labs creator interface and the Logs page do, with more pages coming in the next few weeks.

Tell us what you think

This is us laying the groundwork for 2.0 and where the product is headed next. If something feels off, or you can't find what you're looking for, let us know. Your feedback on this new structure will directly shape how we refine it.

We are thrilled to announce the rollout of our new Global Sandboxes (GS) feature for all Instruqt customers. This major update is engineered to deliver a significant performance enhancement for your globally distributed teams and learners.

Up until now, your containers, virtual machines, and website service hosts have been provisioned exclusively in the Europe region. For learners operating across other continents, this distance could, unfortunately, introduce noticeable extra latency when accessing their sandboxes.

Global Sandboxes (GS) is the game-changer, empowering Instruqt customers with the capability to provision these essential resources in the closest geographical region to the learner. Once this powerful feature is activated for your organization:

• For ad-hoc play: We will automatically spin up the sandbox hosts in the optimal, closest region to the learner, guaranteeing a faster, smoother experience.
• For hot start pools: Customers now have the strategic control to configure their pools with the region that is closest to their events or learners' locations. For existing hot start pools, we will initially default to europe_west1; however, you can easily adjust the region to suit your needs.

To confirm if this feature has been activated for your organization, please connect with your Customer Success Manager (CSM), or check for the new region drop-down field when provisioning a new hot start pool or editing an existing one. If you see the option to select a region, your team is ready to benefit from the speed and efficiency of Global Sandboxes!

At Instruqt, security isn’t just a checkbox—it’s at the foundation of everything we do. We have successfully renewed for SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.

What this means for you:

✅ Enterprise-grade security – Your data remains protected with industry-leading standards.

✅ Ongoing compliance – Ongoing audits ensure our platform stays secure and reliable.

✅ Peace of mind – Confidently deliver hands-on demos, training, and sales enablement in a trusted environment.

We’re committed to providing a secure, scalable, and compliant platform so you can focus on driving developer adoption and customer engagement.

🔗 Learn more about our compliance standards here.

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