Live events & instructor tools
Run live labs and workshops at any scale
Live labs are hands-on sessions you run for a room, a booth, or a virtual class, each attendee working in a real product environment. One invite link, one isolated sandbox per attendee, and one dashboard that shows you who needs help. No installs, no shared infrastructure, no guessing.
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HOW IT WORKS
Focus on teaching, not infrastructure
Instruqt provisions the environments, handles access, and shows you what every attendee is doing. Your job during the session is the one you came to do: teach.
01 · BUILD
Every attendee starts in a working environment
You define the environment once. Each attendee who opens the invite link gets an identical, isolated sandbox built from that definition, in a browser, on whatever laptop they brought. Save the lab as a template and the next event starts from a version you already trust.
One isolated sandbox per attendee, running your real product
Kubernetes clusters, kubeconfigs, networks, and resource-limited containers
Lab templates to reuse a proven workshop
See sandbox environments
02 · CONNECT
The instructor dashboard, in real time
Stop guessing which screens are stuck. The live dashboard lists every attendee, the page they are on, and who needs attention: a raised hand, failed attempts, or five minutes of inactivity. From the same view, broadcast a hint to the room, message one person, open their lab and fix it for them, or ask to see their screen. Several instructors can work the same dashboard, so a co-host can handle the room while you teach.
Attendance and current page per attendee, refreshed every five seconds
Raised-hand, failed-attempt, and inactivity indicators
Broadcast, direct message, take control, or view a screen
See how teams run workshops
03 · VALIDATE
Leave with results, not an attendance list
Prove the session worked. During the event, the dashboard counts who joined, who stayed active, and who finished. Afterwards, export each attendee's start and finish time, tasks completed, failed attempts, and registration answers. Feedback components on any page show which steps landed and which need work before the next run.
Activity: duration, completions, failed attempts, form submissions
Per-page feedback rolled into one happiness score
Attendees keep access to the lab after the event
See results in your CRM
THE DIFFERENCE
The Instruqt Difference Version control that teams can actually review.
Instruqt does not add another place to manage lab content. It brings lab definitions under the same control as your code.
The traditional approach
Attendees install tooling in advance and spend the first hour debugging their laptops.
A shared cluster or homegrown platform that slows down, or falls over, as the room fills up.
Instructors walk the aisles guessing who is stuck, while quiet learners drop off.
Success is measured by a show of hands and a survey most people never answer.
WITH INSTRUQT LAB-AS-CODE
Every attendee opens a link and lands in an isolated environment that already works.
One sandbox per person; Solo.io ran 400 concurrent attendees with no infrastructure instability.
The dashboard flags raised hands, failed attempts, and inactivity, so you reach the right person first.
Per-attendee completions, time spent, and form data exported after the session.
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See where Live events & instructor tools creates value
Teams use versioned labs to ship demos, training and developer content faster — without stepping on each other.
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Teach in person and remote in one session
Same lab, same dashboard, whether the attendee is in the room or on a call.
Every attendee starts from an identical, isolated environment
Spot inactive or struggling learners and message them directly
Take control of a lab to fix a problem without leaving your seat
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Turn booth traffic into hands-on time
Attendees try the product themselves instead of watching a demo.
Attendees work through a real scenario on a laptop, unassisted
Sysdig let attendees copy commands or run something arbitrary and break things
Attendees can revisit the same lab after the show
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Qualify attendees on what they did
Gate the invite with a registration form, then read completion and time-on-lab next to it.
Registration form submissions export with each attendee's activity
Completion and time-on-lab data show who engaged deeply
Restrict access by email or domain when the audience matters
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Onboard a cohort without a ticket queue
Take a customer group through the same lab together, see who is stuck, and fix it live.
Instructors see each learner's current page and failed attempts
Feedback components capture satisfaction per page for the next cohort
Attendees keep access to the lab after the session
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TESTIMONIALS
What our clients say
Teams shipping hands-on content every week — and the impact it has on their product and their customers.
Keith Manville
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud Security
Jeff Price
Field CTO, SUSE North America
“In less than a year on Instruqt we’ve gone from one workshop to over 25 labs, with the same small team of sales engineers. Instead of ten workshops at 25 attendees each, we run one and reach 400 customers at a time.”
Brandi Coleman
Director, Americas Enterprise Sales Engineering, BMC
Nigel Douglas
Head of DevRel, Cloudsmith
Nick Drost
GVP Solutions Architecture, Elastic
Tim Koopmans
ScyllaDB
Alex Rosenkranz
Engineering Manager, Datadog
Joe Titra
Global Head of Technical Enablement, Wiz
Keith Manville
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud Security
Jeff Price
Field CTO, SUSE North America
Jeff Price
Field CTO, SUSE North America
“In less than a year on Instruqt we’ve gone from one workshop to over 25 labs, with the same small team of sales engineers. Instead of ten workshops at 25 attendees each, we run one and reach 400 customers at a time.”
Brandi Coleman
Director, Americas Enterprise Sales Engineering, BMC
Nigel Douglas
Head of DevRel, Cloudsmith
Nick Drost
GVP Solutions Architecture, Elastic
Tim Koopmans
ScyllaDB
Alex Rosenkranz
Engineering Manager, Datadog
Joe Titra
Global Head of Technical Enablement, Wiz
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How many people can join one live event?
There is no fixed cap on simultaneous attendees. Larger groups do increase the time it takes to create everyone's sandbox, so you set the number of unique users on the invite when you create it. For scale reference: Solo.io ran 400 concurrent attendees, 250 in person and 150 virtual, and SUSE grew a Rancher Day planned for 100 users to hundreds of participants.
Can I pre-provision sandboxes so they're ready before the doors open?
Not at Instruqt 2.0 launch. Hotstarts, pre-warmed sandbox pools, are on the post-GA list, so at GA each sandbox is provisioned when the attendee starts. The legacy platform's hot start pools remain available through 27 September 2027, and legacy and 2.0 run side by side.
Does this work for self-paced and hybrid sessions, or only live ones?
Both. A Live event invite gives you the dashboard, chat, and help indicators for a scheduled session; a self-paced invite lets people work through the same lab on their own schedule. Hybrid works too: Solo.io ran 250 attendees in the room and 150 remote in one session, with no infrastructure instability.
Can more than one instructor run the same event?
Yes. Anyone on your team with the content creator, owner, or instructor role can open the live dashboard, and several people can use it at once. A co-host can watch the help indicators and answer messages while the lead instructor teaches.