Instruqt Glossary

Hot starting is creating a pool of sandbox instances that are instantly available when a learner starts your track. Without Hot Start, sandbox environments start on demand when a learner starts a track. This means learners must wait for Instruqt to provision the sandbox environment before accessing them.

A track is a series of challenges that help learners achieve a learning goal.

A sandbox environment is a controlled and isolated testing area where engineers can test new code, software, or applications without affecting the production environment.

Software adoption refers to the process of users embracing and using a particular software application or tool.

Product-led growth (PLG) is a business strategy that relies on the product as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion.

Virtual IT labs provide a simulated environment for users to test and experiment with software, hardware, or other IT solutions without needing physical infrastructure. At Instruqt, our labs are immersive learning experiences.

Platform engineering involves designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and architecture of a software platform.

Customer education involves providing resources and information to help users understand how to use a product effectively.

Customer onboarding is the process of helping users get started with and successfully use a product or service. At Instruqt, we often refer to customer onboarding in the context of onboarding developers and engineers on technology stacks.

Product adoption metrics evaluate the performance of product adoptions. Common metrics include: user engagement, conversation rates, time to value, feature adoption rate, etc.

Product adoption refers to the process by which users become aware of, understand, and ultimately integrate a new product or service into their daily lives or workflows.

When referring to content creators, we're talking about anyone who is building content within Instruqt.

As a part of the sandbox environment, you can add a Google Cloud project, AWS credentials, or an Azure subscription. Instruqt makes sure the credentials are available on the hosts in the sandbox. For example, if you connect a Google Cloud project, the command line interface gcloud is available on the host, logged in, and configured to use that project.

Challenges are individual and incremental steps in a track. A challenge comes with a concrete assignment for the learner. Content creators can add scripts that check if the learner has completed the challenge. The check script and all other lifecycle scripts execute on the sandbox host.