Develop job-ready graduates for the AI-driven workforce with hands-on experience
Equip students with the competency and confidence to compete for jobs in AI, data, cybersecurity, cloud, DevOps and more.
Trusted by these institutions and organizations
Embed "doing the work" with learning the theory
Arm your engineering faculty with the ability to provision real-world and AI-infused applications, cloud subscriptions and tools, so students can learn, practice and pass by actually “doing the work.”
Traditional skill development
Stale content stalls growth
Theory-based practice and minimal real-world skill demonstration.
- Outdated curriculum - Textbooks and pre-recorded videos become obsolete within months in enterprise tech.
- Passive obervation - Students watch experts do the work instead of building the muscle memory themselves.
- Employeability gap - Academic success doesn't translate to workplace technical proficiency or confidence.
AI-era skill development
Learn by doing
Analyze, iterate with AI-enabled tools and produce desired outcomes.
- Live lab environments - Instant access to the actual enterprise software and tools used by the industry leaders today.
- Active mastery - Muscle memory built through real-time application in cloud-based sandbox systems.
- Career-ready outcomes - Attract job-ready students by providing the proven competence employers actively seek.
Differentiate your curricula by giving students
real-world experience with Skillable
Enable your technology faculty and IT team to easily provision real-world, AI-infused applications, cloud subscriptions and tools – so students can learn, practice and pass by actually “doing the work.”
Offer “ready-to-learn” AI-infused labs
Maximize learning time by providing students with setup-free environments instead of generic sandboxes and screenshots.
Scale technical programs reliably
Deliver a consistent learning experience for every student whether in single classes or university-wide programs.
Validate job readiness and build confidence
Include performance-based assessments for mid-term and final exams to demonstrate real-world competency.
Purpose‑built for higher ed integrations, assessments and AI integrity
- Seamless LMS workflows – Skillable integrates with Canvas, Blackboard, D2L and others to remove the friction for students and operations teams.
- Automated grading and scoring – Launch labs directly from your LMS then retrieve automated scoring data to integrate with your grading system.
- AI-integrity features – Validate mastery in secure live environments. Our platform ensures authentic learning that evolves as fast as AI while maintaining the integrity of your academic programs.
Create hands-on experiences in domains like these
Faculty are enabled to deliver hands‑on environments regardless of experience, whether by building labs independently, partnering with our Professional Services team or combining both approaches.
AI and machine learning
Coverage across the technologies that power modern AI adoption.
- AI/ML frameworks
- PyTorch, TensorFlow
- Cloud AI platforms and services
- Azure AI/OpenAI Services, Azure Machine Learning Studio
- Developer tools and productiviy
- Copilot, Github
Cybersecurity and cyber ranges
Create both individual and collaborative learning experiences, including cyber ranges, Capture‑the‑Flag (CTF) exercises and Red Team vs. Blue Team (attack/defend) scenarios.
- Certifying bodies
- CompTIA, EC-Council, ISACA
- Industrial/OT
- Dragos
- Operating systems
- Kali, Ubuntu, Windows
- Network and security analysis
- Nmap, Wireshark
- Offensive security
- Hydra, John the Ripper
- Security monitoring/detection
- OSSEC, Snort, Splunk
- Security standards
- OWASP
Skillable is the authorized lab host for CompTIA, EC-Council, Microsoft, ISACA and many more.
Cloud and DevOps
Use native integrations with Azure and AWS or bring your own apps to create hands-on experiences.
- Application platform
- Web Apps
- Automation/provisioning
- Terraform
- Compute and runtime
- Virtual Machines/EC2s, GPU
- Data
- Deployment models
- Hybrid scenarios
- Networking
- Security domains
- Cloud Security, Secure Compute
- Storage
Skillable is an authorized Microsoft Azure Lab Services provider.
Data engineering and databases
Create and deliver learning experiences using the data engineering tools and databases of your choice.
- Data platforms and analytics engines
- Apache, Databricks, Hadoop
- Data integration and pipelines
- Azure Data Factory
- Relational databases
- Azure SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- NoSQL databases
- AWS DynamoDB
- Query language
- SQL
- Streaming and event platforms
- Apache Kafka
Data science and analytics
Design and deploy customized, large-scale hands-on data science and analytics learning and validation experiences.
- BI and data visualization
- Tableau, PowerBI, Grafana
- Big data processing
- Apache Spark, Azure HDInsight
- Data exploration and analysis environments
- Jupyter Notebooks, R Studio
- Data protection
- Cohesity, Commvault
- Data warehousing
- Programming languages
- Python, JSON
User productivity and copilots
Help students leverage productivity tools and their understanding of back-end administration and management tools.
- CRM/HRM applications
- Enterprise productivity apps
- Full productivity suites
- Microsoft Office 365, Google applications
Physical equipment
Teach students on physical hardware or devices with immersive virtual reality environments or access to real hardware via our datacenters.
- Hardware maintenance
- IT Infrastructure
- Storage arrays, networking
- Medical devices
- Operational technologies (e.g., HVAC)
- Virtual Reality applications (e.g., NGT2, MetaVRse)
Software development
From basic code editors to full-stack software development and deployment environments, Virtual Machines, Visual Studio, PyCharm, Jupyter Notebooks and the Cloud.
- Developer tools
- VS Code
- Programming languages
- C# & .NET, Java, Javascript, Python
- Backend frameworks
- Node.js
- Frontend frameworks
- Angular, HTML/CSS, ReactJS,
Systems administration
From single-machine labs to multi-segment networks and clusters, find a template and start creating the hands-on experiences you need.
- On-premise virtualization
- Hyper-V
- VMware
- Containerization
- Docker
- Hybrid environments
- Public cloud platforms
- AWS, Azure, GCP
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