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Instruqt Pros and Cons: Top Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users find Instruqt to be an extremely user-friendly platform for creating interactive learning solutions effortlessly. (23 mentions)
Users appreciate the hands-on labs of Instruqt, enabling effective learning through real, interactive environments. (16 mentions)
Users value the ease of course creation with Instruqt, enabling diverse training approaches and seamless integration. (15 mentions)
Users value the easy creation of labs with Instruqt, facilitating a wide range of training and demo opportunities. (12 mentions)
Users value Instruqt's intuitive lab creation, enhancing learning through customizable and cloud-based environments. (12 mentions)
Users praise the exceptional customer support from Instruqt, highlighting collaborative communication and effective problem-solving. (11 mentions)
Users find complex configuration of Instruqt challenging, suggesting more documentation and samples to ease setup. (4 mentions)
Users find the difficult setup process time-consuming, especially when establishing new environments and training programs. (4 mentions)
Users note a significant learning curve with Instruqt, particularly regarding its UI and automation scripting. (4 mentions)
Users are frustrated by the missing features, such as track organization and a simpler update workflow. (4 mentions)
Users note the limited features of Instruqt, particularly in image creation and organization, affecting usability. (3 mentions)

Top Pros or Advantages of Instruqt

1. Ease of Use
Users find Instruqt to be an extremely user-friendly platform for creating interactive learning solutions effortlessly.
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Justin R.
JR

Justin R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Great platform for providing on demand or live trainings"

What do you like about Instruqt?

Instruqt makes it super easy to create lab exercises for either on demand training or live trainings. The users can setup challenges that the particip

Verified User
A

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"An outstanding solution to provide trainings, demos, PoCs, ..."

What do you like about Instruqt?

Instruqt allows us to quickly and easily create labs for various use cases. These include labs for self-learning, guided trainings, demos or even proo

2. Hands-on Labs
Users appreciate the hands-on labs of Instruqt, enabling effective learning through real, interactive environments.
See 16 mentions

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Giovanni L.
GL

Giovanni L.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"This is the platform you want for challenge-based learning"

What do you like about Instruqt?

The fact that participants don't get a crippled environment to learn technical skills, but get the real thing (Instruqt does this through Docker conta

Ben H.
BH

Ben H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Scaling learning through hands-on labs"

What do you like about Instruqt?

Setting up hands-on labs, that allow our customers to really learn to use our products, without having to sit through hours of video presentations. H

3. Course Creation
Users value the ease of course creation with Instruqt, enabling diverse training approaches and seamless integration.
See 15 mentions

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Justin R.
JR

Justin R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Great platform for providing on demand or live trainings"

What do you like about Instruqt?

Instruqt makes it super easy to create lab exercises for either on demand training or live trainings. The users can setup challenges that the particip

Verified User
A

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"An outstanding solution to provide trainings, demos, PoCs, ..."

What do you like about Instruqt?

Instruqt allows us to quickly and easily create labs for various use cases. These include labs for self-learning, guided trainings, demos or even proo

4. Easy Creation
Users value the easy creation of labs with Instruqt, facilitating a wide range of training and demo opportunities.
See 12 mentions

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Justin R.
JR

Justin R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Great platform for providing on demand or live trainings"

What do you like about Instruqt?

Instruqt makes it super easy to create lab exercises for either on demand training or live trainings. The users can setup challenges that the particip

Verified User
A

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"An outstanding solution to provide trainings, demos, PoCs, ..."

What do you like about Instruqt?

Instruqt allows us to quickly and easily create labs for various use cases. These include labs for self-learning, guided trainings, demos or even proo

5. Experience
Users value Instruqt's intuitive lab creation, enhancing learning through customizable and cloud-based environments.
See 12 mentions

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Verified User
A

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2.5/5

"Great product, but expensive with poor support."

What do you like about Instruqt?

Instruqt provides a powerful and platform for creating real, hands-on, sandboxed labs. You can run containers, full VMs (including shell terminals), a

Max D.
MD

Max D.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Intelligent platform for hands-on learning"

What do you like about Instruqt?

The possibility to create lab challenges result in giving a student a clear goal to achieve. It provides more possibilities compared to the standard l

6. Customer Support
Users praise the exceptional customer support from Instruqt, highlighting collaborative communication and effective problem-solving.
See 11 mentions

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Justin R.
JR

Justin R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Great platform for providing on demand or live trainings"

What do you like about Instruqt?

Instruqt makes it super easy to create lab exercises for either on demand training or live trainings. The users can setup challenges that the particip

Verified User
A

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Probably the best learning platform for tech projects"

What do you like about Instruqt?

For the user: quick to understand what's going on and clear environment For the builder: lot of automation capabilities, great experience as a dev si

Top Cons or Disadvantages of Instruqt

1. Complex Configuration
Users find complex configuration of Instruqt challenging, suggesting more documentation and samples to ease setup.
See 4 mentions

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Harsha C.
HC

Harsha C.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Good platform to try out new things"

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

I felt that creating the courses here was difficult and more documentation might be useful.

TH

Tibor H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Love Instruqt as a trainer!"

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

It can be time consuming to setup new environments and training programs

2. Difficult Setup
Users find the difficult setup process time-consuming, especially when establishing new environments and training programs.
See 4 mentions

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Justin R.
JR

Justin R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Great platform for providing on demand or live trainings"

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

Like any product, it takes a little while to learn your way around the UI and set up your first training. Once you get the hang of it, all the feature

Aaron B.
AB

Aaron B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"One of the best tools for creating labs, sandboxes, and learning environments."

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

I can't think of much I would improve. Perhaps provide easier to implement features - the ability to connect to third party/cloud infrastructure using

3. Learning Curve
Users note a significant learning curve with Instruqt, particularly regarding its UI and automation scripting.
See 4 mentions

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Justin R.
JR

Justin R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Great platform for providing on demand or live trainings"

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

Like any product, it takes a little while to learn your way around the UI and set up your first training. Once you get the hang of it, all the feature

Yohiner C.
YC

Yohiner C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Labs On-Demand Easy and Friendly"

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

It requires a significant learning curve, especially for SaaS-based labs. But that is expected with cutting-edge technology.

4. Missing Features
Users are frustrated by the missing features, such as track organization and a simpler update workflow.
See 4 mentions

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Verified User
T

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Amazing Lab Platform"

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

- Track state management can be a bit cumbersome (ID vs slug vs checksum) - Lack of groups/folders to organize tracks - Track update workflow is not

Rick J.
RJ

Rick J.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Instruqt has taken us to a new level of Education"

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

There are a few features that would be nice to have available that aren't available yet. They are on the list of features for the team to work on, but

5. Limited Features
Users note the limited features of Instruqt, particularly in image creation and organization, affecting usability.
See 3 mentions

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Aaron B.
AB

Aaron B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"One of the best tools for creating labs, sandboxes, and learning environments."

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

I can't think of much I would improve. Perhaps provide easier to implement features - the ability to connect to third party/cloud infrastructure using

Verified User
T

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Amazing Lab Platform"

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

- Track state management can be a bit cumbersome (ID vs slug vs checksum) - Lack of groups/folders to organize tracks - Track update workflow is not

Instruqt Reviews (61)

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Instruqt Reviews (61)

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Igor O.
IO
Associate Customer Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Powerful Teaching tool"
What do you like best about Instruqt?

This is a powerful tool for creating hands-on tutorials for customers. You can build straightforward use cases, combining text, video, and images to create comprehensive instructions. Even have some scripts to check if the user is running everything correctly.

This allows customers to independently follow the steps and learn through practical application. Because you can easily build any type of project, it's a great fit for almost any tech company. Our customers use this tool daily, finding it highly effective for workshops and internal training sessions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

The learning curve can be a bit steep initially, so having a dedicated administration team for guidance is important at the start. However, once the team is trained, or you invest some time to learn, the platform is straightforward to use and worth the time invested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ben H.
BH
Director of Customer Success - EMEA
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Scaling learning through hands-on labs"
What do you like best about Instruqt?

Setting up hands-on labs, that allow our customers to really learn to use our products, without having to sit through hours of video presentations.

Having been one of the first (if not the first) customers of Instruqt, we are still using it to this day, and are very satisfied.

Features are being added steadily, and are making the experience even better.

Some features that have been implemented had been on my list of requested features for a while, and I am happy they are now there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

Some things could be better/easier, but the product itself is very solid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Lauer of Instruqt

Thanks for the update, Ben!

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great product, but expensive with poor support."
What do you like best about Instruqt?

Instruqt provides a powerful and platform for creating real, hands-on, sandboxed labs. You can run containers, full VMs (including shell terminals), and cloud accounts. You can create sophisticated instructions rendered from Markdown. All of this is wrapped in a single browser window with an intuitive interface. Instruqt is developer friendly, providing webhooks for learner activity, a graphql API, and a CLI client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

Instruqt's documentation is fair and their customer support is bad. If you want help automating your lab development workflow or developing sophisticated learning experiences on their platform, you will quickly exhaust their frontline support capabilities. Their agents don't understand their product well but they will confidently provide incorrect information to you anyway. For issues they don't understand, they will require thorough documentation from you before engaging their engineering team, if you're lucky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Lauer of Instruqt

Appreciate the honest feedback. We take our performance as a partner to our customers very seriously. Your constructive feedback has been passed along to the team. I'd welcome the opportunity to talk further about your experience should you feel comfortable reaching out directly via our Slack community.

David H.
DH
Senior Director of Content
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Instruqt has completely revolutionized how we're able to provide workshops."
What do you like best about Instruqt?

Instruqt has provided us with the perfect platform for our prospects, customers, and partners to get "hands-on" workshop experiences with our products. We can build guided experiences to demo new features for in-person and virtual workshops, which was previously much harder to accomplish. As a result, we've seen massive spikes in trial sign-ups for our product and have been able to provide a much simpler, catered experience to attendees. Both our Marketing and Sales Engineering teams are thrilled with what we get out of using Instruqt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

At least in my experience, which is not on the technical side, I've seen nothing to dislike yet! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Lauer of Instruqt

Appreciate the feedback, David!

Justin R.
JR
Mentorship Committee
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great platform for providing on demand or live trainings"
What do you like best about Instruqt?

Instruqt makes it super easy to create lab exercises for either on demand training or live trainings. The users can setup challenges that the participants need to complete. You can write scripts to check the participants work as well as complete it for them if they get stuck. Instruqt's customer support has been great when we have had questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

Like any product, it takes a little while to learn your way around the UI and set up your first training. Once you get the hang of it, all the features you need are there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Lauer of Instruqt

Thanks for the review, Justin!

Aaron B.
AB
Curriculum Engineer/Technologist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"One of the best tools for creating labs, sandboxes, and learning environments."
What do you like best about Instruqt?

I have worked in the educational technology space for over a decade, and Instruqt is the best tool I've found for creating customized labs which not only present verisimilitude, but the ability the actually complete real-world tasks. There is no better way to learn, and Instruqt provides a fantastic platform which makes creating labs and sandboxes for users to learn in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

I can't think of much I would improve. Perhaps provide easier to implement features - the ability to connect to third party/cloud infrastructure using a GUI and sliding blocks with stored secrets, rather than having to write out everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Victor S.
VS
Customer Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Instruqt is an outstanding platform in terms of customer experience"
What do you like best about Instruqt?

I've been using Instruqt for a few months now and one of the most helpful things is the capability of cloning block of different labs already created and reuse it to create new one projects. The customer experience while present some Workshops it's for sure an upside, I getting really good feedbacks from my customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

I'd point out here that working with scripts to automate things inside of Instruqt may be a quite challenging sometimes. But a big friction point we you have some samples to follow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Lauer of Instruqt

Thank you, Victor! Your feedback has been shared with the team.

Abdessamad T.
AT
Application Security Engineer - Trainer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"An awesome platform to deliver high quality trainings"
What do you like best about Instruqt?

It make life easier for a trainer to deliver training , and participants just loves it ! No time wasted on local setup and configuration, they can jump right into practices from the beginning.

The support team is also very reactive, you will always get someone who assist you to solve any technical issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

The most challenging part is to build and maintain the labs scenarios, it would be helpful to have more common use cases or sandboxes to use directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Lauer of Instruqt

Thanks, Abdessamad! Your feedback has been shared with the team.

Nestor D.
ND
Developer Advocate
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Very powerful and flexible educational platform"
What do you like best about Instruqt?

It makes our workshops and labs very manageable, and its tracking abilities are first-class. It is very flexible in the way you can adjust trainings to multiple platforms, audiences, schedules etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

We had issues with scaling, and attendee surges. Tracks weren't adapting properly to new logins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Lauer of Instruqt

Thanks for the feedback! Happy to talk further about scalability. Please reach out via Slack to set up a time, if desired.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
TC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Amazing Lab Platform"
What do you like best about Instruqt?

Instruqt has allowed us to take hands-on labs to the next level.

- All content is authored in Markdown

- Possiblity to integrate with SCM (e.g. GitHub)

- Lots of UI tuning (HTML/CSS, columns, tabs, etc.)

- Notes act as slides before challenges

- Versatile check & solve scripts

- The CLI allows to easily manipulate tracks and view logs

- Webhooks lets us extract data and trigger external automation/integration

- Invites are very practical to plan events such as webinar or workshops Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instruqt?

- Track state management can be a bit cumbersome (ID vs slug vs checksum)

- Lack of groups/folders to organize tracks

- Track update workflow is not very simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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