New Base Image! 🚨 Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS Setting up Ubuntu Desktop services can be a bit tricky - so we did it for you! Get the familiar desktop experience you love on Ubuntu without the hassle of configuring it on your own. Available immediately for everyone.

Enterprises can have strict requirements to onboard a training vendor. They may throw terms at you like: LTI, SCORM, SAML, SSO, xAPI, RBAC.... 🤯 But for technical trainers using CourseStack, we handles these enterprise needs for you! You focus on building great content - we'll help you meet the needs of sophisticated orgs so you can grow your B2B business.

Running a hands-on workshop or training at a conference should be simple. With CourseStack, it's simple to set up Events and CTFs from your existing course material! Built in support for: ⏳ Time Limited Access 👩‍🎓 Registration Limits 📊 CTF Scoring 👥 Team Based Registration

High quality, fully managed Capture the Flags have never been easier! CourseStack makes it simple to have: 👥 Team or Individual Registration 📈 Realtime Scoring 🖥️ Hosted Challenge Infrastructure All in a single, affordable platform! Host CTFs up to 25 participants for free, or reach out to learn more about hosting events for over 10,000! #ctf

Some badging solutions are now charging over $3k/year. Just for issuing certifications! With CourseStack, you get certifications baked in. And setup is just a few clicks! Plus we provide: 🧑‍🎓 A Full LMS 🖥️ Cloud Based VMs & Code Playgrounds 💰 Monetization Tools All for less than "just badges" :)

Want to share a hands-on exercise with your studnets, team, or community but are worried about the setup? CourseStack makes it easy! Set up cloud based virtual machines that scale to 1000's with less than a minute of effort.

[New Feature] - Code Playgrounds Display and run code inline with your course content! Code Playgrounds are lightweight, entirely browser based coding sandboxes complete with a code editor, rendering, and output console. These are a fantastic way to let your students work with smaller snippets of code without needing a full fledged Code Workspace. Here’s what’s new: ▶️ Edit and run code right in the browser Give students editable examples and exercise inline with course content 🔠 Chose from dozens of popular languages like Python, Ruby, C#, C++, Javascript, and lots more 💸 0 credits required Code Playgrounds are totally free to run We can't wait to see what you build! 🚀

[New Feature] - Dynamic Flags & Launch Scripts You can now create dynamic, per-user or per-team flags for CTFs, exams, or courses. No more shared answers, each participant gets their own! To support this, we’ve also introduced system Launch Scripts with variable replacement, letting you tailor the system environment on launch. Here’s what’s new: 🔐 Unique flags per user, team, or attempt - perfect for assessments and CTFs ⚙️ Launch scripts with replacement variables like {{ launch_user_id }}, {{ flags.flag1 }} 📦 Scripts run when the image boots, letting you inject flags or configure the system dynamically. Read more in the docs (link in comments)

Your course ✨ Co-Author in just got a whole lot better! Building great technical content is extremely hard - sometimes you just need that extra boost to get your great idea started or that 90% done course finally finished. That's why we've given ✨ Co-Author a serious upgrade and more deeply integrated it throughout the course creation process. Here's what's new: 🚀 Jumpstart your course with Co-Author - Provide a description and Co-Author will scaffold out your course with a complete outline. 🏁 Complete Lessons - Like what Co-Author's laid our for you? Let it complete the lesson for you in a single click! 👀 New Prompting UI/UX - Big upgrades to the UI/UX of working with Co-Author on a lesson. More space for prompting and better feedback. 🧠 GPT-5-nano - We've upgraded to a much more powerful model. Get more consistent, higher quality results.

Bedrock LLM Access is Live! 🚀 Give students powerful, cost controlled access to LLMs via AWS Bedrock. Details about the update in comments!