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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.

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.

@ZephrFish @_RastaMouse @HackingLZ "I underestimated how much time would disappear into edge cases"... we feel you! Always here if you need support!

@_RastaMouse @HackingLZ @getCourseStack Indeed but alas it’s the lessons learnt that make me far more aware of how things operate 🫡

It's 4 weeks to the date since I launched ZephrSec Ltd LMS and Malwareless Adversarial Emulation(MAE), here's a blog post about a lot of the challenges, lessons learnt and general chaos of building and running your own platform and all the fun that follows building blog.zsec.uk/roll-your-own-… #CyberSecurity #RedTeam #SecurityTraining #Infosec #PlatformEngineering #AWS #Serverless

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.

We lost access to our digital badging service (Badgr) earlier this month when it went from simple free ->> to $1000s / year 🫠 they got acquired into a larger LMS platform and it was no longer a separate thing - happen to you or do you pay a lot for badging??? please do read on: reached out to @getCourseStack and reviewed their badging service more, it's plenty good, looks slick, easy to share on socials......... and INCLUDED in their regular plans which ALSO come with VMs, an LMS, exams, and much more Oh and guess what ! you can just message them in their Discord for feature requests and needs and they listen and build If you're looking for a solution for badging (and likely an LMS and other features) please go check out CourseStack if you haven't already They're doing great work over there (sample screenshot attached) and link: training.leveleffect.com/exam-completio…

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.

Reflecting on 2025 and... SaaS is hard! 😅 You have to *constantly* improve your product and prove your value to customers. But with great customers to push you forward in the right direction, you can really build something great. Thank you to all the amazing customers of @getCourseStack ! You've helped us have quite the year! Here's a look at what you've helped us build 😀 ----------- Event Invite Links Code Playgrounds Dynamic Flags & Launch Scripts Co-Author Improvements Build AI Courses with Bedrock LLMs Event Registration Limits CourseStack Discover Annual Subscriptions on Bundles CourseStack Discover Settings Dark Mode! Granular Content Visibility Branded Login Experience Course File Visibility Certificates of Completion Teams for Live Event CTFs CTF Display Names Discord Roles per Enrollment Improved Events UI CTF Event Mode Toggle Content Editor Display Width Platform Navigation Update Public Event Registration Live Events Pricing Update Student Name Onboarding Request Hint Button Regex Answer Type Web Connections for Systems Markdown Descriptions for Exams Restore Previous Lesson Versions Multiple Connections per System Manual Enrollments for Bundles Time-Limited Bundle Access Faster Code Workspaces Free Starter Credits for Students Discord Integration Creator VPN Access Image Gallery Global Email Support Setting Free Preview Lessons Markdown Course Descriptions Student VPN Access ---------- And we're just getting started! 🚀 2026 will be even better, with some amazing roadmap items already in the works. I'm sure our customers will keep pushing us in surprising new ways to help build the best place to build and teach technical content. What will you build on CourseStack in the new year?

[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! 🚀

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[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)

@GrahamHelton3 @obsdmd @mitchellh Thanks for the mention @GrahamHelton3 !!

Some random software I respect for respecting the user: - @obsdmd: The obsidian commercial license being optional is rad obsidian.md/blog/free-for-… - @getCourseStack: I just REALLY enjoy their platform - Ghostty (cc: @mitchellh) just went non-profit mitchellh.com/writing/ghostt…

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

[New Feature] - Event Registration Limits! 🛑 A popular use case for Live Events is to enable hands-on access to content and labs at conference trainings or for live workshops. Often, these in person events have limited seating available! To help you manage your attendees, we've introduced a simple, optional Registration Limit setting on all live events.

Building great technical learning content is tough. ✨ But our Co-Author makes it easier! Stay in the zone and let Co-Author build and refine content with you, directly in our learning platform.

Teach #AI with CourseStack! ✨ We're incredibly excited to enable seamless, integrated access to Bedrock LLMs on student systems! Configuring access is a single setting toggle on your student systems, and usage is fully integrated with our existing credits system. - NO external API keys required - NO unexpected student or creator bills Currently in preview, so if you'd like access to the feature reach out and let us know!

Check out the beginnings of CourseStack Discover! Explore hands-on courses from top creators building on CourseStack. A top question from students taking courses powered by CourseStack has been "What other courses can I take that are on the platform?" Creators also consistently look for ways to get the word out about their excellent hands-on content. CourseStack Discover aims to help! Check out Discover to find: - Upcoming Live Events and CTFs - Featured Academies - A Full Directory of Content Creators (soon*) app.coursestack.com/discover