The complete learning experience
Learning takes more than a course.
A complete learning experience has to work for everyone involved. Instructors need to be prepared to teach. Learners need to be prepared to learn. Concepts need to be explained, practiced and reinforced. Skills need to be applied and assessed.
XtremeLabs brings all of that together.
Everything around the learning.
17 ways we support teaching and learning
From instructor guides, slide decks and classroom activities to assessments, Interactives, simulations, live labs and course-grounded coaching, each is designed for a specific point in the teaching and learning experience.
Together, they create something much more powerful than course content alone.
What the instructor teaches from
Slide decksInstructorPowerPoint and PDF
One deck per module, depth set by the course calibration, with speaker notes and exam tips already written under each slide.
Classroom ActivitiesInstructorWord and PDF
Facilitated activities written out for the room: the setup, the scenarios, how long each part runs, the rubric, and an answer key that explains every item.
AssessmentsInstructorWord and PDF
The question bank distributed by domain weight, the per module quizzes, a practice exam and a diagnostic pretest, each with its answer key, so a class can be checked at any point without writing anything.
What gets the instructor ready
Instructor GuideInstructorWord and PDF
Module by module teaching notes with timing, the misconceptions that show up in each one, and what to say when they do.
Interactives Instructor GuideInstructorWord and PDF
How to run each interactive in a class: what it teaches, where it sits in the session, and what a good answer looks like.
Lab Instructor GuideInstructorWord and PDF
Every lab run end to end from the instructor's side, so the first time anyone sees a step is not in front of a class.
Lab quality recordInstructorSpreadsheet and a one page PDF
Every ambiguous, contradictory or support triggering step in the lab set, logged with a severity and a fix. It is the list of questions a class is about to ask, answered in advance.
Helix Coach Instructor GuideInstructorWord and PDF
What the Coach is grounded in, the families of question it answers well, how to use it in a class, and what it does when it does not know.
The Archetype MapInstructorIn the browser
Every activity across every module on one page, mapped by pattern and by maturity tier, so the shape of the course is visible before it is taught.
Lab Module MapInstructorIn the browser and PDF
What each lab module covers and the skill it builds, on a single landscape page that can be read in a minute and handed to a colleague.
The platform bundlePlatformCourse data
The title in the shape Helix reads, so the course is loaded and ready before day one rather than being rebuilt inside the platform.
What gets the student ready
The Course ExplorerLearnerIn the browser
The whole title in one place: what is coming week by week, the flashcards, the question bank and the activities. A student who wants to revise before a session has somewhere to do it.
Student Lab CompanionLearnerWord and PDF
Per lab support written for the person doing it: what the step is really asking, and what to check when the screen does not match the instruction.
What the student learns from
Interactive modulesLearnerIn the browser
One interactive per module where the topic earns one: a rule evaluator, a first match firewall, a two axis matrix, a shared pool, a lifecycle, a set of toggles, or at the judgment tier a trade-off, a self explanation or a rebuttal to hold against.
Helix Sim LabsLearnerIn the browser
A faithful replica of the real console, guided first and then scored against a scenario, for the topics where a live environment is impractical to hand out.
Helix Virtual LabsLearnerLive environments
Real cloud environments provisioned per learner, which is the other half of the answer and the one a certification path needs.
Helix CoachLearnerIn the browser
A study coach grounded in the course itself. Every answer cites the module element or the manual page it came from, and a question outside the course is declined rather than answered.
How it reaches you
A site of your own
Everything above is assembled into one address, prepared under your name and behind a password, so a department can open it without installing anything.
A version to send out
A second build for circulation: no editable files, a portion of the content rather than all of it, and the recipient's name on every page, so a copy that travels still names where it came from.
What you decide
Three decisions set the shape of a build. XtremeLabs does the rest.
Which titles
The courses you teach, own or license. One title is one build.
How it is distributed
Under your name, ours, or a partner's, on your platform or on Helix.
What delivery format
A semester of set weeks and hours, or a workshop of set sessions. Every count in the kit is calculated from that one number.
See the pieces working
Three of these run in your browser right now, with no account and nothing to install: the interaction patterns, a cloud console simulation, and a full lab session including the waiting.