How Does The Exit Menu Work?

Skillable Labs users are sometimes unsure how to manage their lab sessions. This guide simplifies the process, explaining how to effectively use the exit menu to save, cancel, or complete a lab.

Best Practices for Deciding How to Exit a Lab

When using the lab interface, it's important to be mindful of how you manage your work to ensure that nothing is lost. Here are some guidelines to help you:

• Timely Completion: Be aware that labs are automatically cancelled if not completed within 7 days of saving. Once the time expires, any progress or work in the lab will be lost. To prevent this, ensure you complete and save your work within this timeframe. Remember, you can save up to 2 labs at a time.

• Careful Cancellation: If you want to discard your work and start over, you can cancel the lab at any time. However, this action cannot be undone, so be careful before you confirm it.

• Save instead of Cancel: If your account configuration allows you to save multiple labs, it is recommended to save a lab instead of cancelling, when possible. This will preserve the work done in the lab, instead of losing progress by cancelling.

Remember, the key to preserving your work is regular saving and being mindful of the time limits.

Labs Without an Exit Option

Depending on the configuration of your lab, there may not be an option to exit the lab without finishing it. If your lab does not have an exit option, you will need to complete the steps in the lab to exit.

Exit Menu Functionality

Depending on the type of lab you are working on, the Exit menu will have different options for you to manage your work. If your lab has content (step-by-step instructions), you can choose to Save and Close or Cancel your lab. If your lab does not have content, you can choose to End your lab. This will open a dialog box where you can either close your lab and mark it as complete or cancel your lab.

Saving Lab Progress and Resuming:

1. Select Exit and Save and Close Lab.  You will have 7 days to resume the lab before it is cancelled. You can save up to 2 labs.

2. In the Confirm Save dialog box, select OK.

3. In the Lab Saved window, select Close Window.

Handling Content-Free Labs

1. Select Exit > End Lab > Close my lab and mark it complete when you have finished the lab.

2. On the Lab Complete window, select Close Window.

Cancelling a Lab

1. Select Exit > Cancel Lab or Exit > End Lab > Cancel my lab when you want to discard all of your work and start from the beginning next time you launch the lab.