Legacy Lab Client Interface

Commands menu

This is a drop-down menu that provides commands shortcuts to send to the current lab, depending on the training environment. See the Commands menu section for more information.

Display menu

This menu contains display settings also depending on the real-world scenario. See the Display menu section for more information.

Developer menu

If you are using a virtual machine, this menu is used to install integration services on the virtual machine in the lab.

Hamburger menu

Last, the hamburger menu, it contains options to save the lab and return to it later, save changes to the virtual machines in the lab, edit instructions, share your lab instance, or transfer your lab instance to another user. See the Hamburger menu section for more information.

(1) Commands menu

Contains advanced lab functions. See the Commands menu section for more information.

(2) Display menu

Contains display settings. See the Display menu section for more information.

(3) Developer menu

This is used to install integration services on the virtual machine in the lab.

(4) Pin/unpin

This allows pinning or unpinning the top bar that contains the Commands menu, Display menu, Developer menu and connection indicator.

(5) Connection indicator

Displays the connection quality between your local machine and the virtual machine in the lab environment. The connection quality is displayed in milliseconds and a description of Excellent, Good, Fair and Poor. For more information about each connection quality description, or to conduct a speed test, please see our Skillable Speed Test.

(6) Lab instruction pane

Displays the lab instructions.

(7) Lab resources

Contains lab resources such as virtual machines, cloud resources, and any credentials needed to complete the lab instructions. This is also where you can load files into your virtual machine.

Note: To load files into your VM, select the VM you wish to load files to and then select Load Files and follow the instructions in the dialog window.

(8) Lab help

Contains lab theme settings, lab instance ID, FAQ and a link to submit a support request.

Note: The Help tab may not be available to you, depending on your learning organization settings.

(9) Lab instruction zoom slider

This allows you to zoom the display of the each tab in the lab instruction window (Instructions, Resources and Help).

(10) Hamburger menu

Contains options to save the lab and return to it later, save changes to the virtual machines in the lab, edit instructions, share your lab instance, or transfer your lab instance to another user. See the Hamburger menu section for more information.

Note: Some of these options may not be available to you, depending on your account configuration.

(11) Instruction resizer

Drag left and right to adjust the size of the instruction pane.

(12) Previous lab instruction

Navigates to the previous page in the lab instructions.

(13) Next lab instruction

Navigates to the next page in the lab instructions.

(14) Virtual machine or cloud platform (depending on lab configuration)

The virtual machine in focus, or the cloud platform (if the lab doesn't use virtual machines).

(1) Ctrl+Alt+Delete

Sends the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination to the virtual machine.

(2) ALT+Tab

Sends the ALT+Tab key combination to the virtual machine.

(3) Windows Key

Sends the Windows key command to the virtual machine.

(4) Type Text

Type Username: Types the username into the virtual machine at the current cursor position.
Type Password: Types the password into the virtual machine at the current cursor position.
Type Clipboard Text: Opens a dialog box to paste text into from your local clipboard, and paste into the virtual machine at the current cursor position.

(5) Power

Pause Machine: This puts the virtual machine into a paused state. Once it is paused, it must be resumed to continue using the virtual machine.
Reset/Reboot Machine: This reboots the virtual machine. This does not gracefully shut down the machine. It is recommended to save your work before using this.
Turn Off Machine: This powers down the virtual machine.

(6) Virtual Keyboard

This enables an on-screen virtual keyboard that can be used to input keystrokes into the virtual machine.

(7) Reset Internet Gateway

Resets the gateway that the virtual machine uses to connect to the internet.

(1) Full Screen

Sets the lab to display in a full screen window.

(2) Fit Machine to Window

This resizes the virtual machine to fit the browser window.

(3) Reconnect

This will reconnect your local machine to the remote virtual machine, if the connection is interrupted.

(1) Install Integration Service

This installs the Skillable Studio Integration Service. This allows automatic screen resizing (limited resolutions) and executing UI commands within a virtual machine.

(1) Save

Save my lab instance and return to it later: This allows you to save your lab and return to it later. Please note the expiration date and time that is displayed after you save your lab. Once the expiration date and time has elapsed, the lab is cancelled and any work in the lab will be lost.
Commit my changes to this lab profile: This allows lab authors to commit changes to virtual machines in the lab, so that subsequent lab launches will contain those changes.
Commit my changes and create a new lab profile: This allows lab authors to commit changes to virtual machines in the lab and save a new lab profile with the changes.

(2) Edit Instructions

This allows lab authors to edit the instructions that are displayed in the instruction pane of the lab.

(3) Split Windows

This allows splitting the windows into two separate windows; with the Virtual machine in one window, and the lab instruction pane in another window. After windows are split, this button will change to display Join Windows, this is used to join the windows back together into a single browser window.