How Expleo Academy moved technical courses to online delivery

How Expleo Academy moved technical courses to online delivery

Introduction

Hello, and welcome to this blog on how we at Expleo Academy moved our technical courses to online delivery.

We begin in the year 2BC (“Before COVID”) – a couple of years ago when most of our technical courses were classroom-based. We delivered technical courses using local virtual machines (“VMs”) running Oracle VirtualBox on a suite of training laptops. For onsite courses at client sites, we either couriered the laptops ahead or I copied the VM across onto delegate laptops with VirtualBox pre-installed (deleting it at the end).

And then, of course, everything changed. Due to COVID-19, no-one could travel, which resulted in the rapid need to migrate Expleo Academy to online.

Naturally, we had delivered online courses before – it was always an option – and so we had the delivery tool already. The major challenge was how to handle the training environment.

What did we do?

To begin with, we placed the VM onto OneDrive where the delegates could download and unzip it. The snag was, not everyone’s laptop was quick enough so we decided that we needed a better solution.

The solution

We moved to Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). I created a new AWS Windows instance which was connectable remotely and set up everything needed for the Selenium course. We took an image of the instance and duplicated it each time for any new course. The new AWS instances worked fabulously and all the feedback on this new VM was phenomenal as it ran so much faster than the old local one.

We now have a couple of Cloudwatch rules that trigger Lambda tasks to start and stop the instances each day of the course.

Looking forward

We now have so many possibilities. Our Cucumber with Selenium course uses an AWS instance – and the same goes for our course on Selenium using C#. There are plans to enable Selenium to use Python to deliver the A4Q Certified Selenium Foundation, and don’t get me started on DevOps!

Read more about the Online Delivery on the original post at: https://expleoacademy.com/int/online-delivery/

All training courses at Expleo Academy

bcs intermediate certificate in software testing
change management fundamentals
isqi certified agile business analysis caba revision session and exam 1500
flow ambassador excelling at business agility masterclass
estimating for testers
dasa certified devops fundamentals
sql fundamentals
istqb certified tester advanced level security tester
istqb certified tester advanced level technical test analyst
istqb certified tester advanced level test manager
project management professional pmp preparation course
agile certified practitioner pmi acp preparation course
using selenium in csharp with workshop
apmg certified change management in an agile environment foundation and practitioner
risk management professional pmi rmp certification preparation course
project management fundamentals
program management professional pgmp preparation course
istqb certified tester foundation level extension agile tester
bcs certificate in modelling business processes
isaqb certified professional for software architecture foundation level cpsa f
bcs foundation certificate in business analysis
icagile certified product ownership
writing user stories workshop
bcs certificate in requirements engineering
bcs international diploma in business analysis exam preparation workshop
bcs certificate in business analysis practice
agile requirements engineering
certified disciplined agile scrum master dasm
icagile certified agile fundamentals
istqb certified tester advanced level test analyst
certified disciplined agile senior scrum master dassm
requirements verification
isqi certified agile business analysis caba
certified associate in project management capm preparation course
linux essentials
java fundamentals
performance testing fundamentals
agile process tools a look into scrum kanban and safe
scrum master bootcamp
product ownership bootcamp
a4q certified selenium tester foundation
psychology of communication intelligence
test automation fundamentals
using cucumber with selenium
using selenium with workshop
asqf certified professional for project management
istqb certified tester foundation level
agile bootcamp

About Expleo Academy

The Expleo Academy enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses. With a global presence and reach, we deliver hundreds of training

The Expleo Academy offers training courses  in Management Consultancy, Business Agility, Continuous Quality, Software Engineering or even Private Events with detailed Learning pathways in Business Analysis, Change Management, Project / Program Management, Software Quality Analysis, Software Quality Management and Software Engineering. Many training courses like test automation engineer, certified tester, automotive spice, usability testing, scrum product owner or isaqb training include certification based on istqb, leading safe, asqf, intacs or isaqb. The Expleo Academy also offers training for wellknown Tools like Microsoft Project, Tools & Automation trainings like Selenium, Jira Essentials, Jira Xray, Jira Server, Confluence training,  Kanban, Tricentis and many more.

Academy is part of the Expleo Group , that offers Engineering, Consultancy- and IT-Services to the industry. At https://products.expleogroup.com/ one could find a bunch of products which Expleo developed over the years, among them Testona (Features, Klassifikationsbaum-Methode, Training & Tutorial, References, Download & Price), Modica (MBT Process, Modelling, Object Definition, Generation, Automation, Training & Tutorial), Messina, (Camera-Hil-System, Ancona-Hil-System, Messina RS-UI Test Automation, Modular-Hil-System), Trentino, Persim, Savona, Bergamo, Meran, Powerdiff, and also Powerdiffmerge, and of course the Aerospace Products like Crew Rest Unit, Crew Rest Couch and ALM (3D Printed) parts. On their Tools Website one could find the Test-Suite Expleo-Test/Professional (formerly known as SQS-Test/Professional) at https://tools.expleogroup.com/

Contact the Expleo Academy

Expleo Technology Ireland Ltd
30 North Wall Quay,
Dublin D01 R8H7

Tel +353 87 2355902
Web: https://expleoacademy.com/int/

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