Chest - Practice Labs

Key Facts

Please note that this Agreement is not being renewed in February 2024 - orders can be placed up until 31 January.

Benefits

1 or 3 year licence with fixed pricing
Simplified tiered licensing model
Bespoke licensing options only available through Chest

Important Dates

Agreement start: 1 February 2021

Agreement end: 31 January 2024

Subsequent invoice date: 3 months in advance of the licence anniversary date (for the 3 year licence).

Commitment Period

Institutions may participate at any time during the 3 year period. They will then be committed for the licence term they have selected (1 or 3 years).

Licence Type

Various – see the 'Products and Pricing' tab for more information.

Trial

Trials are available. Please see the 'Service and Support' tab for more information.

Eligible Institutions

This Agreement is available to Institutions of Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in Ireland, and to Associated Sites.

Product Information

Supplier Details

Licensor: ACI UK Learning Ltd., registered in England and Wales (company number 5939037), whose registered office is 9 Waterside Court, Galleon Boulevard, Crossways Business Park, Dartford, DA2 6NX.

Product Description

The digital divide increases daily, but it doesn’t have to be that way. What if your students and staff could develop their hands-on digital skills in a safe, live environment far away from your critical business systems? Now they can. Practice Labs empower students, technical and non-technical staff to develop their hands-on digital skills and learn how to recognise cybersecurity threats – away from your critical business systems, within a safe cloud environment. The Practice Labs environment can be integrated with leading Learning Management Systems (LMS's) or accessed 24/7 via any web browser.

For staff and students alike, experimentation fuels progress, but learning new IT skills or testing ideas using live equipment in the institution can be risky. Within the Practice Labs environment, your users can access hundreds of pre-configured virtual machines and sandbox environments to up-skill, re-skill or just to test their theories prior to deployment.

Regardless of the age of equipment available to them, staff and students can grow their confidence in using technology and practice their work-ready digital skills through the Practice Labs Cloud.

The Practice Labs Cloud hosts hundreds of pre-configured virtual machines, each containing live-lab environments including:

Entry-level guided labs to extend cyber-awareness and build fundamental computer skills
Technical task-driven labs covering specific IT disciplines for upskilling or reskilling
Freestyle sandboxes where IT professionals can test their theories and experiment without risk to work systems

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Through the Practice Labs Chest Agreement, institutions can choose from the following licensing options to suit their needs:

Purchase a precise number of Per User licences, with either a Single/Bespoke* Lab or an Unlimited Library
Purchase a Concurrent User Single Lab licence for 25 users
Purchase a Concurrent User Unlimited Library licence for 50/100/200/Unlimited users

*Institutions can also pay for Practice Labs to develop and build a bespoke/custom Lab (with course content) or Sandbox (without course content) through the Chest Agreement (to be scoped by the institution in association with Practice Labs prior to ordering).

Industry Recognition

Service and Support

Trial

The Supplier will grant a royalty free trial licence for a period of up to 30 days upon request from any Community member who has an interest in ordering the Software, subject to (a) prior discussion and consultation between the Supplier and the Community member, and (b) the agreement of the Supplier to the trial. Please contact Chest Help to arrange, or click here to self-register.

Product Documentation

Training and Training Materials

Technical Support

Practice Labs will provide initial training, as well as on going advice and support, to the nominated Technical Contact and/or his/her Deputy at Licensed Institutions.

Online: https://skills.practice-labs.com/contact

E-mail: support@practice-labs.com

Phone: 0203 5887250

Practice Labs also provide a variety of support options to all users within the platform. These support options include: support videos; user guides; support tickets; and in platform network performance testing. Click here to access the Practice Labs Help Center.

Personal Settings

Practice Labs Service Status