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CBT Nuggets

Onboarding & Upskilling

Onboard new hires on what only your team knows.

The biggest onboarding tax isn't the certifications — it's the institutional knowledge in your existing team's heads. CBT Nuggets gives IT Directors one platform to turn that knowledge into structured, assignable training (with Internal Training) and to layer the vendor and certification baselines on top (with the curated CBT Nuggets catalog).

Start here

The most important onboarding training is the part no off-the-shelf catalog covers.

Your team's SOPs, runbooks, policies, and tools are the single biggest onboarding tax for every new hire. Internal Training turns the documents you already have into structured, assessable courses with per-learner completion records — so the things only your team knows become things every new hire can prove they know. The curated CBT Nuggets catalog below covers the vendor and certification baselines that layer on top.

  1. 01. Uploadthe docs you already have
  2. 02. Generatea structured course in minutes
  3. 03. Assignand capture per-learner proof

Priced separately from the subscription; a 5-skill Starter trial is included with the Team tier.

Why this is the first step

Off-the-shelf catalogs cover certifications and vendor stacks. They can’t cover the part of your stack only you have. The fastest path to a new hire being productive is making that knowledge structured, assignable, and provable.

Any source doc
PDFs, SOPs, runbooks, slides
Time to course
< 5 minutes
Audit evidence
Per-learner records
Privacy
100% tenant-isolated

If an auditor asked tomorrow, could you prove every new hire understands the part of your stack only your team knows?

Off-the-shelf catalogs cover certifications and vendor stacks. They can't cover your SOPs, your tooling, your runbooks, your regulatory interpretations. Signed acknowledgements aren't comprehension. And manually authoring a course for every proprietary system isn't realistic. The upskilling program that actually moves the onboarding curve starts by documenting what only your team knows — then layers vendor and certification training on top.

< 5 minutes

From a policy or SOP to a structured, assessable course with per-learner completion records — generated by Internal Training

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Capabilities

What you get to run onboarding and upskilling on one platform

Internal Training (lead capability)

Upload any document — policy, SOP, runbook, architecture guide, regulatory interpretation — and Internal Training builds a structured course with narrated video, comprehension checks, and a graded assessment in under 5 minutes. Assign to a group, capture per-learner completion records, export for audit. 100% private to your organization; sits alongside the CBT Nuggets catalog in one playlist, one report, one learner experience.

Per-learner completion records

Pre- and post-assessment scores, question-level responses, time-on-task, and signed completion attestations — for both internal and CBT Nuggets training. CSV and PDF exports go straight into HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and internal-governance evidence packages.

Tenant-isolated, never shared

Internal courseware is stored and delivered inside your tenant. Content is never used to train shared models and never accessible to other customers. SAML SSO with your identity provider, role-based admin/author/learner permissions, and SOC 2-grade access controls are standard.

Custom playlists across internal + CBT Nuggets content

Bundle your internal courses with vendor and certification training (A+, Network+, Security+, AZ-104, Azure Fundamentals, Linux administration) into a single assignable onboarding path. New hires get one experience; admins get one report.

Hands-on virtual labs on the curated baseline

Every CBT Nuggets cert path the new hire works through is paired with real enterprise labs — Azure subscriptions, Cisco IOS, Red Hat servers. Lets engineers apply the foundations they're learning before they touch production.

Expert-authored cert and skill paths

On top of your internal courseware, the curated CBT Nuggets catalog gives the vendor-neutral baseline every IT generalist needs — authored and taught by named trainers who have actually carried the pager, not crowd-sourced contributors.

Trusted by IT teams running real onboarding programs

  • Charles IT
  • Vertikal6
  • Howard County, MD

Plus IT teams across managed service providers, federal contractors, mid-market FinTechs, local government.

23,000+ organizations train their IT teams with CBT Nuggets.

Why teams choose CBT Nuggets

How upskilling on CBT Nuggets compares

DimensionCBT NuggetsGeneric alternatives
Proprietary-knowledge coverageInternal Training turns your own SOPs, runbooks, and policies into assignable courses with per-learner completion records in minutesGeneric catalogs cover certifications only; proprietary content is left to shadowing or manual LMS authoring
Per-learner audit evidencePre/post-assessment scores, question-level responses, and signed completion attestations — across internal and catalog training in one reportWatch-time metrics or signed acknowledgements that auditors discount
Course authorshipInternal courses generated from your docs; curated catalog built by named expert trainers paid full-time to teachCrowd-sourced or contractor-authored — quality and depth vary course to course
Hands-on practice on the baselineVirtual labs in real enterprise environments paired with every CBT Nuggets cert pathVideo-only or sandbox simulators that don't match production reality
Privacy of proprietary contentTenant-isolated storage and delivery; internal content never used to train shared modelsAuthoring tools that mingle customer content with shared corpora, or LMS hosts with limited tenant guarantees

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

See it in action

Bring a policy. Watch it become a course.

The fastest way to see how this changes onboarding is to bring an actual document — a policy, a runbook, a set of SOPs — and watch Internal Training build a structured, assessable course from it in under 5 minutes. We'll walk through the per-learner reporting and the playlist composition with your curated CBT Nuggets foundations, too.