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Onboard new hires on what only your team knows.

The slowest part of onboarding is not the certifications. It is the knowledge that lives only in your current team's heads. CBT Nuggets gives IT Directors one platform for both: Internal Training turns that knowledge into assignable courses, and the catalog covers the vendor and certification baselines.

The training that matters most is the part no catalog covers.

Your team's SOPs, runbooks, policies, and tools are the biggest onboarding tax for every new hire, and no vendor sells a course on them. If an auditor asked tomorrow, could you prove a new hire understands them? Internal Training turns the documents you already have into structured courses with graded assessments and per-learner completion records. What only your team knows becomes what every new hire can prove they know.

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

Included with every CBT Nuggets Teams account for licensed users. The Internal Training Site License extends it to every employee.

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

Run onboarding and upskilling on one platform

Internal Training

Upload a policy, SOP, runbook, or architecture guide. Internal Training builds a structured course with narrated video, comprehension checks, and a graded assessment in under five minutes. Assign it to a group and export per-learner completion records.

Per-learner completion records

Pre- and post-assessment scores, question-level responses, time on task, and signed completion attestations, for internal and CBT Nuggets training alike. Export CSV or PDF for HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and internal reviews.

Private to your organization

Internal courses are stored and delivered inside your tenant. Your content is never used to train shared models and never visible to another customer. SAML SSO with your identity provider and role-based admin, author, and learner permissions are included.

One playlist for internal and catalog training

Bundle your internal courses with the certification and vendor training a new hire needs, such as A+, Network+, Security+, or AZ-104, into one assignable onboarding path. New hires get one experience. Admins get one report.

Hands-on labs on the baseline

Where a course carries virtual labs (Cisco, Windows Server, Linux, VMware), new hires practice the fundamentals in a lab before they touch production.

Courses taught by named trainers

The CBT Nuggets catalog covers the vendor and certification baseline every IT generalist needs. Every course is built and taught by a named CBT Nuggets trainer.

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 minutesCatalogs cover certifications only. Proprietary content is left to shadowing or hand-built LMS courses.
Per-learner audit evidencePre- and post-assessment scores, question-level responses, and signed completion attestations, across internal and catalog training in one reportWatch time, or a signed acknowledgement
Course authorshipInternal courses generated from your documents. Catalog courses built and taught by named CBT Nuggets trainers.Crowd-sourced or contractor-authored, with depth that varies course to course
Hands-on practiceVirtual labs on the Cisco, Windows Server, Linux, and VMware courses that carry themVideo only, or simulators
Privacy of proprietary contentTenant-isolated storage and delivery. Internal content is never used to train shared models.Authoring tools that pool customer content, or LMS hosts with limited tenant guarantees

Frequently asked questions

How is Internal Training different from authoring a course in our LMS?

Authoring a course in an LMS means outlining, storyboarding, recording narration, writing quizzes, and QA. That is weeks per course, multiplied by every policy, tool, and process. Internal Training does the structuring, the narration, the comprehension checks, and the graded final assessment from the document you upload, in under five minutes, with the same per-learner reporting you get for CBT Nuggets courses.

Do new hires still need the CBT Nuggets catalog if we use Internal Training?

Yes. The two cover different things. Internal Training covers what only your team knows: proprietary systems, internal processes, your regulatory interpretations. The CBT Nuggets catalog covers what every IT generalist needs, from A+ and Security+ to Azure, AWS, and Linux. Put both in one playlist so the new hire gets one path and the admin gets one report.

How do we measure whether onboarding is landing?

Per-learner reporting is the same for internal and catalog training: completion, pre- and post-assessment scores, question-level responses, time on task, and signed completion attestations. Export it for a quarterly review or for a HIPAA, PCI DSS, or NIST audit.

Is Internal Training content private to our organization?

Yes. Internal courses are stored and delivered inside your tenant. Your documents and the courses built from them are never used to train shared models, never indexed for other customers, and never accessible outside your organization. SAML SSO with your identity provider and role-based admin, author, and learner permissions are included.

How quickly can a new IT hire be productive with this approach?

It depends on the role and where the hire starts. The part you control is how your team's own knowledge gets transferred. Weeks of shadowing a senior engineer become an assigned path with graded assessments the new hire can finish in their first weeks, and the completion records show who is ready.

Bring a policy. Watch it become a course.

Bring a real document to the demo: a policy, a runbook, a set of SOPs. Watch Internal Training build a structured course from it, then see the per-learner reporting and the playlist that pairs it with the CBT Nuggets catalog.