The training that matters most is the part only your team knows.
Your team's SOPs, runbooks, policies, and tools are the biggest onboarding tax for every new hire, and they exist only inside your organization. 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 per-learner completion records. What only your team knows becomes what every new hire can prove they know.
- Uploadthe docs you already have
- Generatea structured course while you wait
- 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
- Course format
- Narrated video, comprehension checks
- 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 and comprehension checks. Assign it to a group and export per-learner completion records.
Per-learner completion records
Completion, question-level responses, and time on task for internal and CBT Nuggets training alike, plus pre- and post-assessment scores on CBT Nuggets courses. Export CSV or Excel 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 enroll the group in one step.
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
| Dimension | CBT Nuggets | Generic alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| Proprietary-knowledge coverage | Internal Training turns your own SOPs, runbooks, and policies into assignable courses with per-learner completion records, built while you wait | Catalogs cover certifications only. Proprietary content is left to shadowing or hand-built LMS courses. |
| Per-learner audit evidence | Completion, question-level responses, and time on task for internal and catalog training, plus pre- and post-assessment scores on catalog courses, exportable as CSV or Excel | Watch time, or a signed acknowledgement |
| Course authorship | Internal 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 practice | Virtual labs on the Cisco, Windows Server, Linux, and VMware courses that carry them | Video only, or simulators |
| Privacy of proprietary content | Tenant-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
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 enrolls the group once.
How do we measure whether onboarding is landing?
Per-learner reporting covers internal and catalog training alike: completion, question-level responses, and time on task for every course, plus pre- and post-assessment scores on CBT Nuggets courses. 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 the new hire can finish in their first weeks, and the completion records show who is ready.