SigmAcademy · Assessments & labs
Automated Assessments & Hands-On Labs
Watching a video is not a skill. Assessment tells you whether training landed; labs tell you whether it transfers to the keyboard. Together they turn awareness spend from a checkbox into a measurable capability.
Assessment as measurement
Automated assessments score understanding per person and topic — the effectiveness evidence frameworks increasingly demand (ISO A.6.3’s "evaluated" is doing real work in audits now).
Labs for transfer
Hands-on labs exercise the skill itself — configuration, detection, secure-coding decisions — in an environment where mistakes teach instead of breach.
Signal for managers
Scores and completion feed tracking dashboards, so gaps surface by team and topic while there is still time to close them before the audit or the incident.
The audit artefact
Assessment results with dates and scores are the difference between "we trained everyone" and evidence an auditor accepts.
FAQ
How often should staff be assessed?
On joining and at least annually is the framework norm; higher-risk roles benefit from more frequent, shorter assessments — cadence is configured per programme.
What happens when someone fails?
Failure routes to targeted refreshers rather than repeating the whole path — measured again until the gap closes, with the trail retained.
Are labs safe for production users?
Labs are isolated environments; nothing a learner does in a lab touches production systems.
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