Charting new depths in learning
Every student gets a machine they're allowed to break.
Scholar-Secure hands each student an isolated virtual machine, pre-built for the lab in front of them. Professors design the scenario, watch progress live, and let grades flow into Canvas. Nobody on your IT staff has to babysit VLANs.
Three people. Three jobs. One platform.
You can't learn to defend a network from a textbook. Students need to hack, break, and fix real systems, and someone has to make that safe. Here is who does what.
Learn by doing, on their own box.
Launch attacks, analyze malware, configure firewalls, then reset and try again. Make mistakes. Break things. That's how real skills are built, and the sandbox can't hurt anything.
Design the lab, watch it run.
Build custom topologies, monitor every student in real time, and auto-grade assignments. Scores push straight to the Canvas gradebook.
Nothing to rack, patch, or explain.
We run the infrastructure. Instant provisioning, isolated networks, one-click reset, and nothing that can reach the campus network. No more worried sysadmins.
For the non-IT crowd
What is a virtual machine?
Think of Scholar-Secure like an apartment building. Each student gets their own unit with its own lock and its own key. One shared pipe brings the internet in. What happens in your unit stays in your unit, and when you're done, the building resets it for the next tenant.
What's inside
Everything a hands-on security course needs, in one login. Pick the pieces you use and ignore the rest.
Guided labs
Step-by-step scenarios with virtual mentors guiding students through the hard parts.Free community labs
Open, self-serve labs anyone with an account can run. Try before you commit a course.Red vs Blue arena
Live team matches: attackers plant, defenders hunt, the scoreboard updates every few seconds.Quizzes and assessments
Timed, auto-graded, with per-question analytics. Duel and team modes for review days.Canvas LMS integration
Assignments populate in Canvas and scores land in the gradebook without a spreadsheet.Progress tracking
Dashboards for students and professors: completion, scores, and skill growth over the term.REDvsBLUE, live.
A competitive team exercise where attackers face defenders in real time on real machines. Open to engineering students and to business students with no IT background. It's the part of the platform people talk about afterwards.
Bring it to your course.
Tell us the class, the roster size, and what you want students doing in week one. We'll set up a pilot you can put in front of a section this term.