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Cybersecurity Virtual Learning Environment
Ginkgo is the only virtual learning environment specifically created for cybersecurity training. Designed by experienced
cybersecurity instructors, Ginkgo offers a complete solution for implementing hands-on IT and cybersecurity training for
both local and distance learning environments on desktops, tablets, and other mobile devices.
Enhanced Course Content and Tools
Instructors can use rich text, images, video, HTML5, PDFs, and interactive slides such as TinCan
and PowerPoint to deliver course content. In addition, Ginkgo can provide interactive console
experiences where students can test concepts, practice learning, and solve problems in an
authentic networked environment.
• Notes: Students can take notes on any content page. Notes roll up into a Notebook that
organizes all of the notes, provides links back to the content, and allows the notes to be
downloaded or printed as a study aid.
• Resources: Instructors can provide links to documents and URLs that students can access
from any content page to help them expand their knowledge and perform research.
Assessment
Ginkgo provides robust assessment capabilities including question pools that randomize
assessment questions so no two students receive the same test. Assessments can also include
case studies that present students with a set of questions related to their interactions with an
artifact such as a log file or virtual console.
Chronos
Chronos provides the ability to integrate a substantial hands-on learning experience into a
cyber learning environment. Chronos implements a browser-based interface to a unified model
of a complex network with real components, allowing students to interact easily with those
components in a manner appropriate for practical exercises. For example, console access to “remote”
machines can be limited to better emulate an operational environment, while reset capability can
be granted to allow for self-recovery, minimizing the need for instructor intervention.
Chronos has the ability to reconfigure machines on the fly for different activities. This allows
network assets to be reused across multiple lessons, minimizing infrastructure needs. Chronos
can also isolate students from one another in enforced swim lanes, reducing the risk of one
student's work impacting another student’s learning environment. Chronos allows the student
to be more independent in the course and provides an opportunity for experimentation with
a minimal support footprint.
Learning Simplified
Ginkgo Virtual Learning Environment is designed to make training
in cybersecurity easier for both students and instructors.
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Chronos
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Touchstone
Rules Engine
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The Touchstone Autograding Process
Touchstone
Touchstone is an auto-grading capability for interactive network tools such as virtual machines. Touchstone allows instructors to
evaluate student performance in exercises and exams quickly and accurately while providing students with rapid feedback. Ginkgo
automatically extracts the data after students submit their answers. Data is parsed into a uniform data model. Touchstone then
concurrently assesses the data from multiple running machines using a robust Boolean logic-based rubric to evaluate the student’s
actions and the resulting state of the machines. For each gradable item, Touchstone evaluates the student using flexible grading
with varying levels of credit to produce a numerical score. Ginkgo then compiles these scores into a numerical representation of the
student’s performance. This fully integrated tool provides a streamlined way of evaluating students based on performance rather
than just scripted questions.
Comprehensive Analytics
• For instructors: Ginkgo provides instructors with a dashboard to monitor student progress with
metrics such as their last login, amount of time spent in the course content, and performance on
graded assessments. Instructors have a separate gradebook where they can see all the grades for
students in a course as well as manually override scores and unlock assessment attempts. Class
averages are displayed providing instructors with course benchmarks for student performance.
• For students: Ginkgo allows students to view their own grades and how much time they have
spent in the course as well as class averages for grades and for time. This allows students to see
not only how well they are performing, but how their performance compares to their peers.