This article covers Qwiklabs embedded in Pluralsight Skills video courses. Qwiklabs, owned by Google, offer hands-on experience in a live cloud environment using real Google Cloud Platform tools—no simulations. You’ll receive temporary credentials and can launch labs directly from Google Cloud-authored courses to immediately apply what you’re learning. To learn more about the standalone Qwiklabs in our labs library, see Google Cloud self-paced labs.
Accessing in-course Qwiklabs
Note: Your Skills account doesn’t store information about your Qwiklabs activity or completion as part of a course. If you’re on a team plan, your leader doesn’t have visibility into your Qwiklabs activity, but can see if you’ve completed courses that contain them.
You can access Qwiklabs directly from within Google Cloud-authored courses (opens in new tab) on Pluralsight. Here's how:
- Identify labs in a course.
- Look for clips with Lab: in the title — these indicate a hands-on Qwiklab.
- Some courses include multiple labs throughout the modules.
- Start a lab once you arrive at a link.
- Click Open to launch the Qwiklab.
- Click Skip to continue the course without doing the lab.
- Set up your Qwiklabs account (first-time only).
- The first time you open a lab, you’ll see a Qwiklabs Redirect form where your details are prepopulated.
- Create your Qwiklabs account with your Pluralsight email.
- Edit your first and last name if needed.
- Click Proceed to complete setup and access the lab.
- Return to a lab later.
- You can revisit any lab at any time through its original course.
Additional support
For an introduction to the Qwiklabs platform, log in to your Pluralsight account and check out the Qwiklabs overview video (opens in new tab).
If you get a message that your account is blocked, visit the Qwiklabs help article about blocked accounts (external site, opens in new tab).
If you're having trouble accessing Qwiklabs, visit the Qwiklabs help article about Qwiklabs on corporate computers (external site, opens in new tab).
If you have questions about the Qwiklabs platform or are experiencing issues while in Qwiklabs, contact support@qwiklabs.com (opens email form).