O'Reilly Katacoda vs. Practice Labs

It works well to explain basic concepts to students, and helps them understand these concepts by a step by step process in the lab. But it does not really challenge the students into thinking for themselves or help them gain better skills, it only helps them understand a concept. Due to its slow speed it does prove difficult to use.

Incentivized

• Clear steps
• Large number of labs
• Easy to use

Incentivized

• Needs to be more efficient
• The labs need to be more challenging
• It needs to have a more stable connection

Incentivized

Practice labs provides better steps for solving labs but due to its inefficiency and slow connection which leads to most students getting frustrated and dropping the labs. However on the other hand practice labs makes it easier to grade multiple students and integrates with canvas very easily.

Incentivized

• Slow connections
• Very basic labs
• Crashes often

Incentivized