For Students & Classrooms
Traboda's CTF platform can be used to both empower your students to learn cybersecurity in an engaging and hands-on way, and to assess their progress and knowledge in the field.
Usecases
Organizing a Competition
The platform can be used to organize a competition, where students can compete against each other to solve challenges and earn points. This is a great way to get students excited about cybersecurity, and to encourage them to learn more.
You may refer to the guidelines for organizing contests to learn about some recommended processes and configurations to organize a competition with the Traboda platform.
Classroom Exercises
Practical Cyber Exercises
Giving Assignments
Conducting Lab Examinations
Useful Features
Classroom Mode
The platform can be set to "Classroom Mode", which allows you to create batches of students, and give them assignments or examinations with challenges to solve.
Hints
Hints can be given to students to help them solve the challenges. Hints can either be free, or cost points.
Read more about hints here
Flag Explanations
When a student submits a correct flag for a challenge, you can provide them with an explanation or solution, which they can read after their submission is accepted. This is a great way to provide feedback to students and help them learn. You can use this feature to tell students about the concepts they have now learnt or applied, explain how the flag was obtained (so that they can see if they did it correctly or could have done it differently), share links to more resources, or even provide hints for the next challenge, etc.
Read more about setting up explanations for flags here
Detecting Cheating
The platform has a number of features to detect and prevent cheating, such as: