Guided Projects: practical work you can talk about.
Employers ask for examples. Guided Projects give you realistic tasks with fictional workplace materials, so you can do the work, explain your decisions and keep the result as evidence of what you can do.
How a Guided Project works
Six practical steps
Each project breaks a realistic task into six steps, from understanding the brief to writing up what you did.
Fictional materials
You work with made-up logs, spreadsheets, tickets or briefs, so no real company or personal data is involved.
Feedback on your work
Request AI feedback on a submission (20 requests a month, up to 3 per project), then revise and resubmit.
An independent challenge
Each project ends with a challenge you complete on your own, so you can show what you can do without step-by-step help.
Explain your decisions
Practise explaining the project in writing or in an AI interview, the way you would to an employer.
Keep it as evidence
Your work is saved, so you can pick up where you left off and refer back to it when you apply.
The 16 Guided Projects
- Investigate sample logs and write an incident report
- Investigate a suspicious email and give a verdict
- Review a practice web application and explain one security finding
- Prioritise vulnerability scan findings
- Review staff accounts and permissions
- Review a simulated cloud configuration
- Build and troubleshoot a small Packet Tracer network
- Diagnose a simulated support ticket and document the resolution
- Plan recovery from a simulated outage
- Test a practice app and report defects
- Clean a synthetic spreadsheet, chart it and explain the findings
- Answer a business question with data
- Prepare a small project plan with tasks, deadlines, risks and stakeholders
- Organise a fictional meeting with agenda, action tracker and follow-up
- Redesign a new-starter onboarding process
- Handle a fictional complaint and explain your response
Not sure which role suits you? Try a Career Taster
Career Tasters are short, fictional days in a role: SOC Analyst, IT Support, Network Support, Cloud Support, Cybersecurity GRC and Digital Forensics. Each has six missions, a private reflection and a side-by-side comparison of the roles you've tried.
Guided Projects are self-completed practice. They aren't tutor-verified, a certification or work experience. Tutor review and support come through a training provider.
Guided Projects: common questions
Build evidence you can explain
Compare plans, or see how training providers use Guided Projects with their learners.