Hello and welcome again to the course. Before we get too deep into the lectures here, I wanted to preview the interactive hands-on labs platform called Qwiklabs, and how you're actually practicing a lot of the things that you're going to learn here inside of real Google Cloud Platform accounts. But you don't need your own credentials as we're actually going to be provided for you. So, let's take a look at how the labs platform is setup. Inside of Coursera, you're actually going to see a lab or an item that's marked out for an external tool to open up, and you're going to click on that tool. After that, you're going to see a Start Lab button in green and a timer associated with it for you to complete the lab in that duration. After you click that Start Lab, credentials for your student accounts for automatically going to be provided to you, and then new box that's going to pop up. In addition, there's another button that says, Open Google Console in yellow. Once you open that up, that's going to ask you to log into the Google Health platform with the key caveat that you logging in with a student account, and not your own personal account should you already have one setup. Last but not least, we'll do a few demos and walkthroughs of what the UI looks like. So, let's take a look. So inside an example Coursera course, you're going come across a lab that looks something like this. This is just an examples is lab zero, but it could be any of the labs that you might find. Once you've clicked on that, you'll see a checkbox that's going to authorize the lab to run and you accept the terms and conditions for Coursera, and you click on Open Tool. Once you click Open Tool, that's going to bring you to the Qwiklabs environment and a couple of key things to notice here. On the right-hand side, is your instructions pain for the actual lab. This lab and that lab, it's all about Qwiklabs in general. But whatever your courses is, this is where the instructions for completing the lab, are going to take place. So, you always want to keep this prompt open. Now, once you actually click Start Lab, a provisioned instance of the Google Cloud Platform complete with any additional instances or say you're working with VMs if there's something that the lab provider wanted you to have. It's actually going to be created inside of this lab instance for you which is a great sandbox instance. Now, once you notice I click Star Lab, I have 15 minutes to complete this lab, I promise you that the timers are going to be associated with additional padding for the labs that are going to do. This is going to mean it gets tickets 15 minutes, so it will take something about five minutes. It's now, as I mentioned before, you have the username and password, and a Project ID. What I'll ask you to do now is click on Open Google Console. Once you've opened Google console, you'll be asked to sign in with your email. Now, the key thing here is if you use Google resources before, immediately, you'll start typing in your personal email, I do it all the time. Make sure you go back to your lab credentials screen and copy and paste the username that's auto-generated for you, is going to be unique for you, and it's actually going to be unique for every lab that you run. So, you'll be creating a new student count for each lab that you run. Copy and paste that password is going to be different from mine. So don't worry about copying that down. Click Next in your browser, paste in that password, accepted the terms. Don't worry about setting up a secondary phone number, except the terms of the Google Cloud Platform. Once you see a screen that looks like this, then you're good to go. Make sure key tidbit is this is your project's selector. It should be this auto-generated Qwiklabs alphanumeric. If you should happen to see something that says either select the project or if you see something that says Qwiklabs resources, you actually want to click on this and make sure to select your alphanumeric Qwiklabs ID, and then go ahead and hit open. Once you're within here, you're good to go. So, follow the instructions for the rest of the lab, it's going guide you through what products and services that you're going to be working with. You can access the menu of products and services in the upper left-hand corner here or if it's allowed that to working with Cloud Shell. All the way up here, is the button Activate Cloud Shell which will bring open that terminal instance for Google Cloud Platform. Last few things, back here, you'll see that our timers automatically running still. Once you're completed with a lab, you're done with it or if you wanted to take another attempt at the lab, you have upwards of three attempts per lab which is great. So, say you want to run through them very quickly the first time and then experiment and explore with it the second time. You're welcome to do that for a couple of times. Now, make sure in order to get your completion stats properly recorded, click on End Lab, you'll be faced with a prompt that says, "Are you all done?" Once you click End Lab, your project, any datasets, anything that you've been working with inside of this sandbox project is going to be deleted. So, make sure if you have any queries that you're running or any interesting notes that you have saved inside of your Google Cloud Platform Qwiklabs account, that you copy and paste those and save them somewhere else. Perhaps in your own personal Google Cloud Platform account or somewhere locally on your machine. Once you've clicked End Lab, then you can enter feedback for the lab, and you can continue moving on with rest of the courses in Coursera. So, again, quick recap. The key things to remember is click on Open Tool, that'll open up Qwiklabs. The second is in order to get those credentials here on the left-hand side, you have to click start lab which again kicks off the timer, and there's no way to pause once the lab is started, but again, keep in mind you have multiple attempts. Lastly, click on End Lab when you're ready to complete out the lap that you've been working on. That's it. Good luck with the labs that come later on, and enjoy the course.
