Learn how CloudAttack brings AI skilling to life with interactive modes, adaptive feedback, and community challenges that help learners stay engaged and prepare to earn Microsoft Credentials.
AI skills are more essential every day across all industries, but some traditional training approaches don’t keep learners as engaged and motivated as they could be. Microsoft Training Services Partner CloudThat, an award-winning global leader in training and consulting, recognized this challenge and set out to reimagine how people build cloud and AI skills.
The result is CloudAttack, a proprietary generative AI–powered gamified learning platform that’s making skill-building more interactive, enjoyable, and measurable.
Finding the gaps and defining the goals
CloudThat identified two key learner challenges:
- Low engagement. Some learners completed training but didn’t retain or apply their knowledge.
- A prompt engineering gap. Some struggled to craft effective prompts.
CloudThat wanted to bring AI learning to life, while addressing a wide range of learning styles and all roles, including students, independent learners, professionals, corporate teams, and educators.
The company also wanted to align with the Microsoft AI vision and to encourage Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption, overall AI readiness, and preparation for earning Microsoft Credentials.
Approaching real-world AI skills with a gamified approach
CloudThat’s answer to these challenges is CloudAttack, an app rooted in AI technology and gamification teaching methodology.
Game‑like elements, including puzzles, levels, and leaderboards, transform complex topics into engaging experiences. As Marmik jain, a student at B.M.S. Institute of Technology and Management, Bengaluru, observes, “It was indeed a fun and interactive way to prepare for Microsoft Certifications and learn prompt engineering.”
OpenAI‑based models evaluate learner inputs with high accuracy, adapting prompts and scenarios to create individualized learning paths.
Skilling for every audience
Corporate learning and development (L&D) teams use private leagues and leaderboards to drive engagement, while academic institutions rely on the app for interactive and competition-based learning.
Learning through a game makes the experience engaging and effective... It’s a great way to upskill in cloud technologies and prompt engineering. Being part of communities like Cloud Attack, CloudThat, and Microsoft encourages continuous learning. Prompt engineering also helps improve our efficiency by enabling us to give precise commands and achieve better outcomes.
Heemanshu Hemant Sute, student
Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Uran Ishwarpur, Maharashtra
Working professionals can upskill without disrupting their jobs, using daily challenges and tournaments to strengthen prompts and get ready for credential exams or assessments. And independent learners get self‑paced, feedback‑driven practice, while educators and training partners use CloudAttack to make workshops and bootcamps more fun, interactive, and measurable.
Teaching AI with AI: The Prompt-A-Thon
One of the most impactful demonstrations of CloudAttack’s potential was the Prompt-A-Thon, a nationwide AI-skilling initiative sponsored by Microsoft. Over two months, this “AI teaching AI” approach brought together nearly 1,000 learners from universities, corporations, and startups, all competing to craft effective prompts and use AI tools, like Copilot, more confidently.
In this immersive environment, participants received AI-generated feedback on every prompt they submitted, helping them understand where they could improve and seeing real results.
As Professor Nanda MB from the Sri Krishna Institute of Technology (SKIT), Bengaluru, points out, "The prompt engineering learning session followed by [the] Prompt-A-Thon for our B-Tech [bachelor of technology] students was helpful. The gamification learning through CloudThat was very interesting, which made our students’ AI learning easy. [After] the contest, we saw 100% increase in use of AI [among] our students."
Discovering real impacts
The numbers speak volumes. As of this writing, CloudThat reports that more than 2,000 active CloudAttack users, over 10,000 downloads on the Play Store with a 4.4 rating, and a 5.0 rating on the App Store.
CloudThat also reports a 100% increase over the last year in Microsoft AI and prompt engineering sessions at universities like Acharya Institutes, REVA University, Dayananda Sagar University, International School of Business & Research (ISBR), B.M.S. College of Engineering, and Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya.
User testimonials highlight the transformative experience. Participants express new confidence in using Copilot daily, students feel invested in building fundamentals, and enterprise learners demonstrate stronger retention and meaningful engagement during training. CloudThat notes a 15% increase in Certification exam participation among enterprise learners.
AI skilling for the new era
CloudAttack isn’t just a learning app—it’s an immersive and personalized way of championing AI and cloud technologies. By blending generative AI technology with a gamified learning approach, CloudThat has created a dynamic learning experience that drives real results and that learners return to repeatedly and enthusiastically. It’s clear that the future of AI skilling is not only instructional but also interactive, competitive, and fun.
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