The Online IDE for Education

An IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is the tool developers use to write, run, and test code. Orbit brings that professional-grade experience into the browser for K-12. Students can log in and start coding.

With Orbit, teachers can:

• Create assignments with starter code/templates already included
• Push assignment links to students (similar to sharing a Google Doc)
• View and review submitted student files and code
• Leave comments directly on student work
• Set due dates; option to accept or not accept late submissions

Students can:

• Receive an assignment link and make their own copy to complete
• Open the sandbox environment to create personal projects outside of assignments
• Work in a real, browser-based IDE with no software installation required
• Trust that their work is autosaved, so there's no need to manually save
• Track progress with version history, automatically logged with every save
• Build multi-file projects with multiple files in one project that import from each other (e.g., two Python files where one imports the other)

Orbit is designed to complement Voyage, giving teachers more flexibility to expand and customize learning beyond the structured curriculum.

Voyage is a full curriculum platform with integrated lessons and learning activities. Orbit is a coding environment where teachers create and manage their own assignments; there's no built-in curriculum.

Schools can use both to support students' learning:

• Voyage for structured CS courses

• Orbit for project-based or custom coding work
  
  

If your students are already rostered in Skill Struck through Voyage, getting them into Orbit is seamless. Students can access Orbit directly from their existing student dashboard.

Students need an account to access assignments in Orbit and for teachers to track their work.

If your district already uses Skill Struck, students rostered through Clever or ClassLink can access Orbit immediately, either through their student dashboard or via an assignment link from their teacher.

If your school only has Orbit access, students can sign in with single sign-on at skillstruck.com.

Yes. Orbit autosaves as students work, so no one loses progress. There's also a manual save button if students prefer that peace of mind.

Yes. Students can work with multiple files within a single project and import between them. For example, a main Python file that pulls functions from a helper file in the same project.

Yes, if the teacher unsubmits the assignment.

Students can't resubmit on their own; the teacher must first unsubmit the assignment on their end.

Pricing for Orbit depends on your school or district's size and needs. Reach out to our team at skillstruck.com/get-demo and we'll walk you through the options.