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What is Peridot?

Peridot is where universities, colleges and companies run hands-on courses. Every learner gets their own computer in the cloud, works through labs that check what they actually did, and takes a chapter test at the end. You run it all from the admin portal: the courses, who teaches and takes them, and how everyone is doing.

What learners get

A learner opens a lab and finds a full desktop waiting: your Ubuntu computer in the cloud for Linux and security courses, a Windows computer for accounting and office work. The lab guide sits beside it. Each step asks for real work, such as fixing a full disk or reconciling a bank statement, and Peridot checks the result on the computer itself, not a multiple-choice answer.

One lab attempt. The learner works on their own computer, each step is checked on that computer, and the result reaches your portal and, if you use them, your webhooks.

What you do in the portal

The admin portal is one place for the whole organisation. You set up faculties or teams, invite lecturers and trainers, publish course versions, open offerings for a term, enrol learners with a join code or a file, and follow results as they come in.

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2026/27 First Semester · week 9

Live in labs now184

Active this week2,412

Lab completion71%

Stuck right now6

Stuck now over 10 min on one step

DCDaniel Cole	CSC 111 · step 3	14 min
SBSarah Bennett	CSC 211 · step 5	11 min

Faculties

Science	268 live	74%
Engineering	47 live	66%

The admin portal's home page: who is in a lab right now, who is stuck, and how each faculty is doing.

Course Studio

Course Studio builds new courses for you. Upload a book or a curriculum, and Peridot proposes an outline, picks the computer the labs run on, writes the labs, the book, the tests and the video scripts, and stops for your approval at three points. Anyone can start a studio with an email address. See What Course Studio does.

Where to start

Sign inEmail links, join codes, and what each person sees first.Set up your workspaceA university or a company, step by step.Course StudioTurn a book into a course with labs.