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Find modules by topic and difficulty. Start with existing lessons instead of building every machine and exercise yourself.
Virtual labs for IT and cybersecurity classes
Hands-on IT and cybersecurity practice. Automatically graded.
You teach IT and cybersecurity concepts. Students put them to work. Choose an industry-relevant lab from the module library, give each student their own environment, and review practical work automatically graded against the module’s configured rubric.
Get StartedLess manual checking
Assess the work, not just the answers.
Rudder Virt checks practical work inside each student’s VM and collects scores in the classroom gradebook. Author-defined commands and rubrics evaluate the configured outcomes, so you can review results without manually inspecting every machine.
See how it worksExisting labs, ready for your lesson planning
More hands-on teaching. Less lab preparation.
A module is a reusable hands-on lesson with a VM environment, student instructions, and a grading rubric. Choose an existing module that fits your teaching, preview the student experience, and release it to your classroom. You do not need to author the lab or write its build instructions.
Teach
Preview a module, release a tested build to your class, and give each student their own environment. Use module-defined grading to review practical results.
Assess
Practical work is automatically checked against the module’s rubric inside each student’s VM. Review the scores in your classroom gradebook and use the results to guide the next lesson.
Teach from the community. Contribute what you create.
Using the module library does not require creating content. If you want to author a lab, you can publish modules you own or share them with participating organizations so other educators can teach from your work.
Preview our modulesMORE TIME FOR TEACHING
Teach the lesson. Not the lab setup.
A hands-on lesson should not start with a long and tedious setup session with your hypervisor, fixing inconsistent environments, or rebuilding a shared lab. Give your class a common starting point while leaving each student room to experiment.
IT Labs
Preparing machines and networks for every class takes time.
IT Students
Shared environments make independent practice harder.
IT Educators
Manual setup and assessment compete with teaching time.
BUILT AROUND YOUR CLASSROOM
One lesson. A lab for every learner.
Choose an existing module and release its tested build to a classroom. Students apply what you have taught in their own copies, with instructions alongside the work and automatic, rubric-based assessment.
IT Labs
Reusable lab definitions for this class and the next.
IT Students
Individual VM environments accessed through a browser.
IT Educators
Classroom gradebooks with module-defined assessment.
HOW IT WORKS
From classroom understanding to practical skills.
Find an existing module, preview it, and release its tested build to your class. Students practice in their own environments. Review automatically graded results against the module’s rubric, then reuse the lesson with your next class.
- Choose existing labs without writing build instructions.
- Give each student their own copy of the module.
- Assess practical work with module-defined grading rubrics.
- Open VM consoles in the browser, with no student hypervisor install.
Powered by Aileron, our open-source runtime for running and grading lab environments. Explore Aileron on GitHub
See the workflow
Why Rudder Virt?
More than VM hosting. Practical teaching and assessment.
A hypervisor runs machines. Rudder Virt connects an existing module library, individual student environments, and automatic grading. See what comes together for your class instead of assembling a teaching workflow around separate tools.
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Pricing
Plan for your class, not per-device installs.
Run a flat monthly plan: reserve a set number of VM Slots and provision as many virtual machines as you need within them, all at one predictable price. Prefer to pay as you go? Buy virts and spend one each time you create a machine. Either way, you stay in full control of your budget.
- Monthly plan: reserve VM Slots and reassign them freely across modules and students.
- Or pay as you go with virts, no commitment.
- Transparent usage and budget control.
FROM COMPETITIONS TO THE CLASSROOM
Practice throughout the school year.
Rudder Virt powers SkillsUSA state and national contests. Bring that same hands-on approach to everyday lessons, practice labs, and classroom assessments.
- Used in SkillsUSA ITS and Cybersecurity competitions.
- Build lessons around the skills you teach.
- Reuse modules across classrooms and share with participating organizations.
About Rudder Virt
Built around the way you teach.
Rudder Virt was shaped by IT and cybersecurity classrooms and industry experience. You teach the concepts and reasoning; students use practical modules to apply that knowledge on real operating systems.
Browser-based VM access gives students their own place to practice without installing a local hypervisor. Reusable labs and automatic grading support your instruction, rather than replacing the teacher or textbook.
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Ready to put classroom knowledge to work?
Find your next lesson in the module library, or contribute one of your own.
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