Abstract An oriented supersingular elliptic curve is a curve which is enhanced with the information of an endomorphism. Computing the full endomorphism ring of a supersingular elliptic curve is a known hard problem, so one might consider how hard it is to find one such orientation. We prove that access to an oracle which tells if an elliptic curve is $$\mathfrak {O}$$ O -orientable for a fixed imaginary quadratic order $$\mathfrak {O}$$ O provides non-trivial information towards computing an endomorphism corresponding to the $$\mathfrak {O}$$ O -orientation. We provide explicit algorithms and in-depth complexity analysis. We also consider the question in terms of quaternion algebras. We provide algorithms which compute an embedding of a fixed imaginary quadratic order into a maximal order of the quaternion algebra ramified at p and $$\infty $$ ∞ . We provide code implementations in Sagemath (in Stein et al. Sage Mathematics Software (Version 10.0), The Sage Development Team, http://www.sagemath.org , 2023) which is efficient for finding embeddings of imaginary quadratic orders of discriminants up to O(p), even for cryptographically sized p.