Virtual Lab
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Virtual Lab / Teaching and sharing
Teaching and sharing
Run a shared lab bench with roles and freeze, set hidden faults, share a lab by link, embed or whiteboard, and send each learner in a class a link of their own.
Teach live. Share cleanly. Diagnose honestly.
What it covers
Once a lab exists, you teach with it live and pass it on. The shared lab bench keeps several people in the same experiment, each with a clear role. Links and embeds open the lab somewhere else. Hidden faults let you set a diagnosis task without telling learners which fault is on. Send to a class gives each learner a link of their own, so you can see who did what.
Live demonstration
Freeze the values, broadcast yours, and keep the room on one apparatus.
Group practicals
Operator, Reader, Recorder and Teacher roles mirror a real bench team.
Diagnosis tasks
Hidden faults make learners trust the readings and the method, not a label.
Reaching the class
A link, an embed, a board, or a link for each learner.
Shared bench
The Shared lab bench panel puts several people in one experiment at once. It is for signed-in accounts on Standard and above, or anyone given access to view or edit the lab. A learner who opens a lab by link uses it on their own.
- Roles: Operator, Reader, Recorder and Teacher.
- Freeze bench (Teacher role) holds the shared state for a teachable pause. Everyone sees "Bench frozen — parameters are locked until the teacher unfreezes." Unfreeze bench lets them carry on.
- This bench names the bench, "A" unless you change it. Groups working in parallel each take their own. The Teacher role also has All benches, Broadcast freeze to all benches and Broadcast current values to all benches.
- On this bench shows who is there, by a short display name ("Guest" unless changed). Use nicknames or codes, never full names.
- Send to whiteboard puts a picture of the apparatus on a whiteboard page for annotation. A whiteboard tab must be open; if none is, the lab says so.
Faults and realism
Under Hidden faults & conditions (assignment defaults), an author defines faults and ticks which are Enabled by default. Learners never see which ones are on: they work it out from the readings and the behaviour. The AI can propose faults for you to review; you decide which are on.
Beside the faults sit the realism controls: Zero / tare required, Settling time (ms), Enable measurement noise, Repeats per point and a Material rack. Use faults for "something is wrong with the set-up" lessons, and a clean lab when the goal is the ideal model first.
On a whiteboard
Placed on a whiteboard from the library, a lab runs live on the board page itself. It shows Open lab, and you choose Visible to students or Hidden from students. Open full page opens it in its own tab when you want more room.
Send to a class
If you have classes, the share dialog also offers Send to a class. "Each student gets their own link", so what each one does shows under their own handle. Choose how long Links expire after: 2 hours, 1 day, 1 week or 1 month. Then press Create links, and hand them out with Copy all links or Download CSV.
Work done through these links appears in the lab's activity view, by learner and by class.
What is kept
A run is kept only in the browser tab it happened in. Nothing is saved to the learner's account, and nothing follows them to another device.
To keep results, export them before closing the tab: Export CSV, Export JSON, Export Python or Export PDF report. Each is a one-off download. On a shared bench, the Lab notebook belongs to the Recorder and Operator roles. Marks and formal assessment belong in Quest Ladder.
Pre-lab check
A lab can require an optional Pre-lab check, a short Quest Ladder, before the practical opens. Use it to check the safety rules or the method first. Scoring and adaptive assessment stay in Quest Ladder; the lab is where the experiment happens.
Share or open the lab
Guided for a paced demonstration, Flexible for group exploration, or Send to a class for one link each.
Run the bench or the lab on its own
Freeze, give roles, or turn on faults as the lesson needs.
Export the evidence
Download the results before the tab closes; formal assessment lives in Quest Ladder.