Three Labs
CHEMISTRY LAB
A bench with 234 pieces of apparatus and reagents, an apparatus picker, and 11 KCSE practicals built into courses and assignments. Pour, heat, titrate and measure in 3D.
PHYSICS LAB
Practical physics in 3D with measurements you take yourself, and lab assignments marked automatically.
BIOLOGY LAB
Biology practicals in 3D, from the microscope up, with assignments marked the same way.
Practicals That Count
MARKED ON THE SERVER
The lab records each step a learner takes and the server checks it, so a result cannot simply be typed in.
AGAIN AND AGAIN
Spill it, get it wrong, start over. Nothing is wasted, so a learner can repeat a practical until it makes sense.
FOR TEACHERS
Set a practical as an assignment for a class or a single learner and see who has done it.
PHONE TO BOARD
The labs run in the browser on a phone, a laptop or the classroom interactive board.
Beyond The Science Labs
The same 3D engine powers the STEM Engine, where learners wire circuits and code microcontroller boards, and the Engineering Workshop, where they design, machine and assemble parts. See STEM and robotics.
Questions
What is a virtual lab?
A 3D simulation of a real laboratory in the browser. Learners use virtual apparatus to run the same practicals they would do at a bench, and see the results change with what they do.
Which practicals are there?
The chemistry lab has 11 KCSE practicals built into courses and assignments, on a bench of 234 apparatus items and reagents. The physics and biology labs have their own practicals and assignments.
Can a teacher mark lab work?
Lab assignments are marked on the server from the steps the learner actually took, and the teacher sees the results in their dashboard.
Do virtual labs replace a real lab?
They make practical work possible where a lab is missing, short of apparatus or unsafe, and let learners rehearse before a real practical. Where a school has a lab, they are a rehearsal and revision tool beside it.