NEW: Tailor-Make LabTutor Experiments for Your Classroom with LabAuthor
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Our 20th Anniversary celebrations continue with the release of LabAuthor, a new software tool for educators using LabTutor software with PowerLab data acquisition systems. LabAuthor makes it possible for every LabTutor experiment to be a perfect fit for different students, classrooms and institutions.
LabTutor: Enhancing Student Learning Since 2004LabTutor leads students step-by-step through life science experiments that bring textbook theory to life as they enhance laboratory skills and confidence. Since LabTutor was released our education specialists have developed over forty experiments in six languages covering human, animal and exercise physiology, pharmacology and biology. LabTutor has become an integral part of curriculums around the world, and has received rave reviews from educators, students and publications.
 "LabTutor is superior software that gives a new range of possibilities to laboratory activities for very inquisitive students and for those in a science course with a rigorous lab component....I was very impressed by the breadth and depth of activities, as they surpass other software currently produced for the same target audience."
Jose Vazquez
Classroom Technology Reviews
The American Biology Teacher, Volume 70, Number 3, March 2008, page 173.
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LabAuthor: Now Empowering Educators
LabAuthor gives educators control over the content of LabTutor experiments. Users can edit any existing LabTutor experiments to match their students' skills and experience, their laboratory's equipment and setup, and the length of their lesson time.
LabAuthor users can even create entirely new experiments within LabTutor's proven step-by-step structure to suit their specific needs and resources.
Easy-to-Use Authoring and Editing Tools
| LabAuthor users do not need to learn any programming or html code. | LabAuthor has a straightforward graphical user interface. Educators simply click, hold and drag new objects, text and graphics into the experiment pages. Users can also edit the pages of existing LabTutor experiments.
The LabAuthor Toolbox makes it easy to find and use the tools you need. Formatting toolbars and menus appear once you have selected a specific object. You can use the LabTutor Kernel to set up data acquisition channels with the correct filtering and appearance settings for your signal and experiment.
 Above: Editing the text of the LabTutor Electroencephalography experiment.Make Every Experiment a Perfect Fit
Using LabAuthor, LabTutor educators can:
- Delete, edit or expand the background theoretical information
- Provide students with set-up instructions specific to your lab's equipment and layout
- Edit terminology to match your institution's curriculum
- Shorten experiments by removing exercises or dividing experiments into two parts
- Add new data acquisition panels to record more signals as part of the experiment
- Create new tables and graphs to log and display the data recorded in the acquisition panels
- Insert new report questions, or make existing questions easier or more difficult
- Add pop-up windows into any experiment page to offer students more information and recording hints
- Use all these features to author an entirely new experiment that perfectly suits your lab, curriculum and students
Tailor-Make Experiments With Your Tailor-Made LabAuthor Package
LabTutor educators and institutions can purchase a LabAuthor license in a variety of ways, depending on how many users there will be and the type of training and support they need. For more information about LabAuthor, please contact your ADInstruments representative.
Share Your PowerLab Teaching Experiment and Enter the Draw for an iPod Touch Over the past 20 years, our customers have matched our product and hardware development by finding new, inventive and innovative ways to use PowerLab in their classrooms. To inspire LabAuthor users, we're asking PowerLab educators to share their original teaching experiments, and enter the PowerLab Teaching Experiment Draw.
20 March 2008
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