Enhance learning with LabTutor Teaching Suite 4.3

The release of version 4.3 of LabTutor introduces even more great features to enhance learning.

New features:

• Visual feedback to enhance navigation and work-flow
• Interactive subpages with list control for quick and easy creation of decision-based exercises
• Checkpoints to control student work-flow and access to experiment sections
• Enhanced archiving and retrieval of student data
• Language support and experiments in Russian and Turkish
• High definition video streaming with LabTutor Online
• New Applied Nursing Collection connects clinical practice with theory

Visual feedback

Visual Feedback in LabTutor 4.3 lets students navigate experiments easily and intuitively, especially in experiments that contain checkpoints.

Information regarding the progress and status of experiments and experiment subsections is clearly displayed at the top of the page (shown top right). The experiment navigation drop-down list has also been enhanced to provide information on checkpoint pages (shown bottom right).

Interactive sub pages

Sub pages are now more interactive with the inclusion of list control. Educators can incorporate sub pages into student exercises and questions - for example, students may be required to order a list of sub pages pertaining to a physiological event or process, and receive feedback on the correct order. In addition, you can now choose to use a sub page area controller in place of navigation arrows.

Figure 2. Sub page control has been incorporated where sub pages can be included or omitted
in the associated sub page area, and be reordered if necessary.

Checkpoints

The new Experiment Checkpoint feature lets educators lock certain experiment sections. This helps prevent students browsing through all pages of the experiment in order to access answers to report and multiple choice questions.

As well as encouraging students' independent and critical thought when writing reports and answering questions, the checkpoint system enables educators to identify strengths and weaknesses in their students' understanding of science.

Where experiment checkpoints are implemented, students are required to commit their in-progress experiment (by completing report pages and answering questions) before being permitted access to subsequent experiment sections. Although pre-checkpoint work cannot be altered, previous answers and experiment pages can still be viewed.

Students must commit their work
before proceeding

Enhanced archiving

When a course is archived, ‘In Progress’ unsubmitted experiments are now also included. Administrators and educators can now review and have a record of unsubmitted experiments and filter archived experiments based on their completion status.

Students access their archived data, questions and completed reports on the new 'Archived' tab. There is the option to view or download PDF documents of reports and materials included in submitted experiments, archived experiments, complete archived courses and incomplete archived courses.

New language support

The growing LabTutor experiment collection now includes Turkish and Russian languages. The following experiments are available:

  Russian experiments

• Acid-Base Titration
• Aerobic Fitness Testing
• Anaerobic Fitness Testing
• Biological Membranes
• Blood Pressure
• Breathing
• Cardiorespiratory Effects of Exercise
• Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
• Cellular Respiration
• Cockroach Sensory Nerve
• Cockroach Ventral Nerve Cord
• Earthworm Action Potentials
• Earthworm Smooth Muscle
• ECG & Heart Sounds
• ECG & Peripheral Circulation

• Electroencephalography (EEG)
• Electro-oculography (EOG)
• Energy Metabolism
• Frog Heart
• Frog Nerve
• Introduction to Fitness Testing
• Introduction to LabTutor
• Introduction to Spectrophotometry
• Photosynthesis – Carbon Dioxide Fixation
• Photosynthesis – Oxygen Production
• Respiratory Gas Analysis Procedure
• Temperature Effects of Enzyme Performance
• The Diving Response
• The Stoop Test
• Water Balance

  Turkish experiments

• Blood Pressure
• Breathing
• ECG & Heart Sounds
• Electroencephalography (EEG)

• Electromyography (EMG)
• Introduction to LabTutor
• Muscle
• Respiratory Air Flow and Volume

HD video streaming on LabTutor Online

Students using LabTutor Online can stream the highest quality videos with virtually no delay, with LabTutor 4.3 supporting multimedia hosted on high-speed Content Delivery Networks.

In addition, the release of the LabTutor Documentaries provides LabTutor Online users with a bonus collection of educational multimedia resources. These include a number of high-quality medical physiology documentaries, such as Diabetes: In Search of a Miracle and Donated to Science.

LabTutor Doumentaries are available to LabTutor Online users.

New Applied Nursing Collection

The Applied Nursing collection is also a convenient way to expose students to real and educationally-relevant patients in the classroom without the logistic problems faced in organising hospital visits. 

The new collection integrates patient video interviews, real patient data and clinical test results with related physiology practical sessions. This integration allows nursing students to learn key physiological and pathophysiological concepts, and how they relate to nursing practice.

• Connect key physiology with clinical nursing practice
• Hands-on practice making measurements to monitor health
• Access interviews, data and test results from real patients
• Look at specialized patient testing and test results
• View High Definition biological animations
• Complete reports in class or outside the classroom using LabTutor Online