What is LabChart for Education?
The research standard, built into every lesson
The same software that is essential to your own research can form the foundation for your advanced undergraduate and postgraduate labs. Our LabChart experiments allow your students to work through complex methods step by step, building knowledge of important physiological concepts and vital skills for a career in science.
With LabChart, PowerLab and our collection of specialized teaching kits, students can record a broad range of biological signals — and even complete analysis at home with the LabChart Pro Student License.
We have been particularly impressed with the flexibility of these data acquisition systems. Their intuitive interface enables us to customize students' level of involvement in setting recording and analysis parameters, allowing our introductory students to focus on successful data collection while enabling our more advanced students to learn how to adjust recording parameters to meet the requirements of variable biological preparations.
Dr Duncan MacKenzie
Texas A&M University
Built for the way your students learn
From first-year introductions to advanced postgraduate research, LabChart adapts to every level of study — without compromising on the research-grade software your students will use throughout their careers.
Designed for life science
LabChart is ideal for teaching the physiological principles that underlie many scientific and medical fields. Students get hands-on with real biological signals that demonstrate these core concepts in a dynamic and engaging way.
The Top 100 Universities All Use LabChart and PowerLab
In 2019, Quacquarelli Symonds released a list of the Top 100 universities for life science, based on academic citations, peer review, recruiter review, faculty-student ratio and international orientation. PowerLab hardware and LabChart software are used at every one of these institutions, including Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Tokyo.
Access a range of teaching resources
To save you valuable time when creating course materials, we have developed a number of teaching resources for human physiology, animal physiology, general biology, and psychophysiology. Each experiment comes with a large range of teaching materials, including instructor notes, student protocols, and settings files.
Educational hardware
PowerLab Sensors for LabChart
PowerLab Sensors give students an authentic, hands-on physiology experience that integrates theory with reality — with no extra setup required.
- Plug-and-play over USB. PowerLab Sensors connect directly to LabChart 9 via USB; LabChart detects each one and automatically creates its channel, so students record digital signals with no manual setup.
- Real-time, real data. Students record and analyze their own physiological signals as they happen, an active-engagement approach that helps them quickly grasp and understand core physiological concepts.
- Built for human and animal physiology courses. Ideal for educators who need new or additional hardware — a hard-wearing, ergonomic, intentionally designed, and easy-to-use data acquisition solution that gives students an authentic lab experience.
- Scales to more than 20 concurrent channels. With a maximum of two of each PowerLab Sensor used at a time per Education license, students could set up more than 20 channels automatically — stack some PowerLab T1s, plug in, and click 'start'.
The Core Human Physiology Bundle
The Core PowerLab Sensors Bundle enables you to investigate a wide range of biological signals. It contains six sensors, a PowerLab T1, as well as accessories and consumables needed for data acquisition across many of our human physiology labs.
PowerLab T1 · Biopotential Sensor · Finger Pulse Sensor · Grip Force Sensor · Skin Temperature Sensor · Tendon Hammer Sensor · Respiratory Belt Sensor
The Advanced Human Physiology Bundle
The Advanced PowerLab Sensors Bundle enables you to investigate all of the biological signals we offer. It contains nine sensors, a PowerLab T1, as well as the necessary accessories and consumables for data acquisition across our human physiology labs.
PowerLab T1 · Biopotential Sensor · Finger Pulse Sensor · Grip Force Sensor · Skin Temperature Sensor · Tendon Hammer Sensor · Respiratory Belt Sensor · Blood Pressure Sensor · Cardio Microphone Sensor · Spirometer Sensor
PowerLab Sensor Bundles can include Education Licenses for LabChart 9 or LabChart 9 Pro.
★★★★★
"Having the PowerLab Sensors compatible with LabChart is another layer of freedom that's been given to me as an educator. Being able to use more complex measurements, or analyze complex measurements, in a different way than we’ve previously been allowed to is absolutely awesome."
Dr Liam Bagley
Senior Lecturer of Physiology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Educator development
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ADInstruments provides regular training workshops and webinars to help educators grow their technical abilities and introduce new ideas to their classrooms.
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CrawFly Invertebrate Neurophysiology Course is a mini version of a CSHL/MBL intensive hands-on approach but for educators. It's truly an amazing resource with excellent instructors.
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LabChart Pro Student License
LabChart Pro Student License is LabChart Pro, just without sampling. It's a cost-effective, limited-time license available for 6 months (or one semester).
Students can perform LabChart experiments and record data in the lab, then take their LabChart data files (.adicht) home to complete their analysis and lab report — freeing up lab space and staff time. A LabChart Pro Student license allows you to install and use LabChart Pro software on a single computer for educational purposes only.
Important restrictions: sampling is disabled, and Import, Open and Append are limited to the following file types only: "adicht", "adiset", "adidat" and "sfwdat". Other file types, such as "txt", cannot be imported under this license.
LabChart Education License Comparison
| License | Record / sample data | All LC9 features | Open and read LabChart files | Analyze | Save and export | Extensions | Modules | Multiple computers | Time limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LabChart 9 Education Single Installation License | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ (purchase separately) | ✗ | None |
| LabChart 9 Pro Education Single Installation License | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | None |
| LabChart 9 Pro Student License | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 6 months |
| LabChart Reader | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | None |
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