Adding Labs to a Course

Course Activities provide access to hands-on labs and other learning components in Classes, Course Assignments, and Learning Paths. A lab activity provides access to a lab built on the Skillable Studio platform. When the student selects the Launch button on the activity, the lab interface opens in another window.

The steps below assume you have completed the Basic Information section in the course (Creating Courses). Before adding a course activity, you should select whether the course will available instructor-led and/or available Self-Paced on the Basic Information tab. This will affect the defaults for visibility of the activities you add for classes and course assignments.

Add a Lab to a Course

To add a lab to your course:

1. On the Create Course or Edit Course page, select Activities.

2. Select Add Lab.

3. In the Choose Lab dialog, search for and select the lab(s) you want to add to the course and select OK. See Max Ram Settings Warning for additional information.

Each lab activity has the following fields you can set for more control over that activity.

• Availability dropdown - limits who can view and launch the lab activity. It defaults to Everyone but you can limit it to Instructors only if the activity is not intended for student consumption. When Everyone is selected the Assign to Students Manually option displays.

• Required for course completion - requires a student to complete the lab for the course assignment or class Enrollment to be marked Complete.

• Available Instructor-Led - makes the activity visible in classes and class enrollments

• Available Self-Paced - makes the activity visible in course assignments

• Allow Retakes - controls whether the student is able to launch the lab again after completing it

• Allow Multiple Attempts - allows unlimited lab launches by learner

  • Limit Attempts - set the number of times a learner can launch the lab

• Assign to Students Manually - gives class instructors the ability to assign the activity to individual students in a class

• Allow to Mark Lab Complete if available - gives the learner the option to mark the lab completed when exiting the lab, whether any work was done in the lab or not. When disabled the learner has the options to save the lab or cancel it. The marking a lab complete setting must be made available through Studio to show here.

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For more information regarding lab activities, please see:

• Max Ram Settings Warning

• Where do I find the system requirements for labs?