Customized Virtual Simulations Provide an Interactive Lab Experience.

Although various resources exist for facilitating online laboratory courses, stitching together disparate elements from multiple sources may not be sufficient to meet the learning goals of a given course. For example, our Biology Project Lab course introduces students to an array of fundamental laboratory techniques, and the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the development of virtual laboratory options for remote learners. We anticipated that the logic and application of the course material-a multiday sequence of connected experiments-would be lost if we combined prefabricated labs from a variety of sources.