ChemCollective-Virtual-Labs/C2/Download-and-Installation-of-VLabs/English

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Visual Cue Narration
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Title Slide

Welcome to this spoken tutorial on

Download and Installation of Vlabs.

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Learning Objectives

In this tutorial we will learn,
  • About ChemCollective website.
  • About ChemCollective online interface.
  • Download and run Vlabs on Windows 10 and Mac OS X v 10.10.5.
  • About Download and run Vlabs on Ubuntu Linux OS v 16.04.
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System Requirement

To record this tutorial I am using,

Chemcollective Vlabs version 2.1.0-3D

Mac OS x version 10.10.5

Windows 10

Java version 1.8.0

Firefox Browser 61.0.1

A working internet connection.

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Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial you should have knowledge of,

high school Chemistry.

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https://java.com/en/download

We need Java Runtime Environment to run Vlabs offline version.

To Install Java, please use the link shown below.

Let us begin.
In the address bar type

http://chemcollective.org/ and press Enter.

Open your default web browser.

In the address bar type

http://chemcollective.org/ and press Enter.

ChemCollective web page opens.

Highlight the paragraph ChemCollective website has online resources for teaching and learning Chemistry.
highlight the paragraph The website has a collection of Virtual labs, Scenario-based learning activities, Tutorials and Concept tests.


More information is given here.

Point to the links on the right panel. On the right panel we have,

Quick Links for

Virtual Lab

Mixed Reception Game

Stoichiometry Tutorials.

News and

What's New.

Point to the left panel.

Point to the headings.

On the left panel, we have two headings

RESOURCES BY TOPIC and RESOURCES BY TYPE.

Point to all the topics under RESOURCES BY TOPIC Under RESOURCES BY TOPIC we have links for various topics.
Click on Stoichiometry link. I will click on Stoichiometry link.
Cursor on all the topics.

Click on The Mole, Molarity, and Density.

Under Stoichiometry Resource Topic we have the following subtopics.

I will click on, The Mole, Molarity, and Density.

Point to available activities.


Scroll down the list.

Point to all the activities.

A list of available activities for this topic open up.

Scroll down the list.

The list contains

Autograded Virtual Labs

Scenario-Based Activities

Simulations

Tutorials and

Virtual Labs.

Open and show all the topics. Similarly for each topic, various activities are available.

You can explore the activities as per your requirement.

Point to RESOURCES BY TYPE.

Point to the resources.

Now we will move on to RESOURCES BY TYPE.

Under RESOURCES BY TYPE

we have the following resources.

Click on Resource type Tutorials link.

Point to the topics in the page.

Now I will click on Resource type Tutorials link.

Tutorials page opens for the following topics.

Click on Stoichiometry drop-down link.

Click on The Mole.

Click on Stoichiometry drop-down link.

Then click on the topic The Mole.

Play the video for a few seconds.

Scroll down the page.

A new page opens with a video tutorial for the selected topic.

Scroll down the page to see practice questions for the same topic.

Point to all the links in the left panel. On the left panel we have links for tutorials under Stoichiometry topic.
Click on back arrow button. Click on back arrow button to go to the previous page.
Click on Virtual Labs resources type link. Now I will click on Virtual Labs resources type link.
Point to virtual labs.

Point to the list of topics.

A new page opens with a list of virtual labs on various topics.
Click on Stoichiometry drop-down.

Point to the list of experiments.

Let us click on Stoichiometry drop-down.

A list of experiments under Stoichiometry open.

Point to the links Get Info and Go. On the right side of every experiment we have Get Info and Go links.
Click on Get Info link for Glucose Dilution Problem.

Point to the page.

Click on Get Info link for Glucose Dilution Problem.

New info page opens.

Point to the links. This Page has,

Download Assignment, Download Offline Version and Go to Activity links.

Point to the Description.

Point to the table.

Below the links we see the Description about how to perform the experiment.

Then there is a table with various details.

Click on Go to Activity link.

Point to Glucose Dilution Problem Virtual lab HTML5.

Click on Go to Activity link to open the online virtual lab interface.


Glucose Dilution Problem Virtual lab HTML5 based version of the virtual lab opens.


Here we can perform the experiment if we are connected to internet.

Click on the link Introductory Video and Support Information.

Point to the new tab and page.

Click on the link Introductory Video and Support Information.

Chemcollective HTML Virtual lab page opens in a new tab.

Highlight the information.

Play the video for some time.

Please read the information below to help you get started.

This video explains how to use Vlabs online HTML5 version.

Now we will see how to download Chemcollective virtual labs for offline use.
Click on Glucose Dilution Problem Info page.

In the page click on Download Offline Version.


Point to the page.

Click on Glucose Dilution Problem Info page.

In the page click on Download Offline Version.


Download the Virtual Lab page opens.

Point to the versions.

Point to English link.

Point to International link.

Highlight the languages.

For Windows download, two versions are available.

First is for English and second is for International languages.

The available languages are listed here.

Point to the link. Here is the link to download Virtual Labs for Mac OSX.
Scroll up to Windows section.


Click on Download Virtual Lab for Windows button.

Scroll up to Windows section.

Click on Download Virtual Lab for Windows button.

Point to the dialog box

Select Save File radio button.

Click on OK.

A dialog box prompting to the save the file opens.

Select Save File radio button.

Click on OK button.

Point to the zip file. vlab.2.1.0 zip file downloads to Downloads folder.
Right-click on the vlab.2.1.0 zip file.

Select Extract All.

Right-click on the vlab.2.1.0 zip file.


Select Extract All.

Point to the Extract Compressed(Zipped) Folders dialog box. Extract Compressed(Zipped) Folders dialog box opens.
Click on Extract button at the bottom. Click on Extract button at the bottom to extract its contents.
Double click on vlab2.1.0 folder.

Point to the files in the folder.

Double click on the extracted vlab2.1.0 folder.

You can see a list of files in the folder.

Double click on VLab.exe file. From the list of files double click on VLab.exe file.
Cursor on the interface. Vlabs interface opens.
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Download for Linux OS.


http://chemcollective.org/vlab_download

To download and run Vlabs on Ubuntu Linux OS,

Download the vlab.jar file from the link given below.

vlab.jar file is available in,

Download virtual labs for windows and Download virtual labs for Mac.

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Run vlabs on Ubuntu Linux OS

Run Vlabs on Ubuntu Linux machines using one of the 2 methods given below.


Method 1: Right-click on vlab.jar file and Open With Open JDK java runtime.


Method 2 : Open the terminal and navigate to the vlab2.1.0 folder


At the prompt type, java space -jar space vlab.jar


If java is not installed properly, method 1 is not appropriate.

Use method 2, if method 1 fails.

Click on the Download Virtual Lab for Mac button. To download Vlabs in Mac OSX, click on the Download Virtual Lab for Mac button.
Cursor in the dialog box. Dialog box prompting to save file opens.
Select Save File radio button.

Click OK button.

Select Save File radio button.

Then click OK button.

Point to Save dialog box.


Click Save button.

Save As dialog box opens.


Retain the default name of the file and click on Save button.

Point to the file in the Downloads folder.


Double-click on the Zip file to extract the folder vlab2.1.0.

vlab.2.1.0.zip file downloads to Downloads folder.


Double-click on the Zip file to extract the folder vlab2.1.0.

Double vlab2.1.0 folder to see its contents.


Cursor on the interface.

Double-click on vlab2.1.0 folder to see its contents.


In the folder double-click on vlab.jar file.

Point to the box.

Click on Open button.

A dialog box appears.

In the box click on Open button.

Point to the interface. Chemcollective Virtual labs interface opens.


Let us summarise.

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Summary

In this tutorial we have learnt,* About ChemCollective website.
  • About ChemCollective online interface.
  • Download and run vlabs on Windows 10 and Mac OS X v 10.10.5.
  • About Download and run Vlabs on Ubuntu Linux OS v 16.04.
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Assignment-1

As an assignment,

Download and install Chemcollective vlabs on your personal computer.


Explore the interface.

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Assignment-2

http://chemcollective.org/home


Explore the following Resource types,

  • Autograded Problems
  • Scenario-Based Activities
  • Concept tests
Another assignment.

Open Chemcollective home page in any web browser.

Explore the following Resource types.

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Acknowledgement

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This is tutorial is contributed by Madhuri Ganapathi and Snehalatha Kaliappan from IIT Bombay.

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Contributors and Content Editors

Madhurig