Select Lab Stages from the main menu, and either select one of the existing items to edit, or Create a new lab stage. For the Paintbrush Demo Lab, you'll want the latter.
The lab stage design screen looks like:
A lab stage must be given a name - this should be descriptive enough so that you can identify the lab stage when it appears among potentially many others like it in a list.
The Lab Name and Course Name are read-only fields, and when you first create a lab stage, will not have any values. These are automatically filled in when the lab stage is associated with a lab.
You will then need to choose the VMs that you wish to associate with this lab stage. In many cases, you only need to set the tutor VM value. This value represents the starting point of the lab stage. When a student first arrives there, this is what they will see in their console window. Select a VM from the list - if you are working through the Paintbrush example and are putting together Lab Stage 1, select the first VM you created - and click Set.
The value End point VM for this stage allows you to set an additional VM against the stage to represent an exemplar “completed state”. This is never seen by the student, but serves as a reference to you and other tutors as to the “correct answer” for the lab stage. If, as will be the case in most scenarios, the end point for (say) stage 1 is the start point for stage 2 there is no need to set this. If your lab exercise "jumps" around a bit and there is not necessarily a linear path between the stages, then you may choose to set this value, and potentially use this as the basis of your clone when authoring the subsequent stage’s VM. For the Paintbrush example you do not and should not set this value.
The resources field expects you to enter web URLs; the web page that these URLs will be displayed to the student when they undertake the lab in the same fashion as the instructions for tutors were displayed when you were creating your VMs.
For example purposes, there are three internal resources within WLab that correspond to the Paintbrush example stages; these are resource1example.htm, resource2example.htm and resource3example.htm where the number corresponds to the stage. To use these internal resources, simply enter them into the field as shown in the screenshot.
When you have finished entering the details for your lab stage - if you are working on stage 1 of the Paintbrush example, the screen should look similar to that shown in the above screenshot – click Save Changes. Your lab stage will be saved, and you will be returned to the previous screen.
You should now repeat this process for the other lab stages of your lab exercise. Once done, you can move on to Building a lab.