"Show me how to" videos

  • Add reagents
  • Change a test result
  • Choose a test/medium
  • Create a new unknown
  • Declare the ID of a microbe
  • Dispose of cultures
  • Find a previously created unknown
  • Flame lab tools
  • Flame tube mouths
  • Identify gram negative enteric bacilli
  • Identify gram positive cocci
  • Incubate cultures
  • Perform a gram stain
  • Perform aseptic transfers (create lawns)
  • Perform aseptic transfers (tube-to-plate)
  • Perform aseptic transfers (tube-to-tube)
  • Perform video-based tests
  • Record test results
  • Remove and replace caps and lids
  • Repeat a test
  • Select a lab tool
  • Start over with a new unknown
  • Start the incinerator
  • Use a strategy to identify bacteria
  • Use auto-inoculation
  • Use the “traffic signals”
  • Use the identification matrix
  • Use the New Day button
  • View the virtual lab report

Admin tutorial

  • 1) Logging in as an instructor
  • 2) Creating a section
  • 3) Enrolling students in a section
  • 4) Adding activities
  • 5) Viewing student grades
  • 6) Editing gradebook preferences
  • 7) Canvas integration

Quick start tutorial

  • Creating a user account
  • Lab layout
  • Navigating VUMIE’s main features

Use auto-inoculation

When auto-inoculation has been activated during creation of an unknown bacterium, you can bypass the steps of an aseptic transfer as you do biochemical tests:

  1. Click on the “Tests” link above the Virtual Lab.  Highlight “Select media” to start a test.
  2. The “Add media” form appears.  Select the desired medium from the dropdown list and provide a label.  For instance, Phenol Red Lactose Broth could be abbreviated “PRLactose”.  Click “Submit”.
  3. Appearing in the Virtual Lab will be two test tubes of media.  The tube on the left is your pure culture of unknown organism (known as the “inoculum”).  At right is a sterile tube of the medium you selected.
  4. Place your cursor over the tube caps and click to remove caps.  The option for autoinoculation will appear.  Select this option.
  5. Replace your caps and check the traffic signals for two green lights, indicating a successful and contamination-free inoculation of the sterile medium with your culture of the unknown organism.
Updated on March 28, 2022

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