From the bench to Canvas, in one notebook.
The affordable lab notebook for academic courses. Students write up experiments and add photos from their phone; professors grade the PDF right in Canvas — where they already are.
No new account · sign in with Canvas · works on any device
Built for the teaching lab — not the pharma lab.
Research ELNs are powerful and priced to match. Paper lab books add up over a program and still have to be scanned. Lab Notebook is the option that actually fits a course.
Overkill for a course
Built for industry and research labs — compliance features, and pricing to match. More than a class needs, at a cost no student should carry.
Costly, and stuck on paper
Carbonless copy books add up semester after semester, get lost or stained, and still have to be photographed or scanned to turn anything in.
Affordable and Canvas-native
A digital notebook priced for students, on any device, that turns itself in to Canvas as a PDF — no scanner, no research-grade overhead.
A page that works the way lab actually does.
Not a rigid web form. A free-form page where a write-up, a labeled sketch, and two gels side by side can sit exactly where they make sense.
Lay it out like a real notebook.
Add text and photos, then drag and resize them into place. Put two microscope images next to each other, highlight a heading, and keep your discussion right beside the data.
Photos, straight off the phone.
Scan a QR code on the page and upload from your phone — the image lands on the notebook in seconds. No cables, no emailing yourself, no fighting a file picker.
One click, and it's turned in.
Sign in with Canvas, pick the assignment, and submit. The entry becomes a tidy PDF in the student's own submission — graded in SpeedGrader, with nothing new for anyone to learn.
Organized by course — for students and instructors.
Every class gets its own notebook, sorted by course and assignment. Instructors can switch to any student's notebook, by course, right where they grade.
Cheaper for students. Easier for professors.
A lab notebook that doesn't cost like a textbook.
Skip the pricey carbonless lab book and the research ELN you'll never fully use. Write up labs anywhere and turn them in from your phone — for a fraction of the cost.
- ✓ Works on your phone, laptop, or a library computer
- ✓ Nothing to print, buy, or carry between classes
- ✓ Sign in with Canvas — no new account or password
Grade where you already go.
Entries arrive in Canvas as clean PDFs and open in SpeedGrader — the same place you grade everything else. Nothing new to install, and no separate gradebook to reconcile.
- ✓ Grade in SpeedGrader, alongside the rest of the course
- ✓ Open any student's notebook, sorted by course
- ✓ A least-privilege Canvas connection you can trust
Three steps, start to submitted.
Write it up
Open a new entry, give it a title, and lay out your procedure, observations, and results on the page.
Add the photos
Snap the QR code and send images from your phone, or drop them in from the computer. Arrange them however you like.
Submit to Canvas
Choose the assignment and hit submit. It lands in Canvas as a PDF, ready to grade in SpeedGrader.
Canvas-native, and least-privilege by design.
Students sign in with their existing Canvas account — no new password to manage, and no data to reconcile.
- ✓Only the student's own work. The app submits a student's entry to their own assignment — it can't reach grades or anyone else's submissions.
- ✓Six scopes, nothing more. The Canvas connection is limited to exactly what turning in a PDF requires.
- ✓Nothing new to learn. Submissions show up in the normal gradebook and SpeedGrader.
Free while we pilot.
We're rolling Lab Notebook out with a handful of courses first. Join the pilot and use everything — no cost, no card.
- ✓ Unlimited entries, photos, and course notebooks
- ✓ Full Canvas sign-in & SpeedGrader submission
- ✓ Phone photo upload and the free-form editor
- ✓ Hands-on help connecting your Canvas course
After the pilot, pricing stays classroom-friendly — a fraction of a research ELN or a semester of paper lab books.
Bring it to your course.
See Lab Notebook in your own lab this term — free while we pilot, and we'll help connect your Canvas course.