Dental simulation lab management
Every station.
Every student.
One live board.
One tap assigns the whole class and starts the lab. The board shows who's where and what's signed off in realtime, and proposes each rotation for you to confirm. Every student's phone shows one clear card: what they're doing right now.
The live board. It updates on every device as the room moves.
For the professor
See exactly what every student is doing: their station, their progress, their raised hand, live on one screen.
Spot who's falling behind while there's still lab time to do something about it, not in next week's grading.
End the day with proof: who finished, who didn't, and whether it was one student struggling or a classroom problem.
How a lab day runs
From plan to running room in three steps
Plan the day
List your foundation activities (bench work the whole class can do at once), then add the capacity-limited stations: one scanner, two mills. Each station knows how many can work there at once.
Start with one tap
One tap assigns the entire class and the lab is running. Students join once with a 6-character class code (K7M2QD) and their seat, and stay enrolled all term.
Run it from the board
Sign work off by tapping a student's progress badge. When people finish, SimLabDisplay proposes who moves where. You confirm, and everyone's phone updates.
What's on the board
Built around how a simulation lab runs
A live board of the whole room
Every station, who's at it, and each student's A/B/C progress badges, tappable to sign off and updating in realtime on every device.
Rotation you confirm, not compute
As students finish, SimLabDisplay proposes who should move to which open spot. You stay in charge: review the moves, confirm, done.
Capacity-aware planning
Foundations take unlimited students; stations are capped at their real capacity. The board shows 2/2 and “full” at a glance.
Lecture classes too
Attendance-only classes run the same rotating-code, QR and NFC check-in. One product for the sim lab and the lecture hall.
A help queue that escalates
Raised hands land in a live queue with wait times that turn amber, then red. Staff tap “on my way” to claim, then resolve.
Faculty and TA accounts
Give teaching staff the board view and help queue, and grant per-class sign-off so they can clear students at their stations.
After the lab
End the day knowing who needs you
One tap ends the lab and builds the report: who finished everything, who didn't, station by station, with charts of how the day actually flowed. Export the whole matrix as CSV for your gradebook, or use the ready-made email to the students who still owe work. And because it's computed from the records, the same report is still there next March.
- Per-student and per-station completion, self-report vs staff sign-off
- One student struggling vs a classroom problem, visible at a glance
- CSV export, and a ready-made email list of who didn't finish
One button emails the three who owe work.
One card. Nobody wonders where to be.
The iPhone app
The whole lab, one card at a time
A student never has to ask “where am I supposed to be?” Their phone shows one thing (the station they're at), and when the room rotates, a push notification tells them where to go next. Mark work complete, ask for a limited station, raise a hand: it all happens from the bench.
- Push notifications the moment you're moved: station and bench, nothing else
- Raise a hand with one tap and it reaches the faculty covering your seats
- Past lab days stay readable: what you finished, what you owe
Photos & assessment
The work, photographed and signed
Students photograph their preps (up to five labeled angles per attempt) straight from the bench. Photos land in encrypted private storage, visible to exactly two parties: the student and their instructors. Publish rubrics so expectations are on every phone, and let students request a summative assessment when they're ready to be graded.
- Five angles per attempt: buccal, occlusal, lingual, mesial, distal
- A personal photo library with every attempt, all term, in one place
- Rubrics and summative sign-offs, recorded with who signed
Private storage, links that expire in an hour. No photo has a public address.
Codes die in 10 seconds, so screenshots don't work here.
Attendance
Presence you can't fake cheaply
Take attendance with a rotating 6-digit code, a QR code, or an NFC tag tap. Your choice, per class. Codes change every 8 seconds and expire after 10, so a code texted to an absent friend is dead before it arrives. Every check-in is tied to the signed-in student and timestamped by the server, so nobody can mark anyone else present.
- Rotating code on the projector. Students type it before it changes
- QR on screen: scan and you're in, same 8-second rotation
- NFC tags: a physical tap with bank-card-grade cryptography; every tap is single-use, and a used one is dead forever
Communication
Three channels, each with exactly the right audience
Announcements
One-way, professor to the whole class: “bench checks moved to Thursday” reaches the whole class and stays pinned on the class page.
A thread with your faculty
Each student writes to the teaching staff of their own class, and no one else. There is no student-to-student messaging anywhere.
Mid-lab broadcasts
“Everyone to the wet lab” lands on every student's screen in the room, over whatever they were looking at, until they acknowledge it.
Built for schools
Security your IT department will actually like
SimLabDisplay holds remarkably little (names, school emails, class records, and photos of practice work) and protects it like it holds much more.
Enforced in the database
Who sees what isn't an app feature. It's a rule inside the database itself. A bug in the interface can't leak another class's data.
Revoked means now
Close an account and it loses access on its very next request, not when a login token happens to expire an hour later.
A pilot before you hand over a roster
Demo accounts hold no email address and no password, only a PIN plus a seat number at a dental school or a name at an undergraduate one. Nothing is imported and no system is connected.
Single sign-on ready
SAML 2.0 is built in, so enabling your school is a configuration step, not a rewrite. Students sign in with the account your IT already controls.
Records outlive accounts
A student can delete their account any time. Their name, email, and photos go, while faculty-signed coursework stays, nameless, as the school's record.
No ads, no analytics, no AI
Nothing tracks students, nothing is sold, and no student data is ever sent to any AI service. The app can't even ask for location.
Evaluating for your school? Talk to us and we'll walk your IT team through all of it.
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