A custom simulator for a course
Transform a difficult mechanism, experiment, or analytical workflow into an interactive experience aligned with a specific curriculum.
What could we build?
From learning experiences to the tools that keep a course moving.
A custom project can begin with a difficult concept, a laboratory workflow, an existing manual, an administrative headache, or a repetitive task that should simply work better.
An experience based on a research organism
Use the biology, traits, or questions surrounding a professor’s research system to create a memorable and authentic learning context.
A learning tool for a scientific society
Build a public-facing experience that supports outreach, scientific literacy, professional education, or engagement with a specialized field.
A virtual lab for an educational publisher
Extend a chapter, manual, or digital resource with an interactive investigation that allows learners to test ideas and interpret results.
A worksheet transformed into an experience
Reimagine an existing static activity as guided practice, a simulation, a decision pathway, or an interactive data-analysis task.
Attendance, check-in & participation tools
Create streamlined attendance or lab check-in systems using QR codes, seat numbers, session windows, or instructor-defined workflows—without forcing the course into a generic platform.
Interactive lab manuals & tutorials
Turn a traditional lab manual into a responsive digital resource with guided procedures, embedded tutorials, diagrams, pre-lab preparation, calculations, and links to companion tools.
Controlled-access course resources
Provide protected access to manuals, tutorials, datasets, or specialized resources using course codes, access codes, session-based entry, or other project-specific access rules.
Small tools that remove course friction
Build focused utilities for TA workflows, lab scheduling, dataset generation, student grouping, assignment preparation, resource navigation, or other repetitive course tasks. Sometimes the most useful project is not a giant platform—it is one small tool that solves one annoying problem extremely well.
Something we have not listed
If you have a workflow, teaching idea, or course problem that does not fit a category, that is exactly the kind of conversation worth having. Start with the problem; the right digital experience can be designed from there.
A clear collaboration process
Start with the problem—not the technology.
Every project is shaped around what needs to work better: the audience, scientific content, learner experience, instructor workflow, access requirements, and practical realities of course delivery.
Share the challenge
Describe the course, learners, existing material, workflow, or recurring problem—and what you wish worked differently.
Define the experience
Agree on the goals, interactions, scientific or operational requirements, access model, deliverables, timeline, and project scope.
Build and review
Develop a working prototype, review the content and workflow in context, and refine it through focused feedback.
Prepare for learners
Deliver the finished tool with the agreed documentation, implementation guidance, deployment approach, and maintenance plan.
Custom projects are scoped individually.
Show us what you want to fix
Bring the teaching goal, workflow, rough sketch, existing document—or simply the problem. SciWrench can help shape it into a practical project.
The SciWrench approach
Built for science teaching in the real world.
A successful custom tool should do more than look polished. It should solve a real problem: helping learners reason scientifically, helping instructors deliver a course more effectively, or removing unnecessary friction from laboratory and administrative workflows.
Learning goals guide the designEvery interaction should serve an identifiable educational purpose.
Scientific limits remain visibleModels, simplifications, assumptions, and uncertainty should be communicated clearly.
Complexity is introduced deliberatelyLearners receive enough structure to explore without losing the scientific challenge.
The final experience fits its settingDelivery, branding, documentation, ownership, and ongoing maintenance are established during project scoping.
There is probably a better way.
Let’s build something useful
What is the thing in your course you wish worked better?
You do not need a technical specification—or even a finished idea. Bring a concept, lab manual, spreadsheet, repetitive workflow, access problem, tutorial, dataset, or teaching headache. We can start there.