Student Getting Started Guide

The goal of this guide is to help students get started using LabArchives in their course. Below, you will find step-by-step guides as well as links to detailed LabArchives help documentation for accessing LabArchives for the first time, viewing your course’s LabArchives Notebook, and submitting assignments within LabArchives.

In addition to the guides listed below, LabArchives has created this convenient Quick Start Guide PDF to help get going.

Accessing LabArchives
Accessing Your Notebook and Submitting Assignments
Managing Your LabArchives Notebook

Accessing LabArchives

In order to start working with LabArchives, please use the following steps to log in for the first time. Once you complete these steps, you can begin using the tool..

1. To access LabArchives, go to https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/login and select University of California, Irvine from the Sign in through your institution drop down menu.
   
2. You will be taken to UCI’s Single Sign-On page. Enter your UCInetID + password and authenticate through DUO.
3. Next you will be brought to a LabArchives screen with two options. In the Create or Activate a new LabArchives account section, enter your UCI email address.
   
4. Click Create New Account
5. When asked “Do you want to create a new LabArchives account and link with your login credentials?” Click Yes.

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Accessing Your Notebook and Submitting Assignments

Being part of a course that is using LabArchives allows you to have your own copy of the course’s electronic lab notebook. There are two ways to access your notebook:

1. Without Canvas, by going directly to LabArchives and finding it in My Notebooks area.
2. Through Canvas, by going to your Canvas course space, and opening an assignment that has been connected to LabArchives.

While there is no guarentee that your course is using Canvas with LabArchives, it’s likely to be common. Because of this, we have linked to the guide for accessing and submitting LabArchives assignments through Canvas below. It’s important that you use this mothod exclusively if your course has LabArchives connected to the Canvas course space. Please confirm with your instructor how they would like for you to access LabArchives and submit assignments.

Accessing you LabArchives Notebook and Submitting Assignments

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Managing Your LabArchives Notebook

The following guide will help you become familiar with adding and editing content in your LabArchives Notebook.

Working in your LabArchives Notebook

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