Software for hands-on learning

We connect what students learn to what they can do.

Synapsalot builds the tools schools use to put real systems in front of every student, safely, from a web browser.

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VMTabs™

Virtual labs for schools

VMTabs gives every student their own virtual machines, opened in a browser tab. Instructors build a machine once, deploy a copy to a whole course or one section, and watch the class work. Students get a real operating system to configure, break and fix, with nothing to install.

It runs on the school's own lab servers, so student work and data stay on campus.

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ForNetworking, cybersecurity and systems courses, from high school through college
IsolationEach student's machines share a private network that no other student can reach
CoursesSections, enrollment, labs with instructions and grading, and a library of lecture materials
Learning systemsStudents open labs straight from Canvas or Blackboard (LTI 1.3), and grades go back
In classBrowser console for every VM, live screen previews, file hand-out, power and reset for a whole class
HostingOn-site, on the school's own servers

VMTabs is our first product.

How we build

On the school's hardware

Our software runs where the school decides, on servers it owns. Nothing about a student has to leave campus for the product to work.

Isolation you can test

Students are kept apart by design, and every release is checked against it: each route of the app is tried as every role, and a self-test inside a lab machine reports anything it can reach that it shouldn't.

Small enough to maintain

Few moving parts: a handful of well-known open-source libraries, one database file, signed updates that install themselves and roll back if a check fails.

Built for the person in the room

Instructors run a whole class of machines from one page. Students click a link and are working. Plain words, keyboard access and readable contrast throughout.

Company

syn·apse, n.The junction where one nerve cell passes a signal to the next. Learning happens there.

Synapsalot makes software that turns instruction into practice. We started with the lab, because that is where a student finds out whether they can actually do the thing: set up the network, harden the server, find the fault.

Synapsalot is based in Richmond, Rhode Island, and was founded in 2026.

Contact

Questions about VMTabs for your school or district, pricing, a trial on your own servers, or partnership: write to us and a person will reply.

Emailcontact@synapsalot.com

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