Go Direct® sensors collect real-time data from science experiments and lab work and connect directly to learner computers or mobile devices. Each of the 40+ types of sensors offered by Vernier are all-in-one style sensors that come with software. Vernier also produces textbooks, with experiments designed to complement their sensors for Chemistry, Physical Science, and middle school science. All purchases include the free app Graphical Analysis 4, which helps learners create real-time graphs of their experimental data.

Website: https://www.vernier.com/products/sensors/go-direct-sensors/

What Users Love About the App

“Vernier has always been my go to company for probes for my classroom. Their website is extremely useful when I have had questions and in a few situations I have had to contact them for additional information and they have been fantastic!”

“Vernier wireless technology has allowed me to increase enthusiasm and achievement while teaching the topics of water quality. Students enjoy the field work. Putting on hip waders and entering the creek to measure flow rate, pH. temperature, and dissolved oxygen.”

“Vernier hardware and software has seen extensive use throughout our chemistry curriculum at Truman State University. The flexibility of the interfaces, sensors and software allow our students to marry the technology with experiments in general chemistry, quantitative analysis, physical chemistry and instrumental analysis labs.”

I teach multiple subjects at Telford Academy Alternative Middle School. I received a STEM grant from a local sponsor several years ago, and purchased two Vernier Force Plates. Students look forward to two fun, yet educational, yearly activities I have incorporated into my teaching using the plates.”

“I attended a workshop and got suffiently inspired to use, adapt, and repurpose Vernier labs for use with newly written case studies for introductory college biology labs. Analysis of outcomes confirmed positive student success and retention, including among targeted underrepresented groups.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“Really bad app, glitchy. Sometimes won’t even let you load your files. Other times graph won’t plot points. To graph a point is so awful and glitchy that you have to exit the app. Overall absolute garbage.”

“I did a graph and saved it on a file. When I try to upload it on the app nothing pops up. I don’t know what to do.”

“Will not analyze any media I upload. You have no idea how stressful this is especially when you have a project due that’s worth half of your grade.”

“Great app until it stopped working… I used this to aid my research, but recently it just stopped working. I can’t access any menus or interact with the screen at all. It’s as if the popup screens for menus just don’t show up on my screen.”

“My teacher made me download this app and it is taking up all of my data this app is really terrible. :(“