vCSI LabsVirtual Crime Scene Investigation

For forensics instructors and STEM programmes

A crime lab your whole class can walk into.

No consumables, no contamination, no field trip forms. Assign a 360° scene, let students work it in the browser on any device, and mark the reasoning instead of the lucky guess.

How teachers use it

One scene covers a term's worth of technique.

Each case is built around a small number of methods so you can slot it against the week you are already teaching.

Lab-day replacement

When the reagents don't arrive, students still document a scene, reason from pattern evidence and write it up.

Pre-lab preparation

Students walk the scene and plan their collection order before they touch real kit — fewer ruined samples.

Assessment

Set the verdict write-up as the graded artefact: claim, exhibits cited, limits acknowledged.

Open evenings

A 360° scene on a big screen fills a recruitment stand better than any poster.

Marking

Grade the reasoning, not the guess.

Ask students to submit the case file: what they photographed, what they collected, the contradiction they found, and the verdict they'll defend. The rubric below is included with every case and is yours to edit.

  • Documentation before disturbance
  • Correct collection order
  • Physical evidence vs. statement conflict identified
  • Verdict cites exhibits and states its limits
Request the rubric pack

EXAMPLE · Forensic Science · The Stairway Case

Documentation86
Collection order64
Conflict identified92
Verdict defended71
An investigator studying a linked evidence board of photographs, notes and timelines
Debrief as a class: every link the room made, and the ones nobody made.

Custom scenes

Built around your syllabus.

If you teach a technique our cases don't cover — bloodstain pattern analysis, footwear databases, entomology — we can shoot a 360° scene for it and write the evidence script with you.

Discuss a custom scene

Tell us what you teach and we'll set the scene.