COVID-19 made a sudden transition from physical labs to online labs and changed the landscape of lab learning. In this work, we used the VISIR circuits module of remote laboratory platform LabsLand ® together with the video conferencing platform Zoom, to simulate the real electrical circuits lab environment for a class of 38 students in the 2020 spring semester. In this paper, we studied the students’ perception and academic performance in the online lab settings in comparison with previous physical labs.