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At the department of physics at FAU, we have introduced Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) in the compulsory electronic lab course in the 4th semester of the physics curriculum. Immediate advantages are obvious: all data, raw data and metadata including experiment description and experimental observations, are digitally stored at the same place. Student teams share and actively work in their group ELN with access at the university as well as at home, and script-based evaluations can be carried out directly on data in the ELN. Moreover, lab course supervisors and tutors have also insight into the ELNs. This enables scientific discussions between tutors and students and detailed support during data evaluation. We report on our experience and present an outlook on future developments.