Ah, your Instructor is using the Dreaded DAQ Assistant and its Evil Twin, the Dynamic Data Wire. That's too bad -- DAQmx is so easy to learn (particularly when paired with a demonstration of MAX, its Test Panels, and its ability to build Tasks that encompass most of the functionality you need for Data Acquisition). NI has excellent tutorials on DAQmx -- one of my favorites is "Learn 10 Functions in NI-DAQmx and Handle 80% of your Data Acquisition Applications", or words to that effect (do a Web search for "Learn 10 Functions" and you'll find it).
You can define a DAQ Task (in MAX) that will group the 11 channels together, can specify the input range of your signals, the sampling rate, sampling mode, and number of samples. Your entire program then consists of 4 functions: Start Task, DAQmx Read (N Channels, N Samples), Stop Task, and Clear Task, with a While Loop around the Read so you can take/display as much data as you wish. Add a Chart inside the loop to display your data and you are done!
Bob Schor
