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PathcoreScholar User Manual

Student View


Home Page

When Students log in to PathcoreScholar, the first screen displayed is their home page.

Greeting

An optional, customized greeting message can be displayed on the home page. If this message has been updated since the last time the Student logged in, this is indicated via the text "Updated" next to the title of the page and a Bell icon next to the Home Home button in the left-hand navigation sidebar. The last time the message was updated is always displayed below the message itself.

List of Classes

The Student's home page also displays all of their currently active classes. Classes are listed by name, and each shows the number of modules contained within as well as the start and end date, if set.

Only active classes — i.e., those where the current date is between the defined start and end dates — are displayed on the Student's home page.

The left-hand sidebar can be used to quickly access available classes, modules, and pages.

Click on the Arrow button next to a class name in the sidebar to expand it and display the list of modules for that class. Click on the Arrow button again to collapse the list. Modules in the list can be expanded and collapsed in the same manner to display the list of pages for that module.

Modules and pages in the list can have an icon next to their name to indicate the following:

  • Gray Briefcase Gray Briefcase: This module contains graded pages
  • Blue Briefcase Blue Briefcase: All graded pages in this module have been completed
  • Gray Lock Lock: This module is past its due date, or is not yet available
  • Gray Checkmark Gray Checkmark: This page contains graded questions
  • Blue Checkmark Blue Checkmark: All graded questions in this page have been completed

Classes

A class contains a set of modules and an optional bulletin board. Modules are how a class's content is organized, akin to chapters in a book.

List of Modules

The modules for a class are listed on the Modules tab of a class page. The order of the modules is set by the Educator.

Modules which are not currently available — i.e., those that are past their due date or that have not yet started — are displayed with their names grayed out.

Class Bulletin

A class may also have a bulletin written by the Educator to deliver announcements to all the Students in that class. If enabled, a Bulletin tab will be available. If the bulletin has been updated since the last time the Student logged in, this is indicated via a Bell icon next to the Bulletin tab.

Modules

A module contains one or more pages of learning material created and organized by the Educator.

List of Pages

The pages of a module are listed on the Pages tab of a module page. The order of the pages is set by the Educator.

Pages

Pages are rich-text documents that may contain didactic information as well as interactive components. Pages may contain formatted text, images, hyperlinks, whole slide images, and various question types. Pages that are designated as “graded” will be included in scoring calculations.

Image Viewer Blocks

An Image Viewer block provides a way for Students to view one or more images in the Viewer, which is a full-featured viewing environment best suited for images that would normally require panning and zooming. The Educator decides whether to embed an inline Viewer or provide thumbnails to click through to a popup dialog.

To open an embedded image in the Viewer in a new browser tab

  1. Hover over the Image Viewer Block

  2. Click on the Open Image Open Image button at the top left of the block

To open an image thumbnail in the Viewer in a new browser tab

  1. Hover over the Image Viewer Block

  2. Click on the image thumbnail

  3. Click on the Open Image Open Image button at the top left of the popup dialog

Question Blocks

There are several question types available such as multiple choice, number input, and short answer, among others. Most question types provide an opportunity for the Educator to give feedback in the form of a "response message". Response messages may be used to reinforce why a particular response is correct or to guide trainees toward the correct answer in case of incorrect answers.

Response messages are NOT shown to Students for graded pages.

Multiple Choice Question

Multiple choice questions provide a list of options for Students to select and have one correct answer.

If the page is not graded, a unique response message may be provided for each choice.

Number Input Question

The number input question allows Students to input a number in response to a question. Educators have a great deal of flexibility when it comes to defining the correct answer(s) through one or more value ranges. Each range is associated with a point value, making it easy to reward accurate answers with more points and incorrect answers with fewer, or even negative, points.

If the page is not graded, a unique response message may be provided for each range of values.

Short Answer Question

The short answer question type allows Students to respond to a question using free-form text. This is the only question type that must be scored manually by an Educator.

If the page is not graded, a response message may be provided after answering.

Pin Drop Question

Pin drop questions provide a unique and interactive process for Students to identify relevant structures on an image. Rather than narrowing the field-of-view for a question, Educators can ask trainees to locate structures present in the image with pins. With the pin drop question, each "pin" corresponds to a structure that the Educator wants identified and trainees are expected to drag the pins over the corresponding areas in the image.

Viewer

Whether embedded, in a popup dialog, or a separate browser tab, the Viewer displayed to Students provides a subset of the features offered to an Educator or Administrator. Notable changes include:

  • The image name and slide label are hidden from Students
  • Students are unable to add annotations
  • (Optional) Some or all of the annotations may be hidden from Students
  • The left sidebar is not available to Students. Therefore they do not have access to any of the features of the Image Information, Browse Folder, Image Adjustment, Overlays, Annotations, nor Share Image panels.

Side-by-Side View

Side-by-Side View allows multiple images to be viewed simultaneously in the Viewer. Each image is confined to a dedicated panel within the viewing area and retains all the usual capabilities that are available when viewing a single image (e.g., annotating, panning, and zooming).

To enter Side-by-Side View

  1. Navigate to a page that includes an Image Viewer block

  2. Click on the View Side-by-Side Open in New Tab button below the inline Viewer or the thumbnail view of the images

To exit Side-by-Side View
  1. Click on the Exit button at the right corner of the Viewer top bar

Panel Layout

When in Side-by-Side View, the Viewer is divided into a row of image panels. These panels can be rearranged or individually hidden by the Student.

To rearrange image panels

  1. Click on the Multi-Image button in the Viewer top bar to display the Slide Arrangement dialog

  2. Click and hold on the Drag Handle icon to the left of the image and drag it up or down to change its position

To show/hide image panels

  1. Click on the Multi-Image button in the Viewer top bar to display the Slide Arrangement dialog

  2. Click on the Eye button to the right of an image to toggle its visibility

Panel Controls

Side-by-Side View divides the available on-screen space for the Viewer into one or more panels, depending on the number of images that have been chosen. While each panel can be independently controlled, only one panel can be controlled at any given point in time.

The selected (controllable) image is denoted with a blue border around its panel.
To select an image for navigation

  1. Click into any panel to activate it. Note the blue border that appears around the active panel

  2. Use the standard Basic Controls to navigate the image

To enable the rotation tool for the selected panel

  1. Hover or click on the image to reveal the toolbar at the top left of the panel

  2. Click on the Expand Toolbar button to expand the toolbar if necessary

  3. Click on the Rotate button in the toolbar to show or hide the rotation tool

Color Management

For RGB images, the color correction profile of an image in a panel can be adjusted. The capabilities that are available in the Viewer are also available in Side-by-Side View panels. See Color Management for more details.

To change the color management profile for the selected panel

  1. Hover or click on the image to reveal the toolbar at the top left of the panel

  2. Click on the Expand Toolbar button to expand the toolbar if necessary

  3. Click on the Palette button dropdown in the toolbar to reveal the color management dialog

  4. Select one of the available ICC color profiles

Single Panel Mode

Side-by-Side View reduces the screen area available for each image in the set. If more screen area is required, it's possible to temporarily expand one panel to return to a single image configuration.

To expand a single image panel

  1. Hover or click on the image to reveal the toolbar at the top left of the panel

  2. Click on the Expand Toolbar button to expand the toolbar if necessary

  3. Click on the Fill View button

To minimize an expanded panel (to return to Side-by-Side View mode)

  1. Hover or click on the image to reveal the toolbar at the top left of the panel

  2. Click on the Expand Toolbar button to expand the toolbar if necessary

  3. Click on the Shrink View button

Synchronization

Images can be synchronized so that panning and magnification actions are performed simultaneously on all images in the Viewer which have been marked as "synchronized".

To synchronize specific images

  1. Hover or click on the image to reveal the toolbar at the top left of the panel

  2. Click on the Lock button

  3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each image to synchronize

To synchronize the row of images

  1. Hover or click on any image from the row to be synchronized, to reveal the toolbar at the top left of the panel

  2. Click on the Down Arrow button next to the Lock button

  3. Select Synchronize Row from the dropdown menu

To synchronize all images in the Viewer

  1. Click on the Lock button in the Viewer top bar to display the synchronize menu

  2. Select Synchronize All from the dropdown menu

Magnification

The magnification of the currently selected image can be applied to all synchronized images or to all images in the Viewer.

If you zoom an image that is part of a synchronized set, the change in magnification is also applied to other images in the set. When an image is pushed past its native resolution, the Viewer applies a digital zoom.

When the digital zoom is applied as a result of zooming another image in the synchronized set, there is no restriction enforced. In this manner, it is possible to attain a digital zoom greater than the 400% limit for a single image.
To apply the current magnification to all images in the Viewer

  1. Click on the current image magnification in the Viewer top bar

  2. Select Apply to All Slides from the dropdown menu

To apply the current magnification to synchronized images

  1. Click on the current image magnification in the Viewer top bar

  2. Select Apply to Synchronized Slides from the dropdown menu