Faculty Mode New
Dr. Olivia is the same tutor your students learn with. Students use her to learn the material. Faculty use her as a working colleague for the teaching around it: writing and reviewing exam questions, preparing teaching material from your course's own content, and building outlines, rubrics and handouts. Writing questions is what faculty ask her for most.
How You Know You Are in Faculty Mode
A Faculty Mode label shows at the top of the screen. The mode is set when you sign in, from your account. It is not a switch inside the app, so you cannot change to student mode yourself. If you want to see what your students see, ask your program contact.
Student Mode and Faculty Mode
| Student mode | Faculty mode | |
|---|---|---|
| How she works | A Socratic tutor. She guides with questions and makes the student reason before she gives an answer. | A colleague. She produces what you ask for, directly and in full. |
| Practice questions | An interactive quiz in the app. The student answers one question at a time and sees the explanation after each answer. | Written out in the conversation, with the answer key and the reasoning for every option, for you to review, edit and take away. She can also put them in a Word document or PDF. |
| Answer keys | Held back until the student has answered. | Always included, unless you ask her to leave them out. |
| Patient interviews | She can play a standardized patient so the student can practise taking a history, then go over it with them. | Not offered. |
| Your own record | The student's exam results, a study plan she builds with them, and notes about how they learn. | Notes about your ongoing work and preferences. |
The same in both modes
- Your course's textbooks and lecture content
- Uploads: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, text and images
- Published research (PubMed) and drug and compound lookups (ChEMBL, PubChem)
- Figures and diagrams and mind maps
- Word documents, slide decks and PDFs
- Picking up a previous session, and a summary by email after each session
Things to Ask For
- "Write five Step 1 vignettes on nephrotic syndrome, with the key and rationales."
- "Review this question. Is the stem doing the work, and are the distractors plausible?"
- "Build a lecture outline on heart failure pharmacology from the course textbook."
- "Make a rubric for a history-taking assignment, with four performance levels."
- "Put those questions in a Word document."
Guided Assignments
A guided assignment is a third kind of session. A student opens one from a Canvas assignment, and Dr. Olivia takes them through your rubric for it instead of following the student's own questions.
Limitations
- She does not change anything in Canvas or any other system: no grades, no edits, no submissions.
- She writes original questions only. She will not reproduce NBME, USMLE, COMLEX or other secure exam content.
- Questions you write with her stay with you. Nothing is published to your students, and an upload does not become part of the course materials.
- Check clinical facts in anything she writes before you use it with students.