Selection Page

After signing in you land on the Selection page. This is your home base — it's where you choose how you want to talk to Dr. Olivia, see your past sessions, and (if you're an admin) jump to the admin dashboard.

Header Pills

The top-right of the header surfaces context-aware pills:

Faculty Mode — only shown when you're signed in as Faculty. Dr. Olivia will use the Faculty prompt instead of the Socratic student prompt.
Acting As User — only shown when an admin is impersonating someone via the Act-As override.
Administration Dashboard — admin-only link that opens the Administration Dashboard in a new tab.
My Settings — opens the My Settings dialog.

Narrow screens On screens narrower than 1400 px the pills collapse to icon-only badges to keep the header on a single row. Hover any icon to see its full label as a tooltip.

Which Experience Am I In?

Dr. Olivia teaches from a different prompt depending on who signed in. The experience is decided at sign-in — there's nothing to switch, and it doesn't change mid-session.

Student (Socratic) — the default for students at PHSU and its partner institutions. Guided discovery, cited course materials, and textbook figures from your curriculum.
Faculty — instructors, and staff listed as support users. Signalled by the Faculty Mode pill above.
Consumer — learners outside the PHSU network, studying toward a health sciences licensure degree. The same Socratic teaching, but without source citations, textbook figures, or the materials list. See the Release Notes for what differs.
Guided assignment — a session launched from a Canvas assignment works an instructor's rubric rather than following your questions. It applies to that session only.

For support There is no header pill for Consumer, so it isn't visible from the Selection page. To check which experience an account is on, open Administration → External Users and read the Experience column. Canvas-signed-in users are set by their institution's configuration rather than per user — students at a partner marked as outside the PHSU network get the Consumer experience automatically, while faculty at that same partner keep Faculty.

Choosing a Conversation Mode

The center of the page lists the conversation modes available to you:

Video with Avatar — The full Dr. Olivia avatar experience. You see her, she sees you (camera + mic). Best for active study sessions.
Audio with Avatar — Same as Video, but your camera stays off. Use when you don't want to be on camera but still want voice.
Text Chatbot — Type-only. Markdown is rendered. Best when you're in a quiet setting (library, lab) or want to keep a written record.

Click the card for the mode you want. You'll move into the corresponding session.

Choosing Your Tutor

Dr. Olivia leads a team of virtual tutors. When more than one tutor is available, your current tutor appears in the top-right corner of the page — tap it to open a quick pop-up and pick the face and voice you'd like to learn with. Every tutor is part of Dr. Olivia's team and teaches the same way, so it's purely a matter of preference. Dr. Olivia is the default, your choice is remembered for next time, and choosing is always optional. (Text Chat is always Dr. Olivia.)

Continuing a Previous Session

Each session has a Continue action in the history list. Selecting it restarts the conversation with full context — Dr. Olivia remembers the previous greeting, the last topic, and any images that were generated.

Sessions you've ended are not deleted — ending is reversible. Re-opening a session counts as the same conversation, not a new one.

System Banners

Administrators can post a banner that appears at the top of the page (informational, warning, or notification). If the banner is set to Once mode, it disappears after you dismiss it; if it's set to Always, it stays until the admin removes it.

Status Badges

Below Dr. Olivia's portrait, small status badges appear when certain features are configured for your account — for example, the PubMed badge means your personal PubMed API key is in use, giving you higher rate limits on biomedical literature lookups.