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 header shows information pills. They tell you something about your session; they are not buttons:

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.

Your Account Menu

At the far right of the header are your Canvas profile photo, your name and your school. People who sign in with a username and password see their initials instead of a photo. Click it to open your account menu:

My Settings — opens the My Settings dialog.
Account (password & email) — only for people who sign in with a username and password. Change your password or your sign-in email. Canvas users manage their account in Canvas.
Change tutor — pick a different tutor (only shown when more than one is available).
Program Administration — only for your program's administrators. Opens your program's students, sessions and activity.
System Administration — Tiber staff only. Opens the Administration Dashboard in a new tab.
Help / Guide — opens this guide in a new tab.
Sign out — ends your session and returns you to the start page.

Narrow screens On a phone, the information pills shrink to icon-only badges (hover or tap one to see its label) and the account menu shows only your photo or initials.

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. Your current tutor appears at the top of the communication style card, above the Video, Audio Only and Text Chat options. When more than one tutor is available, choose Change tutor there (or in your account menu) 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. Your tutor is the same whichever style you pick, Text Chat included. Dr. Olivia is the default, your choice is remembered for next time, and choosing is always optional.

Your Dashboard

Below the conversation modes is your dashboard. Everything on it comes from your own use of Dr. Olivia, so it is different for every student and it fills in as you study.

At a glance — how many sessions you have had, how many questions you have asked, how many days you have studied, how many practice quizzes you have completed with your average score, and how many files Dr. Olivia has made for you.
Your study plan — the active study plan you built with Dr. Olivia, if you have one. To work on it, start a session and ask her to pick up your study plan.
Topics you've explored — the USMLE systems and disciplines your sessions have covered, with how many sessions covered each. Click a topic to start a practice quiz on it. Topics appear once a session has been summarized, which happens shortly after it ends.
Practice questions — start a new practice quiz, or look at your recent ones and their scores. Review shows every question in a past quiz with the correct answer, your answer and the explanations. Retake asks whether you want the same questions again (scored as a new attempt, so your earlier score is kept) or new questions on the same topics, which opens the quiz builder with those topics already selected.
Your files — opens your file manager, described below.

Your Files

Open your files on the dashboard lists everything Dr. Olivia has made for you in your sessions: PowerPoint decks, Word documents, PDFs, images and mind maps. Only your own files are shown.

Files are grouped by type first, then by the date of the session they were made in (most recent first), then by the session itself, shown with its title and start time.
Each file shows its name and type. Click a document to read it full screen, with a Download button at the top for the file itself. Click an image to open it in a new tab. Click a mind map to open it full screen, where you can also download it as a picture.
Pictures taken from your textbooks are not listed here. They are course material, not something made for you, and you can still find them in the session's transcript.
If Dr. Olivia has not made anything for you yet, the page says “No generated files available.”

Using Dr. Olivia Responsibly

The notice at the bottom of the page sums up the rules that apply every time you use Dr. Olivia. Always verify her answers against your course materials and faculty. Use her for your own learning only, and never for graded work. Everything you do with her is subject to your institution's code of conduct, academic honor code and AI use policy. She does not give medical advice. Do not enter patient information, PHI or confidential exam content. The full wording is in the Terms & Conditions.

Using Dr. Olivia is voluntary and does not affect your grades or academic standing. If your advisor, counselor or student services has recommended her as part of your academic plan, we encourage you to give her a try.

Session History

Your past sessions are listed in the panel on the right, newest first and grouped into This week, Last week and then by month. Each one shows its title, a short summary and up to three of the topics it covered. The ten most recent are shown; press Show more for the rest. Click a session to read its summary and conversation.

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.