Can I Create My Own Courses on Corsmed?

Yes, teachers can create their own courses on Corsmed, and you can customize them fully to suit your needs.

Within a course, you can:

• Add any content that you want: text, images, videos, or files.
• Add your own quiz questions: free text, single choice, or multiple choice.
• Create your own scan assignments, where students should perform certain scans on Corsmed’s simulator and submit their results.

On both quizzes and scan assignments, you can specify how many points that question is worth. You can also provide written feedback and grade all questions right within the Corsmed training platform.

You can also set up automatic grading, including for the scanning assignments, so that the users get automatic feedback based on their responses.

To see how you create a course, and all the options you can customize to your needs, please read on below:

How To Create a Course on Corsmed

To create your own course on Corsmed:

1. Log into the Corsmed platform (assuming you have a Corsmed teacher license)
2. Click on the “Manage Courses” tab
3. Click on the “Create course” button.

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On Corsmed, a “course” consists of multiple “modules”.

• Course: A group of modules (chapters) that together cover a larger topic .
• Module: One small chapter of a course. Modules is where the actual course content, quizzes, and scan assignments exist.

This enables you as a teacher to create a linear course covering a larger topic, with multiple smaller modules that each covers a specific aspect of that topic. Each module can thus build upon content covered in the previous module.

How To Create a Course Module

Once you have created a course, then click on the “Add module” button to create the first module (chapter) of that course.

At the top of the new module, you can specify all the general information and settings for the module, such as:

• Give the module a name.
• Write an “About” description of what the module will cover.
• Select if the results of quizzes and scan assignments should be published automatically once they have been graded.
• Select what body part (anatomical module) that should be used in all the scan assignments throughout the module. A module can only have one anatomical module.
• Select what coils the scanner should start off with as the default in all scan assignments. (Students may select different coils than the default when they start an assignment).

To create the actual content, quizzes, and scan assignments for the module, click on the round “+” button at the bottom.

This will open a popup where you can select what type of content block you want to add:

There are 5 content blocks you can choose from. Three of these are quiz blocks, where you can specify how many points they are worth and grade the student’s answers.

1. Text/media – Content block

This creates a rich text editor block. You can format the text as bolded, italic, Heading 1, Heading 2, bullet list, or numbered list. You can also add images and videos directly within the text.

2. File – Content block

This lets you upload a file that students can download. Supported file formats include: PDF, Word document (.doc, .docx), and Excel sheet (.xls, .xlsx).

3. Scan result – Quiz block

This creates a scan assignment block, where students will be tasked with submitting a certain scan according to your instructions.

Apart from a rich text editor where you can write the question and instructions, you can specify how many points students can maximally earn from this assignment.

You can also select if you want to manually grade the scan result assignment, or if you want to use automatic grading.

If you select “Auto” grading , you need to perform a reference pulse sequence on the simulator. The images generated by this sequence will be used as the reference that each student’s submitted scan result will be compared against.

Corsmed uses an algorithm that automatically compares how far off a student’s submitted images were from your reference images, and assigns points based on that offset.

If a student submits a virtually perfect result relative to your reference, they will earn the maximum number of points.

Example of a reference image on an auto-graded Submit Scan Block:

4. Multiple choice question – Quiz block

This creates a quiz question where students are asked to select the correct answer(s) from a multiple-choice list. You can select whether the question should have:

1. One correct answer, or
2. Multiple correct answers

You can also specify if wrong answers should result in negative points or not.

5. Free form question – Quiz block

This creates a quiz question where students are asked to write their own answer to a question.

Free form questions can only be graded manually.

You can create as many content and quiz blocks as you want in a module.

You can also reorder the blocks by using the arrow buttons in the top-right corner. This will move the block up/down in the order.

How To Preview Your Course Module

To preview what your course module will look like to your students before publishing, click on the “Preview” tab in the top-middle of the page.

This will let you see exactly what your course module will look like to a student.

How To Publish Your Course Module

Once you have finished editing your course module, click on the “Done” button in the top right corner. This will take you back to the “Manage Courses” page.

Then, click on the “Publish” button on the module.

Once a module is published, it can never be edited again.

The reason why is that editing a published course could risk deleting your students’ answers or submissions, if a question or scan assignment was either changed or removed entirely from the module.

However, you can easily duplicate an existing course you have published. This will create a new unpublished copy that can be edited in any way you want. Once you are satisfied with the new edits, you can publish this new version of the module. The old version can either be archived or deleted entirely.

To duplicate a course, click on the three dots in the top-right corner of the module and select “Duplicate module”.

By duplicating a published course instead of editing it directly, you can safely manage the different versions of your module – without the risk of accidentally deleting your students’ submitted answers.

How To Manage Which Users Can Access Your Course

All teacher users within your organization automatically have full access to manage all courses, regardless of who created a course. You don’t need to send any invites.

In addition to editing the course content, other teachers can also review, give feedback on, grade the assignments that students submit on the course modules.

Student users, however, must manually be given access to a course for them to access the course content and do the assignments.

To learn more about course access and how to manage it, see the article: Who Has Access to My Courses? Can I Manage Which Users Has Access to Which Course?

Conclusion

As a teachers, you can not only create your own courses on Corsmed – you can customize virtually every aspect of a course to suit your needs.

Some things you can do include:

• Organize your courses into smaller modules (chapters).
• Create any content, quizzes, and scan assignments in a module using the following 5 content blocks:
  1. Text/media
  2. File
  3. Scan result
  4. Multiple choice question
  5. Free form question
• Specify how many points each question is worth, and implement automatic grading.
• Preview your course modules before publishing them.
• Duplicate existing course modules, or even entire courses.
• Manage which students can access which courses.