Many of our academics used a mixture of both methods during live screensharing sessions. Use the screen annotation tools provided within screensharing software, orīoth methods have advantages and disadvantages and are used for different purposes. Academics have two options when teaching with virtual slides in online classes:ġ. prereading or offline learning tasks), academics shared links with their students through the LMS or other programs such as H5P, Padlet or EdX, or incorporated them directly into learning materials through links embedded in images in presentations or PDFs.Īn important part of online teaching with virtual slides is the ability to mark regions of slides to point out features to students. For synchronous practical sessions, academics used video conferencing tools and their institutional LMS (Blackboard, Moodle or Canvas) to share links to Slice images and annotation layers.
Slice can be used for both synchronous and asynchronous online teaching and provides an authentic and interactive way of teaching microscopy compared to the use of static images.ĭuring online lectures, our academic members used videoconferencing tools such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, and alternated the screensharing of Slice images and layers with the screensharing of Microsoft PowerPoint slides or similar. Virtual slides are an essential part of online learning in microscopy-based disciplines including histology, pathology, haematology and cytopathology. We asked some of our members to share how they have been using Slice for online learning during the pandemic.
Some of our academic members were already incorporating Slice into online learning or for students at remote sites, but COVID-19 meant that all face-to-face classes had to be moved online. For those teaching histology and pathology, virtual slides were an essential part of their online classes. In early 2020, in response to growing concern about the threat posed by the novel coronavirus sars-cov-2 (COVID-19), many universities cancelled face-to-face classes for their students and moved to online learning.
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