This page will walk you through the most important advances, the steps of creating a virtual event, and other essential settings to optimize the virtual OSCE workflow:
Create users with combined Activity Manager + SRP or + SRP (full control) privileges. With this combination, the user can edit the activity that was shared with them for reading and writing; at the same time, they will have access to Advanced Scheduling. |
The Case Pre-Selection (for learners) and Learner Pre-Selection (for SPs) pages contain new options:
Pre-Selection pages are only available for SPs and learners from the start to finish of the event they are assigned to. Basic case selection page without virtual event details This might result in accidentally filling out the wrong checklist. Also, SPs will not be able to access the renewed Learner Pre-Selection page prior to or after the event. |
Start/Stop meeting options for SPs to start hosting or end the virtual encounter from CAE LearningSpace.
SPs need to end the meeting with the End Meeting for All option in Zoom and the Stop option in CAE LearningSpace to allow learners access to their post-encounter checklist. |
In a distance learning environment, virtual rooms cannot be applied as authorized workstations since every participant of the activity logs into CAE LearningSpace on their device.
a. Consequently, there are certain Options in the activity editor that must be avoided:
b. Upon login, SPs and learners are not automatically forwarded to the
This limits automated data entry presentation to these users.
During the event, SPs and learners need to go to their Dashboards and click SP Data Entry or Data Entry next to the activity they are participating in—as explained in the standardized patient and medical student guides—to access their Pre-Selection pages. |
CAE LearningSpace uses Zoom's cloud storage as temporary storage: OSCE virtual encounters are first stored in Zoom's storage—upon each meeting is ended—, then they will be downloaded to the Video Review module in CAE LearningSpace.
The recordings of the virtual encounters are not available until video processing is finished. |
Virtual encounter recordings display the host and participant—SP and learner—side-by-side.
CAE LearningSpace adds annotations to the recordings to let you know when the learner has joined the virtual encounter. |
Pre-Selection pages are only available for the duration of the event. Otherwise, SPs and learners can only access data entry from their basic data entry selection pages where they have to select a learner or a case from a drop-down manually.
Learners scheduled for the first or last timeslots of an event will have less time on their Case Pre-Selection pages, also SPs will not access their Learner Selection-Page to complete data entry right after their last virtual encounter.
To enable SPs and learners to access their Pre-Selection before and after an event for some extra time, set up a scheduling time threshold. (Scheduling time threshold applies to every event created in your CAE LearningSpace system.) |
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Even if you ensure that learners have plenty of time to access their Case Pre-Selection pages during the event, they can still access data entry during the entire activity.
If they access Data Entry outside of the event and the scheduling time threshold, they will land on the basic case selection page without the context of the event they are assigned to.
Align the activity's entire duration with the event's duration extended by the scheduling threshold:
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After completing the above steps, access to checklists will be time-restricted.
Although, learners could still access their post-encounter checklist before their virtual encounter without applying the following restriction:
Select the "Allow Post-Encounter access only after student encounter" in the Options tab of the activity. |
Create a new event with Advanced Scheduling.
Virtual encounters can only be set up in Advanced Scheduling. |
Only one learner can participate at a time in a virtual encounter, which means Group size must always be 1.
Check the Group size drop-down on the Activity Scheduler page of your activity at the bottom of the Event Setup pane and make sure it is set to 1. |
Set up timeslots and have valid round setups.
To allow your learners to join the virtual meeting of each case required of them, the number of timeslots within a round should be equal to (or the multiple of) the number of virtual cases. |
Add one virtual room to each case at Stations.
You can conduct the same case in several different virtual rooms just as running the same case on more than one station. |
Do not add physical rooms to your virtual event or add virtual rooms and physical rooms simultaneously to virtual events. |
Virtual rooms do not function as authorized workstations, which means automatic user-forwarding to pre-selection pages is not provided. Refer to the Recommended Activity Settings mentioned above to direct your learners to the Case Pre-Selection page. |
Do not apply a timeslot structure template to your event. |
After assigning learners to timeslots, send the exact virtual encounter dates to your learners via notification emails.
From now on in your event notification emails, you can inform learners about the exact timeslots they are assigned to. A new merge tag is available in the Emails tab in System: Learner timeslot that displays the timeslot date(s) the recipient is assigned to. |
Select a from address in the Email From drop-down.
To set up further from addresses, go to the Emails tab in System Manager. |
Click Send.
After you have sent out the date request emails, the system will log the time and date of sending.