This article is for internal use only! The customer-facing version can be found here on the instructor help site: The HOL V-Scope
Customer-Facing Documents
- SI V-Scope (downloadable sales slick)
About the V-Scope
The HOL V-Scope is an advanced virtual microscope program that simulates the use of a compound light microscope and includes a library of over 80 fully interactive slides ranging from bacteria to fruit flies to skeletal muscle.
Using advanced technology and images from real slides, the V-Scope replicates everything that a student would do on a physical microscope, including raising and lowering the platform, turning on the light, placing, centering, and focusing slides, and more.
Talking points
- Replicates the experience and procedures of a physical microscope so students still learn how to operate the machine without having to purchase and ship a physical one
- An excellent addition to online science courses
- Includes access to over 80 fully-interactive slides. Each slide consists of hundreds of images from real slides all compiled together to recreate the full experience of moving the slide, zooming in/out, focusing, etc.
- Students can download their slide images for easy labeling and submission
- Instructors can use just the V-Scope or they can add authoring access to create their own lessons using the award-winning HOL Cloud platform
Key Details on Standalone V-Scope Access
The standalone V-Scope option (meaning the student purchases access to the V-Scope but isn't using any HOL lessons or purchasing a kit) is available with or without the Custom-Lesson Authoring feature.
- This new offering allows customers to purchase access to the V-Scope without having to purchase a kit or use any of our content.
- These options do not come with any HOL-authored lessons except for "Using the V-Scope" and "Getting Started" (Getting Started only if the school adds custom-lesson authoring)
- Students can purchase access through Cloud's Shopping Cart or by using Vouchers
- Price without Custom-Lesson Authoring is $50.00 per student (LP-9500-MB-01)
- Price with Custom-Lesson Authoring is $55.00 per student (LP-9501-MB-01)
Options
Without Custom-Lesson Authoring (SKU LP-9500-MB-01)
- Instructors will not be able to author their own lessons for students
- The HOL Cloud course will include only the Using the V-Scope instructional lesson for students to complete
With Custom-Lesson Authoring (SKU LP-9501-MB-01)
- Instructors will be able to add their own lessons to build out a full course within HOL Cloud if they choose
- The HOL Cloud course will include both the Getting Starting and Using the V-Scope lessons
Questions and Answers
V-Scope can be added to any kit with a SKU that starts with LP-. It can replace the physical microscope in any lesson we offer and is an excellent, cost-effective option for instructors who don't need their students to purchase or ship expensive microscopes.
Yes! See this section above for information on this option.
No. In order for the V-Scope to be fully interactive, each slide consists of hundreds of individual high-resolution photographs of a real-life slide in a microscope. Customers are free to suggest additions to our slide library, but we don't make any promises about adding them at any point.
The V-Scope functions more like a material in a kit than just a software feature on Cloud, which means it cannot just be "turned on" for an individual section or course! It has to be quoted and the SKU has to built in Cloud to support the V-Scope from the start.
- If it's a StemPaq kit (SKUs starting with SP-), they don't need to add V-scope (see question below)
- If it's an LP- kit, you'll need to re-quote it using the V-Scope versions of the lessons and adding the V-Scope charge so that the price (and materials list!) reflects the removal of the physical microscope and the addition of the V-Scope.
- A kit/master course are not engineered with both V-scope and prepared slides. If an instructor requires both V-scope and prepared slides, the cost of the V-scope must be added to the kit.
- Since the materials in the kit are changing, the kit and course will need to be versioned up.
You don't need to! StemPaq courses (the ones with SKUs starting with SP-) were designed to be as cost-effective as possible, which means they don't use microscopes in the first place. Instead, all StemPaq course lessons have the relevant slide images embedded directly into the content.
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