Key Benefits:

• Enhanced Accessibility: Voiceovers improve accessibility for learners with visual impairments or language barriers.
• Increased Engagement: Voiceovers can enhance learner engagement and comprehension.
• Streamlined Workflow: Automatic voiceover generation simplifies the Brick creation process.

Who’s Eligible?

To automatically generate voiceovers, users must:

• Have a subscription to RxBricks
• Have either the Brick Institutional Admin or Faculty Brick Author role
• Have the Institutional flag enabled on their profile

If you are unsure whether or not you’re eligible, please reach out to info@scholarrx.com.

Please Note:

• If a user publishes a Brick as non-institutional and becomes an institutional user, the system will not automatically generate a voiceover for the original brick. To create a voiceover, the user can clone the Brick and publish the clone.
• Please be aware that Brick publishing times may increase slightly as the system generates voiceovers.

We hope these enhancements will make your Brick-building experience even better!

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Introducing Rx Academy

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Rx Academy, a new resource designed to help you make the most of ScholarRx. This new platform is dedicated to preparing educators, whether you’re just getting started with ScholarRx or looking to level up your skills. This initiative leverages Rx Bricks to provide faculty training, showcasing the platform’s functionalities while guiding you in creating impactful content. You can access it through the question mark icon in the Brick Exchange menu.

Here’s a quick overview of the available courses:

• What is ScholarRx: Learn the basics of our platform and how to access institutional support.
• What is a Brick: Understand the concept of Bricks and how to interact with them.
• How to Create a Brick: Learn how to create Bricks.

We encourage you to explore the Rx Academy and see how it can enhance your teaching and learning experience.

Bricks Create Enhancements

We’ve made it easier than ever to create high-quality Bricks. The new release features:

• Simplified Editing: Enjoy a streamlined editing process with improved table editing capabilities.
  • Add or remove table rows
  • Add a new line to the middle of a row
  • New alignment options, italics, and bolding available
• Enhanced Organization: Keep your Bricks organized with sorting options and default placeholder images.
• AI-Powered Review Question Generation: Save time with AI-generated review questions.
  • AI can generate questions that are not currently questions within your Brick.
  • It will scan your Brick to ensure it isn’t repeating a question, and you can append it, dismiss it, or write your own questions.
  • These AI-generated review question(s) will automatically appear at the bottom of your review questions.

• Seamless Application Updates: Experience an uninterrupted workflow with our new updates that will not affect or interrupt you when actively editing a Brick.

Revamped Rx Search

Our upgraded Rx Search now boasts advanced features, making finding the resources you need easier than ever.

• Improved Search Functionality: Quickly find Bricks by author, school, or specific terms.
• Enhanced Search Results: Get more relevant results tailored to your search criteria.

Enhanced Brick Exchange Dashboard

The dashboard has been redesigned to offer a more personalized and intuitive experience. Key enhancements include:

• Personalized Experience: The dashboard caters to your specific needs whether you’re logged in or out.
• Quick Access: Easily navigate to recently accessed bricks and discover new, relevant content.
• Enhanced Search: Find the exact content you need with our improved search functionality.

Faculty Portal Updates

The Faculty Portal has been updated to streamline onboarding processes and provide more information for cohort and contract managers. Please contact our team if you believe you should be a cohort or contract manager at your institution.

This latest release was designed to save you time and provide your students with the best possible learning experience. Log in today to explore the new features!

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August 2024 marked a significant milestone for Rx Bricks, but the true story lies beyond the numbers. We’re witnessing the growth of an emerging community of practice—a global network of educators dedicated to shaping the future of medical education through collaboration, innovation, and shared expertise.

What is a Community of Practice?

A community of practice is more than just a group of people working independently; it’s a collective effort where individuals come together to share knowledge, experiences, and tools to pursue a common goal. For Rx Bricks, this community includes medical educators, content creators, and subject matter experts worldwide who are committed to advancing the quality of educational content through active collaboration.

Collaboration and Sharing in ActionOne of the core strengths of the Rx Bricks Create platform is how it facilitates content sharing and adaptation. In August alone:

• 111 Bricks were created and published from scratch, reflecting the innovation and creativity of educators worldwide.
• 219 Bricks were cloned and published, demonstrating the adaptability and usefulness of content as it is refined and repurposed to fit various curricula.

This growing global collaboration is reshaping the way educators think about content creation. Instead of working in isolation, educators are building on one another’s work, ensuring that Bricks evolve through collective input and shared experiences. The platform’s clone-and-publish feature, in particular, has enabled educators to quickly adapt high-quality content for their institution’s needs, amplifying the value of each Brick and saving time while maintaining educational integrity.

Driving Educational Innovation

As more educators join this community, the level of innovation in medical education continues to rise. The record-breaking number of Bricks created in August is a testament to how this collaborative approach fosters creativity. Faculty are designing new learning modules and experimenting with multimedia elements, interactive features, AI, and novel teaching methods to engage learners more effectively.

This innovation is happening globally as educators from different regions contribute diverse perspectives and teaching strategies, enhancing the richness of the content available on the platform. Each Brick built reflects the hard work and ingenuity of a global community striving to make medical education better, more accessible, and more engaging.

A Focus on Accessibility and Equity

One of the most meaningful aspects of this community of practice is its commitment to accessibility. By sharing high-quality educational materials through Rx Bricks, educators are helping bridge gaps in medical education, particularly in underserved regions of the world. The ability to clone and adapt Bricks allows faculty to offer their students the best possible learning experiences, regardless of geographical or resource-based limitations.

Looking Ahead: A Growing Movement

This is just the beginning. As more educators discover the power of Rx Bricks Create and the Rx Brick Exchange, the potential to transform education only grows. Each new Brick, whether built from scratch or adapted from an existing one, represents a step toward a more connected and innovative educational landscape.

The record activity from August isn’t just a reflection of the platform’s capabilities—it’s a testament to the strength of the global community built around it. Together, we’re creating a future where collaboration drives education forward, one Brick at a time.

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The Power of Bricks Create

Our Bricks Create platform offers educators a user-friendly and versatile toolset to build interactive and informative learning modules. With the Brick Builder Grant, you’ll gain access to:

• Funding: Up to 50 grants of $500 will be awarded to support your curriculum development efforts.
• Platform Access: Grant recipients will receive full access to Rx Bricks Create, allowing you to craft engaging learning experiences.
• Expert Support: Benefit from ScholarRx training and resources to guide you through the platform and best practices.

Share Your Expertise, Amplify Learning

The Brick Builder Grant encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing. Developed curricula can be shared with a global medical education community, expanding the impact of your work.

Ready to Apply?

Don’t miss this opportunity to revolutionize medical education. Visit our landing page to learn more about the program, application criteria, and deadline (July 15th, 2024).

Let’s build the future of medical education together!

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Multiple, Impactful Images

One of the significant advantages of the image carousel is that you can add multiple images to your Brick. Before now, it was always a struggle to display and compare various images of medical conditions, especially when there are different stages to be covered. But that’s not the case anymore. With an image carousel, you can comfortably add up to ten images, allowing students to scroll horizontally through the photos with a simple click. This new method of displaying multiple images can add more visual impact to your teaching, making it easier for students to understand each stage of the medical condition.

Adding an image carousel is as easy as adding an image, a card, or a formula. To do so, use the toolbar and select the “Image Carousel” option.

You can drag and drop your images or use your device’s file finder to load them one at a time. Within the image carousel, you can add up to ten photos to display best whatever you’re trying to share with students.

You also have the option to add descriptions and attributions to your images and a title for them.

Your Slide Deck, Easily Accessible

We’ve also updated capabilities to include embedding PowerPoints, Google Slides, or PDFs. To embed a presentation, add a new element to your Brick, click “< >,”  aka “Add Embed,” and paste the link to your presentation. However, note that you can only embed presentations that are on the web or uploaded to a cloud-based server. Presentations that live on your computer or device cannot be embedded.

Improving Teaching and Learning Outcomes

Incorporating these new features encourages educators to create more engaging, interactive, and impactful courses. A histology class, for instance, can leverage the image carousel to teach students about cellular structures better. The carousel can help professors showcase various aspects of the cell that the students need to learn about, such as the Golgi apparatus, the nucleus, and the mitochondria.

High-Yield Learning That’s Faculty Friendly

At ScholarRx, we’re committed to delivering an exceptional learning experience. The new features we’ve introduced today, the image carousel and the ability to embed presentations, will make online teaching more engaging and impactful. We’re excited to see how you use these new features.!

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As an educator, it’s essential to provide tools to empower students to take ownership of their learning process. Bricks Create allows students to create, share, and learn, making learning more engaging and exciting.

Engage Your Students

Bricks Create for Students can enrich your students’ learning experience. You can assign projects and activities that require building a Case Connection within a Brick, and this hands-on learning approach can help them develop skills applicable across disciplines.

Another way to benefit from Bricks Create is by creating videos that enhance their Bricks. Videos can bring complex concepts to life, and students can creatively express their understanding of different topics. With Bricks Create, they can embed their videos once they upload them to YouTube or Vimeo and then create learning activities to support them.

Peer teaching is an excellent way to reinforce concepts and help students retain information. With Bricks Create, students can create a Brick on a topic and teach it to their classmates through a presentation. This approach reinforces concepts and enables students to practice important communication and presentation skills. Plus, the Brick they publish will be a durable learning object that can be shared with other students, educators, or future employers.

Creating a collaborative Brick on a topic you’re working on in class is another exciting possibility Bricks Create offers. This approach enables students to learn from each other’s insights and perspectives. It also fosters teamwork, cooperation and encourages students to leverage their collective knowledge to reach a deeper understanding.

Limitations of Bricks Create for Students

When you create and publish a Brick, it can go live on the Brick Exchange, our global medical education ecosystem. Students do not have this ability, and their Bricks will not be searchable. The only way residency directors, peers, or you can see the content a student has created is through a link to the Brick itself or their author page.

Empower Your Students to Create

Bricks Create for Students is an innovative and intuitive tool that can help empower your students and inspire creativity and deep engagement. It enables students to move from passive learners to active participants in the learning process. By assigning projects, creating videos, practicing peer teaching, and working on collaborative projects, your students can explore new ways of learning and grow as scholars and educators. Encourage your students to take advantage of this opportunity today!

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