The CASUS authoring tool is easy to use and offers a wide range of options to present your virtual patient cases.
CASUS is mainly a semi-linear e-learning system, meaning that all students work through the cases in the same order.
We also support a more exploratory (or semi-linear) case design, in which students can make their own decisions about which cards to access next.
The CASUS authoring tool supports the integration of numerous media formats, such as images, PDF files or videos. You can display almost any kind of digital content directly in the case or as a hyperlink.
A crucial component in CASUS cases are the different types of questions that you can use to test your students' progress. For example, you can include multiple choice, free-text or list-based questions. This enables you to select the most effective way to ask questions according to the learning objectives that you have set out for your students.
You can provide feedback for your students in the following ways:
As part of a EC funded project, a concept mapping tool to support the clinical reasoning learning process using virtual patients has been integrated into CASUS.
The CASUS course manager allows you to grant users or grous of users access to your cases and courses. You can also view and analyze reports that illustrate individualized and comprehensive user results from your courses.
The CASUS course manager allows you to grant a defined group of users access to your cases:
You can use one of the following user registration and authentication procedures:
Due to the wide range of options, virtually any user management system can be linked to and used in connection with CASUS. Providing easy access and connectivity considerably increases user-friendliness and allows users to reutilize their profiles and passwords.
CASUS offers a wide range of reports that present different aspects of student activity, which can serve as self-assessment for the students as well as quality assurance and the further development of cases.
Results reports can include points/percentages and a graphical representation of students' results; optionally, you can also define your own assessment scales. In addition to various pre-defined reports, we also offer individual student reports as needed.
The results are calculated in real-time and can be exported into MS Excel or jpg-formats for further analysis.
Each student has access to his/her individual learning progress, which is displayed in the student's dashboard. Thus, students will receive immediate feedback for self-assessment in the form of:
We provide a variety of tools to guarantee the quality of your e-learning courses and cases:
Learning and assessment applications can be a challenge for an e-learning system. Online assessments have to fullfill certain formal requirements concerning access, duration and documentation of results, as well as technical requirements regarding availability and security. CASUS offers individualized assessments, which focus on case-based formats such as key features. These are short cases that focus on relevant decision points.
You can use CASUS as an innovative assessment tool. Our specialized features include adaptable navigation, reduced interface, detailed login information and user actions and the supression of qualitative and quantitative feedback.
Depending on your needs and the required level of security, we offer different back-up and infrastructure options.
Please contact us for more information, we are happy to find a solution tailored to your needs.