Addressing Our Automated Certificate Generation Outage

Dear PathElective Users,

We were made aware of issues regarding certificate generation, and after a thorough investigation of our automation workflows and with the help of the Association of Pathology Chairs (APC), we have begun the process of migrating all quizzes to a new platform. The new platform is called ClassMarker, and it offers much more functionality than our former means of assessing student learning. 

This change will not significantly impact the user experience, but it will improve the reliability of certificate generation and will provide more feedback on student performance. One big change is the passing score cutoff and cutoff on the number of attempts each user will have to take each quiz. Each user will have one attempt to take the pre-course assessment and TWO attempts to pass (60% or greater) the post-course assessment. Additionally, scores will be added to each certificate earned. We hope these changes improve the utility and significance of PathElective certificates, although we remain an organization without university credit granting authority.

With this change, we ask our users to be patient as we migrate each quiz to the new platform. We recognize this technical issue has had a significant impact on the usability of PathElective and thank you for your continued support of this growing educational resource. In the meantime, we will not be able to respond to individual concerns about certificate generation. We apologize again for the inconvenience and hope you stick around to see our new and improved quizzes and certificates.

Here is an up-to-date list of courses with updated quizzes:

  • Autopsy and Forensic Pathology (Lesson 1)

  • Cardiac Pathology (Lessons 1-3)

  • Gross Pathology (Lessons 1-6)

  • Head and Neck Pathology (Full course assessment)

  • Hematology (Full course assessment)

  • Hematopathology (Lessons 1-4)

  • Illustrations of Histology (Full course assessment)

  • Medical Renal Pathology (Lessons 1-2)

  • Molecular Microbiology (Lessons 1-3)

  • Neuropathology (Lesson 1)

Sincerely,

Your PathElective Team in Partnership with the Association of Pathology Chairs