Digital SlideBox

Your entire histology lab, online.

Revolutionise your histology teaching

More students and less resources make life a challenge for histology educators.
Increasingly the solution for many Universities is digital microscopy, to complement
or replace traditional microscopy based practicals.

Digital SlideBox is the worlds best software package for creating online histology labs.
Developed with leading academic institutes, it is the only solution created by educators,
for educators. Its easy to use interface provides everything needed to produce high
value, digital slide based teaching material. Whats more, it is the only system that is
compatible with all major digital slide formats.

Benefits:
• Reduce lab costs • Maximise teaching efficiency
• Increase practical class sizes • Standardise histology course material
• Minimise demonstrator overhead • Integrate rare cases into slide sets

Unique Features
Teach
Create unrivaled teaching material that students can interact with. Don't
just annotate tissue features, add descriptions, questionnaires and
multimedia files such as lecture notes, presentations and videos. Even
link to external web resources to get the most of exsiting online content.
Share
Give students unlimited access to teaching material anytime,
anywhere. Connect with other universities using SlidePath software
to share rare or interesting slides, and integrate slides produced by
any major slide scanner (Aperio, Hamamatsu, Zeiss).

Assess
Only Digital SlideBox allows educators to add assessments to their
digital slides. Quickly create and attach questionnaires, invite
students to answer then review submissions on a class or student
by student basis. Even provide rapid feedback to students by
presenting correct answers for review.
Manage
Simple and powerful tools provide educators with unparalleled
user and content management. Organise classes, courses and
assessments quickly and easily. Assign coursework to classes
with a single mouseclick, review completion rates and notify
students of impending deadlines.
Digital SlideBox
Your entire histology lab, online.

Case Study Recommended Technical Requirements

University of Bristol
Supported Operating Systems
One of the top 10 ranking UK universities, the University of Bristol has been designated Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP, Mac OS X
a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). As part of their
continued drive to provide a modern, effective medical curriculum, the University chose
Supported Internet Browsers
Digital Slidebox to deliver existing histology coursework.
Internet Explorer 5+
Anita Sengupta, lecturer in Anatomy, Oral Histology Firefox 1.5+
"Before we used Digital SlideBox, running practicals with up to 90 students with limited Netscape 8+
specialist teaching resources was a challenging task. Student practicals can now be run Safari 2 +
by a single faculty member, with students completing coursework faster than when using
microscopes. Since switching to Digital SlideBox, student satisfaction has improved and Required Plug-ins
they really appreciate and benefit from having access to slides outside of the laboratory.”
Adobe Flash media player 8

Dr Phil Langton, project coordinator at the University,

“Digital microscopy’ has developed quickly and now offers students the opportunity to Minimum Recommended PC Processor
navigate around a histological section at a variety of magnifications, much as one would Pentium IV (or equivalent)
using a conventional microscope. What attracted us to SlidePath and their Digital SlideBox
application was their understanding of Higher Education and their focus on functions that Minimum Recommended Memory
have real educational value.” 512MB+

Minimum Monitor size and Resolution

19” with resolution 1024x768

Minimum Internet Bandwidth

1Mbps

SlidePath Products and Services

SlidePath provide both software products

and slide digitisation services for exploiting
digital microscopy in education. To find
out how SlidePath can help your Institute
improve its histology/histopathology
curriculum, speak with a SlidePath
representative today.

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