When lab classes are created in Platinum Planner, administrators can enable a setting that allows students to build their own lab sessions. If your school has enabled this feature, you can create labs and document them in your student role.
Contents:
A. Creating a Lab:
1. Log into your student role in Platinum Planner.
2. In the red toolbar find the Labs option and click on My Labs in the drop-down that appears.
3. Click the grey button in the top right, +Create New Lab.
Note: If you do not have the "+Create New Lab Button," your best action would be to contact your instructor. If you do not see this button, the feature is most likely not active for you.
4. Fill out the required information for the lab. These fields will be denoted with an asterisk.
- Class: In the class drop-down, you will select the class to which the lab session is tied. If you are enrolled in only one current lab class that allows you to create your labs, it will default to that class. If you are enrolled in multiple lab classes, selecting the correct lab class is important, as it may affect which skills are available for you to document.
- Lab Name: You may want to confirm with your instructor whether they have a preferred naming method. If they don't, you may want to devise a naming system of your own. Creating unique names can make it easier to locate specific events later, if necessary.
- Lab Start Date/Time and Lab End Date/Time: This should indicate the time you expect to be in the lab session. If your lab class has an hour requirement, this will determine how long you will receive credit once your documentation is approved. If you need to adjust this time, you can make changes before submitting the documentation for review.
- Peer Reviewer: If you have a peer reviewer for this lab, you can select them here.
5. Click the big grey button at the bottom once all the needed info is filled out, Create New Lab.
B. Documenting the Lab:
1. Add Skills: Begin in the Skills Performed tab.
- Click the green button, Add/Remove Skills.
- Find the skills you want to add and check the box next to each one. You can search for a skill by name, filter by classification (if applicable; not all professions and provider levels will see the Filter By Skill Classification option), or filter by skill grouping.
- Click Close at the bottom when you are finished selecting skills.
2. Add a Skill Attempt for each skill performed. Add a new attempt every time you perform the skill.
Note: If you do not add a skill attempt for each skill performed, you will not get credit for having completed the skill.
- Select the drop-down for the appropriate skill.
- Click the +Add New Attempt button.
- Fill out the skill sheet and save it at the bottom.
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Note: Clicking on the red "?" next to the skill name will pull up the skill details for that skill if available.
3. Once you have finished all the skills for the lab, attach any skill documents required to the Lab Documents tab.
4. Submit your lab when finished. Add a message if desired.
- If you have any peer reviewers, you can submit the lab to them by clicking the arrow on Submit Documentation, then selecting who to send the lab to. If there is no arrow on the button, no peer reviewer was selected for the lab.