BlueDogs is Yale School of Medicine's learning management system. Here are a few things you should know about BlueDogs as a student. First, how to access BlueDogs. The BlueDogs link can be found on the Medical Library website. Click on "Information for students and instructors." Right here. To log in to BlueDogs, you should use the Yale Central Authentication Service with your NetID and password. The calendar is the main view of BlueDogs when you log in with the current day highlighted. By default, the calendar is in a weekly view, and you can switch to a daily view or a monthly view by clicking on the corresponding buttons. You can move back and forth in the calendar using these arrows. You can also jump to a date by clicking inside this box here, and select a day in the date picker box. Clicking on the green home button will always bring you back to the current day. Upon on the top, click inside "Find your courses", and all your courses will be displayed in a drop-down menu. You can filter your courses by typing some keywords here. You can also search the entire curriculum for a topic of your interest. So you can search these different types of content in the curriculum. Click on "search". And here are the search results. Back to the calendar. Any reminders and announcements will be under the announcements tab. Let me switch to a different week. If you click on any one of the events on the calendar, you will see the event page in a pop up window. A typical event for this calendar would be a class session. On the left hand side, you have some general information about this event, such as the event name, location, date and time, event type, and the instructor names. On the right hand side is a list of documents used in this event. In this case, you have the lesson plan the instructor had posted in Word format, and the slide presentation in both PowerPoint and PDF formats. If any of these is not a PDF, the PDF for that file will be under the "Supplementary" tab. So if I click on that, you will see the PDF version of the lesson plan. Notice the file names here for the PDF. You will see the same files on your iPads. Some events may have more information. Let me choose a different one. You can see here that this particular session requires professional attire. You should wear your white coats. And the attendance is mandatory. You also have some description or instruction on how to prepare for the session in the box down here. An event is usually part of a course. To access the course page from the event, click on the course name on the title bar. Or, you can access the course for the current event by clicking on the course name in the header of the calendar. Or, you can select a course from the "Find your courses" drop down from the top. On the course page, you will see some general information about the course on the left, such as dates, school year, course director and coordinators. Course-level documents, those that are not linked to any specific event, if any, should be listed on the right. Again, if any of the files is not a PDF, the PDF will be under the "Supplementary" tab. You may also have more details for the course in the description box. A course is made up of events. To see the events of the course, go to "Events", and choose "Event Listing". So these are the first page of events for the course. To see all events, click "All". There are some customization options available in "MyProfile". For example, you can change your default calendar view, your default school year. You can show only the courses you are enrolled in, or you can show all courses. Another really useful tool here is the calendar feed. This will allow the calendar apps on your devices to be synced with BlueDogs' calendar. So I am going to enable "Public Feed" here. And then I can copy this URL and use the calendar apps on my devices to subscribe to this feed. This has been an overview of the BlueDogs Learning and Curriculum Management system. Please contact us if you have any questions. Questions can be directed to Judy Spak at judy.spak@yale.edu, or Leigh Cromey at leigh.cromey@yale.edu. Thank you!