Designed to address the inefficiencies that result from using too many systems to do too many things, DaVinci Education offers the most fully-integrated enterprise platform available for health sciences education.
Available to: Faculty | Students | Staff
Managed by: Education Technology
Funding: Institution
Authentication: Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Application Status website
- Access SOM Leo
- Access PA Leo
Baylor College of Medicine has purchased a new Curriculum Management System (CMS). Implementation of Leo has begun and the new CMS is anticipated to be in use with the start in Summer of 2023.
Training will be provided for faculty, staff and students on the use of Leo. Dates and times of training will be announced at a later date. Check back for updates on the implementation progress and training opportunities.
General information regarding Leo can be found on DaVinci Education's website.
- BCM IT Website
- BCM IT Software Catalog
- Access Leo support via the application
Standout Features
- Calendar as the central information hub
- Curriculum mapping that ties it all together
- Data visualization with the Insights Dashboard
- Comprehensive evaluations — wherever, whenever
- The big picture of the Academic Portrait®
- Winning the clerkship lottery
- Real-time faculty contribution tracking
- Open this link in any browser:
- Select “login with your BCM Username”
- Enter your BCM email and password (Note: If you are logged into your computer on campus, you may be logged into Leo automatically.)
Materials and resources for this area are being developed by the Office of Academic Technology: Education Technology. They will be added to this section as soon as they are ready.
General Requests & Issues
- Ed-Tech has your back! Go to the link below to submit a service request or resolve an issue. Login using your BCM username and password for access and select DaVinci Leo, under Applications. Submit an Ed-Tech Form
Course and Calendar Issues
- School of Medicine: curriculum@bcm.edu
- School of Health Professions
- Physician Assistant: leah.oren-palmer@bcm.edu
Login Issues
- BCM IT Help Desk - Call the Support Line: (713) 798-8737 or visit https://bcm.edu/myaccount
WiFi Issues
- For WiFi issues, send an email to: wi-fiissues@bcm.edu
Embed Content
You can actually embed almost anything from most websites. Granted, many tools make this much easier by generating an embed code for you. All you have to do is copy the code and paste it into Leo. Just look for the share and/or embed icons when using many of these tools.
Some really awesome ed tech tools, though, don’t have an embed option. To overcome this, we’ve provided a little hack for these situations. Yep… you’re about to become a hacker. Add that to your CV!
Create your own embed code using this template (disclaimer: this doesn’t work with every website - but it’s always worth a try!). Copy the code below and replace paste url here with the appropriate URL.
paste url here” width=”100%” frameborder="0">
Once you have the code, just paste it into Leo, and voila… no more links and no more browser tabs. Just go to Leo!
The world’s most popular video platform has a ton of features, including the ability to generate embed codes for any video on their platform, including YouTube Live streams. If you are creating your own content, you’ll need to upload those videos to YouTube. Also, keep in mind, YouTube Live doesn’t easily allow screen sharing - so if you are using a slide deck for a live presentation, you might want to consider other options.
To embed video from YouTube, click on “Share” and choose the embed option.
If you are a fan of audience response tools (I certainly am!), then you’ll love PollEverywhere. If you’ve ever used this tool, you already know that you can add polls to your slide decks in PowerPoint or Google Slides, but you may not know that you can also embed both poll results and polls themselves!
To embed a live poll, get the shareable URL by going to Present and then the Share tab. Copy this URL into the iframe embed hack we mentioned at the top of this article and paste the entire code into Leo. If you just want to embed the poll results - you can navigate to the embed option under the Present tab. Note: For security reasons, Leo does not support embedding anything using <script> tags. This is why their live poll embed code doesn’t work. </script>
Like Google docs, there are a lot of possibilities with Microsoft Office 365 - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Many of these online tools offer the ability to generate embed codes as well, although maybe not with as much flexibility as with G Suite. Be sure to check out Forms, Microsoft’s answer to Google’s product of the same name. It also offers the ability to create quick formative quizzes.
Quickly becoming one of the most popular study tools for medical students around the world, ANKI is flashcard-like software that allows anyone to make decks. Cards in your decks can include images as well as cloze style deletions from copied text. There are actually a lot of tips and tutorials from medical students on how to utilize ANKI. After becoming familiar with the software, you might consider creating decks for each of your lectures and providing those for students to download in the Event or Course Materials in Leo. Students could also share decks with each other via discussion boards as well.
In a remote learning environment, you may want to host a live video conference. Whether it’s office hours or an actual learning event like a lecture or an online TBL event, you’ll need some type of video conference tool like Zoom. Check with the IT department at your institution as many schools already have accounts set up with a video conference provider. One recommendation… always record your sessions so you can allow your students to review the content later!
If you are hosting an event online, be sure to post the URL for the online meeting in the Event Materials list on Leo.
Many schools today have invested in lecture capture solutions that are used to record live lectures in the classroom. However, most also offer the ability to create your own recordings from the confines of your home or office. Depending on the platform your institution uses, you’ll most likely have the ability to embed recorded videos as well. Though, be sure to check the permissions first, since many of these platforms require students to login first. Fortunately, Leo provides LTI integration for many of these tools (Panopto and Echo360, e.g.) - so students can access all of their lectures right from a link in Leo.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Leo uses your BCM username and password. Contact the BCM Help Desk at (713) 798-8737 if you have password issues.
If you are receiving an error message when trying to log in to Leo, contact your school admin listed in the Troubleshooting section above.
No, Leo does not have an app because Leo has been designed to be responsive on different devices. This means the design will adapt to your device. You can access all features and full functionality from any device - desktop, tablet, or mobile.
Check your Calendar filters in the top left-hand side, just above the Calendar. You may need to set/remove filters.
Yes! You can sync your Leo Calendar and your personal calendar by setting up an iCal feed.
The Section is the entire Course such as Foundations of Medicine. The Events within a Course/Section are the individual teaching sessions - labs, lectures and exams. Each course will have multiple Events. You can access information and content at the Section/Course level and the Event level from the Section screen and the Event screen respectively.
You can download materials from the Documents pane that appears on the right-hand side of the Calendar tab. The materials listed here will correspond to the week that you have selected in your Calendar view. Therefore, this is a list of materials (for the week), across all Courses. If you want to download materials per Course/Event, you can also do this from the specific Course/Event screens.
You can view and submit your Assignments at the Course or Event level.
To make a Lottery selection follow these steps.
You will be able to see all Evaluations in your Profile if this feature is enabled by your institution. Clicking the Evaluation links in this screen will not open the actual Evaluations, only a summary. You will have to go to your Activity page, via the Activity Bell icon, to click the link and actually complete an Evaluation. Or you can access the Evaluation from the Course or Event screens.
You can see your grades for a Course from the Course Screen by selecting the Gradebook.
In order to see your grades across Courses, you can visit your Academic Portrait. If this feature is enabled by your institution and if the cumulative grade (for a particular Course) has been calculated by the Course Director, you will be able to see it here.
Notifications can be found in your Activity Report, accessible via the Activity Bell icon. If there is a new Lottery for you to participate in, or a new Evaluation for you to complete, it will appear in your Notifications.
Yes, you can use your Inbox to manage your communications.
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If you can't find what you are looking for in the User Guide, contact your school administrator listed below.