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PathXL enables digital microscopy by offering slides (very thin slices of tissue) digitised. The slides are scanned and offered to the student as a URL. Therefore, the slides can be viewed online and no longer require a microscope. This allows students to prepare a practical, perform the practical digitally and/or view the slides outside the lessons. Teachers are no longer tied to practical rooms with available microscopes or to limited numbers of physical slides. 

In education, digitized sections in PathXL can be used in several ways:  

• Practicum via computer instead of microscope. Everyone views the same slide; this allows students to look at structures together and be better guided in doing so.  
• Inclusion in an e-module that replaces practicum with self-study. Viewing the digital sections is then part of this e-module. Check out this example of how PathXL is used in an e-module developed in Xerte.