# Getting Started With Scan

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Only site or course admins will be able to use Scan. The students experience will not be effected.
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### How to Use Scan

* [ ] Make sure you have the **Scan** app installed by checking your Apps page on your Thinkific site. 
* [ ] Go into **Manage Learning Content / Courses** and click on a course that you wish to scan
* [ ] Click the **Preview button** and the **All Course Lessons**

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* [ ] &#x20;You will see the **Scan Welcome Panel appear** on the right hand side.&#x20;

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Be sure to listen to the welcome video before starting to run one of the scans
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* [ ] Choose if you want to run a **Course Scan** or scans for the **specific lesson**

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Course scans include a list of best practice advice and review to ensure you have a great course experience\
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Each lesson type has it's own unique list of scans that can be run. The content of each lesson will effect the scan results. It is recommended to at least run a scan on each type of lesson first and then you can run the scans for the other lessons.
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* [ ] Once you select a **Scan Type**, you will then see a list of scans available to run
* [ ] Watch the video on the Scan Type page to get general best practices for that particular lesson type
* [ ] Choose one of the scans to see the results for that particular scan
* [ ] When the scan is complete, you will see the **Scan Results panel** that includes a short video that will explain the results of the scan and also possibly some brief text indicators of key results.&#x20;
* [ ] Click the **Next Scan button** to go to the next scan for that specific scan type, or go back to the list of scans
* [ ] Once you have completed the scans for the specific lesson, choose another lesson to see results for that specific lesson.
* [ ] If you wish to run the course scans again, be sure to choose the **Run Course Scans** button on the left hand side.
* [ ] At any point in time, you can return to the Welcome Panel by clicking on the Scan Help. Start Here link on the left hand side

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By default when you preview any course and navigate to a lesson, the scan panel will automatically appear. If you wish to not show this panel when lessons are being selected, then be sure to uncheck the option on the left hand side
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