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Five kinds of dental module, and where each one sits in the practical

For a dental-school methodologist who has to hand out work before the group meets: the public DentAssistant page now plays the product walkthrough, with programme names and module counts a timetable can quote.

On the English simulator page the block sits directly under the cover. Its eyebrow reads Presentation, the heading is DentAssistant in 16 slides, and the frame is titled DentAssistant presentation. Under the frame, Open presentation opens the full-window player and Phone version opens the stacked deck. Both addresses answer, and both show slides numbered 01 / 16 through 16 / 16. Each slide of the full-window player carries the date 03.11.2026.

Seven directions, as this presentation counts them

The figures below are the walkthrough's own count of DentAssistant, not a recount of the VARGATES Medical library and not a count taken inside the installed application. Slide 4 names Propaedeutics (Fundamentals of Dentistry), Therapy (Therapeutic Dentistry), Periodontology (Periodontal Diseases), Surgery (Surgical Dentistry), Orthopedics (Prosthetic Dentistry), Endodontics (Root Canal Treatment) and Radiology (Dental Radiology). The same slide prints 29 courses and 99 learning modules. Slide 5 divides those 99 modules into 17 of 3D structure, 29 theory articles, 29 tests, 5 procedures and 19 clinical cases. Slide 8 says the tests contain 292 questions. Slide 15 repeats the same five figures in one line: 29 courses, 292 test questions, 19 clinical cases, 17 3D modules and 5 procedures.

Reading before they meet, a model before an instrument

The theory slide describes an article with a reading time at the start, a contents list that jumps to a section, illustrations that open full screen, self-check questions, and then the course's control questions. That is the piece to give the group the evening before the practical.

The 3D-structure slide describes a model of a tooth, a jaw or an anatomical region, with part names on the model, a Layers list and a slider, and rotation by mouse or by fingers on the touch screen. Open it when the group is at the device and has not picked up an instrument.

The procedure slide describes a manipulation in a fixed step order: a 3D patient, a situation text, a choice of instrument, material or action, a hint that the slide prices at −50% of the points, and the line Critical error!, after which the step is repeated with no points. The end of that slide shows points, accuracy and errors, so a short debrief can start from that screen.

The clinical-case slide describes one patient from the first complaint to the choice of treatment: a card with the complaints and the tooth, an examination log written automatically, and the stages history, examination, diagnosis, treatment and result. The slide says the decisions are irreversible, the review shows a score, an outcome and the optimal path, and a case has several endings. A teacher can ask one student to move through those stages while the group watches, then set the path they took next to the optimal path in that review.

The test slide says checking is automatic, an explanation appears after Check, and seven formats are named: single answer, multiple answers, true or false, matching, ordering, sorting, and a 3D model. The result line on that slide offers a score, a grade, the time, Download PDF and Send by email.

Separate profiles, and the stand the English slides name

Slide 12 says each learner has a profile so results do not mix, and a profile is a name, a colour and an avatar. The same slide sets the language of the interface and of the content to Kazakh, Russian or English, and the text size from 80% to 130%. Slide 11 says the home screen keeps progress for each of the seven programmes and a block called To review, which it describes as spaced repetition. Slide 14 says one licence is one device, the internet is used for activation, updates, feedback and sending results, and after activation the application works without a network. The English slides place that device as a touch-screen stand: the first slide's badge says Touch-screen stand, and slide 3 says the whole course sits in one window on that stand. They do not describe a home computer.

No score is written from this page

Several slides label their pictures Concept illustration, so the group cannot treat those pictures as a finished attempt. The frame does not open a module. The practical the slides describe happens in the application, on the stand they name, and nothing on this page stores a result.