The exam player takes the window. The shell was sized against the header with
a number that did not include the navbar's own 32px of margin, so the block bar
— the one thing on the screen that must always be reachable — sat below the
fold and had to be scrolled to. Exam mode now hides the site chrome entirely
and is the viewport, which makes the arithmetic honest and matches what a board
looks like: item and block in a box at the left, the two arrows in the middle,
the tools at the right, the question-status rail down the side, and the clock,
Pause and End Block along the bottom.
Shortcuts is gone from the bar, and the labs open into the column beside the
question in both modes rather than a box over it.
Nothing is handed in behind the learner's back. The clock reaching zero stops
the block and says so; closing Time's Up submits, and the player stays put
showing the answers, which is the review. The server no longer settles an
expired attempt at all — listing sessions used to mark any paper whose clock
had run out, so opening a page could score a block the learner had walked away
from, and the first they knew of it was a result.
Reviewing an attempt is now the player with the answers in, not a dropdown and
a card. Same rail, same layout, same labs, same way out — and on a phone the
same burger opens the same question list, from one shared rule about which
routes are a session.
Also: the rule-out toggle sits beside its option instead of pinned to the far
edge of the card, so an option box is as wide as its own words; the voice
picker leaves the player, since a reader's voice is a setting and not a
decision to retake every session; figures carry no invented "Figure 1" — a
label is what prose refers to, and the backfill knew of no prose, so 346 of
them said only that an image was an image; and the landing page shows the two
modes happening rather than promising six things in a sentence.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
Figures
A question could carry exactly one stem image and one explanation image, each a
bare path with no title, no legend, and no way for the prose to refer to it.
`question_media` makes a figure a row: it points at an image already in the bank,
carries a role, a label the text can name ("Figure 1"), a caption and an order,
and there can be as many as the question needs. The same radiograph can serve two
questions without being stored twice.
The 346 existing paths were backfilled into figure records and retitled —
`page_339_img_0.png` says where a file came from and nothing about what it shows,
so the filename moved into the caption where it is still searchable, and the
title became something a person can read.
On the editor question: no new platform needed. Milkdown is already installed —
ProseMirror-based, MIT, GFM tables, code blocks, LaTeX — and already used for
articles, courses and the quick question modal. Only the question *page* still
has plain textareas, and that swap is written down rather than rushed, because
the stem carries manual-highlight offsets and a WYSIWYG rewrite would move them.
Fewer hints during a quiz
The category trail and the difficulty pill were shown beside every stem. Being
told a question is filed under Neonatology, or that it is "hard", narrows the
answer before the stem has been read. Both now wait until the answer is in,
where the trail becomes a way to more of the same topic.
The dashboard is about questions
Quizzes and attempts describe how the material happens to be packaged. What a
learner is working through is questions: how many of the bank they have seen,
how many they have answered correctly, and their average. The old per-quiz
performance card — which needed two attempts before it showed anything — is
gone, superseded by the session analysis. The greeting sits above "continue your
study" rather than below it, where it read as a heading for the wrong section.
208 backend, 249 frontend green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
