View as Student

View as Student lets Program Admins see FieldX exactly as a specific student sees it. Use it to inspect the student experience without submitting changes on their behalf.

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When to use it

• Walking through a student’s clearance issue without asking them to screen-share
• Confirming a recurring assignment is showing up on the right day
• Testing a new cohort, form, or report from the student’s perspective
• Onboarding new staff by showing them what students see

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Starting a session

You can launch View as Student from several places:

1. Program Settings → Members → Students — View as Student on the student row
2. Cohorts → cohort → Members — View as Student on the student row
3. Student Details modal — the View as Student button at the top

SimCare opens the student’s Field Experience dashboard in the same browser tab.

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The amber banner

While impersonation is active, a sticky amber banner stays pinned to the top of every page. The banner shows:

• The student’s name
• A live countdown timer (default 1 hour)
• An Exit Student View button — click to return to the Program Admin Overview

You’ll see the student’s data exactly as they would — same tabs, same urgent badges, same locked screens if they haven’t completed clearance.

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What’s read-only

View as Student is a strict read-only mode. You can navigate freely, but you cannot:

• Submit a form on the student’s behalf
• Log hours
• Send a join request
• Approve, reject, or sign anything
• Modify the student’s profile, sites, or supervisors

If you try a blocked action, FieldX shows a read-only message.

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Audit log

Every impersonation session is recorded in your Activity Log (Program Settings → Activity Log):

• Who started the session
• Who they impersonated
• Session start time and the student and program being viewed
• An end event when you exit the view

Coordinators can review past impersonations to satisfy security or accreditation requirements.

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Session lifetime

• Expires after 1 hour — use the countdown in the banner to see the remaining time.
• Switching students — exit the current preview before opening another student.
• Shared across browser tabs — preview mode uses your browser session. Check the amber banner in other SimCare tabs and exit preview before resuming admin work.

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Faculty and supervisor accounts

For site supervisors, use the dedicated View as Supervisor flow from Members → Supervisors. There’s no dedicated “view as faculty” — faculty have a lighter dashboard you can test by joining a cohort as faculty using the cohort join code.