How it works

From a space, an image or a diagram to a navigable scene

Six steps take the thing students are learning to read and turn it into an annotated, navigable scene. The steps are the same in both tiers until the last one. In Panova Resource the educator builds the scene for students. In Panova Assignments the student builds it themselves. One scene, a bridge, carries you through every step below.

Build the scene

Start with the thing itself. Compose a scene from a single image or several, and arrange related scenes into a sequence so a whole ward, site or system becomes navigable.

The bridge scene, active in a sequence of related scenes

One scene in a navigable sequence.

Capture it, or bring it in

Photograph a place on location, or bring in the image the learning already lives in: a plan, a process diagram, a document, a micrograph. A photograph captured on site carries something extra, because it required someone to stand in the place it shows. Every image arrives into the scene ready for annotation.

The bridge photograph, freshly captured, framed by camera brackets

Captured standing on the riverbank.

Pin what matters

Place numbered pins on the details that carry meaning: a junction, a label, a bottleneck. Each pin marks a precise spot in the image, not a general area.

The bridge with three numbered pins marking precise structural details

Three details, three precise spots.

Assign context

Group pins into colour-coded context layers, so one scene can hold more than one reading. Switch a layer on and the scene reorganises around a different concern. Try it on the scene beside you.

Contexts

The bridge with pins grouped into colour-coded context layers

One scene, three readings.

Add the reasoning

Open a pin and write. Each pin holds the explanation of why that detail matters, embedded at the exact point it applies to, so the reasoning is read against the scene rather than beside it.

The bridge with one pin open, its reasoning displayed on the exact spot it applies to

Pylon anchorage

Structure · Pin 1

Every cable terminates here. The pylon carries the full weight of the deck down into the foundation, which is why its geometry leans back against the load.

The reasoning sits on the spot it belongs to.

Publish, or submit

This is where the two tiers separate. The same finished scene leaves in one of two directions, depending on who built it and why.

The finished bridge scene published as an educator walkthrough with a numbered path

Published as a walkthrough.

Publish, with Panova Resource

The finished scene goes out to students as an expert-modelled walkthrough, building orientation and readiness before they face the real thing.

Publish

The finished bridge scene submitted as student evidence with labelled context pins

Pylon anchorage

Load path

Deck connection

Submitted as evidence.

Submit, with Panova Assignments

The student sends in their annotated scene as authentic evidence of their own reading: what they noticed, where it sits, and why it matters here.

Submit

One craft, practised end to end. Build the scene, pin what matters, attach the reasoning, then send it where it needs to go.