# Learner Experience

## **The Purpose of the Lottery**

* The lottery module is one way for administrators to create a rotation schedule in Elentra for a cohort of learners in an unbiased way.
* It allows learners to rank potential rotation schedules and anonymously swap rotation schedules and/or rotations if your Elentra administrators have configured swapping stages.
  * What you are able to rank or swap is dependent on how your Elentra administrators have configured the stages and rotations schedule options in Elentra.
* The lottery module uses an algorithm to try to give the most learners their first choice of rotation schedule.

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## **Accessing Lotteries**

* To access the lotteries module click on your user profile icon and select “Lotteries”. You will be directed to your Lotteries page where you will see a list of all Lotteries that have been assigned to you. You can use the Search Lotteries input field to find a specific Lottery if there are multiple in the list.
* Each Lottery on this page contains the following information:
  * The title of the Lottery, as set by the administrator.
  * A helpful contextual alert stating the Lottery's status of each stage.
  * A **View Lottery** button that will take you to a page where you can participate in the stage that is open, see your tentative schedule, see unassigned schedules, and see a list of links to the locations and preceptors that are associated with the lottery.

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