What is the Topic Carousel and how do I use it?

Students use the Topic Carousel in their Learning Path to explore current and upcoming topics in their path and to search for specific topics to learn. After students have selected Start My Path or Continue My Path from their homepage they can open the Topic Carousel by selecting the tab with the downward-pointing arrow in the upper left section of the problem area.  Each topic is displayed in its own topic tile in the Topic Carousel. Students can select any unlocked topic tile to practice it; this does not cause them to lose work in any partially-learned topics they navigate away from.

Each topic tile can have specific clickable icons associated with it, located at the top right of the tile.  A 'diamond' icon indicates the topic is a Goal topic associated with the current Module assignment.  A 'padlock' icon indicates the topic is locked until one or more prerequisite topics are learned.  Clicking on the 'padlock' icon may display the prerequisite topic(s) to be learned if there are one or two topics required.  More than two topics will give the student a message that they must work on other topics first.  A topic tile with no icons indicates a ready to learn or prerequisite topic.
 
The Filters menu on the upper-right side of the Topic Carousel allows students to filter the topics in the Carousel based on certain attributes or search for keywords to locate a specific topic.  The Pie Slice/Modules menu on the upper-left side of the Topic Carousel allows students to navigate between the different pie slices or Modules to select different sets of current and upcoming topics.

The topic list in the Topic Carousel is organized by default based on the topics which should be easiest for the student to learn, given their current knowledge state and recent progress.