Publishing Options

Learn about the different publishing options available in Colibri

When you upload your Colibri exercise, make sure you have a facilitator uploaded to the space. The exercise isn't facilitated but you need someone with privileged access to access the reports.

To make exercises available to participants, you must publish your exercise to your space. When you click Run exercise in your Editor, you'll be met with this window:

When you’re ready to publish your exercise, you have two main publishing options via a toggle:

Empty and publish

This is the default option.

Effect	Use when
Complete reset	You're not actively running an exercise
Removes all past messages	You want to start an exercise again from the beginning

Content only

Effect	Use when
Updates content only	You're currently running an exercise
Won't affect anything else	You need to make small corrections without affecting players in progress

Be careful: Content only doesn't affect the exercise logic or sequencing so if you've edited more than just the content then use Empty and Publish instead.

Publish options

These options can be selected/unselected via a checkbox.

Reset "first log in" status

This is the default option.

Effect	Use when
Ensures all players receive the "first log in" message the next time they log in	You want to run an exercises as a fresh playthrough, as if players are logging in for the first time

Make sure players log out and back in again after resetting the "first log in" status to ensure they see the first message again.

Publish "first log in" message

Effect	Use when
Publishes the "first log in" message immediately after upload	Only when testing so you don't need to log out to preview

Include style

This is the default option.

Effect	Use when
Ensures your Style (desktop background, favicon etc.) is uploaded with the exercise	You’ve updated or changed the Style and want to upload it to an exercise

Uncheck to upload the exercise without affecting the Style.

Clear past messages

This is the default option.

Effect	Use when
Clears all past messages for players	You want players to see an empty inbox

Unselect if you want to avoid interrupting players who are still mid-exercise.

Reset personas

These options control what happens to your personas when you publish:

Persona option	Description
Reset	All online exercise personas are erased and re-uploaded
Update	Existing personas created during a live exercise remain. However, any persona that matches one in your scenario may be overwritten