Exercise design
The practical aspects involving people
On your exercise you'll have participants performing various functions. The terms we use are:
Facilitator
The person controlling the pace and direction of the exercise (only 1 permitted)
Observers
People with the ability to oversee an exercise and with some scope/permissions to modify the exercise
Players
These are the target/recipients of the exercise (also called the Training Audience)
Role-players
A special type of player who has permissions allowing them to interact with players, but disguise themselves as stakeholders (make up EXCON with the Facilitator and Observers)
Access to the exercise
Access to an exercise is governed by the role and registration method.
Facilitators and Observers are privileged users and must use two-factor authentication (2FA). This means they must use real email addresses and these email addresses must be pre-registered by the designer by uploading (via the Teams table) to the simulation space.
Players can join an exercise via a wide range of registration options. The benefit of pre-registration is that positions, roles, teams and passwords can be pre-assigned and hence make the start of an exercise slicker (and usually easier to test).
Role-players can join as players (recommended) or join as a special "persona-as-team member".
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