TeamChat Plus

Navigating TeamChat Plus in the Virtual Desktop

TeamChat Plus is an instant messaging feature much like Slack, Teams or other such messaging apps.

Benefit

Provide a communication space where participants can discuss strategies, share information and coordinate responses for crisis scenarios.

Features

• Create message groups - private and public ("public" meaning to all in the exercise, not to anyone outside the registered participants)

• Multiple messaging groups to organize information

• File sharing

• Flexible participant permissions to manage the chat

Using TeamChat Plus for Exercise Control (EXCON)

Setting up TeamChat Plus for EXCON

TeamChat Plus is a participant feature and not directly available to the Facilitator and Observers. We recommend that you create an additional player login and use this for chat. If anyone in exercise control using the Moderator Grid, the player desktop on the left of the grid will have access to TeamChat Plus.

Deleting past messages

If you want to delete all past messages from a session, you just need to reset all messages in your scenario. See how to reset messages here.

Available player actions

Live Discussions

By default, the Welcome channel will be open and available to all. To begin a discussion click in the bottom open-text field and start typing. When you are satisfied, press Intro to send your message to the chat.

Customise profile

To customise your profile navigate to Menu and then Account settings. Here you can customize your Full name, Username, Nickname, Position and Profile image.

Create new channels

Click on the + icon, you can choose to have a new Public channel (all session participants) or Private channel (only those you

Invite members to private channels

Once you have created a private channel, you can add members and manage members by clicking the down arrow next to the header channel name. You can also add members by @ referencing their name.