Getting started

Essentials

Conducttr is a crisis exercise platform. At it's heart is a simulation space.

In order to interact with the simulation space we provide three key components:

• Exercise Editor: This is where you design and build your exercises

• Facilitator Dashboard: This is where the facilitator controls the exercise and monitors player activity

• Virtual Desktop: This is where players (the training audience) experience a first-person view of your exercise.

End-to-End Process

This document site and our advice is structured around four key stages from exercise planning through to reporting.

Below we'll explain these stages.

1

Planning Your Exercise

• Draft Your Concept: Before jumping into design, outline the key objectives, metrics, outcomes, and scenarios you want your exercise to address.

• Use Conducttr's Planning Tools

We have an area called AXS - Active eXercise System - here you'll find a number of ways to quickly develop an exercise:

• ASSISTANTS are chatbot designed to help write better exercises. LISA for example will quickly create a master events list. You can talk to her to develop and improve the exercise.

• CANVAS is a one-page overview of your exercise. It allows you to explore ideas and present them to clients for sign-off.

• FIEMA stands for Framework for Information Environment Measurement and Analysis. It's Conducttr's methodology for defence exercises and is built around measurement of effects. The FIEMA tool in AXS can be used to identify audiences and their beliefs.

2

Designing your exercise

There are two ways to think of this - the conceptual and the practical. Conceptually you need to consider "SME" - Story, Mechanics and Environment and how your crisis unfolds. This is explained in the CONCEPTS area.

Here we'll consider the practical. The diagram below shows the common elements of your exercise.

You can find out more about each of those elements by searching this site.

3

Running your exercise

To run the exercise, you must publish it to a simulation space. This is when the exercise transfers from the Editor where it's passive to the Space where it's now active.

The exercise can now be controlled to some degree by the facilitator using the Facilitator Dashboard.

Find out more about running exercises in the RUNNING section

4

Reporting

Conducttr provides several reporting tools but the results you see are affected by the design stage. When you're creating an exercise, think ahead about how you'll measure and assess performance. .

Please check the REPORTING section for your reporting options!