v0.7.1
Questions are the primary way in which trainees can find out they took an incorrect action and reflect on what they did wrong. Questions are presented in the After-Action Report, after the trainee has finished the training scenario.
Questions include a text prompt the trainee is expected to answer, an expert's answer to the same ptompt, and sets of images to be displayed before and after the trainee answers the question. These resources ensure the trainee has every opportunity to learn what they did wrong. After answering a question, the trainee can view the expert answer, and must rank on a five point scale how similar they feel their answer was before proceeding.
The questions chosen to display in the AAR are determined by the Violations that are triggered. Each violation has a question associated with it, and if a violation is triggered, its question will be chosen. Multiple violations can share the same question. We present a maximum of four questions (configurable) to the trainee to avoid overwhelming them, so if more violations are triggered, only the violations with the largest deductions will have their questions displayed.
Name
IncreasePowerSouth
Phase
III
Content
You increased power south of the constraint. Experienced operators would not do this. Why wouldn't they?
Stub
Power is flowing ______.
This means increasing power south of the constraint is bad because ______.
Expert Answers
(1) from south to north.
(2) that leads to even more power flowing across the overloaded lines.
Question Images
...images showing the locations of generators relative to the overloaded lines.
Answer Images
...images showing how increasing power in the south causes more power to flow over the overloaded lines.
This question should be displayed after the trainee increases power from generators south of the constraint. If triggered, the question will appear in phase III of the After-Action report, which in this example is where questions related to attempts to mitigate the overload will be displayed.
The question first prompts the user to think about why increasing power in this way could be harmful, and then explains how the relative positions of generators can affect the load coming over a constraint.
"Inputs" are an advanced feature that allow multiple violations to share the same question with minimal content changes. For example, take the question above. Lets say you want to have a higher penalty if they haven't also increased power in the north. You add a second violation with a higher deduction that can only trigger if they haven't increased power in the north, and assign it to this question.
Now both violations are assigned to this question, but you would like to slightly change the content based on which was triggered. Instead of creating two nearly-identical questions, just add an input to this question's content:
You increased power south of the constraint $1 increasing power in the north. Experienced operators would not do this. Why is it a bad idea to increase power from generators in this area?
Then for the first violation, add the input "after", and for the second, add "without", which will display the questions like this depending on the triggered violation:
You increased power south of the constraint after increasing power in the north. Experienced operators...
You increased power south of the constraint without increasing power in the north. Experienced operators...
Question inputs are explained in more detail in the Question Inputs tutorial.