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Creating and publishing scenarios for your learners.

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  • Creating and managing scenario templates
    How scenario templates work: saving any scenario as a reusable template, managing templates, and creating fully prefilled scenarios from them - on every plan.Few readers
  • Submitting scenarios for review and publishing updates
    How the review flow works: authors submit drafts, reviewers publish or send them back with feedback, and live scenarios are changed through proposed updates.Few readers
  • Using the media library: images, video, documents and accessibility
    Adding images, audio, video and documents to scenarios, embedding YouTube and Vimeo videos, describing media for accessibility, and the organisation-level controls for uploads, video providers and approval.Few readers
  • Creating your first scenario
    What a scenario is made of, the three ways to start one, and how it gets from a draft to something your learners can use.Popular
  • Building a scenario step by step
    Every step of the scenario editor explained: key details, instructions, script, checklist, questions, resources and settings.Popular
  • Creating scenarios using the AI scenario generator
    Describe what you need, or upload your existing materials, and let SimChat draft the whole scenario for you to review and edit.Few readers
  • Creating realistic medical scenarios
    SimChat supports medical history taking and counselling consultation scenarios out of the box. The quality of the AI interaction depends on the script you provide. A clear, detailed script ensures the AI can realistically portray the patient and provide a valuable learning experience for your learners. What to include in a history taking script For history taking scenarios, learners are expected to gather information by asking questions. A strong script should include: **PreFew readers
  • Understanding AI behaviours
    Every scenario in SimChat is assigned an AI behaviour. AI behaviours define how the AI acts during the interaction and how the learner is assessed. They allow your organisation to create structured, predictable learning experiences tailored to specific communication tasks. SimChat creates four default AI behaviours for each organisation when it is set up. Administrators can also create custom AI behaviours to meet their own training requirements. What AI behaviours do AI behaviSome readers
  • Creating custom AI behaviours
    Administrators can create new AI behaviours to support discipline-specific or organisation-specific training. Custom AI behaviours allow you to define how the avatar acts once, and then reuse it across many scenarios. To create a custom AI behaviour: Go to Scenarios → AI behaviours Select Add AI behaviour Enter a name and description In the Avatar instructions section, describe how the avatar should play its role Select Create AI behaviour Your new AI beSome readers
  • Choosing voices and video avatars
    When you turn on audio or video mode for a scenario, you choose the voice - and, for video, the avatar - that the AI character uses. You do this in the Key details step of the scenario editor. Audio conversations use audio minutes and video conversations use video minutes. See Understanding audio and video minutes. Choosing a voice The Voice option appears as soon as eitherFew readers
  • Creating custom avatars with Avatar studio
    Find this at: Avatar studio (in the sidebar) Avatar studio lets your organisation create its own video avatars. You can generate a photorealistic avatar from a description, upload a photo, or take one with your camera, then pair each avatar with a voice. The avatars you create are private to your organisation and appear in the avatar picker whenever you build a video scenario. Avatar studio is an Enterprise feature. On other plans the page shows a preview and an option to contactFew readers
  • Previewing, publishing and managing scenarios
    A scenario is always in one of four states. Only Live scenarios reach learners; the other three are visible to staff only. This article covers previewing, editing and managing your scenarios day to day. For the review workflow in detail, see Submitting scenarios for review and publishing updates. Scenario states On the Scenarios page, each scenario shows its status: **DrafFew readers
  • Practice and assessment scenarios
    Every scenario has a purpose: Practice or Assessment. The purpose controls how the scenario is marked and what learners see when they finish. You set it in the Settings step of the scenario editor, and you can filter the Scenarios page by purpose. Practice scenarios Practice scenarios are designed for learning. When a learner finishes: They can choose to self-mark the checklist or use AI marking They can see the checklist and model answers for anFew readers

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