Another aspect of the MSEL is that it includes Controller Notes, or stage direction for the controller of the exercise. In this way, the controller can include or skip messages, to allow for exercise continuity, and to slow or speed the action. Skip time is supported, along with a 24 hour clock option for message labeling. Messages are also used to drive participants into making choices. Evaluations - Of pivotal importance to an exercise, evaluations reflect the exercise objectives.
Objectives are, in the best of all possible worlds, measurable.
After the exercise is over exercise evaluators use the Shuttle to amplify and expound on the answers they wrote on the evaluation printout during the exercise. Users report this makes for much higher quality evaluation results than previously obtained. It also makes for far fewer errors when including the raw evaluation data into the process. No more hard to read answers, the evaluation team will already have keyed in the answers for you on the Shuttle. Selective reporting - Players, observers, simulators, controllers, and evaluators can now have reports printed with role specific information.