Facilitator Tools

Entering Facilitation Mode

Once you have connected, you will be presented with a room menu on the left.

This menu has a checkbox to enter "Facilitation Mode". Checking this will set you as a facilitator.

Once you are a facilitator you can start controller the experience.

You will be labelled to anyone else in the class as a facilitator.

Button to enter facilitation mode at bottom of room status window

Facilitators Labelled for all in the class to see

Starting an Experience

Pick from one of our experiences, and send the whole class in!

Once you are the facilitator you will be presented with a menu where you can pick an experience.

Hitting start, will send the whole class into that experience.

In the Experience

Experience Lobby

After picking an experience, you all will be taken to the experience lobby. This is a shared space before the experience has started.

Here users can see themselves in a mirror as the person they are about to become. It is good to spend a bit of time in this room and get comfortable in your new body.

As the Facilitator, this is your chance to give the users some context on anything you want them to look out for or do during this experience. You can do this yourself, or use our VR Guide Roslyn to prepare the users for their experience.

When you are ready, you can start everyone's experience.

You can have the users experience all scenes within the experience or just one particular scene

Experience Scenes

Once started, the scenes will be experienced personally, and individually.

Everyone will start at the same time and finish, but they will be in the experience by themselves until it is complete.

Experience Review

Once complete, users are taken to the experience review. This is a shared space where the class can talk about their individual experiences with some extra conversation starters.

Conversation Starters

Bias Recognized

This is a graph of how many times each user recognized bias. The data is anonymized, with a users contribution will be highlighted visible to them.

The blue above is the users contribution. Each user will see their data as blue, and everyone else's as grey.

This is a great tool for discussing different bias recognized, and while everyone experienced the same thing we all had different perspective of it.

We intentionally avoid listing the biases in our experiences.

We typically design that data collection and feedback as a way of starting conversation about what is bias and how different people interpret it differently. That there is not necessarily a wrong or right number to recognize, but a difference between individuals and even if we made a list of what we saw, it would not necessarily be a conclusive list as that list is shaped by our own perception of bias.

Script

The script of the experience is presented to be reviewed and discussed.

Facilitators can highlight lines, and users can vote on lines they thing are important.

You can use this to talk to the script, or the class volunteer what bias they recognized.

If you are looking to make a list of particular biases to be recognized, this is something that can be defined by your team as appropriate for the learning program. One way we have done this in the past is by using the script as a learning tool and talking through sections that might provoke a response from learners.

How do you feel you did in comparison to the class?
Why is our perception of bias different?
Do you feel like you missed bias?
Is there a wrong or right number to identify?

If you want to make use of our data displays in a way beyond how we originally designed it, I want to make sure you can do that. Happy to jump on a call, and perhaps we can shape the way we present this data to be more accommodating for that in the future.

User Menu

At any time you can press A/B/X/Y to open a user menu.

Profile

The profile page displays your name and avatar. So you can see how you are being presented in the classroom

It also has

Time since start of session
Time of day
Time of server
Application Version

Class

The class page has 4 sub-pages

This Class

This sub-page is for managing the current class. You can see:

A list of who is in the class
What the name of the classroom is
A checkbox to enable/disable the users in the class from moving.
A button to teleport the whole class to you.

More Classes

Here you can see a list of all classes available. Unless more is created, it will just be the public class you start in.

Create Classes

Here you can create a new class. This can be helpful if you are having multiple session running in parallels.

Creating a new class, is like hosting a new zoom call.

Settings

Settings allows you to enter details to host a private class. By default all classes are public and can be joined by anyone in the world.

By entering private mode, you lock this device off from the public and only accessible to other people using the same private mode key as you.

Questions

This is an in development page, we are aiming to turn this into a place for facilitators to keep notes.

Room

Here are the same buttons you will see at the start / end of an experience, allowing you to control the experience.

Offline Mode

Offline Mode is automatically entered if the user does not have internet access.

It gives the users full control over the experience.

Avatars

Avatars are auto generated when the application starts, and randomized in color and shape.

They are designed to be friendly, and genderless / raceless.