Introduction to Module Creation

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You've made it! You're now in the module creation workspace where your ideas transform into immersive scenarios. Whether you started with a sample module or chose to build from scratch, you're about to discover the creative process that makes AliveSim scenarios so engaging.

This isn't just about building content - you're crafting experiences where learners face real decisions, get personalized feedback, and develop skills that transfer to the real world. Ready to see how it all comes together?

The Big Picture: Your Creation Journey

Let’s start with a big picture view of the creation journey:

Module Planning: Use the magic of Performance Gaps to frame out your vision for the module.

Building Scenarios: Create interactive experiences with characters, conversations, and decisions. You’ll use most of your creative juices here.

Publishing: Where you publish modules to Groups as development builds for testing, or final builds for learners.

What Makes a Module? The Building Blocks

Think of creating scenarios just like making movies. You need scenes, characters, and action - but in AliveSim, the learners are the stars making the key decisions.

Scenarios: Your complete story arcs that address specific learning goals. Like movie plots, each scenario has a beginning, middle, and resolution.

Scenes: Just like in movies, you need different locations! Each scene has a 3D environment (office, hospital, restaurant) and the avatars who appear there.

Zones: Here's where it gets exciting - these are your interaction types:

• Dialogue zones: Engaging conversations that set up realistic situations

• Decision zones: Where learners make choices that matter

• Time passes zones: Skip ahead minutes, hours, or even months (virtual time travel!)

• Question zones: Test knowledge (different from decision-making)

The Creative Dance: Scenarios and the Content Library

Here's where many creators get confused at first - you'll find yourself bouncing between building scenarios and creating content library elements. This isn't a bug, it's a feature!

Why the back-and-forth? As you build scenarios, you'll discover you need to reference elements from your Content Library.

The Content Library is your asset warehouse: Characters, environments, decisions, visual panels - everything you create here can be used in any scenario. Build once, use many times.

Building Scenarios – The Three Creation Stages

Once you understand the building blocks, here's how you actually create them in three stages:

Outline Stage: Set up your scenes and add the interactive zones. Name them, organize them, and add your decisions. This is where you'll start, and it’s quick.

Setup Stage: Choose environments, add characters to scenes, set up your decisions and other zones, and configure everything. Make it look and feel right.

Content Stage: Here's where you bring the avatars to life with dialogue, add the mentoring feedback, and add interactive events like bringing up visual panels.

Your Mission Control: The Interface

Now you understand WHY the interface is organized this way. Here's where you'll do everything:

Planning. Use the magic of the Performance Gaps to organize your scenario themes.

Scenarios. Your main workspace to build out your vision in three stages (Outline → Setup → Content).

Content Library. Your asset warehouse for reusable elements.

Preview Module: See your work come to life anytime.

Build Modes: From Draft to Live. Usually it's set to "Create" until you're ready to create a Development Build to test within a Group, or lock the module down and make a Final Build to add to a Group for your End Users.

Ready to Start Creating?

You've got the big picture - now it's time to start the creative journey!

If you’re starting from a Sample Module…

The module planning is complete, and you have some placeholder performance gaps to start with.
This article explains how to clone a template to make your first module.

Click the Scenarios Tab on the black bar and Click EDIT SCENARIO.

If you’re starting from a Blank Module…

You’ll start your creation journey at module planning by setting up those magical performance gaps. They’ll help you organize your vision into a working structure.

The creative process is about to begin - and it's going to be fun!

We’ll start off with something simple, so you can discover just how intuitive the scenario creation process is.

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