How to Use

This section provides new users with tips on how to use this application.

Creating Documents

Exercise Builder helps you create many Exercise Plan documents

Exercise Plan Components	Documentation
Exercise Scope	Site Configuration
Exercise Objectives	--------------------------------
Exercise Guidelines	Exercise Scenario Information
--------------------------------	Exercise Objectives for (participants)
Scenario Narrative	Exercise Message Log
Pre-Approved Simulations	--------------------------------
Master Scenario Events List	To-Do List
Messages
Scenario Data
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Controller Directory
Responder Directory
Exercise Evaluator Guides (All)
Safety Plan
Security Plan
Logistics Plan
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Glossary
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After Action Report

Understanding the Screen Layout

1. Menu Bar area. Menu Bar Items are as follows:

File:	View/Print:	Edit:	Manage:	Web Links:	Help:
New	Exercise Objectives Selection Logic	Objectives	Users	EMI SIG Web Site	About Exercise Builder
Import/Export	Exercise Objectives Database	Exercise Messages		Exercise Builder Web Site	Help Table of Contents
Open	Exercise Plan			EMI SIG Exercise & Drill Subcommittee	What is New in Exercise Builder Version 7.1?
Save As...	Site Configuration Information			Developing Exercise Scenarios Web-Based Training	Exercise Builder Acronym List
Exit	Exercise Evaluation Guides			Developing Exercise Objectives Web-Based Training
				DOE G 151.1-1, Exercises, Volume VII

2. Title of exercise. This is not the filename. It is the title given to the exercise in Step 2.0 - Scope.

3. Exercise Steps.

4. Link to Process Outline.

5. Help area. Frequently asked context specific questions are listed and are linked to the answer.

6. User work area. This area is where the actual development of an exercise occurs. You navigate from screen to screen by using the Next and Back buttons.

7. Back button. Returns you to the previous screen in the Step in which you are working.

8. Next button. Moves you forward to the next screen within the current Step you are working. Links to user aid programs.

9. Link Add To-Do Item for the current exercise. Additional items can be added to the To-Do List in Step 13.0 - Finish.

Customizing the Application

Exercise Builder allows the user to customize the facility/site Emergency Response Organization (ERO) information used to develop their Drills and Exercise Plans. Step 1.0 – Site Information guides you through a series of data selection and input screens and questions that will configure Exercise Builder to create exercises using your site/facility specific information.

Creating an Exercise

Exercise Builder is designed to guide you, step-by-step, through the Drill or Exercise Plan development process. The program consists of 14 sections or Steps.

Step 1.0 – Site Information allows the user to enter facility/site-specific information that can be reused each time an Exercise Plan is developed. You will only have to enter the facility/site-specific information one time but can go back and modify or add additional information, if necessary at any time.

Steps 2.0 - Scope through 13.0 - Finish are to design and develop an individual drill or Exercise Plan. After you enter your facility/site-specific information in Step 1.0 - Site Information, begin developing your Exercise Plan in Step 2.0 - Scope. The on-screen instructions will guide you through the completion of your Exercise Plan.

Step 14.0 - After Action Reporting (AAR) allows you to construct an After Action Report.

Viewing, Saving, and Printing Documents

Exercise Builder generates the content for Exercise Plan documents by creating a file in rich text format (RTF). Near the end of each step you will find a link for saving and viewing the various documents that make up an Exercise Plan. Click on these links to open the RTF file. Exercise Builder will open the document using the word processing software that is associated with RTF files on you computer. All exercise documentation is printed through your word processor print feature.

An Exercise Plan document link looks like this: Save & View document: (Name of exercise document)

A supporting document link looks like this: Review (Name of supporting document)

When opening an Exercise Plan document link, you must save the document before it can be viewed or printed. If it is a supporting document link, you can choose whether to save the document or just view it.

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