A 60 minute decision-based adventure to stimulate classroom discussion
This experience allows teachers to facilitate discussions on business ethics and social responsibility by giving the students first-hand opportunities to take ethical decisions. As the facilitator, you control the pace of this interactive story as it unfolds across student smartphones, tablets or desktops. The whole story is self-contained in the dashboard - a common website that pretends to be a mobile phone.
1. Cosmic Voyage Enterprises TEACHER’S GUIDE 1
A team-based experience
lead by a facilitator.
Suitable for students 12+
A company’s business ethics and social responsibility are called into question
when one of their space cargo rockets crashes into a neighboring town
Product code: CVE2015
Cosmic Voyage Enterprises
A 60 minute decision-based adventure to stimulate classroom discussion
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3. Index
About this experience
About the storyworld
Setting up the experience
Understanding the dashboard
Running the experience
Administration and management
Story timeline
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4. How to play Cosmic Voyage Enterprises
CONCEPT
Ethics can be difficult to truly understand without having
to make an ethical decision yourself.
This experience allows you to facilitate discussions on
topics of business ethics and social responsibility by
giving the students first-hand opportunities to take
ethical decisions.
As the facilitator, you control the pace of this interactive
story as it unfolds across student smartphones, tablets
or desktops. The whole story is self-contained in the
dashboard - a common website that pretends to be a
mobile phone. The dashboard loads in any browser and
can be found at http://cve.cm.cr
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MATERIALS
Facilitator:
• Laptop, tablet or smarthphone with internet
connection (data plan or WiFi)
• A valid email address
• This Teacher’s Guide
Students:
• Their own tablet or smartphones with internet
connection (data plan or WiFi).
DURATION
As the facilitator, you are in control of the pacing and duration of
the experience. You decide when to move on to the next ‘day’ of
a 15 day story.
Allow 60 minutes to run the whole experience quickly or up to
120 minutes if you planning to engage in depth at every
discussion point.
You can stop anytime (by not moving the story forward) and
continue the experience the next day or whenever you want to.
This is an engaging and innovative way to talk about Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in the classroom.
This guide will help you prepare.
Cosmic Voyage Enterprises TEACHER’S GUIDE
5. 3. Team decision
At the end of some scenes, students are
prompted to discuss and make a team
decision. One member of each team makes a
choice in her dashboard, and it will be
accounted as a team decision.
When facilitator feels the classroom is ready
to move on, she proceeds to next day and
releases new content.
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1. Registration
Facilitator purchases seats for the
experience. She logins in her
dashboard and sets up the teams for
her classroom.
Students register afterwards and join
teams created by facilitator.
2. Kick-off
When every student has a team and a role,
facilitator kicks off the experience.
Every time she clicks on her dashboard for
the next day to unfold, new content is sent
to her students’ dashboard.
There are 15 scenes (story days) and
facilitator can control their pacing to allow
in-class discussion.
Overview
6. An In-Class Team Experience
Working in teams
• Students will have to work in teams to reach the
end of the story.
• Before starting the experience, have them form
teams or team them up in groups of 5.
• Students will have to choose different roles within
the team. They will receive different or conflicting
information sometimes depending on their role.
• Roles available are CEO, CFO, CMO, COO and CSR.
• If there are not enough students to complete a
full team, after registration they can select more
than one role.
Decision-making
• There are two types of decisions along the
experience:
o Individual decisions: Students can make these
decisions without impacting others in their
team. These decisions are intended to solely
provoke discussion.
o Team decisions: There are 4 team decisions.
At these points, students must arrive at a team
conclusion. The first choice selected by anyone
in the team will be taken as final for all the
members. These decisions have an impact on
how the story unfolds for that team.
o These types of decisions are marked with the
icon shown to the right.
• As facilitator, you will not be able to make any team
decisions. Only students in your classroom will be able
to take the decisions.
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7. Starting Point
Storyworld
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Cosmic Voyage Enterprises (CVE) is a space cargo company. Students play-role as its senior executives.
The experience starts with an accident: one of CVE’s rockets goes off course and crashes in Millisville, Florida.
The story reproduces 3 weeks of this crisis counting from the accident. In this elapsed time, students will have to face different
outcomes, such as environmental damage, community anger, institutional response, repairing costs, redundancies, bribes and hard
ethical decisions.
Students must deal with the crisis by contacting various stakeholders, gathering data and making informed decisions. Their
decisions have consequences, which raises interesting discussions.
8. Characters
Storyworld
Assistant
Facilitator helper, no role
in the story
Sarah Spindler
CVE Board Chairperson
Wayne Young
CVE Payload
Specialist
Sam Dykstrom
CVE Launch
Supervisor
Environmentally
FDEP Agent and
Blackmailer
Martha Green
Investigative
Journalist
Cyrus Hornsby
Millisville’s
Major
Roger
Millisville’s
resident and artist
Barbara
Millisville’s
resident and activist
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9. Setting up the experience
1. Purchase your pass to the experience,
selecting the number of participants that
are going to play it.
Purchase here
2. You will receive an email with login
information:
• Experience ID / Code
• Experience Password (for your
students)
• Your temporary password (that can
be modified later)
3. Load http://cve.cm.cr in any browser and
complete fields
• Experience ID
• Username: Your email addres
• Your temporary password
Click LOG IN
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10. 4. Once on the main dashboard, go to Story
Control.
5. The character named “Assistant” will give you
instructions in order to:
• Change your username
• Create teams for your students
You can create teams in class so students choose their
team names or create them beforehand.
6. After you have created all the
teams, have your students register
at http://cve.cm.cr
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Initial configuration/setup
11. 7. STUDENTS go to http://cve.cm.cr and
click “New Registration”
8. Each one should complete their own
registration:
• Experience ID (you received it on
email)
• Username (one of their choosing
which must be unique)
• Experience Password
9. Each one should select:
• Their team (the dropdown displays
the ones you have created)
• Their role in the team (only one is
offered, but more can be added or
roles modified later)
STUDENT STUDENT STUDENT
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Student registration
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12. 10. After all students have registered and
joined teams, you have to type YES in the
Story Control to start the experience.
So let’s get going!
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13. Understanding the dashboard
• The dashboard is a website designed for use on mobiles that loads in any browser.
• This interface simulates different types of communication channels:
• There are two versions of the dashboard
• Facilitator Version: The one you see and allows you to control the story
• Student Version: The one your students see.
• There is only one URL (http://cve.cm.cr) The correct version of the dashboard loads after
checking the login credentials.
Chat Service Social Media Long-format
communications
Articles & Reports
Thedashboard
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14. Facilitator Version – What you see
Main Screen: Access to facilitator-only
options, such as:
- Story Control
- Management
Student Desktop: Allows to view what
the students see on their channels.
There is a short-cut for Story Control
from this view.
From any channel or content you can
always go back to Story Control by
clicking the upper-right icon: a
computer-mouse
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15. Student Version – What your students see
Main screen: Students only have access to
communication channels, NOT to Story
Control.
Instead of Management, they have a
‘Roles’ option
They can always get back to the Main
screen by clicking the upper-right left
icon: a house.
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16. All the story is managed through Story Control.
‘Assistant’ tells you what happens each day, and offers you the option to move forward to
the next day. The story will not move forward for your students unless you click the
options given in Story Control.
Once you click, all content and messages will be delivered to the other channels. A
notification sound and red lights pop up in all the channels with new messages
Story Control also shows:
DISCUSSION: Suggestions and topics to be debated in class in the light of
what happens in the story - provocations to talk about Business Ethics and
CSR.
PERSONALIZATION: Warns you about role-dependent information. In
these cases, only one member of the team receives content (i.e. CFO
receives a report). This icon helps you know when this happens.
Running the experience
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17. Messages Tweeter
This channel is used to
chat with different
characters. There are
different threads inside
“Messages” to talk to
each one.
Sometimes, characters
expect students to
answer questions or
chose options. If they
don’t make a choice
before the facilitator
moves on to next day,
the options simply
disappear.
Team Decisions are
found at the end of each
“week” in a certain
character’s feed (see
Story Guide)
This channel
emulates social
media. Characters
will be “tweeting”
here, in private and
not on public social
media channels.
Students and the
facilitator can join the
feed by tweeting
their comments here.
All comments are
private within the
classroom.
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18. Email News
Long-format
communications are
on email. They are
mainly notifications
and reports from
institutions.
These emails have
important
information that
students should
reflect upon.
The news section
becomes relevant on
the last ‘days’ of the
experience.
It holds:
- Newspaper
articles
- The team report
which is a
summary of each
team’s decision
and their
consequences.
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19. Profile Badges
Facilitator and
Students should
update their details
in the Profile area:
- Contact Details
- Profile Picture
(upload by clicking
the image)
- Change Password
(by typing old and
new passwords)
Completion of
milestones and taking
decisions along the
story become badges.
Students have a
personalized gallery
of these badges,
depending on the
path they have
chosen throughout
the experience.
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20. Student Password Reset (by student request)
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Administration&Management
1. If one of your students has forgotten her
password, have her go to cve.cm.cr and
click “Reset your password”
2. She should complete the fields with:
• Experience ID (as the facilitator you
will have received it in first email)
• Student username (the one they
chose when registering)
3. You (the facilitator) will receive in your Story
Control feed a password message (with an
orange padlock icon). Give your student her
new temporary password so she can login again
and change it.
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21. Student Password Reset (by facilitator request)
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Administration&Management
1. You can also request a reset for your
student password by tapping
“Management” on main screen.
2. Click then “Password Reset” 3. Click the Power icon for those students you
want a password reset. You will receive
their new password in the Story Control
feed, as explained in slide 20.
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22. Team Management
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Administration&Management
1. You can review and control teams in your
class. First click “Management” on main
screen.
2. Then click then “Team Management” 3. View all teams and their members. If you
click (X), you remove that member from
that team. They will have to register again
with a new username and join the correct
team.
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23. Roles Management
STUDENT STUDENT
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1. STUDENTS can change their roles anytime.
Have them go to “Roles” on their main
screen.
2. They can change and select as many roles as they want.
You should not encourage them to change roles
frequently, but you might need to have some students
take more than one role to have all 5 roles covered in each
team.
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24. Week 1
Storytimeline
Students learn that the
capsule payload
exceeded the maximum
capacity at the time of
the accident
Include this data in final report and
assume possible consequences
Conceal this data and blame
weather conditions
Day 5
Message from Sarah
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OR
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25. Week 2
Storytimeline
Students are offered the
opportunity to reduce
the clean-up costs by
making a donation to a
local charity
Pay the bribe and make the donation
to reduce the costs
Decline to pay the bribe and bare
all the cost, assuming the
consequences
Day 10
Message from
Environmentally
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OR
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26. Week 3, part 1
Storytimeline
If students concealed the
payload data on week 1,
Wayne -the payload
specialist - threatens to
“go public” and go to the
press
Offer him a promotion in exchange
for him keeping quiet
Be honest and confess. This puts
everyone’s job at stake.
Day 12
Message from
Sarah and Wayne
If students included the
payload data on week 1,
NASA wants to know
why guidelines were not
followed
Make the payload specialist a
scapegoat
Admit knowledge and risk NASA
removing its financial backing (which
means redundancies)
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OR
OR
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27. Week 3, part 2
Storytimeline
If students paid the bribe
in week 2, the chancer
suggests a monthly
donation to keep the
secret
Become a life-long donor and no one
ever finds out, but there are
consequences in 2085
Refuse the blackmail. News of
the first bribe “goes viral” and
clients cancel contractsMessage from
Environmentally
If students refused pay
the bribe in week 2,
council offers to help
with the cost in exchange
for CVE company shares.
Decline help and make 50% of
CVE staff redundant to bare costs
Accept help and give 20% of the
company away. You get immediately
fired.
Day 14
Message from
Cyrus (Major)
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